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No Trespassing

Dear Editor

I have a fairly uneventfully life by choice in the Somerton area for about 5 years now.

I did have problems with the Rockies Express Pipeline people, who had their land agents and unlicensed surveyors come on to my property without my permission. I ejected them from my property, Rockies Express changed their directions and I was never bothered by them again on my property.

Yesterday, we came home from the store and I found a piece of campaign literature stuck in my back door. It was from a candidate who wants to be a judge. It’s funny, the campaign person had to go around a big black dog chained in the front yard and ignore a good sized no trespassing sign, just to put this flyer in my back door.

Where in NO TRESPASSING does that statement exclude judge “wanntabe” candidates?

I called the candidate this morning; he apologized to me and said he would talk to his people. I told him that I want that person to be determined and for that person to turn themselves in to the sheriff’s department for misdemeanor trespass. Which that person would probably be told not to do that again, which would be fine with me, except the candidate said that was not going to happen.

I told him that he could never judge a case with me involved while this criminal action was still open. Then I was told that he would be fair, etc, etc.

Over the past few years, I have spent a lot of money of signs to ward people off. I am putting up a new barbed wire fence to re-enforce the idea that this is my land and to stay away. If some one needs to be on my land they can come by my house and get written permission, otherwise they can stay off my land.

If some one who wants to be a judge can ignore the law, then why should we have judges and laws?

Jerry Smith, PhD.

Somerton, Ohio

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