Wilderness Club Winterization Project

Judge Prezeau did give the Wilderness Club the okay to "winterize" their maintenance building. According to the Tobacco Valley News, Prezeau was quoted as saying he would "leave it up to Wilderness and its contractors to determine what was minimally neccesary to weather in the building to protect it from the elements." This could be interpretated as "go ahead and finish the project." Could it not be argued that winterizing a building is a finish carpentry job? After all, they are only doing what is necessary to protect freezing pipes and flooding or preventing electrical fire that could be caused by water. Allowing them to winterize appropriately is a green light for these folks. The legal jargon provided to the Wilderness Club is like providing a fox the open door to a hen house. The law is but word play open to interpretation, and with attorneys to defend one's interpretation, the law bends to both their will and their pocket books. It is not so much that they are above the law: instead they seek to rewrite it. Which is what has been happening at a national level as well. With a revolving door that blurs distinction of the private and public sector, spin is more fashionable than ever. I can only imagine what internal pressures lie within the justice system. The cost of freedom was once about serving one's country and enhancing the public good. Now the cost of freedom is a price paid by the wealthy few to enjoy an elite way of life at the expense of others.