Mr. Temple and his associates (“Local railroad remains diligent,” Our Readers’ Views, Nov. 24) would like the public to believe that this issue is about whether there was a stream or no stream, dead fish or no fish, logging road or new road, wetlands, or whatever he wants it to be today.
This is not what this issue is about. This issue is about whether we as Clark County citizens believe in law or not, whether we believe what applies to the average person applies equally to a man that is in the same neighborhood as Bill Gates. I can build a house, 100 percent to code, but if I fail to have a permit, if I fail to have it engineered, the house is illegally built, and the repercussion of that action is expected. That is the law; nobody except apparently silver spoon millionaires living in million-dollar mansions believe otherwise. This is what the argument is about. Even NOAA has pronounced he has no “god” powers providing him exemption to permits.
It is not about rail or no rail, it is about law or lawlessness, accountability, or the Wild West. Luckily we live in the 21st century, not the 18th.
