The program is focused on traffic control in general and on speeding specifically. This disgruntled letter writer takes great issue with the program, going so far as to suggest it will lead to fascism at a minimum and a second Holocaust ultimately.
Let's face it. No one likes to get a speeding ticket. It's expensive, impacts your insurance rates and generally makes you late or later for whatever you were off to do. But it's not as if the speed limits are a secret or are not posted openly. Speeding is a calculated gamble which drivers undertake knowing the odds.
Since the onset of the cross-town patrol program in Warren, Moretown and Waitsfield, hundreds of visitors and residents have received tickets for speeding through our villages and on our back roads -- as well as Route 100. Many people have learned to slow down, or at least discerned when and where traffic patrol is most likely to be should they decide to gamble.
When this issue was brought to the Waitsfield Select Board this week, the board gave it fair consideration but in the end decided to take no action, collectively agreeing with board member Roy Hadden who said, "I don't think it should be our message to the county sheriff that he should be more lenient."
So be it. That doesn't make the letter writer wrong. He was availing himself of his right to be heard. He can take the matter further should he choose. In his correspondence to the select board he speaks of seeking to support the Constitution and the Bill of Rights -- and this is precisely how it is done -- by using the system, whether or not you obtain the desired outcome.
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