In response to "wind turbine setbacks delusional" (The Reporter, Sept. 23): No, I don't own land that the wind turbines are impinging upon, nor am I benefiting economically from the wind factory in any way.

My first and only reason for opposing this wind industrial complex, Forward Energy, was the environmental cost to the protected migratory bird populations as well as the internationally recognized Ramsar identified wetland, the Horicon Marsh and the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge.

Being a trained law enforcement officer from two different venues, I fail to comprehend the problem identified in the opinion letter. Simply, the law is the law. And, yes, as my academy captain explained: "I would arrest my 25-year friend and neighbor for being drunk and clipping a fire hydrant five blocks from his home on Christmas Eve. What if he took out an entire family two blocks from his home?"

The law is the law. An inch or a mile into the two-mile turbine exclusion zone is an infraction of the law!

When a mega-corporation buys its way through local, county and state governments to get what it wants, maybe it's time to take a serious look at those in charge. When the PSC and its "appointed commissioners" made a law requiring a two-mile restriction from the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge, and then broke their own, does it matter? Yes, it matters. They broke the law.

I have had a long and varied career, including research biology, the military, undercover policeman, state patrol officer and professional educator. I have been called many things but never a "flower child."

I understand that those who have their hands out will never understand altruism.

Joe Breaden

Mayville