In response to your editorial ”An empty victory for Lake Michigan,” it is obvious you didn`t ask what ”the people” thought about the rise and fall of Loyola University`s landfill project. Even when the parties involved in this landfill project were paying lip service to our feelings about it, we soon came to the conclusion it was a ”done deal.”
As for the so-called ”community organization endorsements,” most of the time it was a case of one person showing up at these ”smoke and mirrors”
meetings and voicing only his or her approval. They didn`t poll their memberships. They didn`t ask the people.
When Judge Marvin Aspen stopped this runaway ”wrong,” he was acting on behalf of all the people-us. By the time this display of cronyism and ”behind closed doors” activity had reached Judge Aspen`s chamber, we, the people, had actually resigned ourselves to a stacked deck.
We, the people, weren`t being served. We were, however, about to be dished years of inconvenience, sound pollution and congestion. An awful lot of us little people remain grateful that there exists a resource capable of achieving what we weren`t able to.
