Dear Mr. Esposito,

Thank you for your thoughtful comments on the dispute between the 
Nantucket Building Department, the Board of State Examiners of
Plumbers and Gasfitters and myself. I welcome your efforts to
mediate this dispute, but it seems very important to me that you
should be paid for your work. Permit me respectfully to say that 
while I do not wish to assume financial responsibility for such 
mediation, I have no objection to your accepting payment from the 
Town of Nantucket for your efforts.

It may be helpful to you if I explain that from my perspective, 
this is not an issue of plumbingcode-compliance, but rather of
the Town's refusal - or inability - to accept the rule of law.
I believe that the Town is persecuting me, not because, as the
Nazis said, I am a Half-Jew (Halbjude), not even because I am
an "off-islander", but because by "going to court" I challenge
the authority of local officials.  It is because of the very
fundamental nature of our disagreement about government by law,
i.e. constitutional government, that I believe the dispute is 
impermeable to compromise. But I have no objection to your
trying, and, as always, I thank you for your help.

Sincerely yours,
Ernst Meyer