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The truth has been told.
No doubt some busy body, do-gooder is now hard at work trying to secure a ban on objecting to bans and with our luck they will find a politician to get it made into law.
Naw, they won’t even need a politician–just someone to claim to be a “victim”, sue for $$$$, and get a judge idiotic enough to rule in the “victim”’s favor.
Said $$$$ award would be split 35% attorney(s), 55% to some advocacy group (Greenpeace, Al Gore, Sierra Club, PAW, etc.), 10% to “victim”.