I can't speak knowledgeably about other cities, but in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area there is considerable hostility toward automobiles. The automobile is the new "fall guy" for everything despised by the Green Revolutionaries. These people are both political and "soft-core" terroristic in their approach to the dread enemy, the car commuter. There are now many politicians and high government workers listening to their issues with cars. These propagandists are represented on the large "tax-free" foundations, such as the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations, and many others as well. They inhabit "think tanks." Folks, there is a movement! If you drive, you are likely to be a target.
The automobile owner is considered virtually a "war criminal." The fumes exhausted from the combustion engine of the car are viewed as categorically akin to missiles, bombs, poisonous gas, or germ warfare. Folks, the Greenies think that we car drivers are trying to kill them. They are demanding legal help. The want legislation passed protecting them and the world from fumes. If Congress won't do the job, then the Supreme Court must step into the fray and exact punishment.
This is not to say that they limit their political efforts to the exalted federal levels. No, state and local governments are lobbied too. They undoubtedly have representatives lobbying the United Nations and forming global alliances with other Greenies in Europe and elsewhere. They want action, now!
There is a growing suspicion among the leading elements within the legal profession that the Greenies are poised to file a class action suit against automobile commuters. I have mixed emotions. Should I not stand against the absurdity? Or maybe I should try to get my "cut" from a suit of this sort. We all have to eat.
The political aspect is one that I can support in principle. However, when violence and terror are raised as legitimate modes of political expression, then I have to demure. Unless, of course, in doing so I infringe upon my rights as an ambulance chaser. Like I said: A man's gotta eat.
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