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Less than a year ago, with little meaningful public notice, the Massachusetts Army National Guard quietly released a fast-track environmental assessment of its multi-purpose machine gun range planned for the Upper Cape Water Supply Reserve at Joint Base Cape Cod. Since then, the base has ignored overwhelming public comments in opposition to the range. The Guard received 367 comments, 90% opposed, from the public. And in its official response to the public comments, the Guard brushed aside all objections. We now know why. Just last week, the Joint Base Cape Cod director both summarily dismissed the commenting public as “naysayers, activists and anti-military” and threatened to order a military boycott of Cape Cod businesses if the business community did not publicly voice support for the project. This behavior reveals an underlying contempt for the public that demonstrates that the Guard’s public process was a sham. The Guard’s highly controversial finding of “No Signifi

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