Amazingly, Wikipedia’s current “Lawfare” entry goes into great detail concerning the term’s origins and current application – defining Lawfare as “the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or delegitimize an opponent, or to deter an individual’s usage of their legal rights” without any mention whatsoever of its current use against Trump.
To many, if not most, Americans, these “Get Trump” efforts are the epitome of Lawfare – and the primary reason for the term’s sinister overtones. Like other currently popular terms, including “Deep State” and “Fake News,” Lawfare did not begin with Trump. Such efforts wee hiding in plain sight, as the third-rate burglary of Watergate was inflated into the biggest political scandal of the Twentieth Century.
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"In Trumps civil and criminal trials the "victims" testified or swore under oath that they were NEVER victimized by the President. In the Stormy case statute of limitations expired DECADES ago, NY governor had to make an emergency amendment to allow the continuation of the statue. And this is NOT lawfare?"
Lawfare maybe didn't start with Trump, but the bombing of Pearl Harbor didn't start with the Chinks inventing fireworks ether.
ReplyDeletebog - good one! didn't appreciate the coffee out my nose aspect of it, though... chinks 'n fireworks 'n Dec 7... hill-fucking-larious
DeleteTo paraphrase Lincoln, government of the lawyers, by the lawyers, for the lawyers, shall not perish from the earth.
ReplyDeleteWe're ruled by 100's of 1000's of laws, rules, and regulations written by unelected bureaucrats and selectively enforced depending on who one knows or what one is.
The only remedy seems a period of lawlessness to destroy the Federal govt., the greatest enemy of free Americans and the most degenerate force on the world overall.
It's is called 'Tortious Harassment', or using the law illegitimately to harass or hinder someone usually by filing continuous civil lawsuits without a legal basis, and is illegal if non-state actors engage in it. It's been around so long they made rules and definitions about it a loooong time ago.
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