Monday, October 21, 2013

New Word for the Day: LAWFARE

Lawfare [is a method of asymmetric warfare which] denotes "the use of the law as a weapon of war" or, more specifically, the abuse of Western laws and judicial systems to achieve strategic military or political ends.

It consists of the negative manipulation of international and national human rights laws to accomplish purposes other than, or contrary to, those for which they were originally enacted.


Lawfare is also evident in the manipulation of domestic legal systems (by state and non-state parties) to implement laws inconsistent with general principles of liberal democracy.


The principles underlying lawfare are also present in glaring failures to apply human rights law and in the disproportionate and biased application of the law.


Modern-day lawfare has five goals:

     1. To silence and punish free speech about issues of national security and public concern;
     2. To delegitimize the sovereignty of democratic states;
     3. To frustrate and hinder the ability of democracies to fight against and defeat terrorism;
     4. To confuse laws of armed conflict with human rights law; and
     5. To prevent the application of human rights law in situations where it is needed the most.

These goals are interconnected – any one instance of lawfare may serve to achieve more than one of the aims listed above.


[You can read more @ http://www.thelawfareproject.org/what-is-lawfare.html]


Clearly, Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions are engaged in domestic and international "lawfare". Did we the people authorize this?


Hell no !!!


Another user / abuser of lawfare is Ecuador (somewhat a surprise, to me anyway):

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/ecuador-archives-49/4515-lawfare-ecuadors-new-style-of-governance

Realistically, governments ... ALL governments ... are toxic. The temptations of governance are too powerful, and the rewards of temperance are too few.

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