Social critic and novelist, former Democrat James Howard Kunstler, is always good for a punchy quote, and his material is often featured in Zerohedge.com. He has made the following comments about lawfare, how the ruling political regimes use the law to attack opponents of their tyranny. He puts the case that lawfare is a form of jihad, a holy war against the country, to produce national suicide, and goes into details about the US situation, naming names. That is not so important to Australian and European readers, but the methods are relevant to other jurisdictions. The use of the law as a political weapon has led to this in the US, and to some degree too in other jurisdictions like Australia with the gender agenda and race issues:
"It's a tragic turn of fate for our country that the law, and language with it, have been turned into weapons for national suicide. The net result is a nation that can't think straight anymore and cannot construct any coherent set of rules to live by. So we find ourselves in a society where stealing is no longer a crime, where border-jumping has been downgraded to a clerical error ("undocumented"), where little children are allowed to decide whether they are male or female, where speech that disagrees with the authorities' agenda is "misinformation" subject to censorship and prosecution, where candidates for the highest office get selected "democratically" without any votes cast, and where you can be run-over and ruined financially in court by the bottomless legal resources of the Deep State for just speaking your mind."
Clearly, to control lawfare, one needs to get the political situation under control, which means kicking all globalists and Leftoids out of office, and the Greens with them. To do so will require a vast conservative awakening, with a Great Draining of the Swamps, including the universities.
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/lawfare-is-jihad-against-our-country
"Old Joke: what do you call a hundred thousand lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Answer: A good start.
You think the bankers are up to no good? No band of scoundrels has brought more chaos and grief to the life of this republic than the clique that gathers darkly under the banner of "Lawfare." Its public face is Lawfaremedia.org, run by Benjamin Wittes, a Brookings senior fellow, but that gang functions only to lend a false-front of decorum to the operations of its Democratic Party activist lawyer-army led by Field Marshal Marc Elias, architect of the ballot fraud that has caused Americans to lose faith in their elections.
Marc Elias was the original expeditor of the RussiaGate hoax in 2016 from his perch at Perkins Coie, then Hillary Clinton's campaign law firm, which laundered payments to Christopher Steele, front-man for Glenn Simpson's Fusion GPS political PR shop, which concocted the fraudulent "dossier" and set in motion a train of DC intel blob legal shenanigans aimed at defenestrating Donald Trump from the White House — the Mueller Investigation, impeachment, etc.
While all that was going on through the Trump term, and with the Covid-19 Op providing cover, Mr. Elias engineered the 2020 changes in many states' election laws and bylaws to permit large-scale mail-in voting, organized ballot-harvesting activities, and introduce the use of drop-boxes for receiving bundled votes. He and his George Soros-financed staff lawyers sued states that attempted to require voter-identification, and provided legal protection for Mark Zuckerberg's $419-million-dollar assault on election precinct staffing in swing states. When the 2020 election concluded suspiciously, Mr. Elias and his gang joined lawsuits in every case where the balloting was contested and got more than sixty of them dismissed on the basis of "standing," without the merits of the cases being heard. This is Lawfare.
This time around, 2024, Mr. Elias has done everything possible to ensure that millions of illegal aliens stuffed into swing states will have their putative identities attached to harvested mail-in ballots from addresses such as Walmart parking lots and storage units, and has filed lawsuits wherever a state threatens to require proof of citizenship for voting. He has also filed sixty peremptory lawsuits to obstruct attempts to audit any election count after November 5 — as if it is an affront to democracy to even ask questions about official misconduct.
A parallel Lawfare scam underway is the Democratic Party-sponsored 65 Project that seeks to disbar Trump-adjacent lawyers who attempt to challenge any voting irregularities in this year's election. Its mission statement reads:
The 65 Project is a bipartisan effort to protect democracy from these once-and-future abuses by holding accountable Big Lie Lawyers who bring fraudulent and malicious lawsuits to overturn legitimate election results, and by working with bar associations to deter future abuses by establishing clear standards for conduct that punish lies about the conduct or results of elections.
Notice the term "Big Lie" to foreclose any inquiry at all into election fraud. That half the people in this country accept such an Orwellian con tells you the vital role played by the perversion of language in the Democratic Party's war against the citizens of this land. Exactly who is to say, in advance of the event, that any objection to a vote count is fraudulent and malicious? Answer: the people who have maliciously committed fraud. The Democrats have been grooming the public for years with that phrase, the Big Lie, in exactly the same way that pedos groom innocent pubescents who accept the authority of any grown-up, no matter what debauchery they are subjected to.
It's a tragic turn of fate for our country that the law, and language with it, have been turned into weapons for national suicide. The net result is a nation that can't think straight anymore and cannot construct any coherent set of rules to live by. So we find ourselves in a society where stealing is no longer a crime, where border-jumping has been downgraded to a clerical error ("undocumented"), where little children are allowed to decide whether they are male or female, where speech that disagrees with the authorities' agenda is "misinformation" subject to censorship and prosecution, where candidates for the highest office get selected "democratically" without any votes cast, and where you can be run-over and ruined financially in court by the bottomless legal resources of the Deep State for just speaking your mind."
It is beyond obvious that conservatives need to counter lawfare with counter law suits and not be passive anymore. The Left activists need to be tied up in lawfare of their own! At least while some shadow of the rule of law still exists.