'Lawfare' is term with three meanings: one technical and the other two American Slang. The word itself is a portmanteau of 'law' and 'warfare.' The technical term applies to a form of asymmetrical warfare where in International Law is essentially weaponized. The Cultural Marxists picked up on the idea and use it in the sense of overwhelming opponents in court to get their way. This is the way that the public at large understands it. Some Conservatives, interpreting the word in light of the financial profits reaped by Lawfare's practitioners, describe it as portmanteau of 'law' and 'welfare.' This latter definition is probably the most accurate.
Barack Obama was a huge believer in Lawfare in all three aspects. He made his fortune largely by suing entities with cash; and his Administration encouraged younger community activists to build their own careers---and to feather their own nests---with Lawfare. It was quite a profitable occupation until Trump put a stop to it in early 2017. Obama was a lot less successful employing it as US Foreign Policy, however.
But the Red Pills, who typically ape everything the Whacko Left does, soon got their larcenous eyes on the concept as a great form of grift. Vox Day, (later Teddy Spaghetti) wrote in 2017:
It occurs to me that the Big Tech Left is handing the Right a golden opportunity for profitable lawfare. Whereas it might have been difficult before to argue that one has been materially harmed by defamation when falsely labeled a "Nazi" or a "White Supremacist", the demonetization and deplatforming of various "Nazis" and "White Supremacists" is putting a material price tag on those labels.
If you're a licensed attorney in the USA, the UK, or Australia, and you're interested in helping out those who are being defamed in this manner, shoot me an email. It would appear to be an increasingly target-rich environment.
And thus, the Legal Legion of Evil was born. The strategy is basically the same as thugs like Code Pink employ to force homo acceptance down the people's throats; or the way that uptight Atheists would use to tear down Christmas displays. And it operates on the same levels of contempt for actual Justice and personal scumminess that their Liberal counterparts exist upon.
However, anyone who thinks about it for a moment ought to see that the Red Pills' reasoning is deeply flawed---which why they'll never be successful at Lawfare like the Liberals often are. First of all, the cultists are stupidly overconfident in themselves and contemptuous of their opponents. Vox Day said not long ago that
Lawfare is the way to defeat the social media giants. But you must be willing to fight them! Contrary to what most people believe, they are not set up for it, they do not anticipate it, they are not legally sophisticated, and they aren't even inclined to handle their own legal defenses with their expensive in-house lawyers. Their focus on diversity and inclusivity means that their lower-level executives and in-house counsel are almost astonishingly incompetent; look at the number of simple grammatical errors in the average Silicon Valley company's terms of use as evidence of that.
Their second blunder is not realizing that Liberal activists already have networks of sympathetic lawyers and biased judges to whom they can 'shop' their causes. No court is going to take anything that jokers like Teddy Spaghetti or the Big Bear say seriously.
But all of that aside, it can't be disputed that Lawfare---in whatever form--- is a highly unethical activity. Essentially it's a form of political terrorism: it's original purpose after all was intended for actual war. But these punks are employing it to work against and not for defending anybody's rights. Hopefully, Trump's Second Term will bring long-needed Tort Reform which will end these parasitic practices once and for all.
