“Lawfare, the abuse of the legal system for political purposes."
Indeed it is but citizens should note, that's a rather bland description for the worst form of corruption that can exist in a 'democracy.'
Financial malfeasance is the kind of corruption most people think about first, perhaps because it's closest to their own wallets. Yet bad as it is, financial corruption does not necessarily indicate a systemic problem in a democracy. People will always find a way around rules to enrich themselves. When it happens it points to the corruption of the individual, not the democratic system.
Lawfare is different. It strikes directly at one of the three most important pillars in any democracy: it's system of impartially administered laws. Corruption in law doesn't just steal from the people, it attacks democracy from within. The people lose their belief in the integrity of the system itself.
Unsurprisingly, lawfare attacks at the weakest link in a democracy's justice system: prosecutions. Corrupting a judge is difficult because he or she must follow codified law, and publicly straying from that is obvious. Prosecutions are different. The decision to prosecute is by definition made in secret. The public doesn't see the reasoning or evidence, if any, for the alleged crime at the prosecution stage. It's just an allegation based on the prosecutor's opinion and that opinion doesn't have to be justified to anyone. Justification awaits a trial, which can easily take years to complete. In the meantime the lawfare victim has their reputation destroyed at the very least, and may well languish in prison waiting for that trial. And even if it comes, an innocent verdict doesn't erase all the damage done.
Lawfare may seem like a lesser or more vague form of corruption, but it's not. Lawfare is a direct attack on the foundation of any society built on the notions of equality and justice. Citizens should be aware that when it happens, it doesn't just mean that an individual or two broke the law. Rather, it means that their society's legal system, and by extension their democracy, has been stricken with a Stage 4 cancer. Ignore that at everyone's peril.
A symptom of Lawfare's initial infection, has been the erosion of common sense. The proliferation of fact checking, replete with outrageous headlines, where the evidence of vast evil, is not punished by truthful back page revelations.
Which smells an awful lot like the backside of u.s/british/nato hegemony. Western values and Democracy have come to mean the antithesis of their true meaning, reduced to a commodity to weaponize against people & nations not for their betterment, but for the control & greed & power of a globalists clique.
Tear it down. Remove the wizards curtain. Bring sovereignty back to the people.
“Lawfare, the abuse of the legal system for political purposes."
Indeed it is but citizens should note, that's a rather bland description for the worst form of corruption that can exist in a 'democracy.'
Financial malfeasance is the kind of corruption most people think about first, perhaps because it's closest to their own wallets. Yet bad as it is, financial corruption does not necessarily indicate a systemic problem in a democracy. People will always find a way around rules to enrich themselves. When it happens it points to the corruption of the individual, not the democratic system.
Lawfare is different. It strikes directly at one of the three most important pillars in any democracy: it's system of impartially administered laws. Corruption in law doesn't just steal from the people, it attacks democracy from within. The people lose their belief in the integrity of the system itself.
Unsurprisingly, lawfare attacks at the weakest link in a democracy's justice system: prosecutions. Corrupting a judge is difficult because he or she must follow codified law, and publicly straying from that is obvious. Prosecutions are different. The decision to prosecute is by definition made in secret. The public doesn't see the reasoning or evidence, if any, for the alleged crime at the prosecution stage. It's just an allegation based on the prosecutor's opinion and that opinion doesn't have to be justified to anyone. Justification awaits a trial, which can easily take years to complete. In the meantime the lawfare victim has their reputation destroyed at the very least, and may well languish in prison waiting for that trial. And even if it comes, an innocent verdict doesn't erase all the damage done.
Lawfare may seem like a lesser or more vague form of corruption, but it's not. Lawfare is a direct attack on the foundation of any society built on the notions of equality and justice. Citizens should be aware that when it happens, it doesn't just mean that an individual or two broke the law. Rather, it means that their society's legal system, and by extension their democracy, has been stricken with a Stage 4 cancer. Ignore that at everyone's peril.
A symptom of Lawfare's initial infection, has been the erosion of common sense. The proliferation of fact checking, replete with outrageous headlines, where the evidence of vast evil, is not punished by truthful back page revelations.
"Romanians are smelling a rat." 🐀
Which smells an awful lot like the backside of u.s/british/nato hegemony. Western values and Democracy have come to mean the antithesis of their true meaning, reduced to a commodity to weaponize against people & nations not for their betterment, but for the control & greed & power of a globalists clique.
Tear it down. Remove the wizards curtain. Bring sovereignty back to the people.
Stand with Romania 🇷🇴 ✌️
Someday the predators will be overcome but how much collateral damage before that time..