By A. Dru Kristenev ——Bio and Archives--June 15, 2024

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Involuntary servitude was limited with the ratification of the 13th Amendment:

By stealth over decades, a compromised judicial system laid the foundation for ever-increasing punitive damages to be imposed on corporations through civil actions by claimants.

The concept of awarding restitution for physical harm inflicted by proven purposeful action of individuals or corporate entities has ballooned into penalizing average citizens for exercising their First Amendment rights.

It’s gone even farther than that when prosecutors make it their job to fund governmental agencies by inventing crimes in order to extort individuals for the same reason. Where else do the millions and billions of dollars levied as fees and damages go in state sponsored legal action? Government slush funds. The real criminality is in government exacting its “pound of flesh” from wealthy entrepreneurs who don’t use state sanctioned speech.

Criminal activity by individuals and corporate entities is defined by the release and application of products and procedures (as in medical, agricultural, recreational, etc.) that have been proven to cause physical harm to individuals and their property.

Defamation may be emotionally or economically harmful, but it requires a much higher standard of proving provocation and effect that has been ignored by politically motivated courts and counsel. Lawfare is more than an identifier of legal pressure tactics, it’s a plan of attack levied against any whom administrative agencies and their proxies deem a threat to their policies and power.

For this reason, the list of targets has widened from publicly recognized individuals like Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Alex Jones and sundry other conservatives, to include private citizens conscientiously praying on the sidewalks, and, during unconstitutional Covid lockdowns, in their own churches.

As the attacks have escalated, the amount of damages have grown exponentially with the intent........

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