Snivel War
Third quarter will be a mix of review and litigation coverage.
We have November’s Civil War Referendum just 128 days away and I am sticking to my assessment: We’re Gonna Fight.
The source of the populist anger driving the MAGA lunacy demands that we not dignify what is coming by calling it “civil war”. Those people have voted against their own interests for two generations and now they’re looking to blame everyone who doesn’t look like them for THEIR bad results.
If that’s not sniveling, I don’t know what is.
Third quarter of 2024 is going to be a hybrid beast. We’re going to review counter-insurgency material, but it’s going to be accompanied by discussion of the frivolous litigation that will go hand in hand with the Catholic Integralism capture of the U.S. judiciary, and the inevitable rise of quasi-theocratic para-states.
Attention Conservation Notice:
This is the plan for Q3. So that makes this content fairly inescapable, at least in the short term. Just like our imminent troubles.
Counterinsurgency:
The United States cringes at the word, first because of Vietnam, and then due to our never ending misadventures in hot, dry places other than Saudi Arabia. There’s one particular text we’re going to focus on - David H. Ucko’s The Insurgent’s Dilemma, which has a place of honor on my Past & Future bookshelf.
We’ll go in deep, but the focus is going to be “staying left of boom”. If we recognize problematic constructs we can attempt to pinch them off before they actually become serious problems.
I’m not sure how much time we’ll spend on How Civil Wars Start by Barbara F. Walter, but it remains one of those must read books. Briefly, all civil war takes is factions that won’t mix without the potential for violence, and being in a state of anocracy. That transition zone between democracy and dictatorship should be seen as playing in traffic. Doesn’t matter which direction a society is headed, it’s just not a good place to be. The cure, in case you’re wondering, is doubling down on democratic participation. Which is an anathema to the ethno-sectarian focused “real Americans” that make up the MAGA movement.
There’s another book on that shelf that we might need to delve deeply into, but first I need to re-read The Five Stages of Collapse: Laying the Groundwork for Social, Political, and Economic Revolution. I’ve always felt having read Dmitry Orlov’s Reinventing Collapse shortly after it was published in 2008 has given me a leg up on most other people. While they’re confused about some particular aspect of our imperial implosion, I quickly recognize the patterns thanks to this comparison of the Soviet collapse and U.S. prospects.
Frivolitron:
Longtime readers will be aware that there is a precedent setting 1st Amendment case with my name on it - Rauhauser v. McGibney. This case’s full file, which began clear back in March of 2014, is a torturous read, but the summary is easy. “You may not file a frivolous case in Texas, and then flee to avoid consequences of the Texas Citizens Participation Act when the other party turns up with the best 1st Amendment guy in the state.”
The plaintiff in the case, James “Pissboy” McGibney, is a federal informant, which was covered in detail in Probable Pissposting.
You should know that …
Andrew Breitbart dropped dead in the middle of a Twitter slap fight with me.
There was an organized effort by Breitbart media toadies, led by Breitbart Texas head Brandon Darby to frame me for crimes he himself committed.
This has resulted in an OIG complaint against the Dallas FBI field office.
Neither McGibney nor any of the defendants in the suit actually lived in Texas and the lawyer who filed the case resided 280 miles away in Beaumont; the only thing IN Tarrant county is that FBI field office.
Jayson Chambers & Co., the FBI agents involved in the effort to frame me, also ran the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping sting.
The original lawyer in Texas panicked, unilaterally unsuited, and fled 93 minutes after Jeff Dorrell, the lawyer who smashed the bigoted anti-sodomy laws in Texas, made his appearance on my behalf.
Jeff Dorrell, and Tom Retzlaff, one of the five other individuals named in the original lawsuit that I’d never heard of prior to the suit, were both the target of a Proud Boys assassination plot in 2019.
Jeff died of natural causes on August 23rd, 2021, one of my codefendants in the original filing, Thomas Retzlaff, was murdered September 1st of 2021, and the lawyer who filed the companion frivolous suit in California, Jay Leiderman, died of a
drug overdoseheart attack on September 7th of 2021.The top suspect in Retzlaff’s murder is former Proud Boys counsel Jason Lee Van Dyke.
The final hearing on this case was in the summer of 2016. It continues to wobble along, zombie style, due to corruption in the Texas court system.
Amazing what passes for law enforcement in the shithole state of Texas, eh?
So those are my personal travails but there are plenty of other frivolous litigation victims in similar circumstances. I haven’t communicated with Jim Stewartson, the author of the Mind War Substack, in three and a half years, but a right wing shitstain named Doug Stewart has been Filing A Conjunction, trying to drag me into Jim’s troubles, for the last year or more.
Curiously, Stewart was also present in person clear back in 2011 when a mentally ill man in New Jersey was led into a malicious prosecution attempt against me, then again in the first two frivolous lawsuits filed against me in Maryland and Virginia that same year, and he shares a lawyer with James “Pissboy” McGibney in Texas, due to some cyberstalking civil suit he faced there.
Patterns of association, how DO they work?
Flynn v. Wellman is another bit of frivolity that’s been directed at the former head of The Lincoln Project, Fred Wellman, who now publishes On Democracy here. I’m sure once I start digging there will be a LOT of material like this.
Nationally:
About a third of U.S. states have workable anti-SLAPP protections. A similar number have no protection at all. There is not a federal statute, but there really needed to be one before Leonard Leo’s mullahs became a 6:3 majority in our Supreme Court and McConnell/Trump fouled a quarter of our federal benches, often with unqualified crackpots, as exemplified by Aileen Cannon.
Assuming we have a positive outcome in November’s Civil War Referendum, which means we retain democracy and some semblance of the rule of law, there will be a tidal wave of this sort of bullshit. I don’t just mean the nonsense “election theft” stuff, which The 65 Project is doing an excellent job of tamping down, in general we’re going to see all sort of dipshit plaintiffs forum shopping for dipshit Trump federal bench appointees they can snivel to about whatever conspiracy theory they’re pushing.
Conclusion:
Becoming America’s frivolous litigation poster child was not on my bucket list, but here I am, so I’m going to make the most of it. Maybe having a document indexing service like Disinfodrome is going to come in handy after the 2024 election …
