"Lawfare"...What Is It?

Vaclav Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic, in a blurb on the back of John Fonte's new book Sovereignty Or Submission, Will Americans Rule Themselves Or Be Ruled By Others, begins with these words "John Fonte accurately identifies the coalitions of institutions, interests and individuals that are promoting global governance..." John O'Sullivan, Vice President and Executive Editor of Radio Free Europe, had these words to say in his introduction to the book, "Global governance...seeks to take ultimate political power from parliaments and congresses accountable to national electorates in sovereign states, and to invest it in courts, bureaucracies, NGOs and various transnational bodies." This is reality but the threat is concealed in the roar from stadiums and the mesmerizing effect from the Oprah and Facebook mentality that rules the American mind today. I have argued on many occasions in this blog that the elites of this world have grandiose plans for an entirely new world but that those stubborn and religious American people fight them every step of the way. Barack Obama was a major crack in our defense and euphoria reigned in many countries but his utter incompetence and the American people's harsh awakening to it is forcing them to ramp up the flip side of their assault on the sovereign state. What kind of arguments do these elites make? One given in the book is "sovereignty must be redefined as something shared or pooled," a ridiculously illogical, nonsense statement but one that the postmodern mind listens to and says.... whatever. The Transnational according to Fonte, is one who seeks "legal action and authority beyond national laws, constitutions and officials." Does this make your blood boil? It should for they are saying that they will make the rules and we will be submissive. Who are the players? NGOs are a big one. They are the "nongovernmental organizations" who we hear so much about in the news and automatically accept as if they just want to give us advice and nothing more. Fonte lists a number of them throughout the book. Some of which are: Human Rights Watch,  the National Council of Churches, the ACLU, La Raza, Amnesty International, the Ford...MacArthur and Rockefeller foundations. The next time you watch a program on PBS promoting international issues that you disagree with, check the credits at the end to see who sponsored it and you will probably find an NGO. How does this statement sound to you, "It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order..." This came from "the most trusted man in America"....Walter Cronkite. John Fonte gives the historical and philosophical background of this argument for a world government along with what our nations founders had to say in response to such suggestions. Those founders used the concept of law as it appears in the Bible and that that respected, proven, concept is today being torn asunder on the international stage. Every one of us is a philosopher but most of us have no idea where that philosophy came from or even that it has existed and was argued over from time immemorial. Fonte's book is a needed introduction into philosophy and the American mind. Alexis de Tocqueville's name comes up often in books of this nature. Yes, our favorable geography helps keep us together as a republic as well as our political institutions but de Tocqueville summarized our strength this way "I would say that physical causes contribute less than laws, and laws less than mores." These last two are being systematically eroded every day in our nation. Fonte states that the Founders "promoted education to help develop the mores required to sustain a free society." He spends a good bit of time on the rule of law and a new concept known as "lawfare" or the "use or misuse of law- litigation for harassment, propaganda, or ideological purposes-to achieve strategic, political, or military objectives." Fonte's book is a primer on Europe and what is going on there. I have dozens of books sitting on my shelves where a blurb on the back might say something like "every American must read this book," and many do but we are losing this battle. How does the saying go...You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink? The 127th Psalm begins. "Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain." Ultimately, He will either open our eyes or we will no more be a sovereign nation. This book would certainly be a help to anyone but after reading even the few morsels given here, a simple bowing of the head and asking God to have mercy upon us is what we really need.