Interesting Policing Idea (with COIN implications): “The interesting twist is that the authorities are asking the courts to seize the IP of the biker club — specifically, their trademarked name “Mongols”

Found on SlashDot:

…a Federal raid on a California-based motorcycle club, the Mongols, on charges “ranging from murder and robbery to extortion, money laundering, gun trafficking and drug dealing.” The interesting twist is that the authorities are asking the courts to seize the IP of the biker club — specifically, their trademarked name “Mongols.” “Federal agents [...]

Attention Congress: Impeach Judge Ricardo Urbina Now and finally Declare War on Al-Quada

From Hot Air:
A federal judge has ordered the release of 17 Chinese Uighers detained at Guantanamo Bay, and specifically into the US. Judge Ricardo Urbina demanded that the federal government produce them in his courtroom by Friday, and refused to stay his order for an appeal. [...]He said he would then release them into [...]

The 4th Amendment, The meaning of “Unreasonable” and the so-called Civil Libertarian Left

On Tech Dirt, I saw this – “FBI Asks Congress To Ignore The Whole ‘Probable Cause’ Part Of The 4th Amendment” :
So, in case you haven’t been paying attention, the text of the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution reads:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against [...]

New John Fonte Article: “Global Governance vs. the Liberal Democratic Nation State: What Is the Best Regime?”

I will blog on these later, but I thought I would point them out to others for now.
John Fonte (who authored the article on Transnational Progressivism) has a four-part article at familysecuritymatters.org entitled: “Global Governance vs. the Liberal Democratic Nation State: What Is the Best Regime?”
1) Who Governs
2) The Response of the American Governing Center-Left [...]

A Few Lawfare Links

Note: I have been hording these, so they are not all current.

Fuck the Spanish and Their Lawfare

From Concurring Opinions:
Spain’s recent indictment of 40 Rwandan army officers on international criminal charges raises interesting questions about the appropriateness of trying such cases in the domestic courts of nations with little connection to the conflict from which these crimes arose.
What’s this?
The charged Rwandans were not responsible for the 1994 Rwandan genocide (Hutus killing Tutsis), [...]

PrairePundit on “Lawfare against the CIA”

Prairie Pundit links to an article and comments:
The left’s insistence on reversion to the Trial on Terror rather than waging war against the terrorist is a major miscalculation that will render great aid to the enemy, if not comfort too. While they may be pursuing this strategy in good faith, the demonstrable results after eight [...]

“Blue on Blue” Lawfare

Wolf Pangloss writes about an incident:
The kill had already been approved by the American command. And the main job of soldiers in war is to kill the enemy, which Buntangyar was. So, the American soldiers shot him.
And now the lawyers have decided to prosecute them for murder.
Some quick Thoughts:

Why the fuck are the JAGs running [...]

PrairiePundit on Lawfare

He writes:
The smoke screen is by the terrorist rights advocates who are trying to reveal our sources and methods of gathering information so that the enemy can avoid future detection and preemption of its attacks.
[...]
This is just another example of why judges have no business interfering with the war effort. The lawfare approach exposes our [...]

No Way To Run a War

While reading instapundit I saw this:
Goldsmith notes that the Defense Department alone has over 10,000 lawyers, not including reservists.
Unless they are in some special suicide-squad, this can’t be a good thing…it can’t be a good use of human capital resources.

Congress Had A Chance to Apply an Anti-Lawfare Measure…

…but chose not to regarding the Flying Inmans.
There are several possible whys individuals voted against the Counter-Lawfare protection:

Their Cryptocalvinism Universalism ideology maneuvers them into stupid position
There are afraid of Islam (and appeasement is their instinctual – their fingertip feeling – reaction)
Some may be on the other side

Anyways, read more here (Gates of Vienna) and [...]

Don’t Play Loose With the Constitution: Cheney Apparently is a Dick

So, Dick Cheney thinks he is part of the Legislative branch when it suits him.
The VP is part of the executive Branch. He is not part of the legislative branch because one of his duties is to preside over the Senate.
The Supreme Court Chief Justice is not a member of the legislative branch because he [...]

Personal Lawfare or Assholness? You Be The Judge!

From the Sun:
A customer got so steamed when a dry cleaner lost his trousers that he sued for US$65 million.
Oh yeah, the guy suing is a judge.
An Asshole judge.

Lawfare Links and Comments [Updated]

In 4GW, the use of non-Kinetic power is as important (if not more so) then kinetic power.
I am fascinated by the practice of lawfare (I am not a lawyer, though law school was a mental plan B that I had and occasionally think about). It is type of legalistic judo where the rule-sets and systems [...]

Islamic Lawfare

From LGF:
At “The American Muslim,” Issa Smith describes the plan to establish shari’a law in the United States—and yes, he is talking about shari’a for everyone: Native American Courts: Precedent for an Islamic arbitral system. (Hat tip: The Gathering Storm.)
This is the violence-deferred front of the global jihad—the attempt to use our own democratic institutions [...]

Lawfare Link: “Strategic Corporals? How about Strategic JAGs and the Rise of Lawfare?”

Here is the link.

New Year’s Eve Links [Updated]

BTW, I am listening to The Pipettes while I type this.

Top 10 Businesspundit Posts of 2006
TDAXP describes the differences between Shia and Sunni Islam; [update] Catholicgauze has the maps to go with it.
5GW: “Exploring what comes next is cooler than what’s maturing now“
In “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind” EnigmaFoundry [...]

Pro-Illegal Immigration Lawfare Example

Via John Robb the New York Times writes:
But now, after boasting of having captured 12,000 illegal crossers on land he owns or leases from the state and emerging as one of the earliest and most prominent of the self-appointed border watchers, Mr. Barnett finds himself the prey.
Immigrant rights groups have filed lawsuits, accusing him of [...]

Two More Examples of Islamic and Anti-Anti-Islmaofascist Lawfare

Via InstaPundit:
My advice to Saudis who don’t want to be accused of supporting terrorism: Get your country to stop being a major source of funds for terrorists. That’s better than engaging in legal terrorism against a free press of the sort that isn’t allowed in your own benighted country.
and from LGF:
Former prisoners at Abu Ghraib [...]

TDAXP on Lawfare

TDAXP has a written a post on Lawfare:
International Law and Foreign Law are both attempts by legalistic factions who cannot impose their will democratically, so they use legal-sounding words to try to get in through the back door. The world is better off without them.
Lawfare (a non-kinetic type of power) can also be purposely used [...]

Information Security Lawfare Example on Identity Theft

Flyingpenguin writes on ID Theft:
The argument seems to be that the state finds ID theft investigations expensive, so they want find the failed control points and hold them liable.
Good Information Security Lawfare is all about governmental units creating economic incentive for good behavior – in this case, reducing identity theft (less money for bad guys) [...]

Anti-Anti-Islamofascist Lawfare Sugestion

TCS Daily has a post on the NY Times and its exposure of the counter-terrorist operation using SWIFT:
Remember the word “multilateral?” That’s what John Kerry-type Democrats claim our effort in Iraq is not. The SWIFT program was a meticulously constructed multinational covert operation that had the cooperation of Belgium, Spain and other European nations. The [...]

Weekend Information Security Links

(ht Dark Reading) Anti-Phishing.org has an excellent PDF –> The Crimeware Landscape: Malware, Phishing, Identity Theft and Beyond:
“Crimeware” is software that performs illegal actions unanticipated by a user running the software, which are intended to yield financial benefits to the distributor of the software.
SecuritTeam: Money Mule Recruitment Over IM:
Today was the first time we observed [...]

Lawfare Against Terrorist Financiers

From LGF:
A lawsuit by families of suicide bomb victims against French bank Credit Lyonnais, alleging that the bank knowingly provided financial services to genocidal terrorists, will proceed.
Read the whole things and follow the links.
Lawfare may prove to a quite effective tool against those foreign enemies who have embeded themselves into the West for protection.

New York State adds to its Information Security Lawfare Capability

Press release from 9.26.2006:
Governor George E. Pataki announced today that he signed three measures into law that will further protect New York’s consumers and their privacy. These bills establish the Consumer Communication Records Privacy Act, place limits on the use and disclosure of Social Security account numbers, and further clarify and define what is considered [...]