Ed Martin, who served as director of the Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group and is facing a bar investigation from the D.C. Bar, has penned one of the most prescient and frightening articles about lawfare. Based on a recent speech he gave at “Barfare: Stopping Bar Discipline as Political Warfare,” which I also spoke at, he said the left will not stop with the lawfare against conservatives until they kill us. 

He laid out how the lawfare is escalating. “First, people are investigated because of their politics,” Martin began. “Then they are prosecuted. Then their professional licenses are taken away. Then they are imprisoned. Then their reputations are destroyed. Then they are bankrupted. Then the public is conditioned to regard them as something less than fellow citizens.”

But now, the targeting of conservatives is headed for far worse retaliation. “At some point, if that process continues unchecked, destroying people legally, professionally and financially is no longer enough,” he said. “That is why I say the endpoint is killing people.” 

This should be obvious to everyone who understands history. As a society becomes more and more authoritarian, murdering people is the end result. Look at what happened under Nazi Germany and communist countries. Under Adolf Hitler, 11 to 17 million lost their lives. Estimates of deaths in the former USSR under Joseph Stalin range from several million to 10 to 20 million.

Ironically, this is happening because the Left refers to those on the right as Nazis, pedophiles, and other scary-sounding words.........

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