AMB. JOHN BOLTON
U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006. Prior to that, he was under secretary of state for arms control and international security. He is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the author of Surrender Is Not An Option.
“Freedom of speech is under assault from a direction that the United States and the West generally rejected centuries ago. “Blasphemy,” as some define it, may not be pretty, but the suppression of speech is profoundly ugly, not to mention dangerous to a free and open society. This book explains why.”
RORY LANCMAN
New York State Assemblyman and the author of the Freedom to Report Terrorism Act and the Libel Tourism Protection Act.
“Winning the war on terrorism requires an aggressive defense against ‘lawfare’—the misuse of our civil legal system by terrorism’s facilitators, propagandists and apologists. Aaron Meyer and Brooke Goldstein have produced an essential primer on ‘lawfare’ which policymakers at every level of government should read, and act on.”
MARK W. SMITH
Tthe New York Times bestselling author of The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: The Arguments You Need to Defeat the Looney Left and Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left’s Stranglehold on the Courts. He is a partner at Smith Valliere PLLC.
“Mr. Meyer and Ms. Goldstein have compiled an impressive arsenal of important information critical to helping journalists fight back against the lawfare being waged on the West by Militant Islamists.“
JAMES TARANTO
Contributing Editor at The Wall Street Journal.
“A useful guide to First Amendment law and a timely chronicle of Islamist efforts to suppress speech.“
DAVID B. HARRIS
Barrister and Solicitor, Director, International and Terrorist Intelligence Program, INSIGNIS Strategic Research Inc., successful defendant in Canadian Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR- CAN) v. Harris, an Islamic libel lawfare case.
“Those of us who have been at the business end of lawfare— Islamism’s latest heavy weapon against America and the Constitution—will regard this book as the leading treatment of radical Islam’s new threat to freedom and national security. Meyer and Goldstein respond with a careful, authoritative and highly readable guide to the Silencing War. Pioneering scholars and practitioners in the lawfare field, they take us through its legal and policy ramifications, and offer Americans the practical, workable solutions needed to come to grips with this historic, subversive challenge.“
DOUGLAS MURRAY
Associate Director of the Henry Jackson Society.
“The money I could have saved if I only had this book ten years ago…“
EZRA LEVANT
Canadian lawyer, conservative political activist and media figure. He is the founder and former publisher of the Western Standard, hosts The Source on Canadian television’s Sun News Network, and is the author of many books, including Shakedown: How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy In The Name Of Human Rights.
“Meyer and Goldstein shine the light of public scrutiny on lawfare—a form of jihadist bullying that has gone too long unchallenged. But they do more than describe the threat—they detail ideas for fighting to protect our civil liberties, in America and around the world.“