"Paper terrorism" is a neologism referring to the use of false liens, frivolous lawsuits, bogus letters of credit, and other legal or pseudolegal documents lacking sound factual basis as a method of harassment against an opponent on a scale described as evocative of conventional armed terrorism.
[3] Mark Pitcavage of the Anti-Defamation League states that these methods were pioneered by the Posse Comitatus.
[5] An article by the Southern Poverty Law Center states that another tactic is filing reports with the Internal Revenue Service falsely accusing their political enemies of having unreported income.
[6] Such frivolous lawsuits also clog the court system making it more difficult to process other cases and including using challenges to the titles of property owned by government officials and others.
[7] Another method of paper terrorism is filing bankruptcy petitions against others in an effort to ruin their credit ratings.