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 filingbankruptcy petitions against others in an effort to ruin theircredit ratings.[8]
In the late 1990s,[9] the "Republic of Texas", a militia group claiming thatTexas was legally independent, carried out what it called "a campaign of paper terrorism" using bogus land claims and bad checks to try to congest Texas courts.[10]
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^Hoffman, Bruce (2006).Inside Terrorism (2nd ed.). Columbia University Press. p. 105.ISBN978-0-231-12699-1.
