I'll bet you dollars to donuts there is another terrorist attack coming down the pike and they try and blame the Tea Party/right for it just like they tried doing with the fertilizer car bomb that fizzled in NYC back in 09.
The talking points the left prior to that attempted attack are exactly the same talking points we're getting now.
I think you are right. They'll declare martial law afterwords and gun walker, the SSN fraud and the birth cert all go away, they hope.