Gimme a break! There's enough knee-jerk, paranoid, holier-than-thou thinking on this website to write a thousand episodes of X-Files! Federal government has been slinging Tomahawk missiles at bad guys for over a decade now, but I don't see them being used on political opposition in this country!
Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures. Look at what went on in Border States during Civil War.
Just because terr's dropped out of the skies on 9/11, it doesn't mean the content or character of the fedgov has changed.
You still have little tommy daschle, (cover up artist for the FAA otu there) or teddy the no swimmer, or durbin the dumb or the torch.
I am tried of politics as usual and hiding behind the cover of terr's.
We still have people floating around in fedgov, who think their job is to rule and oppress the citizens of the US.
We still have members of the fedgov who blame the US for every ill in the world.
So beware of the fedgov bearing gifts, watch your back pocket, because professional polticians are still theives and liars.