Pierce is right in more places than he is wrong here, but this is where he is wrong:
Protecting its citizens form foreign invasion is the foremost legitimate government function. This government is doing a god-awful amount of illegitimate or purely evil things, both domestically and internationally. Fighting a preemptive war on the 9/11 bombers and their organization, however clumsily, is still the legitimate government function, supported by the Constitution and by the just war tenets of natural law. One who, like many authors at lewrockwell.com, rattles off a long litany of grievances against the government without any attempt to distinguish between legitimate and non-legitimate grievances can get only one response:
Je m'en fout.