For a look at how the U.S. era of bogus "homeland security" and "war on terror," supported by the USA PATRIOT Act, is actually covering up high-level terror and other crimes in an undeclared real war on We the People, one need look no further than the life of one man over the past couple of years, that of Dr. Joseph Zernik.
Harvard Law School's "Citizen Media Law Project" have reported the threat by US Deputy Marshal Darcy Smith against a blog publisher, who used crude language in protesting the conduct of US Judge A Howard Matz. In both threats, the US Deputy Marshal Darcy Smith was employed to suppress claims of judicial corruption at the US District Court, Southern District of California.