1. It's spelled 'fascists'.
2. So, if a member of the government, be they a Solder, LEO, or other fedgov/stategov agent was to follow orders, to suppress a rebellion, or quell a terrorist action, involving U.S. citizens as the OPFOR, then you'd advocate we the people find where the Gov't members live, and hurt them, or their families? Oh, yea, that's really freedom and liberty-inspired! Did you take a page from North Korea's policy of harming/imprisoning/killing 'traitors' and their families, up to three generations, and chalk it up to the 'consequences'? You're starting to sound less like a typical Military worshiping American, and more like a "let's kill people at-will because they're related to traitors!" type of person.
Not helping the stereotype that Gun owners are just a news column away from going off the deep end, and bringing a few people along with them.
What if, and this is a hypothetical, you're cousin who lived down the street was a Nat'l Guardsman/woman, who was in a platoon, sent to quell a group of 2A supporters that got too rowdy for local police to handle. How would you felt if the whole thing escalated into a riot, and the Guardsmen/women, and police lost temporary control of the area/city/county/whatever, and the loons started going to the homes of the family members of the people in the police/military, and beating the crap out of them, or tar and feathering them, or making them pay the consequences of being related to someone else who may or may not be acting in a traitorous way. What then? You may fire on the people trying to break in, or if you had no gun, you might flee or stay and fight, but lets say they did capture you, and poised to execute or seriously harm you. Would your harm/death be justified? According to what you said, yes, it would be justified, because the family could very well be punished for the actions of a family member, lawfully or unlawfully acting under orders of the Government/Superior officers.
Whatever happened to free association, and the protections we have in our laws, and constitution, that got rid of 'cruel and unusual punishment'? I suppose the constitution/laws that restrict cruelty and rights violations only apply to the government, and not to ordinary people.
I don't mean to take the side of the Government, or the side of anyone in general, but, HPMatt, do you even think before you speak? Have you never read the forum rules? There is no, no, NO advocating or promoting of illegal stuff on the forum. Suggesting, even in the slightest, that we should mete out consequences to the families, or the people themselves acting under orders by U.S. government, is advocating, and suggestion something illegal. And you forget, a traitor by definition, is someone who rebels, aids, or otherwise supports actions taking against a nation, or government; With modern usage, and phrasing, a traitor would be you, or me, or anyone who defies the Government with open hostility. So, with the twisting of the law done by Government on a daily basis, legally the orders given to quell an insurrection or a U.S. Citizen group, would be a legal order, and harming someone for following a lawful order [remember, we're going under the guise that government twists things for themselves, and has the money to outlast you in court, and owns the means of propaganda], would make you a traitor.
I need a hot shower to scrub myself, I feel so dirty and violated for taking on any semblance of playing devil's advocate for the Gov't, or it's agents.