A bill known as the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007" has recently been passed by an overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives as H.R. 1955. As it currently reads in it's Senate form, S. 1959, the bill is an amendment to Title VIII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and proposes to establish a 12 member commission which will hold hearings which will result in a report which will publish it's "findings and conclusions and legislative recommendations" among other things. Additionally, it establishes a university based "Center of Excellence" to "assist homeland security officials of Federal, State, local, and tribal governments through training, education, and research in preventing violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism in the United States." Here I have left out a lot of details in order to get to the point. However, it is a fairly short and readable bill ( http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:s1959: ).
Now, there is a lot of fervor over the vagueness in the key definitions put forth by the bill. These concerns can easily be found through an internet search regarding the bill. However, what unsettles me the most is the very concrete part of one definition in particular. To wit, the bill defines homegrown terrorism as "the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives." (Emphasis added)
By itself, this may sound quite innocent. However, the Second Amendment is clearly the threatened use of force and violence by the people of the United States to intimidate the government in furtherance of the political and social objective of securing a free State.
Combine this with the FBI having already lumped "'defenders' of the US Constitution" and people who "make numerous references to US Constitution" in with terrorists. (see images below) We could be in a whole lot of trouble.