So. You're implying that the United States government would operate, in America, a classified assassination program against local legislators. That nobody would leak this program. And that the United States government would be capable of carrying out what is essentially a conspiracy worthy of Alex Jones, and nobody would find out? And that the United States government can go into the houses of dozens of state legislators and threaten them in the middle of the night, and it would remain secret? That it would risk doing so despite the obvious risks of failure?
I have a question.
Why don't people like Farrakhan get midnight visits?
Why didn't John Walker Lindh have a terrible, and tragic, accident?
Why didn't the leaderships of the Alaskan Independence Party (or any number of similar groups) have terrible accidents happen to them?
Finally, consider this:
If it turns out that the Federal Government is running a covert assassination program against political opponents in local governments, then it would effecitvely mean that the American Republic had died. No ifs and buts about it. If you have people executing people in the middle of the night for their political views, what you have is not a Republic. It's not even a Democracy.
If that happens - and I do not believe it would ever happen, for the reasons I outline above - then it would be morally permissible to rise up against such a government. Becuase that would have gone far beyond the normal restrictions that all Western democracies impose on their citizens (restrictions which are already, IMO, repressive and unjust) and straight into 1930's-type political tyranny.
Such a thing happening, if it became public, would vindicate the most horrendous tinfoil hat accusations of any secession movement - which is precisely why it wouldn't happen. Not because the people in Washington are nice people, but because the most minute failure would bring the whole works down.