And the response from the feds? A ruthless and willful inattentiveness - hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil - together with contemptuous, evasive and triumphalist bravado.

An intriguing update, here and here, and summed up nicely here, excerpt:

"... But liberals, in their preternatural obtuseness, have only themselves to blame for this. By egregiously and willfully misrepresenting the law, by their hyperbole and hysteria, they are bringing about the very effect -- the attrition of lawbreakers -- that the framers of the law intended ..."