Onto your post:

I wrote about similar ideas in my blog (the beginning, especially, sounds similar. I hadn’t read your post when I wrote my ideas, by the way) which I just started , and I’d like to hear your ideas on it: http://deusexviro.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/the-futuility-of-armed-rebellion/

Also, the government has been responding to a collapsing financial state in a predictable way. Consider one thing that the school textbooks have said: FDR and his programs (the books will call them reforms) helped to pull them out of the Great Depression. So far, the government has followed this “fake fact” and interfered in many many ways (“coincidentally” giving money to centralized Industry in return for government ownership–of course, media outlets generally avoid that dirty little word “nationalization”). Obama is planning a WPA-clone, following FDR yet further.

But the next idea widely spread through education is the one we will come face to face with eventually. It is this: American involvement in World War II helped lift America out of the Great Depression. Whether this is true, or it was the fact that the American homeland was not in ruins as much of Europe was, will never be considered. As the government nationalizations and bailouts continue to fail, they will, I am sure, remember this “maxim.” The push for war will likely come. Terrorists may be the scapegoat. “Regressives”, perhaps, will also be. Or it may take on a different flavor, a non-violent war, a war of re-education and propaganda. Or the combination of the two.

“Therefore, remain not silent. Those who loudly proclaim the truth while few will listen, will have their words reverberating for generations afterwards.”

I know where you are coming from. The experiment of America, with a small government securing liberty, is a beautiful thing–a noble ideal worth defending as one would defend faith in God: to death. But the current government will fall from within, and, especially once the financial system collapses, free speech may no longer be free; it will have a price of death. An organized, non-violent, but invisible rebellion, I think, will be the best way. A loud, violent rebellion will, at least while the centralized government is strong, be suppressed. And, of course, the centralized government of the rising fascist/socialist state will be fighting a global war; this might be freedom’s last chance to fight, for if a centralized global government wins, they will write their own history books–after they’re done burning the rest.

Have you ever read the Brothers Karamavoz? I highly recommend it, at least the “Grand Inquisitor” portion, if you haven’t. It has supreme significance today.