Once a civilization starts down the road to destruction there’s not much that can be done. I wish that I could say that there would be a point where the true patriots would rise up and lead this country back to it roots but I don’t see that happening. Even here on FR most people are supporters of the police state that is rising up around us. The war on drug/terror/domestic violence/deadbeat dads/whatever have been used to justify horrible abuses of our constitutional rights and whenever the topics come up here you have a majority that thinks that’s just as it should be! Most conservatives are the same as most Liberals when it comes to cheering on the police and giving them ever more authority over our lives. Bit by bit we are becoming the CCCP but like the frog slowly boiled we won’t realize it until it is too late.
That plus the ability of the government to find out what you are planning would make it absurdly easy to break up any “terrorist” plot before you could get three guys to agree on the name of your organization. The Federal government has just become too strong to resist with small arms, it can’t be done and it’s foolish to even think that it can. Plus as I said you won’t have any State supporting you and neither will you have the general population with you (they’ll be too busy watching dancing with the stars to be bothered and even if they did think about for more than 2 seconds they would take the welfare state over what you’d be offering 99.9999% of the time).
The only true counter balance to the Federal governments power was long ago destroyed in the Civil War. Now states don’t even have their own armies (militia) but have a federalized army (the National Guard) that can be called on by the federal government to put down any state government uprising (just look at what happened during the 1960’s when Alabama tried to resist the federal courts orders, yep, it was the National Guard the Kennedy called out). So sorry but any hope of resisting the federal government ended around 1865.
You only outline one scenario. You haven’t accounted for the most likely scenarios, such as a financial collapse whereby the people are fed up and want to toss the fed out. You assume there is some plot to overthrow the US government by subversives, which is the least likely future and the most likely to fail.
“The Federal government has just become too strong to resist with small arms”
What does the federal government have but small arms themselves? You can’t count on the military to back the fed. The total number of armed officers, federal, State and local doesn’t even come close to 4 million and most don’t know the business end of their pistols. 15 million scoped deer rifles would make a mess of that force.
You may decide the cause is hopeless, and kneel quietly with your eyes down.
Millions of others will not.
A quote by Sam Adams about chains comes to my mind.