Mid 2012: SCOTUS rules ObamaCare constitutional => Tea Party citizens take to the streets => "Occupiers" meet them for the purpose of violent conflict => Government puts the hammer down => Game over.
Just something that popped into my mind, not a prediction. But if one would have asked me 3 years ago if such a thing were possible, I would've said they were wearing a tin-foil hat. Now it seems completely within the realm of possibility, with variations on the theme expanding the likelihood even further.
Game Over?
Game On.
Hammer Down?
The more you tighten your grip the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
The government is too large and too full of morons to deal with a full on insurrection effectively , especially when half of the military will be deserting to join us, along with the heavy equipment.
The same sentiments were probably voiced about the original colonists chances of fighting against parliament, England and the King. But even if said insurrection were to fail, I would rather die in the effort than survive to see the end. Give Me Liberty or Give me Death, and Death isn't exactly plan A.