Some fraction of that five million would kill those who came to “arrest” them. And it would be simple self-defense. Boom, some thousands of cops and FedGov thugs dead. What would they do next?
That is my hope. And they'd better, because that "arrest" would lead to the cattle cars. But in the eyes of the state it would not be self-defense, it would be insurrection, to be punished in an exemplary fashion. It won't work unless there's a radical in office, which before 0bama I thought there never would be, but now I know different.
This is actually done incrementally, or it was in France and Russia and Cambodia, anyway. Matt Bracken laid out one scenario in What I Saw At The Coup, which I'm sure you've read but this is a good opportunity to post it for anyone who hasn't. You start with a small number of key people and keep it very quiet. Surveillance will tell you who. And - not to sound paranoid, it's a fact - we're all under surveillance right now.
These things always start out nice and clean and always end up in a godawful bloody mess. The perpetrators usually win in the short run and lose big in the long run. That isn't much comfort if you happen to be one of their first victims. So yes, to finish your thought, we'll need to be resisting that arrest to the death because that's precisely where it will lead anyway.