#7 seems obviously correct. The first six sound like you would prefer a totalitarian government. I disagree.
Good point.
But given the circumstances, what other options are there?
Protest is off limits to us, every time we've resorted to it we're defamed. The left is very sophisticated in the use of imagery-- at finding the least flattering and most symbolic instances to depict any given event.
I'm not terribly optimistic about the outcome unless we use any & all means not expressly illegal.
Claim the gray areas before they do.
Seconded. Some of us who live here would prefer not to live under martial law. We need not stoop to their level. We need not become the despots the left accuse us of being.