“Jammers cannot be omnidirectional.”
Some are (VHF/UHF), but to be more effective they scan and they scan fast. So, while 100% of the frequency is not jammed at all times, every frequency gets jammed at least a percentage and that percentage is enough to distrupt normal RF CW communications. This is why the military uses frequency hopping in the grass along with other techniques. It is unlikely that a jammer will hit the exact frequency as the transmitter at the same time. Getting jam proof communications is easy enough but we civilians do not have anything that does that.
Moon bounce is hard to accomplish all the time and is not a reliable communications technique. Plus, it can be jammed fairly easily.
I suspect we will have communications because if any enemy tries to jam us then we are no doubt in an all out war and we will take care of such transmissions.
Spread spectrum communication is effective for long-distance HF transmission of binary coded data (like faxes), and I’d imagine if the listening station could decode across a spread spectrum, they could decode a long-distance message. That’s also the beauty of Morse code. I can tap out long messages in code on HF and provided signal strength at the receiving end is at least audible, code can be understood by those who know it. I’ve communicated with stations in South Africa using HF wave propagation on clear nights with my yagi, and despite a lot of noise on the line, the code is easy to decipher.
I do wholeheartedly agree with your last assertion. If it gets to this point, we really are talking about tyranny in the country and I fear CWII will be in full swing by then.
Remember, however, that the initial conversation was surrounding the regulation of the Internet by the FCC. My point was that when they did the same thing to the Bells back in the 20th century, people seeking normal channels of communication invented ways to get around the taxes. For instance, how many people today have home phone service? I would bet the numbers are on the wane.
Necessity is the mother of invention, as Plato once said.