Well, in that case, no revolution would ever succeed. However, as President Kennedy put it, those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
As to number 1, well they do have to get it all past a jury. After the Hutaree debacle it may well be that a jury will look very closely at politically motivated prosecutions. Abuse of prosecutorial discretion will add to the deligitimization of the current government.
A government under the thumb of a tyrant, but whose legitimacy is based on a carefully written and spelled out Constitution and Declaration of Independence, is readily moving towards serious political disequilibria. The question really becomes whether the current government and its backers are willing to spill enough blood to keep power.
With the death panels being implemented under Obamacare, it is clear that the current regime is Dracula-level bloodthirsty.
As to 2., there is a reason why the concept of political asylum exists. Even Lenin had to leave his homeland, to come back later by the Finland Station.
In apparent response to the claim of the President-Elect Obama and his entourage that he would "rule", the then President Bush made it clear that "govern" was the proper word in the USA. There is still hope, despite the sans coulotte Occupiers sharing similarities with the Nazi Revolution.
...”sharing similarities with the Nazi Revolution.”
I just watched a program on the History Channel that showed the great effort Hitler made to keep his family genealogy Hidden and sealed. Seems he wasn’t so pure of blood and the similarities with present times hit me like a boulder.