Good post OP.
I thought I would add this: In the Jared Loughner shooting, imo, it was Judge John Roll who was the real target. He adjudicated drug cases, and had ruled just days before on this one:
http://drkatesview.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/judge-john-roll-target-or-victim/[...]
Confiscation of Savings
Judge Roll announced he was about to rule against the Obama administration in the case
U.S. v. $330,520.00 in US Currency and Saturn Aura XE 2007, filed in November 2010 and involving bulk cash smuggling into or out of the United States. A jury acquitted the defendant but the United States still sought forfeiture of the funds, and this was the case upon which Judge Roll made the preliminary finding against the United States.
The Obama administration advanced its position that it could bypass Congress and rule through Executive Order, and
cited FDR’s Executive Order 6102 which confiscated Americans’ gold in order to ‘fix’ the economy in 1933, and built upon the Acts of October 6, 1917 and March 9, 1933.
Judge Roll’s ruling would have prevented the Obama administration from seizing these funds and the property involved without demonstrating clear and convincing evidence of a crime being committed.
Here is the case:
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/arizona/azdce/4:2010cv00703/568697/So to expound on some of the very fine points in your post, indeed, the drug war can be said to be winning or losing, based on how much booty the agents of that war, collect. Now, as to how bitcoin affects their end game of total US wealth confiscation, remains to be seen, but the very case they cite, FDR's gold grab, shows their intent.
And as you may know, in 2008, the only thing that kept the world economy afloat, was drug money.
So... Yeah. In the end, confiscation is the final chess move that will alter the battlefield. The Cyprus thing is that move, one could say that the US "wins this round" by having the EU (Germany and Rome) to have to make that first move, in the sense that each of the three blocs (US, UE and BRICs) is trying to force the other, to make their move first. Like when a gunfighter says "draw" ...Well, the EU has blinked first, and stole directly from one of their nations, and this will surely have results. The only question is, at what time and place and under what code, will the US then make the same move.
I believe that any bank account in the US which has any bitcoin activity, places itself in the crosshairs for first-action for when the US decides to do the deposit "haircut" thing. But Obama's handlers know that when they make this move, it will have serious consequences. The body trail is growing behind this administration, and of course it relates to Bill and Hillary, who were drug runners out of Mena, AR and who have a huge body trail behind themselves as well. So the top of the pyramid in the US is kinda showing their hand, but I doubt most Americans can see it.
One other point is that right before Obama won the nomination in 2008, it appears that Bill and Hillary tried to muscle him with (it is assumed) his legitimacy as to birth certificate and his history as a CIA asset. This is evidenced from the fact that Democratic Party chairman Bill Gwatney was gunned down by a sleeper killer just a week or so before the nomination was given to Obama. Gwatney was a long time friend of the Clintons, and so this was obviously a message from the Obama/Jarret/Ayres faction to the Whitewater/Mena faction that if they pushed Obama, more friends of the Clintons, would die.
So underneath all the day to day happenings, there is a subtle message of threats and death, which floats on the US trade of drugs. The US is the largest consumer of drugs of course, and "freedom" demands that drugs remain available. So the issues you raise, about drugs and bitcoin, are probably very true. I am guessing that once Obama's handlers (Jarrett and Co.) make him drop the hammer and confiscate the bitcoin bank accounts and/or domains, shit will hit the fan quickly after that.
A further question would be, what banks are actually backing up sites like instawallet and blockchain? They must have a bank behind them, don't they? Or are these sites, which hold potentially millions of USD worth of BTC, are just databases, and have no banks behind them? I think this subject is worth further discussion.
