Government DOES want to keep us under their thumb... so THEY can rape and plunder us with power company ripoff, using fear of EMP, while they don't let us do anything about it.
I dunno man. If the government launched an EMP attack in the US they would be the primary loser. It would destroy millions of cars and other things with electrical circuits. It would require billions and billions to rebuild. For what?
That's not the point. The point is that they are scaring us into a fearful frenzy so we don't know which way to go. With the efficiency of modern diesel engines, we don't need power companies any more. But, if we realized it, we would move towards freedom, and they don't want that.