I agree with you. I spent the last year writing about those very topics and how we can affect change without violence, protests, etc. The winners of these protests and the eventual military crack down will be the elite.

As early as 1929, Lieutenant Colonel J. L. Schley, of the Corps of Engineers wrote in The Military Engineer: “It has been said critically that there is a tendency in many armies to spend the peace time studying how to fight the last war,” a sentiment repeated by the Dallas Morning News in 1937: “There is a partly justified criticism that peacetime generals are always fighting the last war instead of the next one.” - www.huffingtonpost.com

I will suggest that the same goes for people who engage in revolution against governments. Times have changed and we cannot and must not engage in the same strategies that people used in the past. We must find a new approach and that approach is to move towards being 100% independent. My whole blog speaks to this new approach. We win by making their system completely obsolete. I agree with you @perceptualflaws. Peace to you.