I know it dismays a lot of hardcore crypto-anarchists on this forum, but I am a happy, law abiding, tax paying US citizen  And I think bitcoin's best path to success will be to work within existing government regulations.

The vast majority of businesses we want accepting bitcoins are law-abiding businesses, as are the vast majority of people in the world.

If you believe that bitcoin is monetary freedom, as I do, then you don't want to self-select yourself away from the law-abiding world.  I want to spread bitcoin to as many people as possible... not "as many crypto-anarchists as possible"  

Sure, there will be setbacks from entrenched interests, but the best way to fight that is to be positive and help build the bitcoin economy.  Soon, the entrenched interests will be joining our economy.