I'm not familiar with other "the government"s, but if you mean the US federal government, if they retaliate I seriously doubt it'll involve conspiracy theory tier stuff.
More likely, it'd take the form of strict regulation of exchanges, wallet services, and miners who interact with the traditional money system - the three classes of user that FinCEN has already warned may qualify as MSBs.
Couldn't a lot of those services just move to Tor and / or small financial haven countries?