Also just look at wikileaks, this was supposedly the biggest fucken national security leak EVER. Yet, to this very day I could go online AND EASILY find all the leaked cables on THOUSANDS of mirrored servers. Seems to me like the government couldn't do jack to stop wikileaks, just throwing twigs at wikileak's steal plated armor. The wikileaks team probably just laughs at it.
Wikileaks- is redundant, largely static, with fallbacks, an insurance package, and a small number of individuals outside of the US to take legal action against.
Bitcoin- an interconnected, dynamically updated open system subject to cascade failure, with a huge number of users just sitting there posting about their crimes openly on a US server just waiting to be plucked. It's robust, it's not bulletproof and the Developers never said it was.
I get where you are coming from, I know that no matter where this goes you won't believe me. So email the above to Gavin and ask him if it's unstoppable. Ask him if it could withstand a coordinated nation-class cyberattack. If we can really do "anything we want and they can't stop us". That sort of Government action is almost unprecedented so Bitcoin can still be successful- it will just need to be more civilized than some members wish to be. What do you think Gavin has been trying to do in all those interviews?
From what I've seen the government can't do jack to stop bitcoin except throw a twig ever now and then.
Well whatever you've seen you should tell the developers because they've been insisting the opposite and trying to put a good face on Bitcoin. Once they realize that they were wrong and it's "unstoppable" maybe they won't have to bother.