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> To be clear, there is no securing yourself against state level actors. You can harden yourself, and reduce your target area and/or footprint, but there's no way to actually make yourself secure.

Yes. Your best bet is hiding. Once you're identified, it's basically over. It's just another facet of the state monopoly on force.

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The force monopoly has little to do with it - few institutions would have the resources to win against the US govt.

Resource monopoly is rather a subset of force monopoly, no?

I mean, consider guns. In the US, citizens can own guns. And armed private security is OK, too. But there's consistent push-back against private militias, armies, etc. Unless they work only outside the country, in acceptable contexts.

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