http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXg2WsNCrW4

While it is clear the government is overreaching on their powers, and arguably slowly descending into fascism, the emphasis is on slowly. They are clearly flushing the constitution down the drain in order to be able to deal with insurgents, and selectively regulating industries for the benefit of the leadership. However, nothing they are doing is remotely geared for massive civil war. 

 

Most of that video has been around for a while. They just keep editing it. Pretty much all of the claims attributed to the "informant" have been debunked harshly. Even if taken at face value, the qualities of arms and ammunition being ordered are grossly insufficient to deal with a massive civil war. 

 

We all know most of the crap going on is bad. However, it isn't even close to the state needed to wage war broadly against large geographic areas. IMO most of the bad we are seeing form the government is coincidental on that vector. They want to keep their wealth and power. That means protecting their ultra rich buddies who help them fleece the majority of the population, and it means trying to keep a system they keep undermining stable. They view the route to this is to hand themselves ever more power with ever decreasing accountability. To reach the point of massive civil war, you will need to see a number of significant changes in the power structure or laws. I think the shortest path to that are acts of domestic terrorism where the actors fit the role of insurgent rather than belligerent. Without a change of behavior with regards to governing and handling of the economy relative to the majority of voters, I think you will see more incidents that could easily be labeled insurgent acts as time goes on. IMO the power brokers both government and private sector are deeply ensconced in denial about what they have done to the economy, and how much they can continue to rely on Keynesian economic theory at this point. Their actions are futile attempts to do something that might be useful to them remaining at the top of the socio-economic scoreboard while pretending they didn't break the game. A focused plan with a goal will look WAY different than what you are seeing now. 

 

Do I think the people making these video see wrongdoing on behalf of the government? Yes. Do I think that sentiment is justified? Yes. However, I think their conclusions are conspiracy theory. Mainly of the type that tries to oversimplify the cause of the symptoms into something that makes some degree of sense without having to put much thought or education into it.