I was working on getting EFF to accept bitcoins and then work on other geek organization. The idea is that if bitcoin got attacked by annoying government people, there will be people who will speak and defend on our behalfs. It's all about uniting the tribe of geeks/hackers/singularists/technolibertarians into a united front for bitcoins.

Help make sure well over 50% of the businesses using bitcoin are legitimate, tax-paying, regulation-complying business entities

To help it grow we should try not only the geek community as mentioned above, but the libertarian community as well. If we make a good number of libertarians realize that bitcoins are even better than gold as currency, they will support it.
If anyone here has any sort of contact with any libertarian think tank, please, talk to them about bitcoins!

Regarding avoiding governments to shut it down... well... if it ever gets sufficiently widespread to threat their monetary policies, you may be sure they will try to shut it down.
But... how do you shut down a P2P system? 

But it is better than gold. I am not saying that it is a better investment option right now, just that it is a better currency.
Any commodity is a potential currency. What made gold and silver excellent currencies are some inner features of such precious metals, that are not only shared by bitcoins, but improved.
If you have patience with automatic translations, I tried to explain it here: http://tinyurl.com/38llgfq

p2p systems cannot be shutdown unless internet connection is barred !!

If "they" have trouble keeping centralized websites like TPB down, how can they expect to shut down a massive P2P application? lol

If you wanted to keep bitcoin down with force you would go after the biggest bitcoin accepting businesses. It's bad PR to attack granny for sending birthday coins to Johnny.

But they can't stop murder, rape, theft, vandalism, etc... so whatever, good luck, guys.

Exactly - and isn't that the point of all of this, really? You can't have it both ways, people.

FreeMoney is right.  Unfortunately, hard-money Austrian-economic libertarians are immediately critical of bitcoin when they find out that it is backed by "nothing" !  I myself think bitcoin is superior currency to gold (since gold cost money to store, insure, is difficult to move around as most travel hubs such as airports will detect it, and is not safe carrying around in your pocket on dangerous city streets, etc.).  But you are better of trying to tell gold-bugs that bitcoin is a great *compliment* to gold, not a *replacement*, since bitcoin is great for trading online pseudonymously, but in the case of total war or any distastes that break internet connections, then gold (and general survival skills) are better long-term investments.  For sure, don't tell them they should move all their assets from gold into bitcoin

I concur that a killer app is necessary.  I personally have never paid any money for anything on facebook.  Is there a way for us to assess the market?  Are any facebook app developers out there actually profitable from their internal currencies? If so, who? 

I'd like to know how much USD is currently flowing through facebook applications.  If it's substantial we actually could have a very good value proposition for the developers, by decreasing their dependence on PayPal.