Egypt Leaves the Internet (Renesys blog)

Quite possibly. I certainly was not advocating it. I was just stating the obvious. That is what it would take to keep internet running in the case of a government level order to shut it down.

Of course governments have had no problem just making pretexts out of thin air in order to squash political dissent. The majority of governments carry out acts of violence against their own citizens as just a matter of course and then dream up justifications well after the fact.