Once Bitcoin is carved in the minds of Americans as illegal, risky, funding of terrorism, etc...the brand is dead.
This is an exaggeration of recent events at best, which relate to one company's (completely avoidable, most likely) issue with a regulator. As for Satoshi Dice, that has been reckless for an American to own all along. It has nothing to do with Bitcoin.
Connecting these events to a government plot to tie BTC to terrorism is an example of rhetorical gymnastics worthy of McKayla Maroney.