Do you think that a revolution is past due?   Would you take part in such a thing or, do you think it silly?
345319
The only thing revolution accomplishes is more revolution. This attitude has created tremendous instability in every country that has experienced revolution, the US included. Here, we formed a new country. France, so many others, go through endless uprisings...not a good idea. Voting, Free speach, Free press are the safest, perhaps slowest, but certainly the safest measure. Revolution means: death to many, prison for many, and terror for most. All this for an unsure future that will be toppled again and again. Not very smart.
372638
Encouraging revolution...
687587
Sometimes I think it is all the fault of the American patriots, that they stooped to the (then unheard-of) tactics of shooting at the British from behind trees and bushes. They used these underhanded techniques, largely learned from the savages of the American continents, to compensate for their numerical inferiority. \n\nThough I share the beliefs and values of the Founding Fathers and their armies, though I cherish the freedoms we have as Americans, this still bothers me.\n\nThe success of the American colonials inspired the French Revolution, which was so bloody it is now known in history as the Reign of Terror. If only Louis had thought to give them a whiff of grapeshot and then fix bayonnets and charge the rabble away! There would still be a Louis on the throne of France. Instead, it only encouraged that unpleasantness with the Corsican adventurer and all the rest that followed.\n\nFor generations afterward, whenever a coup took place in South America, the mustachio'd 'gentlemen' would say, "We are not revolutionaries! We are freedom fighters! Not conqustadors, patriots! Not oppressors, liberators!" \n\nCommunism picked that theme up and ran with it for decades. Until it fell apart. Even now, there are some that think Communism has not been discredited; only that it has not been tried hard enough, long enough.\n\nCommunism funded many people and movements in Africa. And there was, and is, the tension between Islam and the rest of the world. Strategic materials such as chromium and uranium have provoked many a conflict. Less strategic materials such as gold and diamonds have also done so.\n\nIn the final analysis, I would have to say-- as old as it sounds, it is still profound-- the ends do not justify the means. Some may think that we, as Americans, cannot point the finger (given our own beginnings.) \n\nBut if we want there to be an end to this, someone must start. If we wait to begin until there is a nation that has never done such things, we will be waiting a long time.
738646
NOPE WITH ALL THE HOOPLA BEING SAID IM EX MILITARY AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT ANY MISSION NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED ONCE YOUVE STARTED IT. THERE IS A JOB TO DO WHETHER PEOPLE BELIEVE IN IT OR NOT. WHERE WOULD OUR COUNTRY BE TODAY IF NOONE HAD HELPED US OUT OVER 200 YRS AGO. GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS THEY NEED OUR SUPPORT!!!
77173
Try and do are two different things.  I will do what I do in 2006.  I live in the present (and currently it is 2006).  I can review my past to learn from my mistakes without living there.  I have not need to re-live that which I have already experienced.  I can plan for some future events without dwelling on expectations.  Tomorrow never gets here.
265759
It would be nice to know the future, yes.  I'd correct mistakes before they happen.  There are a lot of things that I know know that I wish I would've known when I was younger, too.
335347
People will take the path of least resistance.  \n\nIs it easier to A) Start a revolution or B) cross the border illegally?  \n\nYou make the choice.
541488
It's not real, at least not how it is portrayed now days.  It was once real, before the french revolution.  But all the garbage that is out there about it now isn't it.
109019
Somebodies got a paper to write. There was a revolution in America?
529203
Revolution? Hmmmmm, wishful thinking.\nI wish I knew the answer to this one. I think that our (UK) society has to take a giant evolutionary leap and realise that actually, the royals are not all that great and that their vast wealth could be redistributed to make better schools, hospitals, public transport.\nIs it going to happen? That's another question....
485741
I have heard rumblings of people who have had they're land and businesses taken away but it seems far from a revolution at this point.
424695
No, we should not ignore this. I do believe that everyone has a right to come to this country to make a better life for themselves, but I believe that you should have to earn this right. Living with the rights that we do have is a privilege.
838576
we veered off path when we stopped listening to the generals... and didn't have a plan to rebuild the nation...\n\nthat's a start...
889073
I would...\n\n....Think about how life is predetermined, recall the event, Try to recreate what I had thought I did before....
849657
I walk for the March of Dimes, I donate blood and work @ wintertime with shelters to clothe/feed the needy.  I plan on donating my ponytail to Locks for Love, to make wigs for cancer-ridden, chemotherapy devasted children. (Yes, I am a long haired male.)\n\nAt my childs school, if they ask for $5 per child for a party or trip, I will send $15-$20 with a note to use the extra for those who can't afford it.  I don't do charity.  I do what  I feel is right, to help others truly help themselves.  Hence, my answering here.  Especially in the political sense, if I can make a few free thinkers wake up and see one iota of truth, then I am helping.\n\nI am affiliated with neither of the corrupted political parties.  I am endeavoring to creating a party that will only represent the needs (not wants) of the United States citizenry, as a WHOLE.  I want to place true Americans into positions of power, as I believe an Ivy League education should disqualify one for governmental service.  I want to turn back the clock to when public service meant something to be proud of, not a chance to rape and bilk the Citizens.
1103397
It is an issue in the past.  It was involved in the circumstances and political climate of its day, and there does not appear to be any sabotage intended.  It simply happened, in the open, up front.  There was nothing underhanded in that it was not ratified.
968724
Cool. Seeing as the UK is an elective autocracy, maybe we should both have spread a bit of democracy at home before liberating the rest of the world?