The Right of Revolution

[Anomalocaris]

Do you feel that the American Revolution was effective because of it's ability to subvert British forces, or through armed resistance?

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To be fair, I'm not certain we're disagreeing about the same thing. I would also advocate anything other than armed revolt up and until and even during such time as armed revolt became a last resort. I'm merely questioning what the citizens final means of redress would be were he to allow those that govern him to remove his right to bear arms.

American revolution was effective because the French King wanted his bayonnets to deprive the British of their North American Empire. We Americans think we are something for kicking out the British "Superpower of the day" out of our little backwoods hick town of 13 colonies mostly on our own, thanks to the deified Washington, with the French playing but a minor role commensurate with cheese eating surrender monkeys.

In fact the British were not quite the superpower, but merely a power on par with France, Spain, Prussia, Russia, etc, and it was French money, arms, highly trained troops, and above all world class fleet, waging a world wide war against Britain that was instrumental in securing American freedom.

It was the bayonetts of another tyrannt, not our freedom loving pitchforks, that was most critical in making our revolution effective.

French revolution was effective both because the King was at first too reluctant to use his bayonetts, and because when called on, the bayonettes proved very reluctant.