I disagree on the one-third-of-the-populace-behind-them argument. I think you
need much less, but you also must be certain that the rest of the people are
less
united and don't care. In other words, if 10% of the people support you and
have
the will and dough while the rest have neither and don't care, I think you'd
have a
good chance. The problem is that today most people who contemplate revolution
are not the sort of people I'd like to see succeed. In fact, they look a
little too much
like the current rulers! (Recall Timothy McVeigh was a decorated veteran of the
Persian Gulf War.)
In real life, I'd rather see a revolution of the peaceful sort, especially
of changing
enough people over to our side. And keep others neutral. Someone once said,
no everyone needed to be enlightened during the Enlightenment, and look what
came from that. (Can you tell me who said this?:)
But my original point was that there is a difference between morality and
legality --
or what is right and wrong and what should be up to the law -- whether enforced
by a government or what have you -- to decide. Does anyone agree with me
on this?
Daniel Ust