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I believe that Internet connections and hand-held video cameras are more effective in our preservation of freedoms and war against the government.

You have made a fatal error in judgement by confusing communications with arms.The camera was the eyes of the patriots in the Old North Church of Boston. The Internet of 1775, lanterns, one or two and the horse and its rider, Paul Revere. Without the Minute Men and their arms, all this observation and communication would have been for naught.

Would you like to be in a foxhole with a pair of binoculars, a walkie-talkie, and NO GUN?
I think not!

Good observation. I've read the "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere", and the story behind it. I'ts an interesting story. Paul Revere got captured, but was able to talk his way out of it, by suggesting that there were armed people, a lot of them, all around the village; that would fire on them. The Brits were uneasy then, because there was only a small number of them, and let him go.

I liked your comparison with the lanterns, the internet of that time. Also, there were notes, written in code, weren't there? (I would think so) They had the equivalent of screen names, the 'nom de plume' (sp?) There were couriers on horseback, etc... But I would imagine that they would have loved having the technology we have now.

We also forget that there was more advanced technology in Warsaw, Poland (Warsaw Ghetto uprising). That may have helped the Jewish citizens somewhat. They had telephones, and telegraph, they also had radios and motor vehicles. But when it came to defense of their community, and their own survival, those arms they were able to hide sure came in handy! It didn't keep the Nazis away long, but it bought them a little time.

The camera was the eyes of the patriots in the Old North Church of Boston. The Internet of 1775, lanterns, one or two and the horse and its rider, Paul Revere.

It doesn't matter so much whether your means of observation and communication are eyes and lanterns on the one hand or cameras and internet on the other, as it matters that one side is equipped as well or better (either a faster internet, or a faster horse, whichever is state of the art at the time) compared to the other side.

Without the Minute Men and their arms, all this observation and communication would have been for naught.

Just so.