[SoConPubbie]

The Founders started out as a rebellious mob who vandalized a legitimate business and threw their inventory into a body of water. They also had a penchant for tarring and feathering government officials - an act of assault that frequently resulted in the deaths of said officials. They even went so far as to SHOOT at government soldiers who were acting in a law enforcement capacity and who were just following orders and doing their jobs.

And the outcome of all of that ‘mob rule’ has been the nation in which you enjoy the freedom to denounce people who act to protect their liberties.

And yet, you forgot to mention all the ordered part of their efforts, including officially addressing the British Government and Monarchy for each wrong they suffered, setting up the constitutional convention they setup, the Bill of Rights, the US Constitution.

Without the ordered part of our revolution we would have ended up like the French, accomplishing nothing.

Like I said, I'll take the Founders approach over Mob Rule any ol' day.

[SoConPubbie]

Sure there were components of Mob Rule in the run-up to the Revolutionary War, however, the founders did everything they could to reason with the British ruling class to accept their demands.

With each success failure in convincing the British to allow the level of self-rule they desired, or some form of representative government, the founders took the next Ordered step necessary, whether writing the Bill of Rights, a Constitutional Convention, Writing the US Consitution, declaring independence.

But it definitely was an ordered process.

[MeganC]

Like I said, I'll take the Founders approach over Mob Rule any ol' day.

If the Founders were alive today they'd face 'extraordinary rendition' and they'd be sent to some CIA prison in Tajikistan where they'd never be heard from again. Their approach would not work so well these days.