Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:41:37 -0500
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Re: May 1968, March 2003


At 03:56 PM 2/25/2003 -0500, Kristopher Barrett wrote:

>The population of the US is around a quarter billion. 1.5% of that is 3.75
>million. It only takes 1.5% of the population being mad enough to start
>risking their lives to bring down a government. That was approximately the
>percentage of the population that actively supported the american
>Revolution in 1775.


Not that I wouldn't like to see the Bush/Blair Axis fall, but 1.5% of the 
American colonists would have been, maybe 3,000 people.   That number seems 
a bit small.  I mean obviously the number was just one citizen at some 
point in early time, but how did you get the percentage required for action?


carp