We have a Constitution to defend. The French were trying to get rid of a monarchy. They had no Constitution to follow as a govt framework. Its not the same thing.
The people that will act if it becomes necessary are not the Occupy movement they are American patriots who want to defend and restore the Constitutional Republic. And there are plenty of them to do the job.
If and when the 1776 solution becomes necessary its not going to be a long drawn out brawl in the streets. It will be short and sharp.
Had your optimism had any basis in reality, Americans would have dealt with encroachments on our liberty LONG LONG before now. The Constitution is already largely rendered null and void by the very ruling class this people continue to vote into power. Had this people sought to defend the Constitution in the manner you vainly hope - it would have happened already.
The truth is more than half of the people in this nation are grossly and willfully IGNORANT of our own history, heritage and rule of law. They LIKE a Socialist state and the hand-outs they get. They are themselves rendered slaves and feral animals to a master they greedily lick the palms of.
We have already surrendered our liberty by and large, and lie to ourselves that we are still free and hope in vain that somehow the spirit of 1776 is going to suddenly rise up and we are going to overthrow a small minority of tyrants in a short, sharp and relatively costless conflict. Such thinking could not be greater in it's deceit of presenting a false belief.
Here's what Adams wrote about this very thing:
"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it." - John Adams, letter to Abigail
Adams was not writing from ignorance there. But from both biblical and historical study. How can anyone assert that such wisdom can be ignored and discarded in order to pump up false bravado so we can sleep soundly at night?
And even now - we do little to nothing besides complain and vote for corrupted peoples to a corrupted institution taken over in a slow velvet coup that took place right under our noses that this people pretend did not happen.
Conservatives cannot even unite behind a single candidate that articulates our principles, and yet you assert that in the crucible of combat, war and sacrifice that somehow, all the divisions that exist in this country are going to come together to fight a common enemy??? You are dreaming a dream that will ensure that when the time comes to resist, if we are not ready in the spiritual sense, reality will reveal this nation's own patriots are nothing but summer soldiers, and resolve will dissolve like brown sugar in boiling water.
I would love to be wrong about what I am warning would be the inevitable bloodbath and complete destruction of our society shouldered conflict ensue. The truth you and most refuse to acknowledge however, is that this people are not ready in the manner our forbears were.
Armed resistance at this point now, will become a bloodbath - no different than it was in France back in the late 1700's. Read DeToqueville and the Founders if you doubt me.