How Long Do We Have? About the time our original thirteen states
adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history
professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the
fall of the Athenian Republic some
>2,000 years earlier: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it
simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government." "A democracy will
continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote
themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." "From that moment
on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most
benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy
will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always
followed by a dictatorship." "The average age of the world's greatest
civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years."
"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the
following sequence: 1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
>2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
>3. from courage to liberty;
>4. from liberty to abundance;
>5. from abundance to complacency;
>6. from complacency to apathy;
>7. from apathy to dependence;
>8. From dependence back into bondage" Professor Joseph Olson of
Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some
interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election: Number of States
won by: Gore: 19 Bush: 29 Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000
Bush: 2,427,000 Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million Bush:
143 million Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore:
13.2 Bush: 2.1 Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the
territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of
this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens
living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of
government welfare..." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere
between the "complacency and apathy"phase of Professor Tyler's definition
of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population
already having reached the "governmental dependency"phase. If Congress grants
amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called
illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than
five years. Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at
stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
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