THIS
>IS EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON.
HOW
> LONG DO WE HAVE?
This is
> the most interesting thing I've read in a long time. The sad thing
> about it? You can see it coming.
I have
> always heard about this democratic republic countdown. It is interesting
>to see it in print.. God help us, not that we deserve it.
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 , or democratic republic, is always temporary in nature; it
>simply cannot exist as a permanent form
> of government.'
'A
> democratic republic 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: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
Square
> miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
Population
> of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143
> million
Murder
> rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2
> Republicans: 2.1
Professor
> Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican
> won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this
> great country. Democrat 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
> - aka: illegal immigrants - and they vote, then we can say goodbye
>to the USA, as we know it, in fewer than five years.
If you
> are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.
If you
> are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how
>much is at stake,
knowing
> that apathy
> is the greatest danger to our freedom.
>WE
> LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE,
>ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE
