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 democracy 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 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: 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 called illegal's and they vote,
then we can say goodbye to the USA 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
