Read and Weep!

Obituary——-Very Interesting

1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of

Edinborough, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some

2,000 years prior:

"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 that they can vote themselves generous gifts

from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for

the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with

the result that every democracy will finally collapse over 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, these nations

always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;

From spiritual faith to great courage;

From courage to liberty;

From liberty to abundance;

From abundance to complacency;

From complacency to apathy;

From apathy to dependence;

From dependence back into bondage."

The Obituary follows:

Born 1776, Died 2008

It doesn't hurt to read this several times.

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul ,

Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the last

Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29

Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2

McCain: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was

mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.

Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income

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.