The Cycle of a Democracy

About the time our original 13 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 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 due to
loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the
beginning of history, has been about 200 years.

During those 200 years, these 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 Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul,
Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000
Presidential election.

Population of counties won by:

Gore: 127 million

Bush: 143 million

Square miles of land won by:

Gore: 580,000;

Bush: 2,427,000

States won by

Gore 19;

Bush: 29

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 tax-paying citizens of this great
country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
government-owned tenements and living off 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 40 percent of the nation's population already
having reached the "governmental dependency" phase. Our European
friends have over 70 percent of the population in most European
countries reaching the "governmental dependency" phase due to opening
their immigration to allow poor immigrants into their countries.

The United States originally opened their immigration policy to people
that had a required skill or profession. Somewhere along the timeline,
probably in the 1970's, that policy slipped to allow anyone into the
United
States. It didn't matter if a person had a skill or profession.

Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake,
knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

PS: If the Senate grants Amnesty and citizenship to 20 million
criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then goodbye USA in
less than 5 years.

[P.S. IT HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT SOME OF THE MATERIAL ABOVE IS NOT FACTUAL.]