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Welcome to Call to Decision
Subject: Fwd:USA possible demise
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:13:47 +0000
Please
take the time to read ALL of this message and
then meditate on it for a long time. Doesn't
lose a lot in translation.
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 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:
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; <
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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.
Pass
this along to help everyone
realize just how much is at
stake, knowing that apathy is
the greatest danger to our
freedom.
PS Add
#9: If the Senate grants Amnesty
and citizenship to 20 million
criminal invaders called
illegals and they vote, then
goodbye USA
in less than 5 years
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