Don't be apathetic - stay tuned in!

I catch this floating around the Internet every now and then... Maybe it's a little out there, but it makes a good point.

A voice from History



In 1787, about the time our original 13 states adopted their new
constitution, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the
University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian
Republic 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


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:



Gore: 127 million;

Bush: 143 million;

Square miles of land won:

Gore: 580,000

Bush: 2,427,000



States won:

Gore: 19

Bush: 29

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won:

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 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.

If the Senate grants Amnesty and citizenship to 20 million invaders called
illegals and they vote, then goodbye USA in less than 5 years.

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