Alexander Tyler

In 1887 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 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 2012 
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 Romney: 29 
Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 Romney: 2,427,000 
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million Romney: 143 million 
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 Romney: 2.1 

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory 
Romney 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 illegals - 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..