Subject; A Great History Lesson

At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution,
in the year 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:  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."

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul,
Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the most recent
Presidential election:

Population of counties won by:

Gore=127 million

Bush=143 million


Square miles of land won by:

Gore=580,000

Bush=2,2427,000



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 ountry.
Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
government-owned tenements and living off government welfare..."

Olson believes the U.S. 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.

The Point?? Wesupportthevets.com publishes this here because we want to
pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake in
this Election Year and that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom

-Bill Gast--Editor

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