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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..