> > > This one should get your attention. Be sure and vote this year > Democracy? The Bell tolls ! ! > > At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution >in 1787, Alexander Tyler - a Scottish history professor at the University >of Edinborough - had this to say about "The Fall of the Athenian Republic" >some 2,000 years prior: > THE FALL OF THE ATHENIAN REPUBLIC... > "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." > > > Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St.Paul, >Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the last >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 encompassed those citizens living in >government-owned tenements and living off government welfare..." Olson >believes the U.S. is now somewhere between the "apathy" and the >"complacency" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy; with some >40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the >"governmental dependency" phase. And, to add to the mix, the last gasp of >any country has been when marriage and the family have taken a back seat to >other sexual interests - as witness Rome - one of the greatest and >most-wide spread governments. Another sign of the end is the lack of true >spiritual interest where the God of the Bible and His ways are replaced by >man's thinking and his own way. The bell is tolling loud and clear, and it >tolls for America!!!!! _________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee when you click here. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963