Obituary

Obituary

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."

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of
Law in St. Paul, Minnesota,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
illegal's--and they vote--then we can say Goodbye to
the USA in fewer than five years.