How Long Do We Have?

             About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in
             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 worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of
             history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 y ears, these nations
             always progressed through the following sequence:

             1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
             2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
             3. From courage to liberty;
             4. From liberty to abundance;
             5. From abundance to complacency;
             6. From complacency to apathy;
             7. >From apathy to dependence;
             8. From dependence back into bondage "

             Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul,
             Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000
             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 l and owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country.
             Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
             government-owned tenements and living off 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 40
             percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental
             dependency" phase.

             If the Senate grants Amnesty and citizenship to 20 million criminal invaders
             called illegals and they vote, then goodbye USA in less than 5 years.

             Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing
             that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

            
                     
            

What do we know about this? I've read something similar years ago but don't remember where or when.