political email...

[JB73]

heres something i got i liked.


normally i just delete these kind of things but if it is true....

A warning from Scots Historian Professor Alexander
Tyler, circa 1787, Re: The  Fall of the Athenian
Republic.

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of
government. It can only exist until the voters
discover that they can vote themselves largesse
(generous  gifts) from the public treasury.  From that
moment on, the majority always  votes for the
candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with
the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy,
(which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilization
has been two hundred years. These nations have
progressed through this 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 of Law,
St. Paul, MN passed on  that gem & provides the
following 2000 election facts for consideration.

Population of counties won by Gore 127 million, won
by Bush 143 million

Sq. miles of country won by Gore 580,000, won by Bush
2,427,000

States won by Gore 19, by Bush 29

Murder per 100,000 residents in counties won by Gore
13.2 by Bush 2.1 (not a typo)

Professor Olson adds, "And may I add that the map of
the territory Bush won was (mostly) the land owned by
the people of this great country. Not the  citizens
living in cities owned by the government and living
off the government...."

[FUNKED1]

That's like, the greatest quote, ever.

[Lazerus]

LOL, stuck that in my sig this afternoon.

I found it here though.

[JB73]

glad you liked it!

[wulfie]

That's why the Founding Fathers formed the U.S.A. as a republic as opposed to a true democracy.

'democracy' was a 'dirty word' for no small period of time, due to certain ancient democracies 'voting' to...

-> Put all the generals of a certain democracy's military to death

-> Vote for the execution of the entire populace of a nation recently conquered by a certain democracy

-> 'Etc., etc., etc.'

...based on the 'track record' of democracies throughout the history of Nations, they went with the republic - so the people could be saved from themselves were they to vote for something stupid over an issue they really had no grasp of (can someone say 'modern national security and foreign relations issues'? ) with certain unalterable rights put in place to protect the people from the republic if (when) certain people attempted to 'save the people' when the people didn't need any saving.

Mike/wulfie

[Jagr]

Wulfie,
            Stop wasting time in here and go blow something up, will ya!