Food for Thought

The fellow in the middle was a resident of Mountain Home who served in the Civil War.

My hope is that they point out the precarious position the "best intentions" of the documents this nation was built around faired in the course of history:

" In 1887 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:

"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 McCain: 29

Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143

million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2

McCain: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain

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 illegal's - 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."

Now, having said all of that, I remind you that ours is a REPUBLIC, not a true democracy.

So unless the ancient cultures whose calendar ends in December of 2012 are correct, there may be time left on ours.