[Tired of Taxes]

Here's a link to the Time article:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1174684,00.html

And another quote from it:

>>>> "his new film sounds warnings straight out of liberal Hollywood's bible. Apocalypto, which Gibson loosely translates from the Greek as "a new beginning," was inspired in large part by his work with the Mirador Basin Project, an effort to preserve a large swath of the Guatemalan rain forest and its Maya ruins." <<<<<

[jonrick46]

I saw a scientific investigation on the Discovery Science Channel concerning the collapse of the Mayan Civilization. It showed political structure of the family caused its collapse. The lower casts (there was a rigid cast system) supported in its entirety the royal family. The royal family exerted complete power over its subjects for control. The practice of human sacrifice--the extracting of the heart from a victim--emphasized this control by creating a fearsome rule over its subjects. Such sacrifices were done on the coronation of a new king.

As with any monarchy,the first born male, fathered by the King would inherit the rights of royalty. The Mayan civilization, however, became doomed to destruction with the practice of polygamy. Polygamy was widely practiced, as the kings and their successors had many children with multiple wives, fostering competition within families. Each of the princes wanted to gain more power than his brothers, and turned to fighting against one another to gain more territory. While there was little problem with overpopulation among the lower casts, the elite class grew rapidly. They all desired palaces and riches, and this put huge pressures on the lower casts to support them. The wars kept them isolated to small tracts of land where they had to build strong walls for protection. Isolation and pressure on the small tracts of land they could use for agriculture led them slowly to starvation. Agriculture was practiced only within those walls and the land was rapidly overused. Wars wiped out entire royal families and caused mass starvation. Refugees from such wars also caused overpopulation and social stress in other areas. This caused the rain forest to begin to disappear, and the civilization began to collapse when the lower casts could not support the royal class.

I know it may seem simplistic, but I see a similar elite royal class of bureaucrats sustained by productive workers as a goal that the socialist Democrats want for the United States. They are the ones who are using fear mongering tactics to enlist social compliance with their goals.

Mel Gibson is one more dupe in the left's effort to create an alternative reality that justifies their march on human freedom.