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To: Noumenon

It never became more evident as to what is at work here since the election of President Bush.
They were out to destroy him and this nation. There was to be NO evidence other than THEIR evidence.
My mother who lived through the Nazi era, told me to be alert, even told me to change parties because, ‘They’re back’ They were never destroyed. The type of ideology that means to control the population never dies.

Is history repeating itself or just following suite?

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 years, 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 “


3 posted on 06/13/2008 8:25:38 AM PDT by griswold3 (Al qaeda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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To: griswold3

I’d say we’re on #6 some people are already at #8.


5 posted on 06/13/2008 8:38:12 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (Beware the fury of the man that cannot find hope or justice.)
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To: griswold3

History itself has no volition. But men do. There are aspects of our nature that have remained more or less constant for thousands of years. As Margaret Thatcher once said,

“Freedom is not synonomous with an easy life. There are many difficult things about freedom. It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you; it requires self-discipline; it imposes great responsibilities. But such is the nature of man and in such lies his glory and his salvation.”

This is what the Obamanations want to take away from us...


10 posted on 06/13/2008 12:42:50 PM PDT by Noumenon (Time for Atlas to shrug - and pick up a gun.)
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