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How Long Does the USA have?
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| Alexander Tyler - 1787 Scotland; Prof. Joseph Olson - Hemline Univ. School of Law, St. Paul, MN
Posted on 01/19/2008 5:58:50 PM PST by ImpBill
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Some interesting thoughts and facts.
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posted on
01/19/2008 5:58:57 PM PST
by
ImpBill
To: DoughtyOne; rintense; Jim Robinson
I did find this an interesting read, received this evening from a like minded conservative neighbor.
Perhaps you might have some thoughts and know of others who might as well.
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posted on
01/19/2008 6:01:40 PM PST
by
ImpBill
("America ... Where are you now?" --Greg Adams--Brownsville, TX --On the other Front Line)
To: ImpBill
To: ImpBill
“About the time our original thirteen 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 earlier”
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/tyler.asp
Urban myth.
As are the stats.
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posted on
01/19/2008 6:02:51 PM PST
by
GovernmentIsTheProblem
(We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. - Thomas Jefferson)
To: ImpBill
Interesting thoughts (which I agree with) but it’s a total hoax. There is no such person as “Alexander Tyler.”
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posted on
01/19/2008 6:02:50 PM PST
by
denydenydeny
(Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
To: ImpBill
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posted on
01/19/2008 6:03:00 PM PST
by
mek1959
To: mek1959
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posted on
01/19/2008 6:03:38 PM PST
by
sasportas
To: ImpBill
Thank God for the Second Amendment, and our wise Founding Fathers who intended the right to keep and bear arms as a means of giving the people a way to fight a tyrannical government.
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posted on
01/19/2008 6:03:52 PM PST
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(Change.....that's what we will have left in our pockets if a Democrat gets elected president!)
To: ImpBill
then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
%^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is why we have the Second Amendment.
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posted on
01/19/2008 6:04:35 PM PST
by
wintertime
(Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
To: ImpBill
To: ImpBill
How long?
Given our current rate of sending huge wealth to countries that want to kill us...given our unwillingness to defend our own borders....given that our economy is about to suffer (again) due primarily to greed...give the rate of jobs being sent overseas....and given that the US may very well elect a Liberal (either an R or a D)....my answer is:
not long.
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posted on
01/19/2008 6:08:29 PM PST
by
mad puppy
(I'd rather live a day on my feet than a year on my knees)
To: ImpBill
It’s pretty much over now. When the Senate failed to remove a perjurer from the White House it became clear that our political system is not much more than a sham.
To: Congressman Billybob
Only posted an email I received. Had never heard of the Scottish Professor before.
I will do some research, as I, once again "believe", Benjamin Franklin said words to the same effect at the signing of either the Declaration of Independence or Constitution.
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posted on
01/19/2008 6:09:34 PM PST
by
ImpBill
("America ... Where are you now?" --Greg Adams--Brownsville, TX --On the other Front Line)
To: ImpBill
“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
John Adams
To: ImpBill
Essentially true. We are on borrowed time. Principle does matter, and if Principle is honored in this election, we will lose. Still, it is better to do the righteous thing and go down with honor than to serve expediency and live in a reduced state.
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posted on
01/19/2008 6:10:46 PM PST
by
WorkingClassFilth
('Yellow is mellow, but brown goes down.' -- The Clinton campaign slogan for 2008)
To: denydenydeny
Dealt with that apparent fact in response to Congressman Billy Bob! Thanks for also pointing it out.
You will note that the source was an email.
Regardless of the Tyler source quoted, do you have any thoughts on the comments contained in the received email, regardless of source facts?
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posted on
01/19/2008 6:12:08 PM PST
by
ImpBill
("America ... Where are you now?" --Greg Adams--Brownsville, TX --On the other Front Line)
Comment #17 Removed by Moderator
To: ImpBill
I had to go to the local mall today. I easily saw a few thousand people. I saw very few that seemed to me to be the sort that could have founded this country. I saw consumers, not producers, to my eyes anyway.
I despair for my country. We are doomed because we have become lazy, soft and fat and most of us are only interested in the candidate who will open the tap the widest so we can get the most from the public till. It's hard to look at the crowds of slack-jawed shoppers and see a revolutionary people capable of founding a republic.
Sermon over
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posted on
01/19/2008 6:13:08 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: ImpBill
If Fred doesn’t win in the end....we have a lot less time than we would otherwise.
To: mad puppy
Glad to see some posting about the content of the narrative, regardless of the factuality of the sources. Thank You.
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posted on
01/19/2008 6:14:02 PM PST
by
ImpBill
("America ... Where are you now?" --Greg Adams--Brownsville, TX --On the other Front Line)
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