Mr. Brewton,

As a member of the Thomas Paine Assn. I am appalled when I see what has happened to the U.S. and its downtrodden masses.

These words by Thomas Paine should ring out loud and clear to every American that today is in want.

When it shall be said in any country in the world,
my poor are happy, neither
distress nor ignorance
is to be found among them;
my jails are empty of prisoners,
my streets of beggars;
the aged are not in want,
the taxes are not oppressive...
...when these things can be said,
then may that country boast its constitution
and its government

(Rights of Man, part 2, 1792)

Then will also introduce you to a poem written by Thomas Pain.

See Africa's wretched offspring torn
From all that human hearts hold dear.
See millions doomed in Chains to Mourn
Unpitied, even by a Tear.
See Asia and her fertile plains
Where once the Brahmin dwelt serene
Now ravaged by the thirst for Gain
Till famine ends the dismal scene.

These food for thought by those of you that have forgotten why Thomas Paine left England and came to America in 1774. To renew the spirit of what freedom really means to each and everyone of us on earth.

So, Mr. Brewton, always keep that mind and it will make a better person of you..

Now please do publish this letter on your website, to let those who have forgotten the true meaning of freedom.

Sincerely,

Kenneth T. Tellis

Students are taught that the Declaration of Independence was a hypocritical document, because Thomas Jefferson wrote that all men are created equal (this is a deliberate misrepresentation, as Jefferson was speaking not of slavery but of the estate of mankind under God). Students are taught that the French Revolution’s Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen expresses the true aspiration of American democracy, which in liberals’ view ought to be the French-style socialistic welfare-state.

Such falsifications are the ideological basis upon which the mythology of our present-day left-wing liberalism rests.

The truth is starkly different.

Bancroft Prize-winning historian Clinton Rossiter, who described himself as a centrist, somewhere between labor union radicals and the late Senator Barry Goldwater, wrote in “The First American Revolution”:

“Finally, it must never be forgotten, especially in an age of upheaval and disillusionment, that American democracy rests squarely on the assumption of a pious, honest, self-disciplined, moral people. … Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance. From Puritanism, from the way of life that exalted individual responsibility, came those homely rules of everyday conduct – or, if we must, those rationalizations of worldly success – that have molded the American mind into its unique shape. … The men of 1776 believed that the good state would rise on the rock of private and public morality, that morality was in the case of most men and all states the product of religion, and that the earthly mission of religion was to set men free.”