JASON MILLER: On Father's Day, Send Your Cards to Tom Instead of George

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by Jason Miller -- World News Trust

Our history books tell us that George Washington was the father of the abomination America has become. Many around the world, including some Americans, have written off the possibility that the United States is capable of acting with morality and sanity. Yet hope remains on the horizon for our country. Harvey Kaye's Thomas Paine and the Promise of America rekindled my fading belief in the United States as a potential home to true freedom and justice. Thomas Paine's spirit burns as an intense beacon lighting the way toward his envisioned "asylum for mankind." Paine, in contrast to Washington, is the intellectual father of an America that does not yet exist, but is still very possible.

Washington epitomized the aristocracy that has dominated our nation both socially and politically since its inception. It is time for the cultural descendents of Thomas Paine -- the poor and the working class -- to awaken from our slumber and lay claim to our share of the wealth and power in the United States. In so doing, we can remake this nation in the image that Paine envisaged:

"When it shall be said in any country in the world, 'My poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress 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; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of happiness': when these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and its government."

Something is Very Rotten in Denmark

I have written reams about the social and political ills of our ailing nation, which have risen to disturbing heights under the Bush Regime. Given the courageous defiance of tyranny displayed in the American Revolution and the noble principles embedded in our Constitution, it is virtually inconceivable that our King George II could make King George III look like a "Bush-league" tyrant. Yet he has managed such a feat.

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1. Yes, Thomas Paine is an American hero and one I have always

admired.

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2. Many Of The "Founding Fathers" Were Stunning Intellectuals