24 20 70360 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story THE HOME ON 9/11: agenda interrupted In the retirement home's living room that morning, several elderly residents are relaxing after breakfast, watching TV, getting ready for their community exercise period - a regimen that contributes to the quiet dimensions of their daily lives. The program is suddenly interrupted by breaking news and the residents are becoming upset at what the announcer is saying, starting to speak loudly to one another: ""incredible, outrageous, awful..."" A few of them are starting to cry, touching one another. Then, after a pause, they all shout at once, some jumping out of their chairs, pointing at the TV. The shouting and yelling does on for several minutes until a few nurses arrive, attracted by this disturbance, themselves becoming upset. Why such wailing? The announcer estimates that fifty thousand people have been working in the World Trade Center complex of buildings into which two airliners have just crashed, full of passengers and fuel. Eight thousand body bags are being made available to the rescuers, a rough estimate of how many fatalities are expected. A woman walking a stroller a mile away when the first tower collapses is caught in a wall of debris, dirt and soot and simply disappears. Meanwhile, as reported live on CNN, many Palestinians are celebrating in the streets, shooting guns off harmlessly, singing and jumping out of sheer joy, distributing candies to cheering children. Difficult juxtaposition of images. Relatives of the missing are desperately walking around New York City with photographs of their loved ones, but that is no longer the condition of many of the bodies that they are looking for. Some bodies are now part of all that ash; the others are in pieces, identifiable only by DNA analysis. Hospitals are releasing lists of body parts: we have a lady's lower arm...can you identify this watch? we have a muscular upper arm...can you identify this tattoo? All the home's residents are fixed to the television set for most of the day and evening, missing meals and activities. Few residents at the home can sleep that night. Memories of Pearl Harbor keeps them awake. Are we going to war again? Will it be the grandchildren's turn to disappear? You can hear the whispering - comparisons of World War II and Korean War stories. In some rooms, the whispering goes on into the early hours of the next morning. Yes, of course, it is happening again! Haven't you had enough time to build such unexpected interruptions into your daily schedule yet? Haven't you lived long enough to know better, for crying out loud?? Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp168.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story The very first time I went to the World Trade Centers was on a thunderstormy afternoon. The towers rose into swirly clouds like beanstalks climbing to strange heavens. I loved looking up at the buildings measured in miles, not feet. Then, a few years later, we went into the World Trade Center 1 to bring my daughter to a friends' office on the 17th floor. We passed security and got photo IDs, and were quite thrilled. I felt mildly nervous as we rode up the elevator, and laughed at myself, for thinking anything would ever happen. Or would happen there of all places, for after all, lightening never strikes twice. Lightening has hit the Empire State Building more than 15 times in 15 minutes. Suddenly everything I had told my children was wrong ( being children, of course, they always knew that). I had said no one would attack the US mainland, that it was a nonsensical idea, nothing rational could be achieved by doing so. I woke up Sept 12 not remembering and then, when full consciousness came back, I thought I could never feel safe again, that the world was irrevocably different. In that, I was also wrong. We go by the broken bridges not thinking about what happened any more. We grumble about having to fight the solemn crowds around the WTC site to get to our subway station. But sometimes I remember waiting for my son to get home from evacuating his school four blocks north of the towers collapsing into movie clouds of dust and it's hard not to cry. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp184.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story The United States of America has always been believed to be above and beyond other countries; it has always been one of the most powerful and respected nations in the world. The recent terrorist bombings of September 11, has caused our dominance on a global level to be questioned. It turned our America wasnt as untouchable a nation as we previously thought. The very structure of our country has been put under review. The aftermath of the attack has served to show Americans that our democratic government doesn't work very efficiently in crisis situations. There are too many people involved in the decision making process, and it can take anywhere from a week to a few months to finally take action. Democracy is very messy. It has taken almost a full year for the US to start rebuilding the damage done to our country, and that's not very reassuring to me. Personally, I've lost a lot of faith in the US of A. I know it was no one persons fault, but I can't help but wonder: how could our government let this happen? We all know the US is constantly sticking its nose in every else's business, so how did we not figure out that sooner or later someone would get upset. We should have been prepared, but I guess this attack has served to open our eyes and help us see how badly we need to update our defense. The bottom line is that our country has to stop being so indecisive toward what action to take for the public interest. America is a great country and will prevail no matter what. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp135.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story "Should we go to war against Iraq?" September 8, 2002 This morning I listened to Bob Schieffer interviewing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on CBS TVs Face the Nation. Rumsfeld gave evasive answers to Schieffers questions, and Schieffer was too polite to press him. I imagine my frustration was similar to that of members of Congress after their closed meeting with Rumsfeld last week. The first President Bush went to war with Iraq in 1991 after a debate in Congress that stopped short of a declaration of war, allegedly because of Iraqs invasion of Kuwait, a country to which we have paid no attention since the Iraqi armed forces left it. Our true objective was to regain lost oil supplies in those countries and protect endangered oil supplies in Saudi Arabia. This year President Bush II wanted to go to war with Iraq without a debate in Congress, let alone a declaration of war, but thought better of it, given widespread sentiment at home and among our allies that it wasnt a good idea. Curiously, instead of being the principal spokesperson for his views, Bush allowed Vice President Cheney and others to make the arguments and to shift their positions when confronted with broad opposition, but there is no sign that Bush is backing down. In the past, the United States has used military force against other nations without a declaration of war, but never with such extraordinary consequences as are likely if we start this war. President Bush needs to provide affirmative and persuasive answers to the following questions in order to demonstrate that Saddam Hussein is a clear and present danger to the United States and the world. If he cannot, we should not engage in a war that is likely to lead to more terrorist acts, increase hostility toward the United States, cost many military and civilian lives, require a long-term commitment to nation-building, and prove to be a political disaster in the pursuit of world peace. Should Saddam Hussein be singled out for removal? He is the brutal ruler of a repressive state. Nevertheless, we provided his dictatorship with military support in its ten-year war with Iran and offered no opposition to his cruel treatment of political opponents and national minorities. There are other governments that do not tolerate dissent; they include our staunch economic and sometimes political ally, Saudi Arabia. No evidence has been presented that Iraq played a important role in the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. By contrast, fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudi Arabians; Saudis have given significant financial support to Al Qaeda, and Saudi Arabia has not aided our efforts to expose and eliminate international terrorism. Saudi Arabia would be the logical choice if we were to single out one state for retaliation against terrorism, but Saudi oil and investment are important to the former business partners of Bush II and Vice President Cheney and Iraq is not. NO, evil as Saddam is, he does not merit being singled out either for his tyrannical rule or the threat he poses to the security of the United States. Does the Constitution give the president the power that Bush claimed? What Bush II wanted was faster than so-called fast track power; it would have jumped the track. Bush would, if he could, ignore the Constitutions explicit and exclusive grant of power to Congress to declare war. The president is not given this power. No one denies the presidential power as Commander in Chief of the armed forces to respond to an attack, but no matter how many times presidents have initiated hostilities against other sovereign nations without a declaration by Congress, each instance violated the letter and spirit of the Constitution. There has never been an international crisis that less justified precipitous action than this, if it is really a crisis calling for early resolution. That Bush II appears to be backing down from his earlier stance does not represent his conversion to fidelity to the Constitution, but a recognition of the enormous political risks of his earlier position. NO, the Constitution should be respected. Does the 1991 action of Congress justify future American action against Iraq? The Bush II administration has made the ludicrous claim that Congresss action in 1991 for Bush I justifies American aggression in 2002. It does not. Moreover, Bush I explained that the reason the U.S. did not pursue Saddam Hussein and destroy his power was that the president had not been given the authority to do so and in continuing the war into Baghdad we would have gone far beyond what our allies were prepared to do. Both of those conditions are unchanged. NO, the president cannot be given an undated blank check to take unilateral action leading to war. Would Bush II accept effective arms inspection in Iraq? Bushs insistence that the United States will accept nothing short of Saddam Husseins removal indicates that he is unwilling to seriously entertain any action by Iraq that allows inspection and other steps that will provide reassurance to the international community that Iraq is not preparing to launch a military strike. Scott Ritter, who probably knows more about the effectiveness of inspection than anyone else, believes that the earlier inspectors were very successful in uncovering violations and that a future team of United Nations inspectors can do even better. NO, Bushs objective is nothing less than Saddams removal. Are we willing to bear the cost of an American war against Iraq? American servicemen will die. The U.S. will lose significant allied support. Many civilians will die in Iraq, and the worlds compassion for the tragedy of September 11 may diminish. We will lose even the present slim prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and increase the likelihood of military action against Israel. Saddam Hussein is likely to use such weapons of mass destruction as he has or can obtain, because he will have nothing to lose by undertaking desperate acts aimed at those who would destroy him. NO, the United States is not willing to pay these costs of war and victory. Is the United States prepared to make a commitment to create a new Iraqi regime? In 1991, Bush I gave Muslim dissidents in the south and Kurds in the north of Iraq clear signals that the United States would support their efforts to overthrow the Iraqi tyranny. The United States betrayed them, and they were slaughtered by Saddams forces. Foreign affairs scholars concluded that the U.S. had been unwilling to risk the division of Iraq into three or more separate states. Iraqis who wish to depose Saddam have no reason to believe that the U.S. would come to their aid after another war. As reluctant as we are to risk the loss of American lives in war, we are even more reluctant to assign American troops to long-term service abroad, with the likely loss of more American lives. Beyond the cost of waging war, the United States would have to spend billions of dollars to support dissidents, establish a new regime, and rebuild a nation. NO, Given Bushs announced antipathy to nation-building, the rest of the world doubts that the U.S. is prepared to commit itself to such an undertaking. Will an American war against Iraq lessen the threat of terrorism against the United States? If the United States initiates a war, without the support of most of our traditional allies and with the active opposition of Arab states, it jeopardizes our alliances against terrorism, increases support for Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, and makes more likely further attacks against the United States and those few nations, particularly Israel, that actively support the American initiative. In the absence of any credible evidence that the September 11, 2001 attack upon the United States was undertaken by or with substantial support from Iraq, a war begun by the United States will not only strain our relations with other governments; it will increase fear and hatred of the United States in world public opinion. NO, the threat of terrorism will not diminish as a result of an American war against Iraq. Is Bush IIs insistence on aggressive war free of any unworthy political motive? A war against Iraq would divert the electorates attention from the administrations domestic failures just prior to a mid-term election in which the administration fears that it may lose its House majority and the Democratic Senate majority may be increased, thus ensuring stronger resistance to administration efforts to cut taxes further for the highest-paid Americans, pack the federal judiciary with strongly right-wing ideologues, undermine international treaties and other agreements to protect the environment, and other actions that, in the name of national security, would reshape an America that is less liberal and enjoys less liberty. YES OR NO? We may know some day, but we are not likely to find out if Bush II has his way and American presidents and ex-presidents are allowed to withhold their presidential papers forever from the American people and future scholars. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp14.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Toward a More Perfect Union September 11 brought a lot of changes to Americans all over our nation. Although this brought us together in ways we would have never imagined, it changed people s thoughts and actions all over the world. Teenagers went out in groups to help nurses and paramedics by donating food, supplies, blankets,etc. Police officers, firefighters, and volunteers, worked for days trying to locate trapped victims that had not yet been found. Cell hones companies were also using tracking devices to track down missing people calling for help. Everyone was working together to save victims from the remaining buildings. The tragedy of 9/11 has changed the way Americans feel about foreign policies. Before, America always had a positive outlook on things and never expected the worst.For example, the air port security in our nation has tremendously increased. In other countries, the security has always been strict. Other countries always had a negative outlook on things, they always expected the worst. Weve always been so accommodating towards other countries. Our political leaders are more cautious towards countries who call themselves our allies and our enemies. We have become more aggressive and demanding to our foreign neighbors. All over americans thought we were untouchable. This incident proved us wrong. They hit us right where it hurt and many loved ones were lost. Over 3,000 people perished on September 11. In conclusion, 9/11 has brought both the best and the worst in some people. Maybe this will be a lesson to the federal programs who should take threats way more serious before something like this happens again . Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp112.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that in a public relations move, San Francisco Police Department employees were instructed to answer the phone by saying, ""Hello, this is So-and-So of the SFPD, how may I help you?"" But that's not the story. The story is that someone voiced concern that the verb ""help"" could be construed as violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. ""Help"" has since been replaced by ""assist."" What does this have to do with the events of 9/11? It demonstrates the consequences of twisting the helping impulse deeply ingrained in the American character to suit political agendas - a loathsome form of exploitation so endemic in public policy that it automatically corrupts ""help"" into something suspected of usurping others' power, often with tragic consequences. After 9/11, we all wanted to help. When the boat's sinking is not the time to debate who bails water, which I think explains the "unprecedented solidarity" of support for George W. Bush. We needed someone to show us what to do. He was what we had. End of story. Most Americans would have supported Karl Marx under the circumstances. So the Bush administration calmly proceeded to manipulate the public's helping impulse to create imaginary support for foreign and domestic policies that generate feelings of powerlessness in our "helpees." What happens when people feel stepped on? Usually they get angry. They strike back, if possible. Duh. If we get nothing else from 9/11, I would like to see the creation of a slightly less suspicious world - where American help is once again viewed as empowerment not disenfranchisement. I want us to start screaming bloody murder when our own best impulses are perverted to raise some elected official's poll numbers. Our American soul is at stake. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp69.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Toward A More Perfect Union: Lessons Learned - Or Not - Since 9/11 Part of me is ashamed to be an ugly-American. Our government has abused the tragedy of 9/11 to accelerate policies that create enemy lists and appeal to our basic need for security to justify anything. A more perfect union might require too much for this empire to embrace. There is an accounting lesson to be learned. Why does Gore Vidal state in Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace that ""Although we regularly stigmatize other societies as rogue states, we ourselves have become the largest rogue state of all."" Why does former CIA agent, William Blum, in Rogue State: A Guide to the Worlds Only Superpower argue that Americans would deny that the American Empire possesses ""A compelling lust for political, economic and military hegemony over the rest of the world, divorced from moral considerations?"" Yet, he presents incontrovertible evidence that this is so. Big Brother? Military-industrial complex? Theyve worn thin. Not because they are untrue. Because they are. There is often something stale about the truth, something pale about the truth that our empire rather rouge-up with the pathos of a country under siege or a country sacrificing itself for freedom. Politicians caress corporate greed, industrial pollution, nuclear power and war, globalization / privatization of the earth, all undergirded by a blind fundamentalist faith that is no faith at all. The moments are becoming fewer when we can give testimony that the lesson has been learned, that we are ready to make our accounting. Arundhati Roy in The Cost of Living states that ""There is beauty yet in this brutal damaged world of ours."" Will 9/11 cost us our freedoms? Will it cost us our planet? Though the deed and the damage has been done, will 9/11 open our hearts and inspire within us the courage to claim this beauty? Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp191.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story The aftermath of September 11th has been a chilling affirmation of the saying just because youre paranoid doesnt mean theyre not out to get you. Many people disregarded the fears of civil libertarians before the attacks, but now that our Justice Department has abandoned the sacred rights of the Constitution and thousands of people have found themselves imprisoned without due process is the land of the free, it has been proved that those fears were warranted. As activists pushed aside their agendas in the wake of September 11th, the forces of intolerance were allowed to grow in power. Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge warned longshoremen on the west coast that they were interfering with the War on Terrorism because they were fighting for a better contract. The White House and its allies in the oil industry used national security as an excuse for drilling in the Arctic in an attempt to trump environmentalists and scientific evidence that domestic oil drilling would be useless. All Americans must stand in solidarity against such a tragedy affecting so many innocent people. But as we grieve, we should never be afraid to stand our ground, and we should never allow our government to exploit national tragedies to stop people from doing the most American thing of all: fighting for peace, justice and security in order to form a more perfect union. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp172.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story In the eyes of many Americans, September 11th was much more than simple a tragic event; it was a realization. Hundreds of Americans sadly lost their lives in an effort to run the country, when terrorists invaded the United States for the same reason. These terrorists hoped to bring this wonderful country down by hitting its strongest weakness, in an attempt to free the Americans of their selfish ignorance; however, their attempt, which they saw as a success, became nothing more than a failure. Yes, once the attack seemed to be over, Americans showed their concern for the victims and their sympathy for the families of those deceased, but what does it really matter if it only lasted for a short period of time, then returned to its usual schtick. The narrow-minded officials continued to arrogantly boast of our nations grand fortification. Other authorities threatened to retaliate and to not stop until theyd had their justice. But is justice their true motif, or could there be something greater? Is it possible that something so childish as revenge could come in to play? Is this countrys quest to defend the nation, or to prove a point? Though the terrorists intentions were to make us open our eyes, it seems theyve only made them shut harder and unfortunately, there seems to be nothing improving, by any means, to which we can say can be salvaged from this horrible tragedy. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp145.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2003-03-03 Notes Notes about this item. San Benito High School Assigned by John Hand English 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story "Toward A More Perfect Union"," Saddam Hussein. Osama bin Laden. Mullah Omar. To the average American these names constitute a virtual usual suspects lineup of Evil. But these reprehensible figures share another common link - as former friends of the United States. Americans whose memories extend before the Gulf War recall that Hussein enjoyed significant American backing during Iraq's 8 year war against Iran. Americans whose memory extends before September 11, 2001 will recall that the United States supported the muhajadeen of what would eventually become the Taliban during Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Too often has the United States allied itself with unsavory extremists in light of foreign policy crises. Other U.S.-supported embarrassments include the CIA-backed Suharto, Zaire's Mobuto, a repressive despot who looted his country, and the famed Manuel Noriega a graduate of the School of the Americas. Some contend that one could not have foreseen the brutal oppression our support of these Cold Warriors would cause. On the contrary, these men constitute a clear pattern: all shared a complete disdain for human rights, freedom of expression, and democratic processes. A casual application of this easy litmus test indicates that the U.S. is once again forsaking common sense by allying itself with Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf, the general who came to power in a bloodless coup that was resoundingly denounced in 1999. Now he is a primary ally in the amorphous War on Terror, even as he recently granted himself extended rule and sweeping authority over parliament. The dissolution of democratic processes always precedes worsening of human rights. The U.S. has for too long operated on the principle ""the enemy of my enemy is my friend."" It is time to acknowledge that ""the enemy of my enemy will probably be my enemy tomorrow."" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp49.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story agenda interrupted It is only now that the damage from last Septembers staggeringly cold-hearted attack can be assessed. Its no longer counted in lives lost, but in a wounding to the national soul with crucial domestic issues put on hold indefinitely. Overly simplistic assessments from the administration have offered nothing to citizens who seek a deeper meaning. One year later, the President views war with Iraq (still unproven as a 9/11 conspirator) as a priority over more pressing problems, like the economy or the need for democratic reform, highlighted by the 2000 election and both parties shameless, junkie-like addiction to private campaign contributions. Beyond the attack, 9/11 revealed a political anaemia afflicting the Democracy. Neither political party seems capable of ëcorrect action as demanded by the nation. For a Senate now bound in opposing ideological straight-jackets, any bill that survives a vote is trumpeted; indeed, compromise legislation is further diluted, resulting in legislation thats ëpossible instead of ënecessary. By comparison, the average citizen proved far more able to respond decisively to 9/11 than their government. The State must recognize that the people have made all the sacrifices asked of them. Now its time for the elected to put their ambitions aside so they can answer the real needs of the people, for if theres a true victory to be had after 9/11, its in the survival of the national soul and a return to dealing with essential issues in an apolitical, workmanlike wayÖexactly the way fire, police & emergency officials, together with the citizens of America, responded and so triumphed. The strength of U.S defiance does not reveal itself in acts of destructionÖit reveals itself in the collective will to survive, prosper and build upon the many triumphs of the worlds most democratic nation. The people instinctly know this, yet the tragedy seems entirely lost on their leaders. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp178.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story **** 06:24pm Sep 5, 2002 EDT In the Cold War the US exploited the ""rights"" then abandoned the responsibilities inherent with exploiting the rights afforded a superpower state. One of those exploitable ""rights"" is being able to employ a pre-emptive defense doctrine with ambiguous justification and accountability, unchallengable impunity. With few exceptions, the Americas are led by ideologically homogenized militarists maturing off of the cultures and lands rendered wastes under Corporate US anti-communism rabies-like infections by unquenchable parasites of an incorrigibly corrupt, unfathomably greedy, hopelessly myopic, steadfastly self-righteous, deity-invoking phenomena euphemistically called ""american capitalism"". Regarding internationally related affairs for more than a century and a half, the U.S. Department of State has been be the appropriate office for ""Homeland"" security...until the State Department was compromised by pro-Zioniztz (aka zionazi) faction of Zionist ideologues forcing the anomaly Ersatz Israel Palestine down the throat of the MiddleEast to the bowels of governments of, by and for Corporate US bankers, financial markets, entrenched global wealth and bogus morality; bowels falsely presumed for far too long by many in the United States to be not only fundamentally beneficial to, but irreplacable, integral to the health, welfare and future of the peoples of the world. Now that a United States' homeland security derived from a common sense, far-sighted, sustainable, trustworthy and accountable foreign policy is most needed, US attempts (via the US Attorney General) to compensate for the loss of U.S. State Dept-derived homeland security; a loss directly attributable to decades of an immoral US foreign policy being imposed upon the world most consistently adverse to the peoples (but for elitists comparable to US elites) of the MiddleEast, Africa, South America, and Asian Pacific. In spite of such unprecedented squandering of resources, denial and deceit Corporate USrael mongers for more war to keep themselves in power...hollowly residing on self-made laurels collected through more than half a century of (many economic-, military-, political-puppet; next to zero social, democratic, enviromental peoples-focused) battlefield ""successes"" to make the world safe for and yielding to militant Corporate America hegemony and Jewish nationalism in Palestine. Instead of the United States being able to enjoy a homeland security earned by a homeland's foreign policy reflecting an internationalist's humanitarian nature, the United States suffers a homeland insecurity deserved by a nationalist's militant, self-centered actions thrust hegemonically over Earth's resources, peoples, environment and future. The peoples' of the United States security cannot result from our becoming a more efficient, thorough police state via the U.S. Dept of Justice Attorney General, or via a ""Department of Homeland Security"". The peoples' of the United States security ultimately rests on the peoples of the United States embracing, upholding egalitarian ideals, domestic and international justice, and transparent economic and political endeavors and goals. **** **** 04:24am Jun 18, 2002 EDT ""...unless thoughtful and virtuous humans become assertive and insist on positive and helpful changes in the future."" I have heard rumors of 'thoughtful and virtuous humans' who are afraid to be more assertive than to insist on just being left alone...and am not sure they should feel any sense of a need for themselves to be politically assertive more than once every two years. There seems to be unpalatable costs for one's being politically assertive in the ropes of Corporatized America...assertive in a getalong goalong way...sure plenty of that...but to be assertive for change? ...change what? change the corporatist economy to communist? change Israel in America? Israel in Palestine? change more Zionism for less peace? change more debt for more capitalism? I dunno...what is there to change that has not officially declared war upon all that tries to change it? Is it stupid or courageous to be assertive against a mindset which has declared war upon, or at the least condemns as treasonous, all who blatantly assert points contrary to that mindset's stated interests and visions? Even if such individual assertion is survivably courageous, when two or more such courageous souls join in communion of assertion they can be seen, by the aforementioned mindset at war, to be conspiring against ""order and law"". In times of relative peace, law and order, and prosperity, who is listening to assertions for change? In times of war and ever-growing debt who dares listen to or contemplate others' assertions for change except that such change be for stricter law and more order? Some do dare, for sure, but it is about as contagious as pierced navels. **** **** 08:49pm Jun 16, 2002 EDT ""Can the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency be transformed into effective counter-terrorism agencies? Will the bureaucratic reorganization accomplish its stated goals? "" When US foreign policy out of the US Congress is like the self-righteous arrogant nature of a ship captain who orders his 'unsinkable' full speed ahead through a sea of icebergs, the U.S. intelligence agencies can reorganize and transform to appease every Congressional and Presidential whim, but, such efforts by the intelligence agencies to protect the 'unsinkable' from the consequences of leadership by the shortsighted and arrogant on board the vessel are little more than entertainment for guests and crew prior to catastophic collisions. **** **** 08:52pm Jun 16, 2002 EDT ..Sitting In My Chair Snickering At More Dire Perdictions (while reading 6/16/02 8:49pm)."" It is not a permanent incapacitation of the american spirit for States within the United States to be gleeful guests/subjects/crew/taxpayers of the UNsinkable uss US without considering dangers when US foreign policy out of the US Congress is like the self-righteous arrogant nature of a ship captain who orders his 'unsinkable' full speed ahead through a sea of icebergs. Pets have a way of sensing immediate danger and they can only be reassured by their owners' pretenses of security through a limited amount of ""failure""s before they become wary of their master's judgement, guidance and senses. If U.S. intelligence agencies can reorganize and transform to appease every Congressional and Presidential whim, such efforts, by U.S. intelligence agencies, to protect the 'unsinkable' from consequences of leadership by deceit --ie, not enough lifeboats for all aboard, , myopia --of the ostrich-eyes-in-bunker variety, and arrogance -- of Holy Roman Empire pungency, style and god, on board the uss US are little more than condiments on a dessert dish for guests and crew prior to catastophic collision(s). ""Or, is 'dire prediction' a threat?"" When such dire predictions reached my tender ears they seemed threatening to me, but then probably a lot less so threatening than to many others aboard the uss US since I have neglible amount of gold to fill my pockets before parting from the uss US. ""If a threat, perhaps someone should check you out."" In a sea of 'icebergs' where i generally feel to be a mere half-icecube worth of concern to the uss US, perhaps my half-icecube is viewed to be within ""the zone of 'Evil'"" focus by USs' government from bunkers, B-2s and corporate suites. Maybe if the costs of my personal economic security blanket meant that i paid a lot of federal taxes then i would protest the US government wasting my taxmonies to monitor me, were they to deem monitoring my drivel appropriate and necessary. If our government begins going beyond monitoring individual icecubes which are unfit for its martini then i would protest most passionately...through prayer perhaps, though most certainly not here in this or any other public forum, except perhaps running for public office in the U.S. ... they don't kill horses/runners/candidates do they? ""Perhaps it isn't the cause that drives wackos, but perhaps there are wackos looking for a cause to justify their hate and anger."" Pre-9/11, was there hate and anger in the US of A landscape sanctioned and promoted by the US government? Post-9/11 is there signifigantly more such well orchestrated hate and anger? Less? About the same? When a society's dominant theme is 'Defense', ""Hate and Anger"" can be the tune of all who revel in the notes of the orchestra. Are all the revelers expected to dance alike? Have the same 'enemy'? Shoot the same direction? **** **** 07:49pm Jun 15, 2002 EDT ""Bad news, bud. The Holy Roman Empire was not invented in the 1500s by Spain."" I see that the abbreviated text which I quoted may be read as if to suggest that the Holy Roman Empire began in the 16th Century, which of course is not so, but your clarification fixes that... if I had inserted a colon to the copied text (such as= The Holy Roman Empire : In 1516 ...) that would have made the excerpt a little less ambiguous. The point of lighting an analogy between today's US holy empire with its empire/conquistidor equivalents and Spain's Charles 1 ( his predecessors and peers) then Charles 5 of HRE and that era's conquistadors is an attempt to show that ""The Terrors, aka USCA, USs' Corporate America, United States' Corporate America are the successors to the throne imagined by the Holy Roman Emperors and their bad ax Conquistidors..."" is a fact which can only be graffitied to appear frivolous by spraying with footnotes (whether by that statement's author or by others. If, on its face, that statement is not a fact then another observor than I, that statements author, should dispute or flatly deny that there IS an unbroken chain of deceit, injustice, conquest, oppression>expropration>abandonment, disenfranchisement, Western ""happiness"" to sustain Western ""civilization"" (US Cheneybushs' corporate America and friends, inc & esp. Ltd.). **** **** 02:29am Jun 15, 2002 EDT ' ""mass murderers are mass murderers"" The greatest mass murderers and war criminals I know of are the Western nations. Including Americans. ' The Terrors, aka USCA, USs' Corporate America, United States' Corporate America are the successors to the throne imagined by the Holy Roman Emperors and their bad ax Conquistidors. Who over-empired the bad ax European empires but more European bad axes? The baddest ax on the block for recent past centuries has been the USs of the U.S. East Coast, the unrepentently proud, effectively unpunishable US of A, materially glorious and thus unquestionably --at least to the USs'-- blessed by the One. ""So, the US is evil and for some reason the East Coast of the US is extra super specially evil?"" So you acknowledge the US is not U.S. , the United States, or are you suggesting that the U.S. may, like USs, be deemed to be evil by those who --similarily to USs' perceived world of a universal spectrum of catholic-judeo ""good and evil"")-- perceive that ""for some reason the East Coast of the US is extra super specially evil?"" ""...war is high risks, high stakes..all should pray for good judgment on the part of the commanders"" I think I will pray for good luck, expecting better results from luck than that which may or may not follow from ""good judgment on the part of the commanders"" in their war on anti-zionism, war on anti-US hegemonism. ""To all of you who feel compelled to belittle, slander and defame those whose religious practices differ from yours..."" If one people's killing of another people is a righteous practice of colonialistic, hegemonic maintenace -when not expansion- then one is incapable of ever slandering or belittling such a religion...2000 years of judeo-catholic righteous killings in the the name of economic empires of European origin ""what choice do we have but to pull together and back our government?"" We should let ""our goverment"" wage war to maintain USCA, USs' Corporate America, hegemone and promote and arm Zionism at whatever costs to the United States...without even thinking a word of dissent? Is that what US patriotism is now? ""Excuse my foggy old brain, but what the hell did the Holy Roman Empire have to do with the Conquistadors?"" From page 9 of my fourth grader's library book: "" The Holy Roman Empire In 1516...throne of Spain as Charles I ...about the same age as (Hernando) deSoto...(Charles 1) becomes (Charles 5) emperor of Holy Roman Empire...challenges and demands for wealth for the wars of the European empire ...What the conquistadors practiced in the New World , they learned in the Old World of Europe...The emperors also wanted to be recognized by the pope, so they added the name 'Holy' . "" Hernando de Soto, by Ruth Manning , Reed Educational and Professional Publishing, Heinemann Library, 2001. **** **** 07:26pm Jun 13, 2002 EDT ""The Bush administration is trying to lean on and laugh off our elected officials who demand answers. We're not laughing. Our Defense Department failed to protect its home, the Pentagon itself. We cannot afford secrecy over security. To prevent future terrorist attacks, we must understand what went wrong leading up to 9/11."" That the ""Bush administration is trying to lean on and laugh off our elected officials --'The congresswoman (McKinney) must be running for the hall of fame of the Grassy Knoll Society.'-- who demand answers"" is an understatement to the degree that the US is selling (literally, with Congressional districts' arms and tech war profiteers) to and imposing upon the world its never ending ""War on Terror"". Corporate America, riding on the shoulders of the United Staes Goverment and its taxpayers, was fundamentally terrorized by the ideology of communism because there is no safe haven for American-style East Coast US corporate capitalism in communism. By repeating the mantra ""Communism is Dead"" the Cheneyite Rumfields of the world want themselves to go down in history, if present delusions prevail, the guarantors of ""freedom and democracy""... as if there were situations where true freedom and true democracy are not one and the same in the human commune that is humanity. As if true freedom/democracy were not at the core of true communism. The real terror to US Corporate America capitalism (aka debtism) is truth. The US Corporate America hegemone (USCA, which includes the vast majority of the USs' Congress, Executive and Judicial) is at war with all that threatens it except for that fatal flaw upon which it derives its life sustenance...a U.S. (present and planned for many futures to come) taxpayer funded, ethically and morally corrupt debt game that mortally infects every materially greedy, paranoid, insecure hegemone Earth has borne. ""We're not laughing."" You and i, and few others may not be laughing but it seems that the media-driven polls are saying that at least 3/4 of the U.S. populace is laughing with Ariel Fleischer and Dublya Bush. ""We cannot afford secrecy over security."" The US Congress just upped the federal debt ceiling by 10% ... did anyone ever really believe that corporate america was ever going to allow the US debt to be paid down? Airlines, insurance companies, banks need relief$, $upport and $ecurity...not reality. $450 billion more U.S. taxpayer serviced debt will buy a modest amount of security and justice (secrecy) for USCA. The US Government ""democracy"" has deemed that present and future U.S. taxpayers can well afford corporate, military and government secrecy and, as well, afford the security they all need to globally operate with relative impunity. ""To prevent future terrorist attacks, we must understand what went wrong leading up to 9/11."" The ""what went wrong"" is less an event than a phenomenon. The wrong-headedness of US foreign policy married to the insatiably greedy and corrupt nature of a global economy whose master is United States' Corporate America is all the terror that needs to be acknowledged...most all terror that befalls the US is a consequence of perceived and real USCA terror perpetrated upon those peoples of the world not of the USCA and allies. **** **** 02:16pm Apr 2, 2002 EST ""So why has our quality of life become so rare?"" Is not an answer seen in the range of that which you related in your post about ""quality""? You begin with ""the person on the street""...where I live anyone on the street better be in a car or his life is in peril. A person, from within the relatively safe confines of even a 'high quality' car, on the street is experiencing a pretty limited spectrum of Life, if indeed the experience is really something much more than an experience of a lifeless mobile objects (auto parts) and human shaped materials (smooth concrete or asphalt) which is not Life yet are consuming something which was life but is now dead (fossil deposits). For many of us 'moderns' today the ""quality of life"" has next to nothing to do with the diverse richness of what Life other than humans is before us, rather as you exemplify, our quality of life is related to our freedom to choose our favorites from amongst the seemingly limitless diversity of detergents, bar soaps, toothpastes, underwears, airlines, autos, porn, aspirin, movies and so forth. Our religion is consumerism. Today, ""life"" is not what permits one to expand one's sense of and ability for being a meaningful, contributing organism to any overall equation of purposeful existence, so much as ""life"" is a static regimen...a systemized course of ""living"",,,pursuing the fleeting joys of shamelessly addictive consumerism while paying taxes to purchase the freedom to maintain the addiction. When ""quality"" is used, as you have, in the context of primarily being a distinguishing element or characteristic of things, objects and images of strictly human nature what should be ""rare"" is any generalization that such ""quality"" has anything to do with the quality of Life as a whole except insomuch as it serves a human's consumerist interests. **** **** 12:24am Jan 30, 2002 EST US State of the Union Address 2oo2AD: "" Jobs! "" again... At least for those who can pass urine tests, security clearances in the military/industrial/financial markets complex. "" Jobs! "" again... 'hey hoffa let's plunder ANWAR while we're annihilating Iraq.' "" Jobs! "" again... tax breaks for corporate america so they can at least have some pretense of security until the next corporate welfare package. "" ...allow private investment accounts of Social Security... "" sure gW, let the gullible american public use Social Security funds to provide the ballast for the perpetuation of the parasitism of the financial markets of american capitalism ""a new culture of responsibility"" ... when in gW's lifetime did he perform community service that wasn't directly related to his aspirations for political office? "" ...Evil must be opposed... "" and ""...corporate america and america's right-wing will save the world, dispensing justice and freedom when and as US sees fit."" gW speech writers could have added. **** **** 09:23pm Jan 29, 2002 EST ""Tell us your views on current political issues in the news."" I believe that the United States' is being drawn into a militarized republican democracy's corporatist, fascistic delusions of grandeur and I fully expect that President Bush Jr's State of the Union Address tonight will provide ample evidence of such delusions: 1) delusions that the people of the United States will irrevocably sacrifice their personal rights while being led by force of arms and technology on a crusade-without-end to preserve nationUSt, zionist dreams of ending popular struggles against the oppressions of militant UShegemonism , militant Zionism. 2) delusions that the Bush Administration will, like Reagan, be yearly granted chunks of tommorrow's wealth to spend for the US's 'pursuit of happiness' today. 3)delusions that corporate america (of the US economy's 80% service and finance sector, not of the 20% manufacturing and farming sector) is, as a whole, close to being as valuable as the preposterously inflated values of such ""holdings"" by creditors might suggest. **** Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story What Can We Learn Here Not everyone is buying this Everlasting War on Terrorism"". This Administration's Oil Industry dominated, war mongering foreign policy is turning America into the biggest rogue nation of all. National Guard Air Defense Facilities were ignored on 9/11 although it was standard procedure and would have successfully intercepted the planes before the big show. This ignoring of Bases included a transparent cover up of the existence of Andrews Air Force Base less than 10 miles from the Capital. It has become clear that Bin Laden was and is, a product of the CIA's most expensive covert operation involving Islamic extremists. While 1000's of uncharged wrong skinned immigrants are being arrested and jailed, members of the Bin Laden family, (two of which were under FBI investigation) are allowed to charter a flight back to Saudi Arabia with warm regards. Then they dump more money into the run amok CIA coup-plotting agency after their 9 billion-dollar 9/11 blowback. The freedoms and way of life weve held dear for so long are in great danger, and not from any terrorists half a world away. Evidence exists that this Administration was threatening the Taliban with war in August and warning other countries of an October invasion back in July. It is a classic diversion that we are being forced to look for the culprits of this enormous crime on the other side of the world. The weight of complicity, just in the fact that the President does nothing, (not even appear to care), for over 30 minutes after we were in a National Emergency remains unforgivably conspicuous. The holes in the official story are big enough to fly a plane through. I dont want a military coup in my country. Thats just too much like Pakistan. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp224.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story All tragedies come from the clearest of skies. This enhances the sense of horror, desolation, shock, and numbness that assails the human soul. ' How can it be?' we ask, that a day that began so hope-filled and sun-lit could end as one of the darkest moments in history? So it is with 9-11. How do we reconcile ourselves to this shock, grief, and anger? How do we pay homage to those who died? Do we acknowledge our feelings of newly formed fear by changing our countries whole way of life in hopes we may avert such future events? It is my belief that the wisest way to show respect for and honor those who died is with quiet dignity: To respect their memory by respecting the values they lived by. These were Americans, from all strata of American life. I believe they would want us to use their senseless deaths to preserve and maintain the dignity and freedom, the values and founding premises of the country they loved. It is to dishonor them to bring into America slander between our parties, unending war on other nations, and increasing tyranny on our own people in the name of terror. I believe they would say their deaths were NOT in vain: That despite the cunning way lives were taken, our country will remain United and Strong; based and grounded in our Bill of Rights and Constitution. That we, the country they loved, WILL remain a free Nation, not given to fear and oppression, but to fearlessness, and positive expectations. How to be a perfect Union? We must stay our course, bind our wounds, and go forth into the future with bravery, not bravado. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp187.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story "Agenda Interrupted" ,"Our nation can be viewed as a nation with two agendas: the populist agenda and the Bush agenda. The populist agenda received considerable attention in the 2000 campaign and afterwards, at least in words if not in action. Preserving the social safety net for the elderly, addressing the problems with our nation's healthcare system, improving education and environmental protection, and economic justice for workers and families. These were--are--issues many Americans care about. Often undermined, these issues were wiped from the American agenda on September 11th. Not so the Bush agenda. The crux of the Bush agenda was--is--simple: 1. Cut taxes. 2. Drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 3. Confront Iraq. September 11th changed the rationale in support of Bush's agenda, but not the agenda. Bush's agenda, already moving along with weak opposition, seemed to gain momentum with the rightward shift in U.S. politics effected by the terrorist attacks. But a rightward shift in politics cannot persist because the populist agenda needs to be addressed sooner or later. Voters will demand it. Consider drilling for oil in ANWR. At an arctic bird ecology workshop in Alaska, one month after September 11th, there was a new sense of inevitability about drilling in ANWR. The rationale for drilling wasn't suddenly better; the opposing voices just felt politically weak. But the populist agenda of protecting some of our pristine environments and supporting a more balanced energy plan persisted. The U.S. Senate this spring blocked drilling in ANWR, and wildlife activity on the refuge will continue, for now, without competition from Big Oil. September 11th changed us in many ways. It stalled the populist agenda. But it cannot remove from an agenda issues vital to the wellbeing of our society, our environment, and future generations. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp140.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp223.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story "Agenda Interrupted" Agenda Interrupted Before Sept. 11, the news reported that because there was a surplus in 2000, President Bush approved a tax cut . This tax cut however only benefited the wealthy and corporate side of America leaving the average worker with little to show. After this tax tax refund occurred it was discovered that the moneys the government originally had to allow a tax cut was no longer there. Why? Some politicians anticipated that the tax payers who received this tax cut would turn around and invest the money back into the economy. This didnt happen. A majority saved the money or used it to pay bills that were owed anyway. In early September of 2001, democrats and tax payers noticed this oversight. As a result a major change came about in the financial situation of the U.S.. We went from having a surplus in 2000 to being in debt by trillions by the end of 2001. Bush considered possibly dipping into Social Security to get us out of this slump. Several people in Washington were against this arguing that is had never been done before for a reason. Then the tragic events of September 11 occurred and understandably the country s attention was changed. However as the end of August is upon us we are seeing the economy for what it really is. In my opinion had September 11 not happened, the country would have noticed this problem allot sooner and Pres. Bush would be in allot more hot water than he is now. Apparently political suicide runs in the family. Despite his simple minded appearance, he found a clever way of distracting everyones attention. In the days following September 11, he gave speeches ( none of which he probably wrote), he toured ground zero, and spent allot of time on his air plane. He had an approval rate of over 60%. Now we not so sure. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp124.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2003-03-03 Notes Notes about this item. San Benito High School Assigned by John Hand English 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story "Toward a More Perfect Union: Lesson Learned-Or Not-Since 9/11" Who knows what tomorrow may bring and what waves will hit you next. What occurred on September 11, 2001 was considered a wake up call as some say, but was it really? Understandably, some people's world was turned upside-down; the way they used to live and view life has taken a new course. Unbelievably, others went on, almost blindly unaware of the bare fact that America needed to be awakened from its slumber. Those things that use to be so dear to our hearts seem to hold absolutely no value at all. Priorities transformed from money to family. People we swore never to talk to again; we suddenly rushed to phone them. Other's spiritual eyes were opened and they understood the importance of God in their lives. But how long would this last? Yes, it is true that every church was full the Sunday morning after 9-11; people had and still do have so many questions that no simple man had answers to. Americans were overflowing with sorrow and, having nobody or nowhere to turn to, they looked for comfort in the house of the Lord. Now, almost a year shy of 9-11. Has the sorrow and anger subsided? Has America so easily forgotten the pledge of living a different lifestyle, and truly being one nation under God ? True, out of tragedy many lives were woven together never to be separated again. Yet, in the midst of unity also lies anger, resentment, and of course, that question which will always dawn on ever American and when others reminisce on the events that occurred on September 11, 2001......Why? Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp104.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2003-02-28 Notes Notes about this item. San Benito High School Assigned by John Hand, English 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Toward A More Perfect Union September 11th was a wake up call for us because we realized that we should be more united. My belief is be united because you never know who is going to lose their life next. It might be your uncle or brother in the army or someone that lives just next door. Peace is what should be among us to make this possible and be united as one. When disaster struck America, we opened our eyes realizing we weren t as safe as we thought we were. It will take a long while to trust the people that destoryed what we had and destroyed the lives of innocent people. So many are scared and worried if tomorrow will ever come. In one ordinary day everything fell apart. How do we know if they will strike again. We have no clue. Most people awake feeling insecure about their lives. Its been almost one year after September 11th and people still see it as if just yesterday it happened. This destroyed the hearts of many loved ones out there. Every morning when I turn on the radio I tend to always listen to the reporters speaking about September 11th or even just about Osama himself. Every time I see the news they talk about all the evil out there. For example the disasters and tragedies that have happened in other countries. It has been long since they would talk about America. Now it s been heard all around the world about the tragedy of our own country. Is this another World War that has come. Our own president has always tried his best in doing best for his country. Now that this has accrued he is trying harder than ever to keep his people secure. God Bless The United States! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp131.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Less than 5,000 people died in the 911 thing... 60,000 people died last year on the freeways.... Why aren't we tracking down Firestone, and drunk drivers instead of Osama? Why are we building memorials instead of mass transit? Why are they suing Saudi Arabia instead of Detroit? Why pay billions to increase security at airports when we should be installing telecommuting and voice conferencing systems? Now that the high court says we can't say "under god" why can our government still show such a bias towards Israel? Separation of church and state seems to be good for us" but not "good for them. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp181.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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