25 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 Nine eleven was a terrible day for all americans. So many lives died living in the country of freedom. The people of the United States of America are angry at such a horrible act against our country. We want war! We want justice! And most of all we want revenge. Many are asking why hasnt there been a declaration of war announced. Think back to Pearl Harbor they knew the attack was coming yet they did nothing to prevent it from happening. The same applies here. If we were so ready to announce war then why not now? We had a country to declare war on. This is not the case now. we are after terrorists not a country. How can you declare war on a group, but not a country? I guess it is not as simple as we first thought. Saudi Arabia and Iraq the mothers of terrorists. Think if we have an out war with one or both countries then say no to the following:gasoline, tiers, lubricating oils, paraffin wax, asphalt, plastic, shoes, and for all the doctors no latex gloves. Petroleum is in are everyday life. are you willing to give up all this and more? Think about it if you are seriously injured and have to go to the hospital will everything made of plastic still be there for your benefit? 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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 lessons Americans draw from September 11 come from answers to the question, What role does the United States play in the world? On the one hand, the left identifies America as an empire posing as historys first philanthropic superpower. In this view September 11 --though morally indefensible and grotesqueówas ""blowback"" from Americas imperialistic conduct. On the other hand, both the centers "they dont understand us," and the rights "theyre evil -- were good" reactions flow from the America as Superman identity: a benevolent power cybernetically promoting democracy. Although both support the "The War on Terror" in the "pulling together for America" spirit, they nevertheless draw different lessons from September 11. The center concedes that ""Superman"" occasionally errs, permitting adversaries to misunderstand Americas bedrock benevolent intentions. To stem terrorism, the center would communicate the virtues of the American way to the ""disaffected populations"" of the world; when the disaffected appreciate the ""real"" America, theyll want to emulate --not annihilate- us. In the rights version, Superman America is unconditionally righteous and altruistic; it follows that terrorists are motivated by evil, not politics, thereby placing them outside of ethical regard. Naturally eliminating "The Evil One" is the solution. In stark contrast to the center and the right, the left seeks a transcendence of American imperialism as the lasting solution to terrorism. Most Americans find the lessons of the center and the right both soothing to their grief and patriotic, with the added benefit of no requirement for soul-searching about Americas conduct in the world. In opposition, by assuming that America bears some responsibility for September 11, the lefts blowback account rings for most Americans alien, perverse and profane, in short, unreal and cruel. But so was the choreographed attack that dispatched airliners as guided missiles into crowded buildings. 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 tp79.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 Perhaps the Agendas interruption was overdue. Who really needed to spend last summer watching the all-Chandra-all-the-time soap opera or a shamelessly hyped (but statistically insignificant) increase in shark attacks? It was time to get real. While hijackings, Anthrax, bombings and Saddam are indeed distracting, people dont completely forget other topics. Since September 11, the Agenda has studiously ignored the fact that under current conditions, Social Security is irretrievably unsustainable. Unsustainable is a strong word, yet no other approaches its concise accuracy. The Agenda had both its Right and Left hands in our Lockbox long before September 11. You want numbers? Look at any Federal budget and pay close attention to the ratio of income to expenses. Upon Boomer retirement, the tax base will dwindle while costs for both retirement care and unending war spiral upward with no ceiling in sight. The only suggestions the Agenda can offer are to cut benefits, raise taxes ñ or both. The Agenda cant get elected on that platform. We cant have it all! Its time that we, as a nation, seriously examined our principles and our priorities. Axis of Evil? Who cares about that when Grandma has to choose between the power bill and dinner? Missile defense? How about a prescription cost defense instead? The Agenda fears to propose one common-sense solution that would work: rework the budget! Take 50% of current military spending and phase it into the rescue of not only Social Security, but indeed of our Society over a ten-year period. Use some of those funds to offer science scholarships and incentives for health care professions. Put downsized soldiers to work upgrading our infrastructure, expanding technology and rebuilding our industries. America can once again proudly take the lead, if we let her. But I forget: thats not on the Agenda. 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 tp212.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 No longer do we bask in the economic growth of the nineties. Rather, we sulk in the aftermath of 911 and the crushing economic Boom;"" the crumbling of major corporations and the uncovering of corporate greed at its best. Oh George W., where do we go from here? We were promised a return to the decency of Reagan and a resurgence of the party of Lincoln; no longer could it afford to exclude America. Hindsight being 20/20, did we really believe that a Bush could live up to the New Republican mantra (i.e., Compassionate Conservative)? Did we really believe that tax refunds and the privatization of Social Security would keep our economy stable? In Re Lincoln: The response to 911 by the Justice Department does not resonate with the party of Lincoln. Racial profiling, once looked down upon, has become the tool by which justice is served. No longer taboo is the acknowledgement and use of racial characteristics in casting suspicion on brown members of society. The rationale, in the interest of American security, but whose American security? Surely not the Middle Eastern looking American? Maybe so? In Re the Economy. The privatization of Social Security is the only way to save it. Americans do not need the government to tell them what to do with their money! Post 911 and the great corporate fall out, Americans need the government more than ever to protect middle class interests and retirement funds. 401ks emptied into the pockets of the twenty million-dollar CEO beg the question, could working class Americans afford to place their trust in the market? Does any of this matter? Maybe not, let us not to forget: The people did not choose our current leader, an old trusty technicality did hence we wait for you 2004. 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 tp154.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 AFTER THE TOWERS MELTED It may have been blasphemous, even cruel, but someone wrote poetry after The Great Plague. Others wrote in the midst of it, dying. It was written in the trenches in France. Scott wrote it at the South Pole. During the Chicago Fire, The Blitz, somewhere in the cellars of Dresden, on the tilted deck of the Titanic, someone scribbled a last thought, held tight to a burning image. As we do, the two nameless strangers leaping eighty floors hand in hand. Hiroshima did not escape this blight of perception, nor did Rwanda. The ovens at Birkenau were rank with it. Everywhere great suffering reaches into our lives, poetry arrives. With its wan smile and rumpled clothes, its useless gestures. Which it knows to be useless. Like a drooling old grandmother, like a crow in the middle of the road, it tells us what we already know. Nothing surpasses the afternoon. Or the wind urging these clumsy branches toward the future, wherever that is. 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 tp23.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 Since that dark day last year, the nation has been understandably distracted. Now, what were we saying about Privatization again? The Great Experiment (Version 2) -- namely, privatization of anything that moved -- was in full sway before the attacks of September 11th. But that summer, it had also sparked a growing public debate. The California Energy Crisis provided both the supporters and opponents of privatization with ammunition: the latter held it up as a market failure, the former called it governmental bungling. But with a war on, the publics attention was divided, diluting the impact of the subsequent revelations. The privatization debate quieted last year, but only one side stopped arguing. Was the Presidents exhortation, that shopping was patriotism, part of the reason the privatization agenda rebounded so quickly? The entertainment conglomerates appear before Congress, asking for search-and-seizure powers to root out music which hadnt come through their pay-per-use portals. Private agencies build toll "freeways" and charge us for driving on them. DNA belongs to corporations. We turn to the omnipresent Market for drinking water, day care, and numerous other facets of life which used to be virtually free. Our parks were privatized years ago; today eroding public beaches are given away for seawalls which protect private mansions. This combined with our eroding environmental laws describes a trend, where in the New World Order the only ones who have cost-free access to America's public property are the corporations who dump toxins into it. Are there alternatives? Can (or should) our elected representatives support free enterprise and capitalism, without buying into that bleak destiny? Can our own consciences and "gut feelings," about morality and fair use, guide us through life under modern technological capitalism -- or must we trust these decisions to the experts and the lawyers? 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 tp96.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 The terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001 really shocked everyone. It brought hurt to the families that lost a loved one. It also brought hurt to the people who believed that we were a strong nation and that nothing was suppose to happen to us. Do some americans still believe in the nation that claimed to be the strongest country? Or do they need some sort of assurance to believe again in the U.S.? Many americans have come together to be their for one another in a time of need. They were donating blood, sending clothes, donating money to the Red Cross, and doing so much more to help out there fellow americans. But who has been there for them? The person that has done this is still out and about thinking that he has done the impossible to the United States. He is hiding out some where laughing in our face because we have not one clue of where he might be to serve him the justice he deserves. We as Americans need to stay united and not let this destroy us as a nation, for if we stick together we can overcome all the terror , that Bin Laden thinks we have, and fight back! But on a different level we should not start something that we can t finish because then that just opens the door to many other countries take advantage of our most vulnerable time. Was this the perfect revenge or is it just a warning of more horrible things to come? 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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 Arrogance is a relative term. Dictionaries go on about the state of being this or that, but arrogance is wholly subjective. There is no objective state of affairs wherein claims of success are measured against reality to determine ones guilt. Arrogance is not an absolute. It lives in the eyes of others. It exists solely in the realm of subjective judgment. This is the most important lesson we have learned as a nation since September. We know that by any objective or subjective measure the US is the worlds most powerful nation. Unrivaled as a military or economic power, our social institutions are the envy of the world, and along with the rest of the West, we exert a cultural influence unknown since Pax Romana. What reason could we have to think we should not be running the whole show? There are so many things we might do to help - so much collective wisdom we might pass on to those who need it most. With countless nations struggling to develop stable political and social institutions, and still more who find it difficult to move out of the dark ages and into the 21st century, surely even the most ardent cultural-relativist would admit that our story is a must read for the up-and-coming nation-state. But charges of arrogance place the burden of proof on the defendant. We are thus faced with validating of our claims to leadership while exerting the unsubtle day to day influence of an unopposed superpower. There is no place to hide. The world is looking on in anticipation - not only for what we will do, but how we will do it. Charges of arrogance are inevitable ñ but will they be justified, or will we face them with the quiet confidence bred only from success? 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/. 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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 Grieving 9/11/01 a sorrow gathered from years before Anguished for victims within and off our shore. Grieving not selecting which side to bless All life cherished, the poor, the oppressed. Grieving ""we the people"" not just the few, sharing earth, democracy renewed. Tis time to reflect, EnvisionÖthe past, present. Reflecting upon Hate unrepentant. Grieving Bloody wars Smart bombing civilians oozing mix of blood and mortar. Questioning Greedy assaults ""defensive"" armor. Grieving Before and after 9/11's torment. Demanding to know what went wrong Unanswered questions the list getting long We demand an independent checkup The right to know we'll give no let up. Grieving The ""Patriot"" Act Threatening the right to know Answers to questions We'll not forgo. We ""pledge"" the Bill of Rights To sovereignty To revolutionary-birth rights Not hounded by the watchman Nor bushed by the ranchman. History consoles uplift from greed's sinkhole Be engaged Read of rights denied, the outrage. Adopt Paine's Common Sense, His Rights of Man, Bind with Jefferson's Independence. Rights of selfhood Unalienable Of Peace and Justice Indivisible. Grieving 9/11 Mother Jones would advise Grieve not! Organize! Revising policy domestic and foreign Hear Frederick Douglass chastise No Demand Without a Struggle, Organize! And how to begin? Heed well his outcry: ""Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."" Organize! 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 tp160.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 POEM: The Bully Pulpit Before the Twin Towers, the USA thought it was number one and acted like it. Kid bullied kid in school till the bullied shot back. The governor of Texas did the same, joking with a fellow frat boy about executing Carla Fay: ""Please don't kill me!"" Republicans that sat on the Supreme court liked this kid's way with people and appointed him president. They admired his dad for going around the world to beat up another bully, and since Dad inspired Moslems to hate us by crapping on the seat of Allah's holiness, starving and poisoning a bunch of babies and leaving the bully in power, they anointed his popular but out-to-lunch boy to tell the world ""So What!"" One day some crazed Moslems flew Columbine-style into the pillars of wealth, popularity and power. Stunned at the brutality of this vile act, the boy and his dad's friends, for parity, went after the bully responsible but missed him and killed a bunch of women and kids instead. These days, nothing much has changed. The gist of it is, haves still wonder what they said or did to make the have nots go nuts. Nerd and pariah are at their computers making plans. To expect thought or compassion would be absurd. So God bless all the bullies and their fans. 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 tp176.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 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 9/11 and the Bottom Line Numerous ideas have emerged for the cause of 9/11 and the loss of so many lives: failed mid-east policies, the US was not prepared, no warning from the intelligence community, etc. One aspect that has not been fully addressed and that is the role of corporate greedÖthe ëbottom line. Politicos of the l960s pandering to the special interests acquiesced to the real estate and construction industries and changed the building codes, which relaxed construction standards. In l967 the NY Building Code was changed from a specification code to a performance code. As a result of this change the steel framing was no longer required to be encased in concrete, but would be protected by spray-on-fireproofing, which is not reliable as it sometimes falls off during a fire. Fire stairs would no longer be protected by terracotta and concrete, but would be encased in sheetrock. These two important changes among others compromise the integrity of the building and the safety of the occupants during severe fire conditions. The reason for these changes is cutting costsÖ the ëbottom line. Examining the images of 9/11 we can observe that the impact of the aircraft barely shook either tower and the shock had little to do with the collapse. The direct cause of the collapse was the ensuing fire that softened the inadequately protected steel and doomed the towers. Had the WTC been constructed under the more stringent specification code and the steel protected by concrete the building might have withstood the fire. At least the collapse would have been delayed extending evacuation time saving many hundreds of lives. We were not prepared for the attack of 9/11, but we could have better protected our citizens, by not watering down our building codes and pandering to those whose only thought isÖthe ëbottom line. 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 tp47.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 The profile image of a neatly dressed young New York businessman giving his reaction to the first 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center is permanently trapped in the world mind. Hunching forward, he frames the lower left edge of the astounding video of the second attack. For a few seconds he is everyone on the planet as he stops talking, sits up, and turns to look in perfect astonishment. The world paused on 9/11, like a pendulum poised at the top of its swing. The towers went down, a crumbling hole appeared in the Pentagon, and the irrefutable pictures shot around the globe again and again and again. People said, Everythings changed?. But the change was hard to define, inward and eerie, like a crisis of faith. Everything had changed for everyone. The world had suddenly and collectively lost its faith in an earthly superpower. Just as the explosion of the first atomic bomb showed that a barely imaginable technology was real, the destruction of 9/11 showed that the United States itself was not inviolable. What the United States does next makes a great deal of practical difference to the planet, but the central myth is dead. And not a moment too soon. The world has real problems, starting with racism and climate change, Durban and Kyoto. The world can solve its problems by working together, without superpowers. Let us not grope around for the next one. We all entered the world naked, unable even to speak our own languages. We will all leave it dead. Meanwhile, we have unprecedented access to thousands of years of collected thought and instant communications. We can make peace. We can end hunger. We can learn if we will. Lets do it. 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 tp209.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 Did Gary Condit have anything to do with the disappearance of Chandra Levy? The tax cuts, the education bill, social security, the rising costs of prescription drugs, whatever happened to all these issues that had us on the edge of our seats? The media had us consumed with both important and irrelavent issues, but yet, people watched. All these issues were americas agenda. Then, on 9-11, americas agenda was abruptly interrupted indeed. The evil acts that took place on that day hit us all like a ton of bricks! We all just watched on television as our nations twin towers as well as our pride was struck by filthy reprobates! New Yorks skyline has, irreparably, been damaged. Thousands of our innocent neighbors were killed and our spirits bruised. Then after all the smoke clears and the dust settles, America now has a new agenda. Now, all the while, those issues that were so important before 9-11 have become obsolete. So what ever did happen with the disappearance of Ms. Levy? She was found dead and that was the end of that. I wonder if all other issues not pertaining to the 9-11 attacks will ever be as important as they used to be? One thing I do know is that, yes our agenda was interrupted and it probably will be again, but understandably so. I do think that it is sad that it took something of this magnitude to get our mind off of money issues and what not and on to things a lot more important such as our nations well being. But at least now we have an understanding for what it means to be an American. Agenda interrupted (9-11) has made a huge impact in our lives in more ways than one. 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 tp98.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 Swallowing, looking up, I nearly drove off of the road. I was nowhere near Manhattan on that day, although that was where I was supposed to be. I happened to be in Boston going to work and I was numb. The dust was settling and I felt my Freedoms slowly burn as I put down the newspaper and collected stories from online. Fear and doubt were raging and everyone who looked Muslim (whatever that means) were proudly trouncing my Liberties. Pure human waste was flying grey ash in New York and you are telling me that I still can't use your stinking bathroom unless I buy something. Americans, regardless of intent were being scared into submission, angry at their uselessness, sullen, and searching for the illusion of a distinctly American peace. Airplanes were making nice hotels for weary travelers and happy incompetents went skipping off to their jobs as airport screeners hoping that they would get to strip search grandmothers in wheelchairs today. Everything was aligned, perfectly. Every true American was standing 'under God,' being promised resolve from our gOVERNMENT who promptly hedged their bets after a retrospective, a carpet bombing of Afghanistan, and silences a week and now quite a few months later have refused to net us one apparently Waldoian Bin Laden. I applauded heroes and I cried for the dead, and even today candles are burning in my house. They are not burning for the families, not for the fallen, and not for the imprisoned. Those candles are burning as a reminder to the American citizens who still do not understand that Liberty and Security are Vinegar and Oil and that our greatest threats to democracy were our January 1995 "Bojinka" negligence; our September 10th, 2001 ignorance; and our August 6th and August 9th ambivalence. 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 tp216.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 "September 11 - the death knell of mankind! Civilization at a complete dead end! Let's just not kid ourselves that THEY (the terrorists and their accomplices) are wild beasts in human form while we are white and fluffy. ""September 11"" took place in the world that we ourselves created. Everyone knows what a huge role the USA played in bringing it into being. President Bush said, ""This country will define our times, not be defined by them."" But we have already defined them... Mankind is facing a chasm, and on the other side, the awful face of world war grimaces back at us. Americans sometimes wonder why we are so disparaged. Not long ago the Mayor of Hiroshima explained why. He accused the United States of believing that ""might makes right"" and attempting to chain the planet with a Pax American?. Washington has no right to decide for everyone else the fate of the planet. And after September 11 a destructive philosophy of revenge has dominated: ""I'm the King of Bunker Hill!"" and ""You're really going to get it!"" Where will all this lead? In the current ""war"" directed at an anonymous worldwide terrorist underground (and according to their side it is a guerrilla war, and therefore endless), America reminds me of the guy who was falling from the twenty-ninth floor and telling himself, ""So far so good!"" There's only one difference: America may drag the entire world down with it. We need a deeper and more compassionate political philosophy than revenge and domination. Remember the emotion that overpowered American astronauts on the moon? It was the feeling that all people on this Earth are brothers! To instill mankind with this feeling is the chief task we face. There has been no more important task since September 11. 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 tp37.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" I strongly believe 9/11 was a wake up call for all Americans. This showed us how lucky we are to live in a country that gives us the freedom to have the the Bill of Rights and a Constitution. We have greatly learned to appreciate our government even thought we may not always agree with what they do, but in the long run it is for our best interest. We have realized that maybe our differences about how we are allowed to run our lives was a reason for the destruction the terrorists did. Even though our customs are different they thought it was of to punish us the was they did. They way see what we call freedom of religion as a sin to have more than one religion, but who are they to complain. At least everyone in our country is happy and people are not trying to flee our country like many other citizens are fleeing their counties. They may have seen it as they were saving many people from our corrupted country by their actions. By comparing our country to many others we have realized how privileged. We are fortunate to know that we cannot be discriminated for our race of by the way we dress and to have the opportunity to be the person we want to be. With the terrorists attack on America it has given us, the people of the world, a reason to put aside our pity differences and unite to fight against a common enemy. It is just a shame that some thing as tragic as 9/11 had to happen to make us a stronger and prouder country and to open our eyes and see how lucky we truly are. 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 tp117.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 While the political class fights over the mechanics of Homeland Security, few have had the courage to ask - why are we now calling ourselves a Homeland? With the new Department of Homeland Security poised to devour most of the Executive Branch as we know it, this reorganization will militarize many functions of our civil government and vastly expand the direct authority of the Office of the President. But even more disturbing is the notion of ""Homeland"" itself as a cloak for our imperial ambitions. The White House web site lists National Security and Homeland Security as equal priorities. Pardon me, but what exactly is the difference between National Security and Homeland Security? If we are now the ""Home Land,"" then what is our ""Away Land?"" This is more than just a semantic issue - the very need to define a ""Homeland"" theater of operations within a larger ""National"" sphere belies our status as an Empire. According to the Department of Defense web site, ""we have some 473,881 uniformed troops and civilian personnel both afloat and on shore... in every time zone and every climate."" U.S. submarines and warships ply every ocean, and communications and spy satellites circle the globe. In a subtle twist of language, we have expanded our defensible national interest to include the entire world. This ""home"" versus ""away"" scheme also fits neatly into Bush's foreign policy- Us vs. Them. After 9/11, we asked, ""Why do they hate us?"" We should listen to ourselves for the answer: In most dictionaries, ""homeland"" is a close synonym of ""fatherland,"" a word often found in the company of ""ethnic cleansing"" and ""goose-step."" So what's the matter with those stinking cowards in the U.S. Senate? Can't they see we've got an Empire to run? 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 tp43.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 First, democratic principle was destroyed in the 2000 fuzzy election which shoved George Bush into the White House. If a Democrat were president, we might've gotten some real political and economic reform. Bush Baby was selected to ensure business as usual after the carnage from Wall Street's collapse. Next, mounting evidence about 9/11 reveals more questions than answers. How did Osama bin Laden happen to be a son of a Saudi family with close, Bush family ties? What weapons and covert strategies did the CIA give him? Did the WTC towers fall independently or were they detonated to avoid their toppling over a greater area (remember 7 WTC fell although not hit directly)? Did the passengers in the last highjacked plane crash the jet or did our forces destroy it? After so many lies from our leaders, can we believe anything they say again? Last, the corporate class saw their chance to reconstruct the economy by caving in the overbought market place, while burying the savings and pensions of countless workers. With Georgie Boy in charge, they had no fear of swift justice for the destitution created. Corporate executives received a soft landing from their platinum parachutes. The great divide between rich and poor has little to do with superior skills of the ruling class. It's the result of a persistent and systematic fiscal rape of the working classes. The indefinite war against terrorism is simply a charade to divert resources from the building of the Global Village to the maintenance of the inhuman World War Industry. Peace won't be achieved through strength (war) but through universal health. Violence is unhealthy for individuals and governments alike. These troubled times need 21st century, futuristic leadership, not 12th century, feudalistic dictatorship. When we give peace though health a chance, we'll all succeed. 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 tp195.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 Western wealth without western values--that's what half a century of American demand for Mideast oil has bestowed upon the region. We've paid for all that oil once in cash, and once now in American lives--3,033 of them last September 11th. Unless we go on the offensive to fight geology with democracy, petroleum deposits indicate that we will live in fear of Saudi-funded Islamic terror for the century to come. The Saudi princes use their oil bounty not to enrich their society, but to build intricate networks of walled harems that keep the lesser-borns on the outside looking in. The Saudi royals pay fundamentalist nuts, under the guise of funding mosques and Islam-centred schools, to use Islam as a false front of national unity and to direct their society's fermenting revolutionary tendencies toward us rather than toward them. The 15 Saudi Arabian hijackers took the bait on 9/11. The Saudi royals and their Middle Eastern neighbors don't need to create a productive multi-class economy, because the money just keeps coming from abroad. 65.3% of the world's one trillion billion barrels of proven crude reserves remain locked beneath Mideast territory. Saudi Arabia alone owns 25% of the world's crude. Mideast states produced 30% of last year's crude output. Those in favor of American inaction in the Middle East might point to the 30% figure as proof that we can diversify our oil supply. But a glance at reserves-to-production ratios (which give an idea of how many years of oil production a nation has left in the ground) shows that the opposite is the true. Saudi Arabia can produce at last year's rate for another 85 years. Iran can produce for another 67.4 years. The Middle East region can produce at the 2001 rate for 86.8 years. If we think we can solve our problems in the Middle East by developing reserves in Russia, Alaska, South America and West Africa, we should think again. The Mideast will wait us out. Saudi Arabia has proven its versatility as, in the words of one petroleum analyst, ""the world's central banker of oil."" Last year, new production from the west was almost exactly offset by a 2.7% decrease in OPEC production. The US has only 10.7 years left on its proven reserves (including those in Alaska), while Mexico has 21.7 years left. The Russian federation, even with recent discoveries, has just 19.1 years left. The whole of Africa, plagued with above-ground risks that scare off even the most well-traveled executives, has 27.4 years left on its reserves, while the Asia-Pacific region (including Australia) has 15.6 years left. The more we depend on non-Mideast sources of oil, the faster they will be depleted. So we have a clear choice. We can resign ourselves to our current geopolitical neverland, which means another 86.8 years of calling our enemy our friend. Or we can go to war to destabilize despotism with what should be our chief export: democracy. We can start with Iraq. A war with Iraq, no matter what the nominal justification, will prove one thing to our allies: that we Americans will not forsake our own long-term interests for a short-term political gratification: low oil prices. If we go to war with Iraq, oil prices will go up--so let's quit worrying about it. But even if oil prices hit $70/barrel, we must work to set up a real postwar democratic oasis in Iraq. Democracy in Iraq will infect her neighbor to the east (Iran) and to the south (Saudi Arabia). Iran's mullahs can barely keep that country's 66 million subjects from breaking out into western-style democracy now. Once the Saudi royals see American troops conquer Iraq, they will trade in one form of self-preservation for another and will implement democratic reforms for their own 23 million people. And while we do all of this? We can buy less oil, and we can develop alternative sources of power. If the French government were using money from cheese exports to fund radical anti American groups, you can bet there'd be a full-scale boycott against French cheese. But oil is considered different, as if its status as a commodity erases its source. It doesn't. American consumers who must participate in today's dysfunctional US-Saudi relationship are only two degrees of separation away from Osama bin Laden. Money from us goes directly to the Saudi royals, who, evidence shows, pay Bin Laden to attack us instead of them. Until we can get the Saudis to stop funding anti-American terror (one way or another), we should tighten our own cash spigot or suffer more near-term consequences. 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 tp5.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 Events of September 11, 2001, were not the result of an imperfect union. They were caused by imperfect people whose goal is to destroy our confidence in who we are, and what we do. The terrible events made us think, not about our faults, but about our weaknesses. Our Statue of Liberty has an engraving which expressed our attitude toward allowing people from other countries to seek a better life in our country. I think that attitude has changed. Our arms won't be open, our handshakes will be reserved for each other, not the stranger. The stranger will have to prove he or she is one of our kind, intending to do good, before we will be happy he or she is here. The terrorists changed us, but not for the worst. We were one as we reacted to the horror. Any one of us would have been willing to take up arms to protect our country. But the people we needed protecting from had self-destructed, like missiles sent by a far away enemy. We collectively became protective, ready to help each other, and knew our greatness had not been damaged at all. Physical things can be destroyed, but principles, and goodness are indestructible. A year later, we can look back and feel proud of our nation, and its great people. 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/. 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