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 Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Saturday, March 16, 2002 4:01 PM Puritanical as garbage I am again reminded of the inequities shown toward the gay and lesbian community in regard to the 9/11 fund set aside for the relatives of those who died in this attack on New York City. Included in that fund are aliens who are illegally in this country and unborn fetuses? Only gays are being excluded from that fund? What the community at large now wants to know is on what basis do you think you are eligible to "bend the rules" for aliens and others while excluding native homosexuals from your list of those whom you wish to say thanks to by giving them a government gift or stipend just for living and being a relative of those who died. This is an outrage at a time when we are trying to drop the hyphenated words of Italian-American, African-American Irish-American and all other hyphenated words and Gay-American is included. Gay Americans are just as real as any other person living on this planet and just as deserving of being given money as any other group of people. Especially so when , who was gay, showed his heroic and altruistic traits. wasn't in league with the devil after all, was he? Only rotten, foul would say he was. Are you a rotten, foul ? So why are you discriminating on some flimsy basis of local State rules or City or County rules. It is firmly felt there is nothing but prejudice involved here and we want it STOPPED immediately! You will treat ALL Americans in the same way. Your activities in discriminating against gays and lesbians are totally un-American and totally disgusting as foul, bastard activity. You will cease from this thinking immediately!! To do otherwise is only going to fester this unrest to a point where those who are discriminated against will one day, not too far away, raise their heads in uprising in the same manner the blacks did. We are sick and tired of being discriminated against, said Martin Luther King. How dare you make these distinctions on the basis of your own personal prejudice and a book called the Bible that is currently under the scrutiny of scholars who have already condemned both Genesis and Exodus as blatant, conjured up lies. The very same kind people who created the Bible are now criticizing it as being almost totally false. I say "almost" because there are a few very important passages in that book. Passages that are actually frowned upon by the clergy and their "prejudiced schools of learning." The whole Christian movement is the work of the devil and in this case the foul thinking Puritans who weren't "puritan" at all. They created an atmosphere of hate towards anyone that wasn't of their skin coloring or personal thinking or beliefs. If that isn't the work of the devil, I don't know what is. Mr. Feinberg, you have better change your thinking (and that of your cohorts) immediately or else you are going to create one hell of an uproar in this country and I don't mean maybe. Your contemptible attitude and those of your ilk stinks to High Heaven. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-16 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 dojR001074.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. email 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. 2002-03-16