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. Sunday, March 17, 2002 6:30 PM Victim compensation fund March 17, 2002 Special Master Kenneth R. Feinberg September 11th Victim Compensation Fund U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20530 Mr. Feinberg, While I by no means consider myself to be an "activist," I feel I must take issue with comments made by you on "Meet the Press" on Sunday, March 10, 2002. The comments I make reference to are those directed at Gay and Lesbian AMERICANS whose partners perished in that terrible, unforgivable act of terrorism on September 11, 2001. During that interview, you indicated that surviving partners will not necessarily be eligible for the same compensation as heterosexual family members who lost their loved ones. Your rational behind this position seemed to be that you were simply following guidelines on how individual states addressed "domestic partnerships." As I understand it (and please, by all means, correct me if I am wrong), surviving family members of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS will be fully compensated, but because you are following "State Laws," surviving gay partners are not afforded the same consideration. So let me get this STRAIGHT (every pun intended). This country, this land that I love, the home of the free and the brave, gives more consideration to an illegal immigrants surviving family members that it does to the surviving partners and children and gay and lesbian men and women who perished? Pray tell, how is it that a gay man or woman's life is less valuable than someone who has entered this country ILLEGALLY??? If you want to follow laws when deciding who deserves what compensation, why not take into consideration FEDERAL LAW?? You sir, with all due respect, are an idiot. Let me assure you of this. The gay men and women (with the exception of the illegal immigrants) who went down with the towers that paid their taxes, bled red the same as all the other victims. And their survivors hurt just as badly as all the other survivors. Actually, thanks to you and your draconian way of thinking, they now hurt much worse. I suppose this is just another example of "dubyas" philosophy of "compassionate conservatism." Thank you for you time. Individual Comment Gay Taxpaying American September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-17 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 dojR001522.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. 2002-03-17