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 September 11 Digital Archive Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. From: "David L. Frison" <dfrison@columbus.rr.com> Mailing-List: list sff_sentient@yahoogroups.com; contact sff_sentient-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list sff_sentient@yahoogroups.com List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:sff_sentient-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 19:25:48 -0400 Leon wrote: >"What's important here is that President Bush exerts >restraint. A military response only serves to escalate >the situation. These problems can only be solved >through negotiation, not force...Its important >that, at first opportunity, Mr. Bush and Mr. Bin-Laden >meet, to discuss a possible peace agreement. My response: I can't believe I read that statement and how much it pissed me off... When someone has initiated force, especially in such a manner as this, there really isn't much choice left but to respond with force. Do you actually want to give the terrorists responsible what they want? That's what a "peace agreement" implies, that there is some sort of middle ground to reach, concessions to grant. Anything that we are doing wrong in the world we should change because it is wrong, not because someone forces our hand. You DO NOT reinforce terrorist actions by changing your own to suit them. You DO NOT give any credibility to a group that would use loaded passenger planes as missiles against highly populated targets. Anyone that would resort to that type of action does not deserve the respect of dialogue, of sitting at a peace table with our President (regardless of what I think of him otherwise). I can't remember being more horrified about a news story before. I was shocked when I heard that planes had collided with the Trade Center Towers. When I heard that the planes were hijacked commercial airliners, I cried. I can't say that I've felt a great deal of anger about this whole situation though, mainly sorrow, shock, and horror. There isn't a part of me that wishes to strike out against the guilty parties for revenge. Instead, I want to see them annihilated and/or apprehended because they are a clear and present danger, and they will always be a danger if allowed to remain at large. I feel sadness about the whole situation because I know there will never be a resolution that will bring comfort. If a surgical strike annihilates (if it's him) Bin Laden and his camps, then it will feel anti-climactic, compared to the devastation that has occurred. But we'll know that they won't be responsible for any more tragedies. If we are forced to take military actions against Afghanistan, if it turns out that they are harboring the terrorists, I will surely regret the loss of life, but I would not shed a tear for the destruction of the Taliban as an organization (once again, if that's where all this leads). You can't avoid a dreadful action if doing so means that an even greater threat to human life and safety remains. (Perhaps we should have negotiated with Hitler...) I don't think that there is going to be much international rebuke for the action that America decides to take. None of the other Middle Eastern nations care for the Taliban (even Iran hates them), and none supported Tuesday's attacks. Most of the world's nations were thrown into high alert fearing that something was going to happen on their soil, even Russia. And this has majorly screwed with the global economy in a way that we can't even begin to see yet, what with domestic markets still closed and aircraft grounded. Who is going to criticize the US for going after those responsible for their own nation's market plunging? I think that the US is going to have a fairly free hand in this. Capture, dead or alive. That's what terrorists deserve. If alive, then trial. I don't favor the death penalty; once someone who has committed a terrible crime has been subdued, they are no longer a threat (as long as they aren't given free reign to manipulate events from the inside). As should be done with Milosevic, and what should have been done with Timothy McVeigh, throw them into a deep dark hole and leave them there, kept alive, but removed from any sort of presence, any sort of active life, any sort of public statements or preaching. No martyrs. Just rotting away, humbled, and forgotten. But if they happen to get killed in the course of apprehension, so be it. They all seem more than willing to die for their cause; they should be glad when they are given the opportunity. If I were in the position of a senior statesman or diplomat, I'd be damned if I would ever consider sitting down for peace talks with any of them. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wed, 12 Sep 2001 19:25:48 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients sff_sentient@yahoogroups.com September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. dfrison@columbus.rr.com September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Re: ... 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 email866.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. unknown Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. yes Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-13 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 141.161.189.94