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: xxx Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 22:54:30 EDT To: xxx Subject: Re: Petition for Peaceful U.S. Response I don't pretend to know jack about U.S. Foreign policy or Global Politics and the rise of totalitarian regimes. Even though I've alwasy been fascinated with the Totalitarian characters that spice up the world we live in. The fact is though, that we created Bin Laden and others like him in the past, and probably will create others in the future, fighting the dirty wars that Americans don't want to get involved in. And then we abandon them and their countries and in ten years or so they turn against us. It happens over and over. So...what do we do? We are between the proverbial rock now. The Frankenstein Monsters we have helped to create must be killed before more damage is done. And in the future, we need to avoid getting into these quagmires by improving economic, cultural and political ties towards this part of the world or the Arab world in general than we ever have before. I could be full of it. Who knows? The gulf between US and THEM is far too great I fear. THEY hate our way of life as it stands alone, without all the baggage of the past. Plus, RELIGION is involved. And that mixes with politcs, etc. like Ike and Tina Turner. Hey...how about those Mets? In a message dated 9/22/01 6:17:34 PM, xxx writes: UNFORTUNATELY, YOUR FALLACIOUS ASSUMPTION IS THAT IF WE DO INDEED REFRAIN FROM RETALIATING THAT THE SUB-HUMANS THAT DID THIS WILL STOP ATTACKING US. IT'S A NICE THOUGHT. IT'S FAR FROM REALISTIC. YOUR MISTAKE IS ASSUMING THAT THEY OPERATE WITHIN THE SAME LOGICAL BOUNDARIES AS DO WE. IT'S A NICE THOUGHT. IT IS COMPLETELY ERRONEOUS. THE LOWER LIFE FORMS THAT ATTACKED US HAVE SAID IN DOCUMENTED INTERVIEWS THAT THEIR GOAL IS TO BRING ABOUT THE DEMISE OF THE UNITED STATES AS WE KNOW IT. YOU NICE PEOPLE THAT SEND THESE WELL MEANING ALBEIT NAIVE E-MAILS AROUND FORGET THAT WHEN THEY DO SUCCEED IN DESTROYING OUR WAY OF LIVING, (WHICH THEY WILL ATTEMPT TO DO UNTIL THEY ARE EITHER KILLED BY US OR KILL THEMSELVES IN SOME OTHER DEVASTATING MANNER ON OUR SOIL) THAT THEY WILL COME IN AND THROW YOU A BIG ROLLER SKATING PARTY AND SHOWER YOU WITH ADULATION IN RETURN FOR YOUR SUPPORT. RIGHT. THEY WILL KILL THE MEN AND THEY WILL STONE THE WOMEN UNTIL THEY BOW DOWN TO WHATEVER THEIR NEANDERTHALIC DESIRES MAY BE. (PROBABLY NOT AN ARGUMENT ABOUT WHOSE TURN IT IS TO DO THE DISHES.) I REALIZE THAT THIS COUNTRY OPERATES ON A CHECK AND BALANCE SYSTEM AND THAT YOU PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN UPON YOURSELVES TO DO THE CHECKING. THIS IS NOT THE TIME, HOWEVER, FOR IN-FIGHTING (WHICH IS ONE OF THE REASONS THIS HAPPENED) AS OUR COUNTRY NEEDS TO PULL TOGETHER PLEASE KNOW THE IMPLICATIONS OF YOUR REQUESTS FOR "PEACE" BEFORE YOU START YOUR PARADE AND IN THE MEANTIME, ENJOY THE FREEDOM THAT YOU ARE FIGHTING SO HARD TO GIVE UP. I WONDER IF OSAMA WILL LET YOU HAVE A PARADE WHEN HE OWNS THE WORLD? HMMM... The freedoms of which you speak have already been systematically eroding through a jaded world view known as Neo-Liberalism -- a term known by most Europeans, but few Americans. What Neo Liberalism amounts to capitalism with its gloves off. Take a read sometime in something other than the going mainstream news rags. It is not naive to point to the drastic polarization of wealth occurring both in this country and world wide. Nor is it naive to point to the norm in U.S. foreign policy as that which supports military despots in exchange for cheap crude oil and other unrefined products at the expense of human rights and any kind of quality of life for the majority populations of these countries. Nor is it naive to point to the "terrorist" tactics of the U.S. military in targeting the sophisticated water system in Iraq -- a maneuver entirely against its civilian population, and our continued bombing of that country resulting in 500,000 mostly civilian casualties -- to name just one example of what has constituted U.S. foreign policy. If the disenfranchised of this world view start taking up arms and terrorist tactics, I suggest we start looking into the deeper causes of this occurrance, which I have here tried to exemplify. A change in U.S. foreign policy would be far more powerful than a protracted war in which many innocents will perish. Taking on an enemy such as bin Laden starts with understanding what made him. And that is what has given him his power, since that has always been his tactic with us. ----- Original Message ----- From: xxx To: xxx Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 3:06 PM Subject: Petition for Peaceful U.S. Response Subject: Fwd: Petition for peaceful US response Please sign the Petition at xxx which appeals to world leaders to be level-headed and, wherever possible, peaceful in their response to the recent attack against the United States. PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE, AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. The signatures logged by the website above will be forwarded to leaders around the world. It is imperative that we act quickly to prevent war!!! Thank you. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Sun, 23 Sep 2001 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. 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. Subject: Re: Petition for Peaceful U.S. Response 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 email144.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. 2002-04-09 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 146.96.93.228