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 Long, long ago, a million years ago -- before September 11 -- we reached the ""end of history."" In the mythic struggle between the good guys and the bad guys -- wouldn't you know it -- the good guys won. American ideals like human rights were free to spread across the globe like the sun's rays at dawn. Encouraged by our example and steadied by our solid economy, rule by law and the free market would replace rule by privilege and the command economy in Russia and the Third World. Vigilance, tough diplomacy, and international cooperation could combine to prevent the type of butchery that occurred in Rwanda. But that was a million years ago. Since then somebody else's ideals have crashed into our own and tried to bring them down. It was devastating. But in the aftermath of that heretofore unthinkable devastation, some invisible threats began to descend on our nation like fallout after an atomic bomb, and like fallout, they could be far more deadly in the long run than the initial attack. Rule of law threatens to become subordinate to executive despotism. A person can be held without charges until a stubborn American president unilaterally decides that a war that was never declared is finally over. The free market is free only for the privileged insiders, their free goodies being paid for by the shareholders and stakeholders of the companies they mismanage. And instead of working to prevent future Rwandas, our government wants to have its own blood bath. To save Iraq's citizens from butchery we are told we must butcher them ourselves. Instead of the end of history, we may be looking at the end of the Republic, replaced by an arrogant, go-it-alone Empire. Let's go back to being the good guys again. 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 tp95.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. 2003-02-28