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 "here is a piece on Agenda Interrupted. September 11 is an eminently forgettable day of disgrace, not only for what a bunch of homicidal maniacs , treating the USA as a sort of totem pole of evil that needed to be destroyed, did in New York and Washington, killing in the process hundreds of innocent persons aboard the planes with which they rammed the World Trade Center building and that housing the Pentagon, but also for the equally heinous, though retaliatory, massacre of innocents in Afghanistan by the Coalition Against Terrorism cobbled together by the United States. Worst of all, the killings on September 11 and those that followed as retribution, together, interrupted, nay shattered, the agenda that humankind had set before itself with the formal end of the Cold War. Mankind had hoped that it would mark the dawn of a Brave, not a brutal, New World of peace and brotherhood, that human beings would stop killing their fellows, and that governments out to put fear of God in the hearts of wrongdoers would identify their quarries before going after them. Nobody could have expected civilized behavior from desperadoes, especially those indoctrinated with the belief that if they perished while carrying out their mission they would go straight to Paradise! But governments are expected to exhibit the normal restraints of civilized behavior even while out to liquidate physically those who wrought havoc in their respective countries, and killed and maimed their people. By being indiscriminate in the bombing of Afghanistan, the Coalition Against Terrorism exhibited as much of an atavistic urge as the terrorists had done in the USA. Neither showed regard for innocent human lives. Thus viewed, didnt terrorists and the Coalition complement each other in undermining humankinds wistful visions of a peaceful future? 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 tp157.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. 2003-03-03