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 Toward a More Perfect Union We should take a deep breath and admit that the shock of September 11 left us behaving like idiots. Like others I was shocked, but on reflection not really surprised. Finally, to get some perspective I pretended that commuter passenger planes had plowed into 2 office buildings in my home town, Great Falls, Montana, killing some people and taking out 10% of our office space. So, I divided 3,000 by 8,000,000 (9/11 deaths and New York population) and then multiplied that by the Great Falls' population of 54,000. Thus equivalent deaths locally would have been 20. The first thing that struck me was that between life and other insurance that most people carry and local churches/charities/social service agencies we could have taken care of 20 families ourselves. Certainly the whole of Montana could have taken care of these families. Yet, after September 11 various groups, organizations, and individuals here in Montana--and elsewhere--went hysteric raising money and goods for New York. Why? I guess we do so because we were dumbfounded that someone/anyone could dare attack us. We felt we had to do something. However, upon sober reflection the only thing we really had to do was to demand a change in our belligerent foreign policy. The sad irony is that our foreign policy has gotten more bellicose. And, as a pathetic footnote, Congress has gleefully joined the Administration in shredding the Bill of Rights. Shame on us. 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 tp204.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. 2003-03-10