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: Lessons Learned - Or Not - Since 9/11 Part of me is ashamed to be an ugly-American. Our government has abused the tragedy of 9/11 to accelerate policies that create enemy lists and appeal to our basic need for security to justify anything. A more perfect union might require too much for this empire to embrace. There is an accounting lesson to be learned. Why does Gore Vidal state in Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace that ""Although we regularly stigmatize other societies as rogue states, we ourselves have become the largest rogue state of all."" Why does former CIA agent, William Blum, in Rogue State: A Guide to the Worlds Only Superpower argue that Americans would deny that the American Empire possesses ""A compelling lust for political, economic and military hegemony over the rest of the world, divorced from moral considerations?"" Yet, he presents incontrovertible evidence that this is so. Big Brother? Military-industrial complex? Theyve worn thin. Not because they are untrue. Because they are. There is often something stale about the truth, something pale about the truth that our empire rather rouge-up with the pathos of a country under siege or a country sacrificing itself for freedom. Politicians caress corporate greed, industrial pollution, nuclear power and war, globalization / privatization of the earth, all undergirded by a blind fundamentalist faith that is no faith at all. The moments are becoming fewer when we can give testimony that the lesson has been learned, that we are ready to make our accounting. Arundhati Roy in The Cost of Living states that ""There is beauty yet in this brutal damaged world of ours."" Will 9/11 cost us our freedoms? Will it cost us our planet? Though the deed and the damage has been done, will 9/11 open our hearts and inspire within us the courage to claim this beauty? 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 tp191.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