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 If 9/11 was a wake-up call, why are we as a nation still asleep and dreaming that the fear industry (Homeland Security, Airport Security, Militarized Security, invading poor countries in the name of our Security) will protect us? Why does much of the world fear and hate and threaten us? Why is the administration and media so focused on resisting terrorism without asking what terrorism really means? We citizens, awake or not, are politically and financially supporting military aggression upon the already occupied people of Palestine. We invaded Afghanistan and threaten to invade other sovereign states because they may harbor terrorists. This arrogant aggression, to many in the rest of the world, is the epitome of terrorism! It is MILITARIZED TERRORISM: terrorizing the world with vague and specific threats and acts of using U.S. military might against relatively defenseless peoples. Where is the logic in thinking it is OK for tanks and helicopters to kill civilians but not for suicide bombers? Suicide bombs are a tactic of war, of an oppressed people making a statement about their desperation. The Golden Rule works this way: Do unto others (terrorize), as you would have them do unto you (terrorize). So, after a wedding party was slaughtered, as collateral damage, our troops were attacked. To build a more perfect union, we must wake up from this illusion (that we are not terrorists) before we escalate as an aggressor state, endangering our own real safety and that of everyone else in the world. We citizens must reclaim the democratic process of thinking and discussing the effects of our militarized terrorism and militarized economy. Lets wake up and unite for real security by a war against oppression everywhere, fairly sharing the worlds resources, converting military spending to schools, hospitals, and factories in impoverished, oppressed countries----instead of bombing them. 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 tp193.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. 2003-10-03