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 THE QUESTION In the storm of emotion resulting from these dreadful events ñ horror, rage, grief, fear, bewilderment, desire for revenge ñ calm and objectivity are naturally far to seek, and it would be unreasonable to expect otherwise. Yet even now there must be some thoughtful Americans asking themselves, ""Who could hate us enough to do this to us? And what have we ever done to deserve such hatred?"" These are difficult questions to ask, let alone answer. Both the asking and the answering require an ability to see the world through other people's eyes which Americans, notoriously, lack. This insularity must be at least in part an accident of geography and should not be imputed to them as fault. It is, nevertheless, a crippling disadvantage in dealing with the world outside one's own borders. The writer Sybille Bedford tells how she was approached by a drunken American in a bar in Mexico complaining that the locals wouldn't drink with him. ""I'm only trying to be friendly,"" he said. She replied: ""They don't want you to be friendly. They want you to be polite.""1 It may seem eccentric to suggest that good manners are the key to the proper conduct of international relations. But the willingness and the ability to stand in someone else's shoes and see with their eyes is the beginning and end of good manners. And good manners, the humblest form of love, is ultimately what prevents the world =ollapsing into a state of Hobbesian savagery. There seems to be some debate at the moment as to whether Israel's helot population of Palestinians, harassed, humiliated, bullied, starved, shot at, trapped in their ever-shrinking ghettoes, did or did not dance in the streets at the news of the attack on America - and if so how many did and how many didn't. Interesting questions, certainly. But there is another question, much harder to ask and to answer: ""If I were a Palestinian, wouldn't I be dancing in the streets?"" How many are now asking themselves that question? And what answers do they find? 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 tp177.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 Annotation Annotations to this item. 1. ""A visit to Don Otavio."" (1960)