7 20 221 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 9/11 and the Bottom Line Numerous ideas have emerged for the cause of 9/11 and the loss of so many lives: failed mid-east policies, the US was not prepared, no warning from the intelligence community, etc. One aspect that has not been fully addressed and that is the role of corporate greedÖthe ëbottom line. Politicos of the l960s pandering to the special interests acquiesced to the real estate and construction industries and changed the building codes, which relaxed construction standards. In l967 the NY Building Code was changed from a specification code to a performance code. As a result of this change the steel framing was no longer required to be encased in concrete, but would be protected by spray-on-fireproofing, which is not reliable as it sometimes falls off during a fire. Fire stairs would no longer be protected by terracotta and concrete, but would be encased in sheetrock. These two important changes among others compromise the integrity of the building and the safety of the occupants during severe fire conditions. The reason for these changes is cutting costsÖ the ëbottom line. Examining the images of 9/11 we can observe that the impact of the aircraft barely shook either tower and the shock had little to do with the collapse. The direct cause of the collapse was the ensuing fire that softened the inadequately protected steel and doomed the towers. Had the WTC been constructed under the more stringent specification code and the steel protected by concrete the building might have withstood the fire. At least the collapse would have been delayed extending evacuation time saving many hundreds of lives. We were not prepared for the attack of 9/11, but we could have better protected our citizens, by not watering down our building codes and pandering to those whose only thought isÖthe ëbottom line. 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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 POEM: The Bully Pulpit Before the Twin Towers, the USA thought it was number one and acted like it. Kid bullied kid in school till the bullied shot back. The governor of Texas did the same, joking with a fellow frat boy about executing Carla Fay: ""Please don't kill me!"" Republicans that sat on the Supreme court liked this kid's way with people and appointed him president. They admired his dad for going around the world to beat up another bully, and since Dad inspired Moslems to hate us by crapping on the seat of Allah's holiness, starving and poisoning a bunch of babies and leaving the bully in power, they anointed his popular but out-to-lunch boy to tell the world ""So What!"" One day some crazed Moslems flew Columbine-style into the pillars of wealth, popularity and power. Stunned at the brutality of this vile act, the boy and his dad's friends, for parity, went after the bully responsible but missed him and killed a bunch of women and kids instead. These days, nothing much has changed. The gist of it is, haves still wonder what they said or did to make the have nots go nuts. Nerd and pariah are at their computers making plans. To expect thought or compassion would be absurd. So God bless all the bullies and their fans. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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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 Grieving 9/11/01 a sorrow gathered from years before Anguished for victims within and off our shore. Grieving not selecting which side to bless All life cherished, the poor, the oppressed. Grieving ""we the people"" not just the few, sharing earth, democracy renewed. Tis time to reflect, EnvisionÖthe past, present. Reflecting upon Hate unrepentant. Grieving Bloody wars Smart bombing civilians oozing mix of blood and mortar. Questioning Greedy assaults ""defensive"" armor. Grieving Before and after 9/11's torment. Demanding to know what went wrong Unanswered questions the list getting long We demand an independent checkup The right to know we'll give no let up. Grieving The ""Patriot"" Act Threatening the right to know Answers to questions We'll not forgo. We ""pledge"" the Bill of Rights To sovereignty To revolutionary-birth rights Not hounded by the watchman Nor bushed by the ranchman. History consoles uplift from greed's sinkhole Be engaged Read of rights denied, the outrage. Adopt Paine's Common Sense, His Rights of Man, Bind with Jefferson's Independence. Rights of selfhood Unalienable Of Peace and Justice Indivisible. Grieving 9/11 Mother Jones would advise Grieve not! Organize! Revising policy domestic and foreign Hear Frederick Douglass chastise No Demand Without a Struggle, Organize! And how to begin? Heed well his outcry: ""Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."" Organize! 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 tp160.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 Arrogance is a relative term. Dictionaries go on about the state of being this or that, but arrogance is wholly subjective. There is no objective state of affairs wherein claims of success are measured against reality to determine ones guilt. Arrogance is not an absolute. It lives in the eyes of others. It exists solely in the realm of subjective judgment. This is the most important lesson we have learned as a nation since September. We know that by any objective or subjective measure the US is the worlds most powerful nation. Unrivaled as a military or economic power, our social institutions are the envy of the world, and along with the rest of the West, we exert a cultural influence unknown since Pax Romana. What reason could we have to think we should not be running the whole show? There are so many things we might do to help - so much collective wisdom we might pass on to those who need it most. With countless nations struggling to develop stable political and social institutions, and still more who find it difficult to move out of the dark ages and into the 21st century, surely even the most ardent cultural-relativist would admit that our story is a must read for the up-and-coming nation-state. But charges of arrogance place the burden of proof on the defendant. We are thus faced with validating of our claims to leadership while exerting the unsubtle day to day influence of an unopposed superpower. There is no place to hide. The world is looking on in anticipation - not only for what we will do, but how we will do it. Charges of arrogance are inevitable ñ but will they be justified, or will we face them with the quiet confidence bred only from success? 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 tp159.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 The terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001 really shocked everyone. It brought hurt to the families that lost a loved one. It also brought hurt to the people who believed that we were a strong nation and that nothing was suppose to happen to us. Do some americans still believe in the nation that claimed to be the strongest country? Or do they need some sort of assurance to believe again in the U.S.? Many americans have come together to be their for one another in a time of need. They were donating blood, sending clothes, donating money to the Red Cross, and doing so much more to help out there fellow americans. But who has been there for them? The person that has done this is still out and about thinking that he has done the impossible to the United States. He is hiding out some where laughing in our face because we have not one clue of where he might be to serve him the justice he deserves. We as Americans need to stay united and not let this destroy us as a nation, for if we stick together we can overcome all the terror , that Bin Laden thinks we have, and fight back! But on a different level we should not start something that we can t finish because then that just opens the door to many other countries take advantage of our most vulnerable time. Was this the perfect revenge or is it just a warning of more horrible things to come? 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San Benito High School Assigned by John Hand English 4 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 Since that dark day last year, the nation has been understandably distracted. Now, what were we saying about Privatization again? The Great Experiment (Version 2) -- namely, privatization of anything that moved -- was in full sway before the attacks of September 11th. But that summer, it had also sparked a growing public debate. The California Energy Crisis provided both the supporters and opponents of privatization with ammunition: the latter held it up as a market failure, the former called it governmental bungling. But with a war on, the publics attention was divided, diluting the impact of the subsequent revelations. The privatization debate quieted last year, but only one side stopped arguing. Was the Presidents exhortation, that shopping was patriotism, part of the reason the privatization agenda rebounded so quickly? The entertainment conglomerates appear before Congress, asking for search-and-seizure powers to root out music which hadnt come through their pay-per-use portals. Private agencies build toll "freeways" and charge us for driving on them. DNA belongs to corporations. We turn to the omnipresent Market for drinking water, day care, and numerous other facets of life which used to be virtually free. Our parks were privatized years ago; today eroding public beaches are given away for seawalls which protect private mansions. This combined with our eroding environmental laws describes a trend, where in the New World Order the only ones who have cost-free access to America's public property are the corporations who dump toxins into it. Are there alternatives? Can (or should) our elected representatives support free enterprise and capitalism, without buying into that bleak destiny? Can our own consciences and "gut feelings," about morality and fair use, guide us through life under modern technological capitalism -- or must we trust these decisions to the experts and the lawyers? Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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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 AFTER THE TOWERS MELTED It may have been blasphemous, even cruel, but someone wrote poetry after The Great Plague. Others wrote in the midst of it, dying. It was written in the trenches in France. Scott wrote it at the South Pole. During the Chicago Fire, The Blitz, somewhere in the cellars of Dresden, on the tilted deck of the Titanic, someone scribbled a last thought, held tight to a burning image. As we do, the two nameless strangers leaping eighty floors hand in hand. Hiroshima did not escape this blight of perception, nor did Rwanda. The ovens at Birkenau were rank with it. Everywhere great suffering reaches into our lives, poetry arrives. With its wan smile and rumpled clothes, its useless gestures. Which it knows to be useless. Like a drooling old grandmother, like a crow in the middle of the road, it tells us what we already know. Nothing surpasses the afternoon. Or the wind urging these clumsy branches toward the future, wherever that is. 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 tp23.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 No longer do we bask in the economic growth of the nineties. Rather, we sulk in the aftermath of 911 and the crushing economic Boom;"" the crumbling of major corporations and the uncovering of corporate greed at its best. Oh George W., where do we go from here? We were promised a return to the decency of Reagan and a resurgence of the party of Lincoln; no longer could it afford to exclude America. Hindsight being 20/20, did we really believe that a Bush could live up to the New Republican mantra (i.e., Compassionate Conservative)? Did we really believe that tax refunds and the privatization of Social Security would keep our economy stable? In Re Lincoln: The response to 911 by the Justice Department does not resonate with the party of Lincoln. Racial profiling, once looked down upon, has become the tool by which justice is served. No longer taboo is the acknowledgement and use of racial characteristics in casting suspicion on brown members of society. The rationale, in the interest of American security, but whose American security? Surely not the Middle Eastern looking American? Maybe so? In Re the Economy. The privatization of Social Security is the only way to save it. Americans do not need the government to tell them what to do with their money! Post 911 and the great corporate fall out, Americans need the government more than ever to protect middle class interests and retirement funds. 401ks emptied into the pockets of the twenty million-dollar CEO beg the question, could working class Americans afford to place their trust in the market? Does any of this matter? Maybe not, let us not to forget: The people did not choose our current leader, an old trusty technicality did hence we wait for you 2004. 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 tp154.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 Perhaps the Agendas interruption was overdue. Who really needed to spend last summer watching the all-Chandra-all-the-time soap opera or a shamelessly hyped (but statistically insignificant) increase in shark attacks? It was time to get real. While hijackings, Anthrax, bombings and Saddam are indeed distracting, people dont completely forget other topics. Since September 11, the Agenda has studiously ignored the fact that under current conditions, Social Security is irretrievably unsustainable. Unsustainable is a strong word, yet no other approaches its concise accuracy. The Agenda had both its Right and Left hands in our Lockbox long before September 11. You want numbers? Look at any Federal budget and pay close attention to the ratio of income to expenses. Upon Boomer retirement, the tax base will dwindle while costs for both retirement care and unending war spiral upward with no ceiling in sight. The only suggestions the Agenda can offer are to cut benefits, raise taxes ñ or both. The Agenda cant get elected on that platform. We cant have it all! Its time that we, as a nation, seriously examined our principles and our priorities. Axis of Evil? Who cares about that when Grandma has to choose between the power bill and dinner? Missile defense? How about a prescription cost defense instead? The Agenda fears to propose one common-sense solution that would work: rework the budget! Take 50% of current military spending and phase it into the rescue of not only Social Security, but indeed of our Society over a ten-year period. Use some of those funds to offer science scholarships and incentives for health care professions. Put downsized soldiers to work upgrading our infrastructure, expanding technology and rebuilding our industries. America can once again proudly take the lead, if we let her. But I forget: thats not on the Agenda. 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 tp212.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 lessons Americans draw from September 11 come from answers to the question, What role does the United States play in the world? On the one hand, the left identifies America as an empire posing as historys first philanthropic superpower. In this view September 11 --though morally indefensible and grotesqueówas ""blowback"" from Americas imperialistic conduct. On the other hand, both the centers "they dont understand us," and the rights "theyre evil -- were good" reactions flow from the America as Superman identity: a benevolent power cybernetically promoting democracy. Although both support the "The War on Terror" in the "pulling together for America" spirit, they nevertheless draw different lessons from September 11. The center concedes that ""Superman"" occasionally errs, permitting adversaries to misunderstand Americas bedrock benevolent intentions. To stem terrorism, the center would communicate the virtues of the American way to the ""disaffected populations"" of the world; when the disaffected appreciate the ""real"" America, theyll want to emulate --not annihilate- us. In the rights version, Superman America is unconditionally righteous and altruistic; it follows that terrorists are motivated by evil, not politics, thereby placing them outside of ethical regard. Naturally eliminating "The Evil One" is the solution. In stark contrast to the center and the right, the left seeks a transcendence of American imperialism as the lasting solution to terrorism. Most Americans find the lessons of the center and the right both soothing to their grief and patriotic, with the added benefit of no requirement for soul-searching about Americas conduct in the world. In opposition, by assuming that America bears some responsibility for September 11, the lefts blowback account rings for most Americans alien, perverse and profane, in short, unreal and cruel. But so was the choreographed attack that dispatched airliners as guided missiles into crowded buildings. 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 tp79.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 Nine eleven was a terrible day for all americans. So many lives died living in the country of freedom. The people of the United States of America are angry at such a horrible act against our country. We want war! We want justice! And most of all we want revenge. Many are asking why hasnt there been a declaration of war announced. Think back to Pearl Harbor they knew the attack was coming yet they did nothing to prevent it from happening. The same applies here. If we were so ready to announce war then why not now? We had a country to declare war on. This is not the case now. we are after terrorists not a country. How can you declare war on a group, but not a country? I guess it is not as simple as we first thought. Saudi Arabia and Iraq the mothers of terrorists. Think if we have an out war with one or both countries then say no to the following:gasoline, tiers, lubricating oils, paraffin wax, asphalt, plastic, shoes, and for all the doctors no latex gloves. Petroleum is in are everyday life. are you willing to give up all this and more? Think about it if you are seriously injured and have to go to the hospital will everything made of plastic still be there for your benefit? 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/. 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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 Less than 5,000 people died in the 911 thing... 60,000 people died last year on the freeways.... Why aren't we tracking down Firestone, and drunk drivers instead of Osama? Why are we building memorials instead of mass transit? Why are they suing Saudi Arabia instead of Detroit? Why pay billions to increase security at airports when we should be installing telecommuting and voice conferencing systems? Now that the high court says we can't say "under god" why can our government still show such a bias towards Israel? Separation of church and state seems to be good for us" but not "good for 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 tp181.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 September 11th was a wake up call for us because we realized that we should be more united. My belief is be united because you never know who is going to lose their life next. It might be your uncle or brother in the army or someone that lives just next door. Peace is what should be among us to make this possible and be united as one. When disaster struck America, we opened our eyes realizing we weren t as safe as we thought we were. It will take a long while to trust the people that destoryed what we had and destroyed the lives of innocent people. So many are scared and worried if tomorrow will ever come. In one ordinary day everything fell apart. How do we know if they will strike again. We have no clue. Most people awake feeling insecure about their lives. Its been almost one year after September 11th and people still see it as if just yesterday it happened. This destroyed the hearts of many loved ones out there. Every morning when I turn on the radio I tend to always listen to the reporters speaking about September 11th or even just about Osama himself. Every time I see the news they talk about all the evil out there. For example the disasters and tragedies that have happened in other countries. It has been long since they would talk about America. Now it s been heard all around the world about the tragedy of our own country. Is this another World War that has come. Our own president has always tried his best in doing best for his country. Now that this has accrued he is trying harder than ever to keep his people secure. God Bless The United States! 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 tp131.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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: Lesson Learned-Or Not-Since 9/11" Who knows what tomorrow may bring and what waves will hit you next. What occurred on September 11, 2001 was considered a wake up call as some say, but was it really? Understandably, some people's world was turned upside-down; the way they used to live and view life has taken a new course. Unbelievably, others went on, almost blindly unaware of the bare fact that America needed to be awakened from its slumber. Those things that use to be so dear to our hearts seem to hold absolutely no value at all. Priorities transformed from money to family. People we swore never to talk to again; we suddenly rushed to phone them. Other's spiritual eyes were opened and they understood the importance of God in their lives. But how long would this last? Yes, it is true that every church was full the Sunday morning after 9-11; people had and still do have so many questions that no simple man had answers to. Americans were overflowing with sorrow and, having nobody or nowhere to turn to, they looked for comfort in the house of the Lord. Now, almost a year shy of 9-11. Has the sorrow and anger subsided? Has America so easily forgotten the pledge of living a different lifestyle, and truly being one nation under God ? True, out of tragedy many lives were woven together never to be separated again. Yet, in the midst of unity also lies anger, resentment, and of course, that question which will always dawn on ever American and when others reminisce on the events that occurred on September 11, 2001......Why? 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 tp104.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 "Agenda Interrupted" Agenda Interrupted Before Sept. 11, the news reported that because there was a surplus in 2000, President Bush approved a tax cut . This tax cut however only benefited the wealthy and corporate side of America leaving the average worker with little to show. After this tax tax refund occurred it was discovered that the moneys the government originally had to allow a tax cut was no longer there. Why? Some politicians anticipated that the tax payers who received this tax cut would turn around and invest the money back into the economy. This didnt happen. A majority saved the money or used it to pay bills that were owed anyway. In early September of 2001, democrats and tax payers noticed this oversight. As a result a major change came about in the financial situation of the U.S.. We went from having a surplus in 2000 to being in debt by trillions by the end of 2001. Bush considered possibly dipping into Social Security to get us out of this slump. Several people in Washington were against this arguing that is had never been done before for a reason. Then the tragic events of September 11 occurred and understandably the country s attention was changed. However as the end of August is upon us we are seeing the economy for what it really is. In my opinion had September 11 not happened, the country would have noticed this problem allot sooner and Pres. Bush would be in allot more hot water than he is now. Apparently political suicide runs in the family. Despite his simple minded appearance, he found a clever way of distracting everyones attention. In the days following September 11, he gave speeches ( none of which he probably wrote), he toured ground zero, and spent allot of time on his air plane. He had an approval rate of over 60%. Now we not so sure. 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 tp124.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 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 tp223.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 "Agenda Interrupted" ,"Our nation can be viewed as a nation with two agendas: the populist agenda and the Bush agenda. The populist agenda received considerable attention in the 2000 campaign and afterwards, at least in words if not in action. Preserving the social safety net for the elderly, addressing the problems with our nation's healthcare system, improving education and environmental protection, and economic justice for workers and families. These were--are--issues many Americans care about. Often undermined, these issues were wiped from the American agenda on September 11th. Not so the Bush agenda. The crux of the Bush agenda was--is--simple: 1. Cut taxes. 2. Drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 3. Confront Iraq. September 11th changed the rationale in support of Bush's agenda, but not the agenda. Bush's agenda, already moving along with weak opposition, seemed to gain momentum with the rightward shift in U.S. politics effected by the terrorist attacks. But a rightward shift in politics cannot persist because the populist agenda needs to be addressed sooner or later. Voters will demand it. Consider drilling for oil in ANWR. At an arctic bird ecology workshop in Alaska, one month after September 11th, there was a new sense of inevitability about drilling in ANWR. The rationale for drilling wasn't suddenly better; the opposing voices just felt politically weak. But the populist agenda of protecting some of our pristine environments and supporting a more balanced energy plan persisted. The U.S. Senate this spring blocked drilling in ANWR, and wildlife activity on the refuge will continue, for now, without competition from Big Oil. September 11th changed us in many ways. It stalled the populist agenda. But it cannot remove from an agenda issues vital to the wellbeing of our society, our environment, and future generations. 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 tp140.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 All tragedies come from the clearest of skies. This enhances the sense of horror, desolation, shock, and numbness that assails the human soul. ' How can it be?' we ask, that a day that began so hope-filled and sun-lit could end as one of the darkest moments in history? So it is with 9-11. How do we reconcile ourselves to this shock, grief, and anger? How do we pay homage to those who died? Do we acknowledge our feelings of newly formed fear by changing our countries whole way of life in hopes we may avert such future events? It is my belief that the wisest way to show respect for and honor those who died is with quiet dignity: To respect their memory by respecting the values they lived by. These were Americans, from all strata of American life. I believe they would want us to use their senseless deaths to preserve and maintain the dignity and freedom, the values and founding premises of the country they loved. It is to dishonor them to bring into America slander between our parties, unending war on other nations, and increasing tyranny on our own people in the name of terror. I believe they would say their deaths were NOT in vain: That despite the cunning way lives were taken, our country will remain United and Strong; based and grounded in our Bill of Rights and Constitution. That we, the country they loved, WILL remain a free Nation, not given to fear and oppression, but to fearlessness, and positive expectations. How to be a perfect Union? We must stay our course, bind our wounds, and go forth into the future with bravery, not bravado. 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 tp187.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 What Can We Learn Here Not everyone is buying this Everlasting War on Terrorism"". This Administration's Oil Industry dominated, war mongering foreign policy is turning America into the biggest rogue nation of all. National Guard Air Defense Facilities were ignored on 9/11 although it was standard procedure and would have successfully intercepted the planes before the big show. This ignoring of Bases included a transparent cover up of the existence of Andrews Air Force Base less than 10 miles from the Capital. It has become clear that Bin Laden was and is, a product of the CIA's most expensive covert operation involving Islamic extremists. While 1000's of uncharged wrong skinned immigrants are being arrested and jailed, members of the Bin Laden family, (two of which were under FBI investigation) are allowed to charter a flight back to Saudi Arabia with warm regards. Then they dump more money into the run amok CIA coup-plotting agency after their 9 billion-dollar 9/11 blowback. The freedoms and way of life weve held dear for so long are in great danger, and not from any terrorists half a world away. Evidence exists that this Administration was threatening the Taliban with war in August and warning other countries of an October invasion back in July. It is a classic diversion that we are being forced to look for the culprits of this enormous crime on the other side of the world. The weight of complicity, just in the fact that the President does nothing, (not even appear to care), for over 30 minutes after we were in a National Emergency remains unforgivably conspicuous. The holes in the official story are big enough to fly a plane through. I dont want a military coup in my country. Thats just too much like Pakistan. 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 tp224.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 **** 06:24pm Sep 5, 2002 EDT In the Cold War the US exploited the ""rights"" then abandoned the responsibilities inherent with exploiting the rights afforded a superpower state. One of those exploitable ""rights"" is being able to employ a pre-emptive defense doctrine with ambiguous justification and accountability, unchallengable impunity. With few exceptions, the Americas are led by ideologically homogenized militarists maturing off of the cultures and lands rendered wastes under Corporate US anti-communism rabies-like infections by unquenchable parasites of an incorrigibly corrupt, unfathomably greedy, hopelessly myopic, steadfastly self-righteous, deity-invoking phenomena euphemistically called ""american capitalism"". Regarding internationally related affairs for more than a century and a half, the U.S. Department of State has been be the appropriate office for ""Homeland"" security...until the State Department was compromised by pro-Zioniztz (aka zionazi) faction of Zionist ideologues forcing the anomaly Ersatz Israel Palestine down the throat of the MiddleEast to the bowels of governments of, by and for Corporate US bankers, financial markets, entrenched global wealth and bogus morality; bowels falsely presumed for far too long by many in the United States to be not only fundamentally beneficial to, but irreplacable, integral to the health, welfare and future of the peoples of the world. Now that a United States' homeland security derived from a common sense, far-sighted, sustainable, trustworthy and accountable foreign policy is most needed, US attempts (via the US Attorney General) to compensate for the loss of U.S. State Dept-derived homeland security; a loss directly attributable to decades of an immoral US foreign policy being imposed upon the world most consistently adverse to the peoples (but for elitists comparable to US elites) of the MiddleEast, Africa, South America, and Asian Pacific. In spite of such unprecedented squandering of resources, denial and deceit Corporate USrael mongers for more war to keep themselves in power...hollowly residing on self-made laurels collected through more than half a century of (many economic-, military-, political-puppet; next to zero social, democratic, enviromental peoples-focused) battlefield ""successes"" to make the world safe for and yielding to militant Corporate America hegemony and Jewish nationalism in Palestine. Instead of the United States being able to enjoy a homeland security earned by a homeland's foreign policy reflecting an internationalist's humanitarian nature, the United States suffers a homeland insecurity deserved by a nationalist's militant, self-centered actions thrust hegemonically over Earth's resources, peoples, environment and future. The peoples' of the United States security cannot result from our becoming a more efficient, thorough police state via the U.S. Dept of Justice Attorney General, or via a ""Department of Homeland Security"". The peoples' of the United States security ultimately rests on the peoples of the United States embracing, upholding egalitarian ideals, domestic and international justice, and transparent economic and political endeavors and goals. **** **** 04:24am Jun 18, 2002 EDT ""...unless thoughtful and virtuous humans become assertive and insist on positive and helpful changes in the future."" I have heard rumors of 'thoughtful and virtuous humans' who are afraid to be more assertive than to insist on just being left alone...and am not sure they should feel any sense of a need for themselves to be politically assertive more than once every two years. There seems to be unpalatable costs for one's being politically assertive in the ropes of Corporatized America...assertive in a getalong goalong way...sure plenty of that...but to be assertive for change? ...change what? change the corporatist economy to communist? change Israel in America? Israel in Palestine? change more Zionism for less peace? change more debt for more capitalism? I dunno...what is there to change that has not officially declared war upon all that tries to change it? Is it stupid or courageous to be assertive against a mindset which has declared war upon, or at the least condemns as treasonous, all who blatantly assert points contrary to that mindset's stated interests and visions? Even if such individual assertion is survivably courageous, when two or more such courageous souls join in communion of assertion they can be seen, by the aforementioned mindset at war, to be conspiring against ""order and law"". In times of relative peace, law and order, and prosperity, who is listening to assertions for change? In times of war and ever-growing debt who dares listen to or contemplate others' assertions for change except that such change be for stricter law and more order? Some do dare, for sure, but it is about as contagious as pierced navels. **** **** 08:49pm Jun 16, 2002 EDT ""Can the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency be transformed into effective counter-terrorism agencies? Will the bureaucratic reorganization accomplish its stated goals? "" When US foreign policy out of the US Congress is like the self-righteous arrogant nature of a ship captain who orders his 'unsinkable' full speed ahead through a sea of icebergs, the U.S. intelligence agencies can reorganize and transform to appease every Congressional and Presidential whim, but, such efforts by the intelligence agencies to protect the 'unsinkable' from the consequences of leadership by the shortsighted and arrogant on board the vessel are little more than entertainment for guests and crew prior to catastophic collisions. **** **** 08:52pm Jun 16, 2002 EDT ..Sitting In My Chair Snickering At More Dire Perdictions (while reading 6/16/02 8:49pm)."" It is not a permanent incapacitation of the american spirit for States within the United States to be gleeful guests/subjects/crew/taxpayers of the UNsinkable uss US without considering dangers when US foreign policy out of the US Congress is like the self-righteous arrogant nature of a ship captain who orders his 'unsinkable' full speed ahead through a sea of icebergs. Pets have a way of sensing immediate danger and they can only be reassured by their owners' pretenses of security through a limited amount of ""failure""s before they become wary of their master's judgement, guidance and senses. If U.S. intelligence agencies can reorganize and transform to appease every Congressional and Presidential whim, such efforts, by U.S. intelligence agencies, to protect the 'unsinkable' from consequences of leadership by deceit --ie, not enough lifeboats for all aboard, , myopia --of the ostrich-eyes-in-bunker variety, and arrogance -- of Holy Roman Empire pungency, style and god, on board the uss US are little more than condiments on a dessert dish for guests and crew prior to catastophic collision(s). ""Or, is 'dire prediction' a threat?"" When such dire predictions reached my tender ears they seemed threatening to me, but then probably a lot less so threatening than to many others aboard the uss US since I have neglible amount of gold to fill my pockets before parting from the uss US. ""If a threat, perhaps someone should check you out."" In a sea of 'icebergs' where i generally feel to be a mere half-icecube worth of concern to the uss US, perhaps my half-icecube is viewed to be within ""the zone of 'Evil'"" focus by USs' government from bunkers, B-2s and corporate suites. Maybe if the costs of my personal economic security blanket meant that i paid a lot of federal taxes then i would protest the US government wasting my taxmonies to monitor me, were they to deem monitoring my drivel appropriate and necessary. If our government begins going beyond monitoring individual icecubes which are unfit for its martini then i would protest most passionately...through prayer perhaps, though most certainly not here in this or any other public forum, except perhaps running for public office in the U.S. ... they don't kill horses/runners/candidates do they? ""Perhaps it isn't the cause that drives wackos, but perhaps there are wackos looking for a cause to justify their hate and anger."" Pre-9/11, was there hate and anger in the US of A landscape sanctioned and promoted by the US government? Post-9/11 is there signifigantly more such well orchestrated hate and anger? Less? About the same? When a society's dominant theme is 'Defense', ""Hate and Anger"" can be the tune of all who revel in the notes of the orchestra. Are all the revelers expected to dance alike? Have the same 'enemy'? Shoot the same direction? **** **** 07:49pm Jun 15, 2002 EDT ""Bad news, bud. The Holy Roman Empire was not invented in the 1500s by Spain."" I see that the abbreviated text which I quoted may be read as if to suggest that the Holy Roman Empire began in the 16th Century, which of course is not so, but your clarification fixes that... if I had inserted a colon to the copied text (such as= The Holy Roman Empire : In 1516 ...) that would have made the excerpt a little less ambiguous. The point of lighting an analogy between today's US holy empire with its empire/conquistidor equivalents and Spain's Charles 1 ( his predecessors and peers) then Charles 5 of HRE and that era's conquistadors is an attempt to show that ""The Terrors, aka USCA, USs' Corporate America, United States' Corporate America are the successors to the throne imagined by the Holy Roman Emperors and their bad ax Conquistidors..."" is a fact which can only be graffitied to appear frivolous by spraying with footnotes (whether by that statement's author or by others. If, on its face, that statement is not a fact then another observor than I, that statements author, should dispute or flatly deny that there IS an unbroken chain of deceit, injustice, conquest, oppression>expropration>abandonment, disenfranchisement, Western ""happiness"" to sustain Western ""civilization"" (US Cheneybushs' corporate America and friends, inc & esp. Ltd.). **** **** 02:29am Jun 15, 2002 EDT ' ""mass murderers are mass murderers"" The greatest mass murderers and war criminals I know of are the Western nations. Including Americans. ' The Terrors, aka USCA, USs' Corporate America, United States' Corporate America are the successors to the throne imagined by the Holy Roman Emperors and their bad ax Conquistidors. Who over-empired the bad ax European empires but more European bad axes? The baddest ax on the block for recent past centuries has been the USs of the U.S. East Coast, the unrepentently proud, effectively unpunishable US of A, materially glorious and thus unquestionably --at least to the USs'-- blessed by the One. ""So, the US is evil and for some reason the East Coast of the US is extra super specially evil?"" So you acknowledge the US is not U.S. , the United States, or are you suggesting that the U.S. may, like USs, be deemed to be evil by those who --similarily to USs' perceived world of a universal spectrum of catholic-judeo ""good and evil"")-- perceive that ""for some reason the East Coast of the US is extra super specially evil?"" ""...war is high risks, high stakes..all should pray for good judgment on the part of the commanders"" I think I will pray for good luck, expecting better results from luck than that which may or may not follow from ""good judgment on the part of the commanders"" in their war on anti-zionism, war on anti-US hegemonism. ""To all of you who feel compelled to belittle, slander and defame those whose religious practices differ from yours..."" If one people's killing of another people is a righteous practice of colonialistic, hegemonic maintenace -when not expansion- then one is incapable of ever slandering or belittling such a religion...2000 years of judeo-catholic righteous killings in the the name of economic empires of European origin ""what choice do we have but to pull together and back our government?"" We should let ""our goverment"" wage war to maintain USCA, USs' Corporate America, hegemone and promote and arm Zionism at whatever costs to the United States...without even thinking a word of dissent? Is that what US patriotism is now? ""Excuse my foggy old brain, but what the hell did the Holy Roman Empire have to do with the Conquistadors?"" From page 9 of my fourth grader's library book: "" The Holy Roman Empire In 1516...throne of Spain as Charles I ...about the same age as (Hernando) deSoto...(Charles 1) becomes (Charles 5) emperor of Holy Roman Empire...challenges and demands for wealth for the wars of the European empire ...What the conquistadors practiced in the New World , they learned in the Old World of Europe...The emperors also wanted to be recognized by the pope, so they added the name 'Holy' . "" Hernando de Soto, by Ruth Manning , Reed Educational and Professional Publishing, Heinemann Library, 2001. **** **** 07:26pm Jun 13, 2002 EDT ""The Bush administration is trying to lean on and laugh off our elected officials who demand answers. We're not laughing. Our Defense Department failed to protect its home, the Pentagon itself. We cannot afford secrecy over security. To prevent future terrorist attacks, we must understand what went wrong leading up to 9/11."" That the ""Bush administration is trying to lean on and laugh off our elected officials --'The congresswoman (McKinney) must be running for the hall of fame of the Grassy Knoll Society.'-- who demand answers"" is an understatement to the degree that the US is selling (literally, with Congressional districts' arms and tech war profiteers) to and imposing upon the world its never ending ""War on Terror"". Corporate America, riding on the shoulders of the United Staes Goverment and its taxpayers, was fundamentally terrorized by the ideology of communism because there is no safe haven for American-style East Coast US corporate capitalism in communism. By repeating the mantra ""Communism is Dead"" the Cheneyite Rumfields of the world want themselves to go down in history, if present delusions prevail, the guarantors of ""freedom and democracy""... as if there were situations where true freedom and true democracy are not one and the same in the human commune that is humanity. As if true freedom/democracy were not at the core of true communism. The real terror to US Corporate America capitalism (aka debtism) is truth. The US Corporate America hegemone (USCA, which includes the vast majority of the USs' Congress, Executive and Judicial) is at war with all that threatens it except for that fatal flaw upon which it derives its life sustenance...a U.S. (present and planned for many futures to come) taxpayer funded, ethically and morally corrupt debt game that mortally infects every materially greedy, paranoid, insecure hegemone Earth has borne. ""We're not laughing."" You and i, and few others may not be laughing but it seems that the media-driven polls are saying that at least 3/4 of the U.S. populace is laughing with Ariel Fleischer and Dublya Bush. ""We cannot afford secrecy over security."" The US Congress just upped the federal debt ceiling by 10% ... did anyone ever really believe that corporate america was ever going to allow the US debt to be paid down? Airlines, insurance companies, banks need relief$, $upport and $ecurity...not reality. $450 billion more U.S. taxpayer serviced debt will buy a modest amount of security and justice (secrecy) for USCA. The US Government ""democracy"" has deemed that present and future U.S. taxpayers can well afford corporate, military and government secrecy and, as well, afford the security they all need to globally operate with relative impunity. ""To prevent future terrorist attacks, we must understand what went wrong leading up to 9/11."" The ""what went wrong"" is less an event than a phenomenon. The wrong-headedness of US foreign policy married to the insatiably greedy and corrupt nature of a global economy whose master is United States' Corporate America is all the terror that needs to be acknowledged...most all terror that befalls the US is a consequence of perceived and real USCA terror perpetrated upon those peoples of the world not of the USCA and allies. **** **** 02:16pm Apr 2, 2002 EST ""So why has our quality of life become so rare?"" Is not an answer seen in the range of that which you related in your post about ""quality""? You begin with ""the person on the street""...where I live anyone on the street better be in a car or his life is in peril. A person, from within the relatively safe confines of even a 'high quality' car, on the street is experiencing a pretty limited spectrum of Life, if indeed the experience is really something much more than an experience of a lifeless mobile objects (auto parts) and human shaped materials (smooth concrete or asphalt) which is not Life yet are consuming something which was life but is now dead (fossil deposits). For many of us 'moderns' today the ""quality of life"" has next to nothing to do with the diverse richness of what Life other than humans is before us, rather as you exemplify, our quality of life is related to our freedom to choose our favorites from amongst the seemingly limitless diversity of detergents, bar soaps, toothpastes, underwears, airlines, autos, porn, aspirin, movies and so forth. Our religion is consumerism. Today, ""life"" is not what permits one to expand one's sense of and ability for being a meaningful, contributing organism to any overall equation of purposeful existence, so much as ""life"" is a static regimen...a systemized course of ""living"",,,pursuing the fleeting joys of shamelessly addictive consumerism while paying taxes to purchase the freedom to maintain the addiction. When ""quality"" is used, as you have, in the context of primarily being a distinguishing element or characteristic of things, objects and images of strictly human nature what should be ""rare"" is any generalization that such ""quality"" has anything to do with the quality of Life as a whole except insomuch as it serves a human's consumerist interests. **** **** 12:24am Jan 30, 2002 EST US State of the Union Address 2oo2AD: "" Jobs! "" again... At least for those who can pass urine tests, security clearances in the military/industrial/financial markets complex. "" Jobs! "" again... 'hey hoffa let's plunder ANWAR while we're annihilating Iraq.' "" Jobs! "" again... tax breaks for corporate america so they can at least have some pretense of security until the next corporate welfare package. "" ...allow private investment accounts of Social Security... "" sure gW, let the gullible american public use Social Security funds to provide the ballast for the perpetuation of the parasitism of the financial markets of american capitalism ""a new culture of responsibility"" ... when in gW's lifetime did he perform community service that wasn't directly related to his aspirations for political office? "" ...Evil must be opposed... "" and ""...corporate america and america's right-wing will save the world, dispensing justice and freedom when and as US sees fit."" gW speech writers could have added. **** **** 09:23pm Jan 29, 2002 EST ""Tell us your views on current political issues in the news."" I believe that the United States' is being drawn into a militarized republican democracy's corporatist, fascistic delusions of grandeur and I fully expect that President Bush Jr's State of the Union Address tonight will provide ample evidence of such delusions: 1) delusions that the people of the United States will irrevocably sacrifice their personal rights while being led by force of arms and technology on a crusade-without-end to preserve nationUSt, zionist dreams of ending popular struggles against the oppressions of militant UShegemonism , militant Zionism. 2) delusions that the Bush Administration will, like Reagan, be yearly granted chunks of tommorrow's wealth to spend for the US's 'pursuit of happiness' today. 3)delusions that corporate america (of the US economy's 80% service and finance sector, not of the 20% manufacturing and farming sector) is, as a whole, close to being as valuable as the preposterously inflated values of such ""holdings"" by creditors might suggest. **** Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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