9 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 Retirement is a bad subject, starting to think like a politician though." "They'll just have to throw Me out !!!"" Enie Menie Minie Moe. Which way will the Nation go. It's hard to say with all this Pride. But, GOD, you bet is on OUR side. The Great God of Moses, teaches this. The Laws of Allah, tell us that. I guess it's either, Hell or Bust For this Nation knows, in which God, WE trust. In time, I'm sure this all will pass. Like a bad midnight, attach of gas. The Nation's woe and fearful blight. Will pass away just like the night. But until we're told that it's all clear By, We The People, we hold so dear Remember the Pledge of Liberty and Justice for all. (May not apply in your state) And pray we get to Vote again. That's All. 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 tp139.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 Written Sept. 2001 The past six weeks the weather in New Jersey is picture perfect. The vivid bright orange, yellow and red leaves are prominent. This autumn Americans lives are persecuted by sudden terror and fear. Our lives and our families are threatened. First, the World Trade Center Attack, and now Anthrax What is next? The United States General Accounting Office has for the past fifty years reported to Congress and the President failures of our aviation security and the potentiality of terrorists attacks. The General Accounting office informed Congress that the Department of Justice, the FBI and the CIA were accepting bribes, using government funds for personal use and all government agencies were negligent in protecting the security of America. June 16, 2001, Florida/New Jersey Four are arrested on Arms Smuggling Charges According to CNN report on Friday U. S. Stinger missiles and other high-tech weapons to private buyers in Pakistan. Sources close to terrorists groups. There is a probable cause that show the men attempted to transport explosives with the knowledge they would be used to kill, injure, or destroy property in violation of U. S. law. Press Releases 2000 An Immigration and Naturalization Service official in Boston, was indicted and charged with two counts of soliciting and accepting bribes. The inducement charges that from May 1999 until June 2000, Theodore Filandrianos solicited and accepted bribes from naturalization candidates in return for assisting them with the naturalization process. Why doesn't Congress listen to these reports? Are we to blame because we are not involved in our government activites? I do not want myself, my husband, children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, or friends and family to become a victim of disaster to aid the greed of power and might. Congress has not been governing for the people by the people. 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 Post 9/11 Journalism Continues to Forsake Public Interest If ever there were ever an event that highlighted the essential role that journalism plays in America, it was the 9/11 tragedy. Immediately after the terrorist attacks, most of the nation tuned to national news outlets for information, wisdom, and guidance in figuring out what exactly happened and why. What we got from the news media reflected the shameful state of journalism in America. With some exceptions, the national news outlets -- particularly television news programs -- simply lacked the staff and expertise to report on the story with requisite depth and nuance. Forced by their giant corporate owners to squeeze more profit from news operations, the network news outletsóin the years leading up to 9/11ósteadily cut back on foreign news coverage. The 9/11 tragedy exposed the problem, but in the aftermath nothing changed. For example, earlier this year Disney, which owns ABC, tried to lure David Letterman from CBS to ABC by offering him Nightlines time slot. The reason: Nightline was not profitable enough. If there was any remaining doubt about whether media corporations might take their public interest responsibilities more seriously after 9/11, it was erased by their unrelenting and largely successful lobbying campaign to pressure the Federal Communications Commission to rescind regulations limiting large corporations from owning multiple news outlets. This regulatory change would, of course, allow media corporations to make even more moneyóat the expense of professional journalism. Neither the surging patriotism after 9/11 nor the aura of public interest surrounding journalism after the attacks has inspired the corporate media executives to acknowledge that the demands for maximizing profit from news operations should be lessenedóeither voluntarily or by government regulationóto keep Americans informed and our democracy viable. 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 tp165.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 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. 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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: Lessons Learned - Or Not - Since 9/11"" As a person who saw the Twin Towers destroyed, I say passionately that what people should have learned from 9/11 is how dangerous contempt is, and the urgent need to be against it. Eli Siegel, poet, philosopher, and founder of the education Aesthetic Realism, showed that contempt "the lessening of what is different from oneself as a means of self-increase as one sees it" is the cause of all the cruelty and injustice that has ever been. In the international journal, The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, Class Chairman of Aesthetic Realism Ellen Reiss writes: Contempt is what impelled the persons who arranged for human beings to be killed and buried under 110 stories of rubble near the Hudson River on a beautiful September morning. Yet our leaders have responded to this contempt by having enormous contempt themselves: by trying to make the Constitution worthless and democracy redundant, and by continuing to act with brutal indifference to what millions of people around the world feel and deserve. Ellen Reiss explains: Every one of us would like to issue an executive order: ëI want the world on my termsóand fast! And I wont stand for any questioning in the matter. In the instance of a national leader, the ability to have things on ones own terms and unquestioned affects millions of people, often in the most crucial, intimate, agonizing, life-or-death ways. And this contempt pervades the American attitude to the rest of the world, friend and foe alike. In "#1 Rogue Nation," USA Today writes: Around the world many see the US as arrogant, hypocritical, self-absorbed, self-indulgent, and contemptuous of others. For the world to be safe and 9/11 made this an emergency people everywhere must study and oppose contempt everywhere, including in themselves and in their leaders. 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 tp67.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", "On September 11, 2001, I rolled over in bed and, as always, fumbled for the remote to turn on the morning news. I woke up to a nightmare. I grew up in the shadow of the Big Apple, and I sat shocked as the skyline, solid as a mountain, crumbled. Like so many Americans that morning I felt helpless. At the time, people talked about the loss of innocence, and one question was heard across the nation, "Why?" Those attacks were considered a wake up call and a chance to reflect on our nations role in the world: could we be accountable for creating a hatred felt so deep terrorists would smash planes into our buildings; do we need to be more aware of our civic responsibilities? If childhood ended that day, we must now be in adolescence. As a nation ourresponse was to strike back with raw emotion and a year later, our nationsleaders are not directing the nation to becoming a responsible citizen of theworld. Bush is threatening war with Iraq, whether were with him or against him. He breaks treaties. American citizens are held without charge in military prisons, while his Administration defies court orders. He tries to silence dissent with pleas of patriotic duty and secrecy. It seems hes intent on shredding the very rights he claims hes protecting. Why? Its time we honored our civic duties, speak up, and stop sleepwalking through the world. In 1941 Senator Robert A. Taft said, "(T)he right of criticism in the long run will do the country maintaining it a great deal more good than it will do the enemy, and will prevent mistakes which might otherwise occur." On September 11, thousands of voices were silenced; do we want its legacy to silence even more? 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 tp62.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 It has been a year since we watched two planes fly into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, stunning our minds and changing our lives. At the time, many of us asked why this had happened. A year later, judging from the news about our ""war on terrorism,"" it seems we still have not answered that question. For that answer we need to look, both within the United States, and at our relations with other countries of the world. Twenty years ago, for several years, I lived in Amman, Jordan. The people I knew in Jordan, despite their anger at our support of Israel, admired America and the American people. One of our close friends, a Jordanian who worked for Jordan's English language television network, said he did not understand why Americans, who had so much freedom and the power to influence their government's behavior seemed so uninterested in that government's foreign polices. I told him that Americans led busy lives, and that we depended on our news media to let us know what was going on in the world. If the media did not present both sides of an issue, most Americans did not know their was another side. He shrugged--such a waste of such freedom and power. We may not know much about the people of the Middle East, but our government's policies affect their day to day lives, and in some cases, their freedom or lack thereof. Our democracy within a Republic depends on well-informed citizens. We owe it to ourselves, to the founders of our Republic, and to the world that is so impacted by our behavior to find the answers we need, to make decisions based on a sense of justice and responsibility. 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 tp76.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 We owe this country big time. Now we must be more vigilant in protecting our priceless freedom. We are facing realities we have not yet encountered, and we have nowhere else to go. We must be commmitted, not merely involved. It can be explained like a plate of ham and eggs. The ham (pig) is committed, while the egg (chicken) is merely involved. There is a sense of continuity that stretches throughout our country, like a work in progress, like a beacon, to the rest of the world. We are THE living example to a watching world. Our strength likes in our interbreeding, our melting pot, our many cultures. If push comes to shove will we lay our lives and the lives of our citizens on the line, to protect our way of life? This question must be answered. Maybe we will just have to learn to handle it better. Liberty, taken literally, is the right to choose, and we choose to start to heal up the American way of life. We must give our time, money and the inconvenience required. We need an Alpha Dog. In a war, when a Marine officer is killed, they do not look to the next officer in line to command. They look to the one who takes command immediately, whoever is the first. This is the Alpha Dog. We need an Alpha Dog.! 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 Facing History: The Now People and the Past We are the Now People. The past has no hold over us. We are the land of progress eternal. The past is a nuisance to be destroyed or an object to be commercialized. "History is bunk," said one of our great capitalists, Henry Ford. Americans believe in fresh starts, in letting bygones be bygones. Millions come here to escape their pasts, to flee history and start over. The future is our stock in trade. When tragedy strikes, we look for "closure" so we can "move on." History is for academic weevils and their dusty tomes. Or so we thought. On September 11, 2001, the past caught up with us. When the dust settled, we found ourselves enmeshed in something we thought unimportant - history. Yet we remain in a state of collective denial. We still do not know why 9/11 was allowed to happen. George W. Bush swore to the American people that Osama bin Laden would be captured or killed. One year later, bin Laden's whereabouts remain unknown. Instead, the hawks distract us with fantasies of assault on Iraq. Few object, for we haveindeed ""moved on."" Meanwhile, the President claims that his past business dealings are irrelevant to today's investigations of corporate fraud! On September 11, 2001, the ""American Century"" came to a spectacular end. Fat and complacent, secure in its imagined superiority, America was totally unprepared for its reentry into history. Many speak of the United States as the hyperpower, a globalized Empire about to lead the world into a New Golden Age; a Pax Americana with liberty and McDonald's for all. Yet history is littered with the dust of vanished Empires. If we continue to ignore the past, the Now People will have no future. 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 tp73.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: Lessons Learned - Or Not - Since 9/11 September 11, a day that opened Americans heart. This day was a wake up call for everyone. It made Americans realize how evil people are out there. Just to imagine how many people died in that disaster, makes people understand how valuable life is. New York, the city of the Twin Towers; The city of a new history. I am from John Hands Class and Ill be writing about this topic. Children's crying, running , and screaming, while others were making published out of a disaster. Reporters began to realize this when they saw what the reality was and how bad this was. The September 11, made America a better union by bringing everybody together, but also insecure. If we had prevented something like this everything would be the same or better than before. Interrogations were done everywhere I could say that even in my school were real scare that they didnt let us take back packs. I was frustrated that I didnt know what to do. Just by passing through the gas station and seeing the prizes oversimplification made my heart feel sad, for the only reason that I though it was going to be the end of the Word. At this point, I started to think about how many things I didnt get to do and also the things I took for granted. In conclusion, Ill like to say that people don t do anything until something happens. All I can say now is that even though we had that disaster America is looking forward "Toward A More Perfect Union and a better World". 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 tp101.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", Twelve months is barely enough time to comprehend the lessons of 9/11 and its aftermath, but some instruction may be gained with determined scrutiny. I offer three primary considerations: the most obvious, the most difficult, and the most important. The most obvious lesson is the realization that not even the largest and costliest military power on earth could prevent a domestic terrorist attack. The natural corollary to this--that terrorism cannot be effectively dealt with by military means--has not been learned by our government; even though we see this truth demonstrated regularly in other parts of the world. The most difficult lesson is a dawning apprehension of global anti-American sentiment. We have until now believed ourselves benevolent, the champions of liberty. Yet how can this self-perception be reconciled with such hate-motivated attacks and the subsequent mass demonstrations in foreign cities? Are we failing in our responsibility to the world? There is painful understanding to be gained here, and we must summon the will and the courage to approach it. The most important lesson is a recognition of democracy as a precious and fragile living thing--easily uprooted by ignorance or fear, constantly in danger of being trampled under by greed and ambition, especially vulnerable in the wake of enemy attack and the presence of external or internal threat. Like any living thing it will wither or atrophy through neglect, and if subjected to enough abuse may cease to exist altogether. It cannot be taken for granted. To thrive, democracy must be taught and practiced, celebrated and debated, and defended, if necessary, from our leaders. We offer a fitting tribute to those who lost their lives in the attacks of September 11 by learning this last lesson and ensuring that democracy did not perish with 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 tp60.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 Armed with police-state favorites, such as pepper spray, truncheons, teargas canisters and guns that fire marble-size rubber bullets and beanbags, police on Aug. 22 attacked non-violent demonstrators in Portland, Ore. during a peaceful demonstration. The crowd of demonstrators, estimated at 1,300 people, gathered to air grievances against President George W. Bushs war and economic policies. Demonstrators chanted, "Drop Bush, not bombs," and carried signs that read, "Its the economy, stupid." They gathered outside of the Hilton Hotel, where the president was taking a break from his month-long vacation to raise campaign contributions from well-heeled Republicans. Lawyer Alan Graf, a police-accountability activist told reporters, "Without any provocation, as far as I could see, (the police) started pushing people, using their night sticks, spraying pepper spray indiscriminately into peoples faces." Don Joughlin and Corinna Joughlin, expecting a peaceful demonstration, brought their three children. All of their children are less than a year old, and at least one was pepper sprayed. "There was no warning, no ultimatum, nothing," Don Joughlin said. "I wasnt in the street. I wasnt blocking traffic. I was engaging in peaceful protest." Other witnesses, who said the crowd included seniors, babies in strollers, and people in wheel chairs, reported seeing snipers on nearby rooftops. One demonstrator, Mike Pullman, reported that he was shot seven times with rubber bullets that were fired into the crowd. He showed reporters injuries on his chest, arms and leg sustained from the so-called non-lethal ammunition. News photographer Beth English and other employees of KPTV TV were pepper sprayed. Englishs film shows a police officer aiming the pepper spray directly at her face. A police spokesman justified the action by saying, "Were not here to control youÖ. Youre here to film. But if pepper spray is deployed, Im sorry, but youre going to be part of that." So much for the police motto: "To protect and serve." The overwhelming majority of the people who took part in the protests werent black-clothed anarchists with their faces covered by scarves, or left-wing extremists waving red flags and calling for the bloody overthrow of the Bush government. They were every-day Americans, peacefully assembled to protest ill-conceived government policies that favor an oligarchy comprised of the richest of the rich. The demonstrators, who faced the helmeted and heavily armed police, are todays real heroes. Its courageous to be among a crowd that expresses ideas that oppose the policies of an authoritarian government whose leaders are drunk on power. Its terrifying to be caught in the chaos of a peaceful demonstration turned violent by baton-swinging cops packing guns. These are the times that bring out the best and the bravest. Martin Luther King, Eugene V. Debs and other great Americans came out of such an environment and faced violent government actions that resulted in their being jailed. Cowardly leaders of repressive governments will do anything to hold on to their control over the people. A cadre of right-wing zealots, whose lust for power will not be sated until all dissent is squashed, leads the Bush government. The first casualty was the press, which allowed the government to intimidate news reporters into silence. The media quit asking questions when Bush told Americans, "Youre either with us or youre with the terrorists." Already, the mainstream press was like a dog that was beaten too much. It cowers before its cruel masters, the corporations that only look at ratings and advertising revenues as its gauges for success. As newsroom budgets plummeted, so did gutsy investigative reporting. Individual reporters in the molds of Ida M. Tarbell and Edward R. Murrow are forgotten in the flash of sound bites about shark attacks and a semen-stained dress. A compliant nation is segmented by race, religion and gender by a small ruling elite, who realize that a united people are much harder to control. Already Attorney General John D. Ashcroft is seeking ways for postal workers, truck drivers, bus drivers and others to report on the activities of the nations citizens. The USA PATRIOT Act, overwhelmingly passed by a spineless Congress and signed into to law by a president plagued with a middling intellect, gives the government rights usually reserved for police states, including searches of our homes without judicial oversight, the authority of a religious fanatic attorney general to jail people indefinitely without trial and headline-seeking prosecutors to listen in on jailed suspects conversations with their attorneys. So, those among us who are courageous enough to take to the streets in protest of a government that offers policies of war, pollution and business deregulation instead of peace, clean air and restrictions on the culture of greed that has gripped our nations financial centers, get ready for an escalation of the state-sanctioned violence that occurred in Portland. Expect a harsh crackdown on those who speak against the buffoons who occupy the White House, the warmongers who plot world war in the Defense Department and the paranoids who steal our civil liberties in the Justice Department. If you protest against these things, expect your career to be ruined, expect your reputation to be destroyed, expect to be imprisoned, expect to be beaten or worse. Expect your neighbors and even your closest friends to turn against you. Tragedies of this sort have occurred in the U.S. during other repressive eras of American history. A brief review of our nations recent history recalls the times of Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s, when teachers, movie actors, writers and others were accused of being communists. Their lives were ruined because of the hysteria fostered by a few over-zealous fools. During World War II 120,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated in "relocation" camps during the wars duration. Normally rational Americans feared that the Japanese-Americans, thousands whose families had been in the U.S. for generations, were thought to be spies for Imperial Japan. In 1919 following a rash of terrorist attacks, that included mailed bombs to prominent business and government leaders, shook the nation. A few weeks later a series of planted bombs, one of which destroyed the front of then Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmers residence, escalated the hysteria. These actions unleashed a fury, mainly against immigrants, that resulted in violent FBI raids and arrests of 6,000 suspected Communist terrorists. As with the 1,400 who were arrested in Ashcrofts persecution of mostly Middle-Eastern men, hardly any of those arrested in 1919 were terrorists. As these events show, history repeats itself--only not in exactly the same way. 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 The most astonishing lesson I learned was that NO LESSON WAS LEARNED BY THE GOVERNMENT! My first reaction during attacks prior to even the towers falling was, ""of course the Muslims did it, maybe now the foreign policy of our government will finally change and they'll listen to the 3rd world instead of pushing the practice of corporate colonialism bigtime while hypocritically calling it spreading democracy."" Maybe now they'll realize their policy of being the biggest arms sellers on the planet, (many times any one else), is incredibly stupid in the long run, spreading hatred of America in areas of civil unrest fueled these arms in the 3rd world which allows their children (especially Palestinians) to be killed with bullets labeled ""made in America"". Great way to make friends.....wouldn't you agree? When family members visited relatives a few block from the trade towers shortly afterwards, they returned with pictures of memorials all over the city containing the slogan ""Don't turn our grief into a cry for war"", I was, for the first time in my life, proud to be a New Yorker! Yet what was the result? These memorials were barely noticed by the press. As Dubya barely could conceal delight at his war mongering administration getting what it'd wished for, the press finds ""depths in his shallow"" as Molly Ivins penned. We've allow the administration to use our uneducated fear to rob the country while buying votes at the same time with that fear, as their closest allies the Enron boys so well displayed, all in name of fighting the terror they themselves instigated! There is no hatred of us or our way of life by people abroad. There is total hatred of our foreign policy! Our news media is responsible for this disinformation being complicit with the right wing plutocracy which stole the election, whose supporters now own the news sources. We need a Loyal Opposition Movement by Real Patriots in this country, to take back the democracy the Deists like Jefferson, et. al. gave 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 tp137.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 Terrorists had declared war on the population of the United States. People in other parts of the world were seen laughing at our tragedy. Today I remembered what happened to Nagasaki and Hiroshima on August days in 1945. These Japanese cities and its citizens were vaporized, burned, scarred, and contaminated by radio-active materials. U.S. military planes had dropped atomic bombs on these cities with horrific results. As a Christian teenager, this tragedy made me happy, because my relatives and friends would survive the war. As a sixteen year old, I considered these acts as life saving for the Japanese population, and life saving for our Armed Forces. Terrorism never entered my mind. Today, we have forgotten there are citizens of Nagasaki and Hiroshima suffering and dying from the radiation of those bombs. I continued remembering: the incendiary bombings of Tokyo and other Japanese cities in 1945 by U.S. planes; seeing the ruins of World War II in Mainz and Frankfurt, Germany, in 1950, while on furlough in the U.S. Army; remembering radio reports of London and Coventry, England, on fire from German bombs in the early ë40s; in the mid 30s buying bubble gum War cards with a picture of a Shanghai trolley car, the instant it was blown up, showing bodies flying through the air; of German Stuka fighter bombers strafing people in the streets of Warsaw, Poland. I thought, "Isnt it horrible what these Japanese and Germans do to these people?" Terrorism never entered my mind. And I remembered drawings in the New York Journal American, of naked Holocaust victims dying in gas chambers; when my father saw these pictures, he said they couldnt be true! Was he ever wrong! It seemed too horrible to be true to many people. No mention as a terrorist act! There is one thing I observed that separates; excuse me, two things that separate the mentioned events into Terrorist Acts, and War: Uniforms! The 9\11 "terrorists" did not wear uniforms. All the other acts were performed by uniformed men. Terrorism was never mentioned or thought of. Government! The 9/11 "terrorists" did not have an official government as the source of their acts. The bombings and the Holocaust acts were backed by governments. "Therefore", the tragedy of 9/11 is a Terrorist act; and the bombings were acts of War. "Wear the right wardrobe and you are loved!" is bent reasoning in my way of thinking. Wearing casual clothes or uniforms, government or guerilla, government or anarchist, government or gang, on the surface can change a headline? It depends on whose side you are on, and in whose Court of Law the trial is being held. It is happening all the time! Do the victims and their families, of the destructive events outside the U.S. by our armed forces, use the term "terrorist"; and do they have the anger and hatred that many of us have for what was done on 9/11? Do they think the tragedy of 9/11 was a terrorist act? I doubt that many would. They have their reasons. And we have ours. I can almost hear them say on the other side of the World, "You lost five thousand, and you mourn; we hope you dont have to mourn for two million as we do; I hope you have the interest in the news of today and history of the past, to know that we suffer too; and on a larger scale." Since 9/05/02, I would like to say, with many others, to the people outside the U.S., "We have a better understanding and feeling for the tragedies within your nations, whether they are by Nature, uniformed or poorly clad men. Our connection to you is forever closer." The sooner we listen to each other, the better our World will be. 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 tp15.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 September 11 was a day of shock and horror to all complacent Americans, who until then showed no interest in the covert, self-serving interest of their governing elite. The immediate response was Orwellian, as expected, the flying of flags and the beating of breasts, followed by cries to bomb one or another unidentified nation out of existence. The question on many minds was ""Why Do They Hate Us?"" Shrub replied that they hate our freedoms, but as usual he didn't have a clue. They hate us with good reason. They hate us because since WWII the U.S. has been directly responsible or complicit in the deaths of over seven million people worldwide, American terrorism in the name of freedom but really in the interests of American corporations literally stealing valuable resources with the help of well-rewarded despots; because of our support of Israel to the exclusion of rights for Palestinians; for our coup in Iran and reinstatement of the Shah; for our misguided war in Viet Nam; for our coup against democracy in Guatemala and our overthrow of the government of the Dominican Republic; for our complicity in the killing of a third of the population of East Timor with the blessing of Kissinger and Gerald Ford; for our sponsorship of the war in Angola; for the coup in Chile, replacing a democratically elected president with the mass murderer Pinochet; for our attacks on weak nations everywhere to further supposed interests; for standing by during the genocide in Rwanda; for our hypocrisy in talking peace while militarizing the world and space while refusing to sign some twenty two international treaties designed to reduce the threat of nuclear war and improve the lives of desperately poor peoples in the Third World. The attacks in New York and Washington were horrible, but an understanding of American policies around the world would suggest that we had it coming. Rather than a knee-jerk military response, just what the warmongers want, we should reevaluate our role in the world and begin to treat other nations as equals, not as cannonfodder for our industrial machine. Bush et al appear to be poised for world domination, shades of Germany in the 1930s. There is no world problem with a military solution. That is the lesson we have failed to learn. 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 tp153.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 tp211.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 tp58.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 An astute book reviewer in Salon noted that, when thinking of historical monsters,* it is easier to believe in the evil of the beast than in the meanness of one man with access to massive mechanisms of destruction. Just as Hitler might be no different than a ""two-bit punk,"" Osama Bin Laden might have greater similarity to an average, disgruntled citizen of the Middle East than we are comfortable considering. The crucial difference lies in the access of the former to machines of destructive power, be they death camps or fanatics with flight training. We suffer from the same complex that afflicts our thinking about Hitler, the same appalling attitude toward historical figures that inflates men into gods or demons and aligns them with moral factions depending on which narrative suits our purposes and mood. Our military actions demonstrate, not our perception and perseverance, but a pathological need for a comprehensible target of retribution and an unwillingness to concede that a single man led a discrete organization with the resources and wherewithal to inflict incredible damage to one of the Earth's most affluent countries. It is easier to depose the governments that aid him rather than ask why they aid him, as it is easier to divide the Middle East as a whole into a woefully simplistic binary of terrorists and victims. We shield the ugly truth of things behind iconic representations of an event that defies reductions, summarization, and elisions. Honesty and constructive critique disappear in puffs of dust and feverish flag waving--the new face of American patriotism. Dour finger pointing becomes the national pastime--as long as that finger doesn't point at America and its role in foreign affairs (still unforgivably inadequate), and as long as that finger doesn't settle on a target too small or too ephemeral. 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 tp226.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 Some of the things weve learned since September 11. Hijackers attacked our largest city and military headquarters armed with boxcutters, so the White House increased funding for missile defense. We were supposed to go on about our lives as normally as possible, but the Vice President and a significant number of administration personnel would be in a secure, undisclosed location. It was a time for sacrifice, so we were told to go shopping. The attack was launched by a gang of thugs operating out of numerous countries, including our own, so we invaded Afghanistan. According to the President, the attackers hated our love of freedom. So now if the president declares an American citizen an enemy combatant he or she can be detained indefinitely without charges, counsel, or contact with anyone. If we dont have our Constitutionally-protected freedoms anymore maybe the attackers will stop. America had been seen as acting unilaterally in the world, causing rifts among our allies whom we then called upon to assist us in our War on Terror, so weve withdrawn from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, refused to participate in the World Court, pulled out from key environmental agreements, refused to support womens rights, and now over their objections continue to plan a new war against Iraq, a country not involved with the terrorist attacks. The CIA and the FBI both failed miserably in their jobs to protect the American people, so they were given enormous increases to their budgets. Meanwhile, if our schoolchildren get failing marks on their tests, we slash their schools budgets. We know about the poor performance of the intelligence agencies from employee whistleblowers, so the new Homeland Security Agency will not have whistleblower protection. At least the Presidents not worried; he still gets a month off every August. 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 tp114.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: Not For Bush From the outset of his campaign for the Presidency, George W. Bush has stayed the course of his agenda: loot the national treasury, increase military spending, diminish Constitutional liberties and stifle descent. Thus far he is succeeding quite well. The events of September 11, 2001 were a godsend for a President whose election, tainted with the whiff of fraud and political cronyism, made him one of the most unpopular politicians ever to occupy the office. Yet in the screams of the dying an amiable dolt was transformed into a leader deserving of heros worship. And another goal was achieved that day: the destruction of Saudi Arabias recalcitrant clients the Afghani Taliban, whose crime was in believing they were masters of their own fate and nation. Had the rude farm boys acquiesced to American entreaties for the construction of an oil and natural gas pipeline through Afghanistan the events of September 11, 2001 might never had occurred. The death of nearly 3,000 Americans and countless Afghani civilians was merely the price of doing business. Now on the anniversary of that terrible day our President contemplates yet another act of aggression in the oil-rich Middle East: the overthrow of Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein. Though casualties, military and civilian, on both sides may be high Bush will reap the political benefits of being a wartime leader and the Saudis consolidate their control over the entire region, economically, politically and religiously. It is merely the price of doing business. 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 tp199.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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