22 20 70359 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 All War Talk, All The Time America's Leaders Fail To Offer Public Alternatives To War Americans went to public places 12 months ago bearing their doubts and their questions. They gathered in town squares, in living rooms, they even called into talk radio. They wanted to grieve, to ask why the United States had been attacked, and to discuss the possible options for a response. And they came together to find each other because all there was on TV was horror and fright. A year after the 9/11 attacks, Americans are still besieged by news of -- as the logos put it a year ago -- ""America Under Attack."" As has happened every time the public has started to ask questions (about the state of the economy, or the level of corruption in the White House) the administration is full of new scares, this time of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Dick Cheney used his air time on NBC this Sunday to stir more fears: he asked if Saddam could have been responsible for last fall's anthrax attacks. Donald Rumsfeld, speaking on CBS, got into a conversation with Bob Schieffer about the possibility that ""mom and pop terrorists"" might be just waiting to buy weapons of mass destruction from Iraq. But as the Bush administration seeks approval to launch the second war in a year, the situation demands some serious consideration, not of America's vulnerability, but of her strength. Is America vulnerable? Sure, but it's also the richest, most powerful, and only superpower on the planet. And the United States is on the attack. As Congress met in New York on Sept. 6 in a special remembrance of the 9/11 dead, 100 U.S. and British aircraft took part in an attack on Iraq for which there was no international or domestic mandate. Ostensibly to police the ""no fly zones"" over northern and southern Iraq, last week's assault was the largest engagement in four years. As usual, Pentagon spokespeople told the wire services that their planes acted in self defense, but the Daily Telegraph, a conservative British newspaper, suggested that the intent was to destroy all Iraqi air defenses to allow for easier access for special forces to land in advance of an American-led war. So far not one U.S. journalist and not one member of Congress has even raised a question, for example, about self defense: One hundred planes against what? As Americans gather again this week, the media and the administration will remind us of our grief. But what's still beyond the media pale is talk of America's choices. Being terrified is only one of 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 tp11.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 events of September 11 taught Americans several shocking lessons. We learned that our protective systems were imperfect and that we were passionately hated in some parts of the world. We learned that we were vulnerable, after all. In the year since, our nation has attempted to address this vulnerability through new laws and programs meant to make us safe from terror. Roger D. Congleton, in the summer issue of The Independent Review, argues that our nations response to terrorism since September 11 has been overblown. "I basically think we are really overreacting to this in a fairly large way," said Congleton, an economist at George Mason University, in an August interview. ""I think it would be useful for the press and the government to be reminded that the risks are not as gigantic as we seem to have been encouraged to believe over the last year."" Congletons message is primarily economic: We need not spend so much more money on terrorism than on any other threat, perceived or real, to which we are subject. But we have been spending far more than money. We have been writing checks against our freedoms to pay off the perceived threat of terrorism. No amount of protection is worth what some of our leaders have asked us to give up. From the Justice Departments Operation TIPS, which attempts to pit citizen against citizen; to the FBIs accessing of public library lending lists; to the unlawful detention of American citizens without due process, we are trading our rights, which constitute Americas greatest wealth, for "safety." Hopefully September 11 can teach us one more thing: that we must not compromise our freedoms in order to defend them. Our nation, this "more perfect union," depends on our learning this most difficult lesson. 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 tp208.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's a Small World After All Citizens of the United States listened, mum, throughout the hedonistic decade of the 1990s as the rhetoric of globalization poured forth from every media outlet; hailing new technologies and ideas that would erase national boundaries, indeed, that would shrink the very world itself. Many people took all this in with a sense of complacence, never bothering to question the deeper meanings of the first revolution of the new millennium so long as the evening news displayed the Dow in green type. This relative sense of confidence and calm was shattered along with thousands of lives on the morning of September 11th, 2001. America suffered a painful epiphany that two oceans and a powerful military could no longer isolate it from the troubles of the world. In the days of the Cold War, the consequences of superpower conflict may have been grave, but there was always a safety net of diplomacy and professional, governing officials. Now, the United States faces terrorism, a disunited, almost invisible enemy with whom there can be no negotiation, and which can only with great difficulty, if ever, be defeated on the battlefield. A new paradigm in the fabric of global society has been set, and if the United States is to succeed within it, it must do more than simply look after itself and seek to bludgeon all who oppose it. It must cooperate with all nations, wealthy and poor alike, to bring greater peace, lasting prosperity, and the light of learning to everyone, not just political allies. The United States has not only gained much from the world around it, it is fundamentally a part of that world. The most important lesson we must learn from 9/11 is that to support ourselves, Americans must support the community of nations. 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 tp78.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 were walking down the high street in the days when high streets had stores with big windows filled with TV screens you were wearing your SUV sole sneakers (i'd been more conscientious, having purchased skimpy sandals, tossing the box into the mountain of garbage) i was distracted by a beam in the corner of my eye every set carried the same image the towers of babel burning and then collapsing and people running scared and outside the store a crowd of people had gathered tears started to flow disbelief turned to disquiet strangers hugged strangers until with protestations of unity in hand we turned and walked on you in your SUV sole sneakers me in my skimpy sandals reflections lingering in the screens we were late for lunch we did not talk as much as usual as they say in Bombay what to do what to do we had gathered for a moment we had gathered nothing not even that our dreams are just that..... 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 tp93.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" Can you say idiot? Well, in my opinion that is in fact what our president is. According to certain internet rumors, President Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks and who would be responsible, before they took place. I think Bush deliberately allowed for them to take place in order to gain himself a place of greatness in the history books, and to get everyone in the United States' attention away from how weak of a president he was. Well in some cases Bush did get stronger, but to me it just made him a big idiot. I personally think Mayor Rudy Giulianni gained more popularity and strength than Bush did. Then the invasion of Afghanistan and the irradication of the Al Queda and Taliban came along. All the invasion did was make him look like even more of a pompous. I ask myself, ""Why are they invading, when according to them, they weren't sure it was Bin Laden."" Bush was just to caught up in ""evil doers"". And now, Iraq! Now that ""W"" is planning on invading Iraq makes my teeth clench even more. I know he means well, but Bush needs to learn his limits. I strongly feel he might end up bringing the U.S. in deeper water. All in all, despite rumors 9/11 was in fact a wake up call. It opened the eyes of all Americans to the fact the democracy should not be taken for granted. If it weren't for those attacks on the Pentagon and the W.T.C. I don t think that people would be as patriotic as they are now. Now that we are almost in at war is kind of scary, but the fact that ""we"" as a nation have grown stronger makes me a citizen of the U.S.A. less frightened. 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 tp106.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 "here is a piece on Agenda Interrupted. September 11 is an eminently forgettable day of disgrace, not only for what a bunch of homicidal maniacs , treating the USA as a sort of totem pole of evil that needed to be destroyed, did in New York and Washington, killing in the process hundreds of innocent persons aboard the planes with which they rammed the World Trade Center building and that housing the Pentagon, but also for the equally heinous, though retaliatory, massacre of innocents in Afghanistan by the Coalition Against Terrorism cobbled together by the United States. Worst of all, the killings on September 11 and those that followed as retribution, together, interrupted, nay shattered, the agenda that humankind had set before itself with the formal end of the Cold War. Mankind had hoped that it would mark the dawn of a Brave, not a brutal, New World of peace and brotherhood, that human beings would stop killing their fellows, and that governments out to put fear of God in the hearts of wrongdoers would identify their quarries before going after them. Nobody could have expected civilized behavior from desperadoes, especially those indoctrinated with the belief that if they perished while carrying out their mission they would go straight to Paradise! But governments are expected to exhibit the normal restraints of civilized behavior even while out to liquidate physically those who wrought havoc in their respective countries, and killed and maimed their people. By being indiscriminate in the bombing of Afghanistan, the Coalition Against Terrorism exhibited as much of an atavistic urge as the terrorists had done in the USA. Neither showed regard for innocent human lives. Thus viewed, didnt terrorists and the Coalition complement each other in undermining humankinds wistful visions of a peaceful 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 tp157.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 ", "I was so very proud of how America responded to the 9-11 attack. We didn't respond as people of different religious, ethnic or political groups; we responded as human beings united in caring. Nothing else mattered, nothing else got in the way. It didn't take long for us to revert to the level of our attackers. Our thoughts turned to killing, military action, our usual, if not preferred response. . We've heard how the enemy was different this time, it didn't matter, our response was the same as theirs. They attacked in god's name, we did the same, each of us terrorists in each other's eyes completely justified by our religions. They danced in the streets, we applauded as the bombs fell. 9-11 hasn't changed a thing; we'd rather deal with symptoms than causes. We didn't really question what led to the attack, we aren't questioning the systems leading us to perpetual war, especially our systems of belief. Something is very wrong with what we all believe, with what religions teach us about ourselves and each other, with what we think this thing we call god is. We could have responded on a level as highe as our response to the victims of 9-11, we could have united the world as never before. That wasn't the role our leaders were interested in. Common, ordinary, regular people responded to 9-11 on a higher level and it happened because we didn't let our differences or our beliefs get in the way. The leaders we are given and our political, religious and economic systems are failing us, not least of all our systems of belief. We're genuinely lost. If we are to find a way out of the madness, common, ordinary, regular people have to make a difference again. Our leaders aren't interested. 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 tp65.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 Lets Preserve Hope on September 11th Its been a year since the Towers have gone, the Pentagon was hit, the plane crashed in Pennsylvania, and yes, its terrible, and yes, life will never be the same, but I plan to meet this infamous anniversary with something other than gloom. Because there was hope in the wreckage ñ I saw it, if only for a moment. I grew up on Long Island, the suburbs of New York City, but left that angry, crowded place years ago for the beautiful West. I was awaken on September 11th to an anguished call from my girlfriend, who was trapped in Queens. She felt the world was coming to an end around her, and she was far from alone in that thought. But the world didnt come to an end. Thousands were killed, and our perceptions changed. Suddenly we became vulnerable, but alsoÖ we became giving. There was an outpouring of support of a magnitude that Ive never seen before. It came from every town in America in the form of goodwill and donations, and indeed, from all over the world. The arrogance New Yorkers are famous for disappeared in the wake of so much honest goodwill. For once, New Yorkers were humbled. Remember David Lettermans tearful on-air acknowledgement of donations collected by schoolchildren in Choteau, Montana? In the shadow of the horrible, there was beauty. New York was not above America, but part of America, and part of the world. And America and the world were part of New York. I realized that although Id lived out West for ten years, I was still a New YorkerÖ and seemingly, so was everybody. But in the year thats followed, what happened? Everyone has stories of how theyre different, how theyve confronted their fears, how theyve grown. For me, its been an embracing of Gandhi, and non-violent methods of problem solving. Others have understood their anger as a call to hatred and to war. The president wants to send Americans soldiers to Iraq for a prolonged war, with or without asking Congress, and with a complete lack of support from our allies. The unity and brotherhood we felt not so many months ago seems like a vague recollection from a time long gone. I think we can preserve it. Because despite our current administrations feelings to the contrary, America still does stand for truth, justice, and democracy. We still believe in "We the People." Theres been a lot of discussion as to what to do with the World Trade Center site, and many of the proposals have been criticized as too commercial. I think we should express our sorrow and hope outward, rather than upward. My suggestion is this: A bridge for pedestrians and bicycles spanning the Hudson River, linking lower Manhattan with New Jersey and the rest of America, with a tribute to the victims along the length of its span. A September 11th Memorial Bridge, symbolizing our unity, huge and wide ñ but not for cars, because this would be a bridge of peace. I have lived proudly as a non-New Yorker for a long time now, but on that day New York was once again home. Because New York, Wyoming, any place in the world, really, is home to us all. What better way to show this connectedness than a bridge, linking the island with the mainland? 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 Toward A More Perfect Union: Lessons Learned - Or Not - Since 9/11 Tragedy and Missed Opportunities The tragedy of September 11th is not merely that airplanes were piloted into corporate eyesores, killing thousands, though that is certainly an aspect of it. More tragic and appalling has been the public and governmental reactions that have since ensued. Primarily nationalism and jingoism painting the physical and cultural landscape in the way of flags, sloganeering, and calling for equally violent acts of retribution. The public rather than taking the time to honestly explore why there are growing sentiments of aggression towards the US, have swallowed whole the incoherent and detrimental discourse of President Bush, who has eagerly exploited the opportunity to declare a war on terror. The tragedy of 9/11 is the ignorance that continues to prosper within the general populace, who accept without protest the destruction of civilian populations and communities about the globe as a result of direct US intervention in the name of this inane war. 9/11 was a unique occasion for the US elite and middleclass, so unfamiliar with the experience of victimhood, to finally gain sympathy and understanding with those whose lives their passivity and ignorance has ended or harmed. However, rather than sympathy, the majority has called for brutal retaliation, rather than understanding, racist and highly flawed explanations without discourse were adopted. 9/11 is yet another wasted opportunity for understanding, education, and mobilization to transpire. The aftermath of 9/11 has been incredibly informative for primarily the Government, who are now endowed with a greater sense of the extremes to which they may venture without outcry or accountability. The casualties are everywhere; beneath the rubble of fallen towers, shimmering between the stars and stripes of proudly waving flags, percolating in the minds of the vengeful and misinformed, and most ruinously, wrapping itself about the lives of Afghani, Palestinian, and Colombian children, women and men. 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 "Preemptive or preventive war?" As media speculation about war with Iraq reaches frenzied proportions, commentators insist on mistakenly terming the impending conflict "preemptive." As Harold Meyerson wrote for The American Prospect this week, "Democrats have said virtually nothing about Bush's stunning announcement that the United States is now free to wage preemptive -- if need be, nuclear -- war. But the war the U.S. is planning against Iraq isnt preemptive. As any student of introduction to international relations could tell you, Bush and his advisors are preparing to wage a preventive war. Whats the difference ñ and why does it matter? A nation wages preemptive war when it believes an attack on itself to be imminent and war unavoidable. Although preemptive war is rare, a typical example is the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and its neighbors. The trigger was the decision by Egyptian leader Gemal Abdul Nasser to close the critical Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and to mass troops in the Sinai Desert. Israel, fearing a concerted attack by her Arab neighbors at any moment, struck first, and won a decisive and stunning victory. Preventive war, on the hand, is launched when a nation believes an adversary is growing stronger and that war must be fought sooner rather than later, when the military balance might be less favorable. While these wars have become increasingly infrequent, the best-known modern example also involves Israel, in the 1956 Suez War. The Israelis, fearing a realignment of the military balance in the region after the 1955 Soviet arms sale to the Egyptians, conspired with Britain and France to seize the Suez Canal before Soviet arms could be fully integrated into Nassers military. With this distinction in mind, it becomes clear that the U.S. isnt planning a preemptive war, since Iraq cannot plausibly attack the United States and since Saddam has no immediate plan for aggression against his neighbors. Judging from the avowed justification for such a war, it can only be termed preventive. As Peter Beinart put it in The New Republic, the whole point of acting now is that once Saddam has, say, a nuclear bomb, he'll also be able to deter us. In other words, the U.S. fears that if and when Iraq acquires weapons of mass destruction, the regional military calculus will be altered in Iraqs favor, limited U.S. freedom of action in the Middle East. The widespread fear that Saddam would provide nukes or biological weapons to international terrorists like al-Qaeda also provides justification for preventive war enthusiasts. But promoters of war with Iraq continue to call for preemptive war for two reasons. First, some opinion leaders and commentators are probably unaware of the distinction between preventive and preemptive war. But secondly, and more importantly, terming the impeding U.S. attack preemptive serves an important political purpose: convincing voters that full-scale war is necessary to derail Saddams immediate plans to kill Americans. However, the difference between these two kinds of warfare is not limited to the sphere of public manipulation. The international community reacts quite differently to one as opposed to the other. Israel has clearly won the public relations battle over whether the 1967 war was necessary-- most reasonable people will concede that the Israelis had little choice at the time. But the Suez War was an entirely different story. International condemnation was swift and devastating. Even U.S. President Eisenhower abandoned Israel and his NATO allies by insisting on an immediate cessation of hostilities along with British and French withdrawal from the canal itself. The Suez War now ranks as perhaps Israels greatest military and policy disaster. The international reaction to a U.S. attack on Iraq is not likely to be much different. The world community has a long history of frowning on unprovoked wars, whether those wars aim for conquest or prevention. A host of Arab and European regimes have already announced their opposition to war, including Jordan, Turkey, and Germany. Convincing them of the necessity of starting a war will be difficult if not impossible. Saddam is certainly guilty of a long line of atrocities and aggression against his neighbors and his own citizens. From the brutal war he initiated against neighboring Iran in 1980 (which ultimately killed one million people) to the long-running campaign of oppression and extermination against Iraqs own Kurdish minority to the notorious invasion of Kuwait, Saddam is a proven menace both to the Iraqi people and to bordering states. However, it would be a gross violation of widely-accepted international precedent to launch an aggressive war based on past depredations. Internationally, such a flimsy prerequisite for war would give states an excuse to attack their neighbors based on past aggression and trumped-up charges of weapons-development or harboring terrorists. India could invade Pakistan, claiming its history of aggression in Kashmir combined with its long-range missile development program as reason enough for war. To most international observers, it is clear that Iraqs past misbehavior, however debased and frequent, is not reason enough to provoke a full-scale war between two well-armed powers in a region that can charitably be termed a powder keg. In addition to setting a dangerous precedent in international relations, an unprovoked preventive war initiated by the U.S. would only serve to inflame the anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiment that led to the atrocities of September 11 and perhaps precipitate the use of chemical or biological weapons by a cornered Saddam. The language of preemption is designed to overcome these reservations, to persuade the international community that Iraqi aggression is both inevitable and close at hand. Principled opponents of war must not let the administration and its supporters get away with this gross conceptual perversion. After all, the only imminent attack, and the only seemingly unavoidable war, is the one being plotted at this very moment by the Bush administration. 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 tp203.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 11th I woke up, who would have known what the world was about to encounter. Just another regular school day? The moment I found out airplanes were being flown into New Yorks Twin Towers, it felt almost like a movie. How could this be? The United States of America under attack? How long had it been since the U.S. had been through times like on September 11th. Take for example the World War time period, a time for leaders to decide which country would end up being the world power. Now take for example this new type of war, world leaders are still trying to define its purpose. Well maybe blowing up mountains and caves, and our military invading citys is a good way to fight this war off. Before September 11, how many times would you see them on television and think of them with the respect or shall I say love that we hold for them now. The feeling was there for our armed forces before, but as of 9/11, we could all say that we as a nation, or world, have become more as one. Especially New York. I myself have not been there, but I have a shirt that says I do, so I do. The people, the land marks, the economy, the very fact of allowing immigrants to come into the land of the free. Well one things for sure, they killed a lot of people. If they felt they accomplished anything, well good for them. Honestly, I think they dug themselves a lot deeper. And if they felt like they succeeded by killing those thousands, if they only knew, right before they hit those buildings how much they would change the world. Go Red White and Blue 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 tp138.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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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