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 Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Wednesday, March 20, 2002 7:20 PM Victim Compensation Fund March 20, 2002 Special Master Kenneth R. Feinberg September 11th Victim Compensation Fund US Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20530 Mr. Feinberg, While I by no means consider myself to be an "activist," I feel I must take issue with comments made by you on "Meet the Press" on Sunday, March 10, 2002. The comments I make reference to are those directed at Gay and Lesbian AMERICANS whose partners perished in that terrible, unforgivable act of terrorism on September 11, 2001. During the aforementioned interview, you indicated that surviving partners will not necessarily be eligible for the same compensation as heterosexual family members who lost their loved ones. Your rationale behind this position seemed to be that you were simply following guidelines set forth by individual states as to how they addressed "domestic partnerships." As I understand it, and please, by all means correct me if I am wrong, surviving family members of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS will be fully compensated, but because you have to bow to the will of "state laws," widowed gay partners and their surviving children will not be afforded the same consideration. So let me get this STRAIGHT. (every pun intended) This country, this land that I love, the home of the free and the brave, where all men are created equal, the country to which I pledge my allegiance, gives more consideration to an illegal immigrants surviving family members than it does to the surviving partners and children of gay men and women who perished?? Pray tell, how is that a gay man or woman's life can be considered to be of lessor value than that of someone who is in the country ILLEGALLY? If you want to follow "laws" when deciding who is entitled to what compensation, then why don't you start by following FEDERAL LAW? You sir, with all due respect, are a hateful, bigoted idiot. Let me assure you of this. The gay men and women who died that day paid their taxes, and their blood was just as red as all the other victims. And to this day, their survivors hurt just as badly as all the other survivors of love ones lost. But now, thanks to you and your bigotry, they hurt much worse. I suppose this is just another fine example of George "dubya" Bush's idea of "compassionate conservatism." Thank you for you time and further consideration in this matter. Individual Comment Bumpass, Virginia Gay Taxpaying AMERICAN September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-20 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 dojR002422.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-03-20