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. Sunday, January 06, 2002 6:55 PM Sept 11 Funds I don't think its fair that tax dollars are used to compensate for the victims' families. What about future terrorist acts? Is our country plan to compensate everyone for every terrorist acts? How will we determine terrorist acts? The killings on Long Island train or massacre at various high schools some years ago, weren't they terrorist acts? or were they classified as "insane acts"? What difference does it make? result is all the same! Deaths and grave tradegy! Furthermore, to have the compensation based on victim's earning potential is just obsurd! I have a lot of compassion for helping people in needs but I certainly don't see the need to use our tax dollar to help maintain the life style of victim's families! (compensation based on earnings is doing just that!). I have been a hard worker all my life and paying taxes all along! Our countries need the money to fight the war on terrorism! People die of various causes all the time! These other people were not "compensated" by our country for their death, however wrongful! I understand that this is a part of the airline bail out package to avoid victims' law suits. I wonder if our great country will be bankrupted by all the law suites! Our culture has become a culture that abuse their rights to sue! Frivolous law suits are everywhere. From the McDonald's coffee being too hot to a thief breaking a leg while robbing a house.. All these idiotic law suite should have been thrown out before they get to the court! And to know the outcome being even more absurd than the lawsuits themselves. one can understand why living costs have climb so much and so fast! I am absolutely behind law suits as a result of real wrongful death and believe in "punitive damage" as in the case of the PG&E's dumping of toxic waste. But what "wrong" had the World Trade Buildings owner or leaser done on Sept 11th? No Wrong! It's not the fault of our government, not the fault of the WTC, not the fault of the employers who had chosen offices inside the WTC! I think compensation by the outpouring of private donations is enough! Goverment should bar lawsuites against the WTC owner and leaser, lawsuites against airlines. In the case of Sept 11, the airport security wasn't breeched! The knifes the terrorist carried were allowed on and before that date. What failed was our own perception about hijacking! Had we adopted the policies of Israeli Airline of 'no entry to cockpit' then the terrorist couldn't have taken control of the plane. Now we have all learned a great lesson! Painfully yes. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-06 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 dojN001365.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. 2002-01-06