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. Friday, January 04, 2002 5:01 PM My Comments 1. Why does the U.S. Government make one person's life more valuable than another's, based on present earnings. Shouldn't the one person/one vote reasoning apply to government compensation? 2. Why should I, a taxpayer, compensate German, Japanese, etc. expatriates that happened to be killed in the terrorist act? Why not their governments? 3. Why should a well-paid dead-beat who didn't buy insurance and lived high-on-the-hog get more government compensation than well-paid disciplined individuals that used some of their earnings to buy insurance to provide for their families. 4. What constitutes the victim's families? Mother and father - I hope not. Wife and kids - I hope so. 5. The program seem a little rich with the average family receiving $1 million from tax exempt charities and another $1.6 million from you folks. 6. Why is the compensation tax exempt? Maybe to compete with court awards? Why not just limit the 'tort' awards to something like the compensatory award - and make our lawyers cry? 7. What makes our airlines liable at all? Their passenger screening just followed government rules, didn't it? 8. You didn't compensate at Oklahoma City. Maybe you say that was because most of the people involved were government workers and already insured. Surely that applies to the Pentagon, and many of the people involved in 911 as well! You are setting, no perpetuating a lottery payoff precedent, and that is troubling to me. 9. I guess you are doing this whacky thing to indirectly bail out the insurance, airline, travel, etc. industries while allowing the legal industry to retain its unlimited 'tort' damage feeding trough. Seem overly selective and political to me! Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-04 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 dojN001347.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. 2002-01-04