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 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. 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. story 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. 2003-03-03