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 Swallowing, looking up, I nearly drove off of the road. I was nowhere near Manhattan on that day, although that was where I was supposed to be. I happened to be in Boston going to work and I was numb. The dust was settling and I felt my Freedoms slowly burn as I put down the newspaper and collected stories from online. Fear and doubt were raging and everyone who looked Muslim (whatever that means) were proudly trouncing my Liberties. Pure human waste was flying grey ash in New York and you are telling me that I still can't use your stinking bathroom unless I buy something. Americans, regardless of intent were being scared into submission, angry at their uselessness, sullen, and searching for the illusion of a distinctly American peace. Airplanes were making nice hotels for weary travelers and happy incompetents went skipping off to their jobs as airport screeners hoping that they would get to strip search grandmothers in wheelchairs today. Everything was aligned, perfectly. Every true American was standing 'under God,' being promised resolve from our gOVERNMENT who promptly hedged their bets after a retrospective, a carpet bombing of Afghanistan, and silences a week and now quite a few months later have refused to net us one apparently Waldoian Bin Laden. I applauded heroes and I cried for the dead, and even today candles are burning in my house. They are not burning for the families, not for the fallen, and not for the imprisoned. Those candles are burning as a reminder to the American citizens who still do not understand that Liberty and Security are Vinegar and Oil and that our greatest threats to democracy were our January 1995 "Bojinka" negligence; our September 10th, 2001 ignorance; and our August 6th and August 9th ambivalence. 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 tp216.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. 2003-03-10