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 Who's the Terrorist? The United States of America is the largest terrorist organization in the world. THAT is what the guys who blew up the WTC and Pentagon wanted us to acknowledge. And have we? I think not. Terrorism is defined as: attacking civilian populations to create political leverage. Were the guys who attacked the WTC and Pentagon terrorists? Sure they were. They were doing what we've been doing for decades: attacking strategic centers and ignoring collateral damage to civilians. Anyone remember Vietnam? Agent Orange? Napalm. Remember a little girl running down a road naked, burning from napalm? But that was then and this was...Well...How about blockading Iraq, causing hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths over a period of almost ten years now. Asked about the horrendous human consequences of the sanctions, Madeleine Albright (U.S. ambassador to the UN and later Secretary of State) declared that, the price is worth it. In case you need a translation here she is saying that terrorism is worth it. I think Osama would agree. Or how about sending cruise missiles into the Sudan to blow up a pharmaceutical plant causing eventual suffering and death to tens of thousands more? And, SIMULTANEOUSLY ruining a negotiation whereby the Taliban had agreed to hand over bin Laden to the Saudis. Is that shooting yourself in the head or what? How about the U.S. arming the Turks to push the Kurds -- men, women, and children -- back over the border into Iraq to irritate Saddam? How about condoning genocide in Cambodia because they are friendlies, they oppose Vietnam? How about staying silent when Indonesia invades East Timor because our mineral and petroleum corporations want to stay on good terms with the Indonesian government? Or when Indonesian soldiers shoot workers to crush labor unions at U.S. mines? But this is not the same, you say. That was war, these were innocent civilians! No one who works in the Pentagon effecting these massacres is an innocent civilian. And what about the WTC? Civilians? Do you know what they did there? And what they are now doing somewhere else? Men and women sit at computers clicking on mice. Click -- a billion dollars leaves Taiwan and 100,000 people lose their jobs. Click -- a billion dollars is invested in Bolivia where 100,000 peasants are removed from their land to make way for another strip mine. Click -- close down that factory in South Carolina and move it to Mexico. Click -- what next? America is 4% of the global population consuming 24% of the global resources. The earth would have to be six times bigger than it is for everyone alive to enjoy the same standard of living. And yet the world is being sold on the benefits of participating in the global economy? An economy that cannot work!...But what about all those poor souls in the planes and on the ground, the incredibly heroic firemen? As Osama would say, quoting Madeline, the price is worth it. Click -- 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 tp162.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 Notes Notes about this item. `