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 11th caused in us, as a nation, a tremendous insecurity. Like children afraid to sleep when there is lightning and thunder outside our windows, we have wished for the government to stay with us. There's only one problem: we aren't children, and the lightning and thunder of the past year have come not from terrorists, but from our own government. We've been subjected to repeated assaults upon our Constitutional rights, plans to pit neighbor against neighbor as spies, plans of war to which none of our forebearers would have consented, all of which have been promulgated by an administration attaining office without mandate for such. In our distraction, we have let decades of enviromental law and international treaty work be flushed away by corporate interests with ties to our current administration. We have yet to understand that our votes in the 2000 election prompted what has happened to us since September 11th and before. We have yet to understand that our future votes are all that can undo this damage, domestically and internationally. Why have we come to this? Perhaps because our only news sources seek to focus us on the administration's message--war is necessary, war is inevitable, war is... whatever the administration wants it to be. To be truly free, to be truly self-governed, we must instruct our representatives in Congress in what we wish for our future. We cannot leave that task to those compromised by the wealth of corporations. If we do, those representatives will act in the interest of corporations, rather than in the interests of the majority of individual citizens. Unless we, as citizens, stop the insanity by our votes, we will live with institutionalized insanity--a drift towards fascism, and a constant fear of everything and everyone from without and within. 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 tp230.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