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 Toward a more perfect Union... In this past year of debate and healing, there have been a lot of questions that have been asked and others trying to be answered. Though, no one could possibly understand, nor make any sense of what happened on that fateful day, it seems that the only thing left is to pick up the pieces of our lives and try to heal and go on. Do not let Osama Bin Laden win. One question that I have had to answer to people seeking counsel is why should we allow the Muslims to reside in our country after this horrible attack. I tell them, because we are America, and freedom means everything to our people. Freedom not only for us but for all people who seek refuge from their oppressed Governments and individual societies. The one thought that has not been brought up by many people is the fact that a lot of the Muslim people came here so that their daughters and wives would be safe from the impending rule of the AlQuaida. Do they have to endure the injustice of their countries because we do not wish to have Muslims in our country due to some kind of threat to our country and people? We must remember that this war is not against the Muslim faith, it is against Osama Bin Laden. We took a stance to tell the people of Afghanistan that the degradation, and living conditions that they imposed upon the females of their country was not only wrong, it was inexcusable. A good majority of these people fled to protect their family members, and now we wish to ship them out of our country because we were attacked by the same men who attacked them in their own country? That would truly not be fair. We open our borders to people with such problems so that they may live a decent life, with the freedom of practicing their religion without the fear of retaliation, and the unbearable laws that their own country had imposed upon them. Instead of persecuting these people, shouldn't we accept them with arms wide open as our fore fathers had intended. Unless this country is open to all, to give the worlds people a place to live without fear of persecution, then we are truly the America that was intended. Lets not make this a war of religion. It is a war of a man who insisted on attacking us on our own homefront, but let us not forget that he made life unbearable in Afghanistan for their own people. Let us not punish a people because of the wrong doings of thier own goverment. After all that is why the fled their countries and sought out the freedom that we promised. And we should promise that freedom to all. 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 tp210.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