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 THE AFTERMATH AND THE NATION The continued exploitation of 9/11's tragedy demeans the memory of those who died. One wonders if instead of happening in New York and Washington, D.C., the videotaped events had occurred off-camera to kill 3000 people in (say) Great Falls, Montana. Would the nation have reacted in the same obsessive way? Predictably politicians and advertisers make hay of 9/11 for political and financial gain, endlessly calling up the photographs, sounds, memories and attaching them to everything under the sun. Unaccountable anger was already gnawing at the American public's psyche fueled by vicious talk radio, mocking ""comedians,"" self-centered politicians before the disaster. So when the planes accomplished their evil mission, it gave an excuse to unleash and focus this anger, opening floodgates to set the nation on a Bash Everybody Who Gets In Our Way retaliation. Immediately after President Bush addressed the nation shortly after 9/11, this writer heard a reporter ask an administration spokesman how long the ""war"" on terror would likely last. The response, ""Five years."" Now, invoking the memories of those who perished, the American public is called upon to give up important rights, supposedly the better to fight terrorists. But if the so-called ""war"" is open-ended, then the abrogation of those rights will continue for what? Forever? Did the victims give their lives so America would be less free, made so not by terrorists but by our own fear-mongering ambitious national leaders, assisted by a national press involved in a ratings game? F.D.R. had it partly right: one thing we have to fear is "fear itself." But we should also be afraid of what we're doing to ourselves and our nation. 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 tp196.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