began-publicly-with the attack on the World Trade Center, but which in fact has roots in…
There are more things involved in this transaction that just the sending and receiving of money, but again the only…
How do the fundamental dynamics of lone-wolf terrorism influence its increasing presence as a challenge to counter-terrorism institutions?…
For generations, people have been astonished and affected by events that have transpired into influential elements of their time and times to come. The 20th and 21st Centuries are filled with many historic and controversial people and events which have drastically shaped and changed the way people live their everyday life in today’s world. Important people and events that contributed to and are responsible for the unfavorable change of the mid-20th Century are Charles Starkweather and the Bay of Pigs Invasion, becoming the first of their kinds. Each separately and significantly impacted the generation’s society of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Even though the 21st Century is in progress, the events and key people of earlier generations still impact the generations of today’s society with the addition of many comparable and contrastable people and events of modern times. Opposition of the video game surge has targeted the “Grand Theft Auto” series as being violent and destructive to children’s development and behavior, while the “D.C. Sniper” has instilled fear of homegrown terror in the United States. Unfortunately, the American people must live in insecurity and over cautiousness because as history describes today’s society, anything can and will happen.…
By 1932, crop prices had dropped per bushel to corn, three cents; oats, six cents; barley, ten cents; and wheat, sixteen cents (terkel-a0a0o8-a.mp3). Farmers thought that if supply could be stopped then the prices would be driven up, leading to the farm holiday movement (terkel-a0a0o4-a.mp3). Men would stop other farmers on highways and destroy produce in an attempt to stop the farm economy (terkel-a0a0o4-a.mp3). In one case, a railroad bridge was burned to stop produce from going to market (terkel-a0a0o5-a.mp3). These acts can be looked at as a form of domestic terrorism. The farmers had been pushed beyond the point of desperation to the point of radicalism. One story, told by former South Dakota Senator Emil Loriks, claims that when a man…
This paper covers how The Department of Homeland Security combats domestic terrorism in the United States. It takes into account the terrorist problems, factions involved and the counter measured imposed. This paper also takes into account the critics levied on the policies outlined in the Department of Homeland Security and solution propositions. The paper achieves this through the Socratic approach which mainly capitalizes on a debating argument that enhances critical thinking on the matters at hand. Various terrorist organizations are reviewed, their ideologies explained and solution to their grievances explained. Also, the overall assumption on the relationship between…
September 11, 2001 marked a catastrophic change not only in American society but in every western state including Canada. The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon have had a ripple effect, spreading to the entire world and terrifying thousands of people. Following these attacks, world populations were devastated and governments faced a never-before seen need to make laws governing this new form of terror. Countries like the United States of America, United Kingdom, and Canada have passed anti-terrorism legislations that define “terrorism” and how to respond and prevent such attacks.…
Colombia's government and the rebel group FARC reached an agreement May 17, 2014 on ending the illegal drug trade. The deal called for FARC to cooperate with the government in convincing farmers to grow crops other than coca, which is used to make cocaine. The announcement was made Friday in Havana where the two sides have been negotiating an end to a 50-year-old insurgency. Colombia was the world's leading producer of cocaine until Peru recently overtook it in cultivation of coca. The cocaine industry has been the major source of funds for the Marxist rebel group and a cause of crime and instability in the South American country. With the agreement on ending the drug trade, the two sides have resolved three of the six points on their agenda. Previously FARC and the government had reached deals on agrarian reform and political participation.…
When the words war on terror arises we automatically associate this with radical Islam. We are surrounded today by daily stories from around the world of war and suppression, but where did this all begin?…
Terrorism can be described as any act of violence intended to cause death or serious bodily harm in order to intimidate the population or to compel a government and international agencies from doing something. To the United States, the most horrific terrorist attack to happen occurred on September 11th 2001 when terrorists hijacked four planes and crashed them into the twin towers and the pentagon. It not only resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians, but it would change American policy for decades to come. In the aftermath of 9/11, the United States started a policy of a global war on terror(GWOT) which would end up costing an unimaginable amount of money and hundreds of thousands of deaths. In this paper, I will review four…
The attack on September 11, 2001 was an event which shows the violent and damaging effects that race thinking can cause. 9/11 marks not only the terrorist attacks of a select few Muslims, but sparked a fundamental change in the social and political world of America. It represents the perfect example of how governments – in particular, the Bush administration – use race thinking to commit acts of violence while furthering their own ulterior motives. These motives were created far before 9/11 happened, but the attacks served as a trigger point which allowed the government to call for the ‘defence’ of America, and launch their famous campaign, War on Terror.…
September 11, 2001, already ten years ago but the events are as vivid as the day it occurred. I was eight years old, and a third grader not knowing anything that happened in the “outside” world. As a little girl I did not realize that the event that happened would change or lives forever.…
In the past 10 years or so, we have all observed many changes in the way domestic terrorism operates. For instance, left-wing terrorism was overtaken by right-wing extremism as the most dangerous terrorist threat to the United States in the 1990’s. In the last few years, special interest extremism has now surfaced as a serious terrorist threat. With that said, it is widely known that extremist groups are largely involved in activity protected by guarantees in the constitution and utilize rights like free speech and assembly to their own benefit.…
Instead I will discuss the topic that I found most interesting throughout the entire semester, homegrown terrorism. As I previously stated in my introduction I have always assumed that terrorism was defined as violent attacks committed by a person of a foreign descent. The documentary that we watched about Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma Bombing definitely rearrange that idea. Many would argue that McVeigh had undergone post-partum depression after returning home from the war, but the underlying question that continues my interest in this topic is what was the triggering event in Timothy McVeigh’s life? Was it because he was a victim of post- partum or was it his dislike and feeling of being misled by the government that resulted in the…
An astonishing 6,000 plus people lost their lives to the tragedy that befell our country on September 11, 2001. Those whose loved ones vanished and witnessed the horrific events on this day will forever have a black hole filled with emptiness in their hearts. Terrorism, the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes, the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization, and a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government, are exactly what this country endured on that fateful day (Random House…