What are the FBI categories that classify domestic and international terrorism?
Domestic Terrorism: Involves violent political extremism, single issue terrorism, and lone wolf activities
International Terrorism: Involves threats that originate outside of the U.S.
What is single issue terrorism?
A type of terrorism that is more focuses on a specific issue, rather than a widespread social, political, or religious change
What is The Establishment?
The mainstream American political and social institutions
What is New Left Terrorism?
Terrorism that has been deeply affected by the Vietnam war, the Civil Rights Movement, and the disparities in inner-city communities
What are The Weathermen in New Left terrorism?
Young, white, and educated members of the middle class
How prevalent is Ethno-Nationalist Terrorism in the U.S.?
It is rare in the U.S. because activists have not historically supported nationalist terrorism
What is the FALN?
- Armed Forces for National Liberation
- The most prolific terrorist organization in U.S. history
What is the Patriot Movement in Right-Wing Terrorism?
- Became most prominent in the early 1990’s
- Believe they are the true successors of the individuals that wrote the U.S. Constitution
- Believe governments (specifically the federal government) should not be trusted
- Ex. Ruby Ridge and Waco
- Believes the United Nations is a dangerous and evil institution
Describe the Oklahoma City Bombing and Timothy McVeigh
- Timothy McVeigh
- Devotee of the Patriot Movement
- Believer in New World Order
- Attack was a symbolic act of war against the federal government
- High casualty rate was carefully considered when planning the attack
- Justification of 19 children being killed as being “collateral damage that is common to modern warfare”
What is Neo-Nazi Terrorism?
- Ideology is the superiority of the Aryan race and inferiority of non-Aryans
- Has need to confront the evil global Jewish conspiracy
- Believes a racial holy war, Rahowa, is inevitable
What is Moralist Terrorism?
- Acts of political violence that is motivated by a moralist worldview
- A non-mainstream interpretation of Christianity
- Targets can consist of abortion clinics and gay bars
- May consider themselves part of the “Army of God”
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
- Racist movement that has no presence outside of the U.S.
- Purely an American phenomenon
- Ideology:
- Racial supremacy
- Violent assertion of the Klan racial doctrine
- Protestant Christian supremacy
- Ritualistic symbolism, greetings, and fraternal behavior
- American cultural nationalism
What is Christian Identity?
- A blend of Jewish and Christian biblical passages that have the premise that Jesus is white
- Believes Jews have gained control of the U.S. by conspiring to create the Federal Reserve System
- Gives a theological base for the belief that white people originated from God and that Jews came from Satan
- Small groups that are dominated by Christian Identity theology and Christian patriotism are engaged in localized violence
What are Homegrown Jihadists?
Americans or American residents that adopt the jihadist philosophy
What are the 2 styles of homegrown terrorist attacks?
- Radicalized from personal experiences
- Radicalized with foreign connection
What is one of the incubators for homegrown jihadists?
The American prison system
How is Homegrown Terrorism a “bottom up event”?
- It is not solely an American problem, nor is it limited to radical Islam
- Some homegrown jihadists are self-recruited, self-motivated, and self-trained
- Some are born in the U.S. and prepare to spread the jihad, even though they have little contact with jihadists
- Some leave the U.S. and join jihad overseas (Ex. John Walker Lindh, Adam Gadahn)
What are common beliefs of sovereign citizens?
- They are self-proclaimed to be free of American citizenship
- Declare themselves free of laws and taxes
- There are 2 governments
- One is legitimate and does not have governmental regulation except for English common law
- One is illegitimate and includes all federal and state governments
- There is no singularly defined sovereign citizen ideology
What is Paper Terrorism?
Sovereign citizens filing false liens (legal claim against assets/property until a debt is paid), writing bogus checks, and using sight drafts against non-existent accounts
How many police officers have been killed in confrontations with sovereign citizens?
More than 30
What are changes in the Left in the U.S.?
Left-wing terrorist groups had dominated terrorism in the U.S. from 1967-1985
- Engaged in symbolic violence
What is the ELF?
- Earth Liberation Front
- Single-Issue extremists
- Responsible for 600+ criminal acts since 1996
- Used tactics such as sabotage, tree spiking, property damage, and arson
What do ecoterrorist crime include?
- Raids of farms
- Destruction of animal research laboratories
- Sabotage of industrial equipment
- Arson
What are ecoterrorists?
Uncompromising, illogical extremists
- Just like their right-wing counterparts
