Download Final Analysis The American Case Terrorism in the United States

Final Analysis
The American Case
Terrorism in the United States
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Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
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Equality for African Americans in the South.
Concept: Collective non-violence.
The Rise of Black Power
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Reaction to violence directed against nonviolent civil rights
movement.
Political independence, economic self-sufficiency, and
cultural reawakening.
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Growth of the New Left
Arose in mid-1960s.
 Concept: Direct action.
 Military-industrial complex.
 Counterculture.
 Case: Students for Democratic Society.
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New Left Terrorism
Generational rebellion.
 Case: Weatherman organization.
 Case: Symbionese Liberation Army.
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Ethnonationalist Terrorism
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Few violent nationalist movements.
Case: Black Liberation Army
Case: Puerto Rican Independencistas and the FALN.
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Leftist Hard Cores
May 19 Communist Organization.
 New African Freedom Fighters.
 United Freedom Front.
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Single-Issue Violence
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Groups who focus on one issue to the exclusion of others.
Cases: Animal Liberation front and Earth Liberation Front.
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Religious Politics and the “Christian Right”
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Mostly Protestant fundamentalists.
Links strict Christian values to political agendas.
Rise off the Anti-Government Patriots
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Consider themselves to be the true heirs of the ideals
of the framers of the U.S. Constitution.
Radical distrust of government.
Many “New World Order” conspiracy theories.
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Racial Supremacy
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Rooted in historical racial policies and culture.
Organized supremacist groups include the Ku Klux Klan
and neo-Nazi movements.
Racial Mysticism
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Incorporation of mystical quality to racial supremacy.
Cases:
 The Creativity movement.
 Asatru.
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The Christian Identity Myth
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Americanized strain of 18th-century Anglo-Israelism.
One-seedline Christian Identity.
Two-Seedline Christian Identity.
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The Legacy of the Ku Klux Klan
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Uniquely American racist organization.
Ritualistic, fraternity-like, and religious symbolism.
Five eras of the KKK.
Neo-Nazi Terrorism
American version of Nazism.
 Mystical beliefs combined with racial supremacy.
 Racial Holy War (RAHOWA).
 Case: The Order
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Patriot Threats
Concepts: Leaderless resistance and phantom cells.
 Case: Oklahoma City bombing.
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Moralist Terrorism
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Mostly anti-abortion and anti-gay violence.
Case: Army of God
Case: Phineas Priesthood.
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The Spillover Effect in the United States
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Operations by international terrorists.
Cases: Omega 7. IRA. Jewish Defense League.
The New Terrorism in the United States
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World Trade Center attacks.
Presence of support organizations for jihadist
movements abroad.