Exam 3.3

Question 1

What are the FBI categories that classify domestic and international terrorism?

Answer 1

Domestic Terrorism: Involves violent political extremism, single issue terrorism, and lone wolf activities

International Terrorism: Involves threats that originate outside of the U.S.

Question 2

What is single issue terrorism?

Answer 2

A type of terrorism that is more focuses on a specific issue, rather than a widespread social, political, or religious change

Question 3

What is The Establishment?

Answer 3

The mainstream American political and social institutions

Question 4

What is New Left Terrorism?

Answer 4

Terrorism that has been deeply affected by the Vietnam war, the Civil Rights Movement, and the disparities in inner-city communities

Question 5

What are The Weathermen in New Left terrorism?

Answer 5

Young, white, and educated members of the middle class

Question 6

How prevalent is Ethno-Nationalist Terrorism in the U.S.?

Answer 6

It is rare in the U.S. because activists have not historically supported nationalist terrorism

Question 7

What is the FALN?

Answer 7

• Armed Forces for National Liberation
• The most prolific terrorist organization in U.S. history

Question 8

What is the Patriot Movement in Right-Wing Terrorism?

Answer 8

• 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

Question 9

Describe the Oklahoma City Bombing and Timothy McVeigh

Answer 9

• 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”

Question 10

What is Neo-Nazi Terrorism?

Answer 10

• 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

Question 11

What is Moralist Terrorism?

Answer 11

• 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”

Question 12

What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?

Answer 12

• 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

Question 13

What is Christian Identity?

Answer 13

• 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

Question 14

What are Homegrown Jihadists?

Answer 14

Americans or American residents that adopt the jihadist philosophy

Question 15

What are the 2 styles of homegrown terrorist attacks?

Answer 15

• Radicalized from personal experiences
• Radicalized with foreign connection

Question 16

What is one of the incubators for homegrown jihadists?

Answer 16

The American prison system

Question 17

How is Homegrown Terrorism a “bottom up event”?

Answer 17

• 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)

Question 18

What are common beliefs of sovereign citizens?

Answer 18

• 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

Question 19

What is Paper Terrorism?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

How many police officers have been killed in confrontations with sovereign citizens?

Answer 20

More than 30

Question 21

What are changes in the Left in the U.S.?

Answer 21

Left-wing terrorist groups had dominated terrorism in the U.S. from 1967-1985
- Engaged in symbolic violence

Question 22

What is the ELF?

Answer 22

• Earth Liberation Front
• Single-Issue extremists
• Responsible for 600+ criminal acts since 1996
  • Used tactics such as sabotage, tree spiking, property damage, and arson

Question 23

What do ecoterrorist crime include?

Answer 23

• Raids of farms
• Destruction of animal research laboratories
• Sabotage of industrial equipment
• Arson

Question 24

What are ecoterrorists?

Answer 24

Uncompromising, illogical extremists
- Just like their right-wing counterparts

Question 25

Describe anti-abortion violence

Answer 25

• Violent anti-abortionists began with bombing and arson attacks 20+ years ago
  
  • Tactics have been enhanced since then
• Doctors and nurses assaulted when entering clinics
• Violent anti-abortionists believe accepting the status quo is more evil than using violence to change behavior