The United States, like any large nation, experiences its fair share of domestic terrorism. Domestic terrorism comes in two forms, within the United States, secular terrorism and religious terrorism. The broader category of terrorism, of which secular and religious terrorism fall under, is defined as a violent act committed against defenseless civilians in order to incite change. The distinctive difference between secular and religious terrorism is the motivation to commit the act. Secular terrorist are motivated by ideology, that is separate from religion, and Religious terrorist are motivated by an interpretation of their religion. Because of these terrorist acts the United States is forced to take action, in order to prevent terrorist acts, …show more content…
After the Charleston church shooting, the suspect Dylann Storm Roof, fled the scene upon being identified he was arrested without incident, during a traffic stop, by police the following day. The police reaction to the shooting followed very standard procedures for manhunt, the suspect’s picture was circulated through local News and other media and an all points bulletin was issued in attempt to find Dylann Roof. However after the Boston bombing when the two perpetrators, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, where identified the police manhunt was anything but standard. Early the morning of April 19, four days after the bombing, residents of Allston-Brighton, Boston, Belmont, Brookline, Cambridge, Newton, and Waltham received reverse 911 call asking them to stay indoors and shelter in place. Additionally public schools universities transit systems and a majority of businesses closed. At the same time Federal Bureau of investigations, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Guard, the Boston and Watertown Police departments and the Massachusetts State Police. Utilized SWAT teams, military personnel, and armored vehicles to cordoned off and conduct a door to door search in Walham. Two hours after the search had finished a resident had …show more content…
These acts we 're committed by similar perpetrators, inflicted a similar Number of deaths, and had extensive National News coverage. While both act were similar the motivations to commit the acts of terrorism were different. The Charleston Church shooting was committed by an American white supremacist in an attempt to effect change in the form of a race war. The Boston Marathon bombing was committed an American citizen and an American resident, in an attempt to stop the accidental killings of Muslim civilians in many parts of the world, by changing US policy. Following the Charleston Church shooting the reactions of the government agencies and the people, are seemingly rational and what could reasonably be expected after such an act of terrorism. However following the Boston Marathon bombing the actions of government agencies and the people appear, in almost every way, to be much more severe particularly in the apprehension of the suspects. As motivation is the only major difference between these two acts of terrorism, it is reasonable to come to the conclusion that in the United States, acts of religious terrorism are met with much more extreme action then secular
The National Guard soldiers arrive giving aid to wounded survivors. Investigators found shrapnel that included bits of nails, metals and bearing balls. Ball bearing is a type of rolling element bearing that uses balls to maintain separation between the bearing races. The lid a pressure cooker was found on a nearby rooftop. On April 19, the FBI, West New York Police Department, and Hudson County Sheriff's Department seized computer equipment from the suspects' sister's apartment located in West New York, New Jersey(Wikipedia). Joseph Reynolds, Watertown police officer, identified the brothers in a Honda Civic and the stolen SUV that the suspects stole. A gunfight brewed between the brothers and the local police. Four days later, after an intense manhunt that shut down the Boston area, police captured one of the bombing suspects, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose older brother and fellow suspect, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died following a shootout with law enforcement earlier that same day(History). Kadyrbayev was accused of throwing Tsarnaev's backpack into a trash bin after discovering it contained fireworks with gunpowder and removing a jar of Vaseline and a computer thumb
McVeigh had a complete lack of appreciation for human life. In his attack he not only killed 168 people, but 19 of those killed were infants and toddlers. The attack was carried out and created because Timothy McVeigh thought that the government was going to repeal the second amendment. McVeigh’s logic came from witnessing the siege on the Branch Davidians’ compound, witch he viewed as illegal. The attack on the federal building caused so much uneasiness that everyone knew about him, as it was the biggest
In today’s society the word “terrorism” has gone global. We see this term on television, in magazines and even from other people speaking of it. In their essay “Controlling Irrational Fears After 9/11”, published in 2002, Clark R. Chapman and Alan W. Harris argue that the reaction of the American officials, people and the media after the attacks of 9/11 was completely irrational due to the simple fact of fear. Chapman and Harris jump right into dismembering the irrational argument, often experienced with relationships and our personal analysis. They express how this argument came about from the terrorist being able to succeed in “achieving one major goal, which was spreading fear” among the American people (Chapman & Harris, para.1). The supporters of the irrational reaction argument state that because “Americans unwittingly cooperated with the terrorist in achieving the major goal”, the result was a widespread of disrupted lives of the Americans and if this reaction had been more rational then there would have been “less disruption in the lives of our citizens” (Chapman & Harris, para. 1).
Timothy McVeigh was just another man until he changed the lives of many forever. “The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, was the most severe incident of terrorism ever experienced on American soil” (“Psychiatric” 755). This explosion created a widespread panic in Oklahoma and across the United States. Adults and children lost their lives due to an unethical act, and it did not go unnoticed. Parents had to bury their babies,
Terrorist Dzhokhar Tsamaev bombed the Boston Marathon April 15, 2013. Dzhokhar and his brother wanted to defend Islam from the U.S., which conducted the Iraq war and war in Afghanistan, in the view of the brothers, against muslims. The bombs were made from two pressure cookers. The bombs went off about 13 seconds apart near the finish line, killing 3 people and
"Two Gunman at Colorado School Reportedly Kill Up to 23 Before Dying in a Siege." On Tuesday, April 20, 1999, two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, of Columbine High School, shocked the nation when they entered the school armed with guns and explosives, killing fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives. Stories of random violence and aggression such as this all too often plague the media. While the attention of the nation has recently been focused on the Colorado slayings, history reveals countless other similar crimes of aggression targeted towards innocent individuals. In both Nazi Germany and the more recent Bosnia conflict, ethnic cleansing has been used to violently eliminate certain races. In the early 1990s, Timothy McVegh's vengeful intentions led him to use a car bomb to kill hundreds of innocent people in the explosion of the Oklahoma City Federal Building.
April 15, 2013 tragedy occurred during a prolific event in Boston Massachusetts where a bomb went off in the middle of a marathon killing three people and seriously injuring one hundred and seventy people. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev were announced suspects of the Boston marathon bombing by FBI after watching footage of the bombing before and after the incident happened. That same evening a campus police officer at MIT was shot and killed and the Tsarnaev brothers were announced suspects for the incident of that police officers death as well. April 19, 2013 the Tsarnaev brothers had stolen a car and fled the city but were pursued by police which led to a gunfight in Watertown Massachusetts. The high speed police chase led to the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the arrest of his brother Dzhokhar
On April 15, 2013 a catastrophic event unexpectedly occurred which changed the life of many individuals and left a landmark for terror attacks in U.S. history. On this date of the Boston Marathon (around 2:49 P.M.) two pressure-cooker bombs detonated approximately twelve seconds apart from one another. This explosion resulted in the death of three spectators, amputated sixteen, and injured around two-hundred and sixty more. With the basic facts being stated, the focus of this analysis is to examine and interpret the motives and backgrounds of the perpetrators. The perpetrators consisted of only two brothers, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (nineteen years of age at the time) and Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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Homeland security was developed by the United States government to protect the country from external aggression, reduce the likelihood of terrorist attacks and manage the damage that occurs in case of attacks. To this end, the government set up and reconstituted numerous agencies to aid in the fight against terrorism in the United States. The United States Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security constitute the most prominent departments under the United States law to champion the fight against any attacks by extremist groups. Federal, State and local law enforcement agencies, as well as the United States’ military also have a role to play in homeland security. With the increasing cases of attacks and acts of aggression towards the United States, the government sought to strengthen the resolve to curb any attacks aimed at killing or maiming the citizens or destruction of government institutions and installations. In the wake of the September 11 attacks, it was apparent that stringent measures were needed to prevent attacks on American soil and protect the citizens of the country. This paper examines the duties; responsibility and intelligence methods used by the military, federal, State and local law enforcement agencies, as well as homeland security agencies in the fight against terrorism, with the aim of drawing similarities and differences.
The sun rises to a deep spring-blue sky on Sunday the Fifth of May 2017; 51,000 people are converging on downtown Spokane for the 39th running of the Bloomsday road race. Thirty miles to the south, near the town of Fairfield, a small cluster of people watch from a distance as two men in protective coveralls and respirators pour fifty gallons of a clear fluid into the payload compartment of a Bell 300C helicopter. The crop duster, which was purchased for cash in Walla Walla, is a descendent of the Korean War era helicopters depicted on the television series MASH. After the liquid is loaded, and the outside of the helicopter is sanitized, the pilot runs through his preflight checklist and fires up the engine. Thirty minutes later, moments before the starter fires his gun into the air, the helicopter swoops in low over Riverside Avenue, coming from the east so the sun is to the pilot's back. As the pilot reaches the near edge of the crowd, his right hand depresses to trigger on the control stick and begins to spray his payload on the assembled runners.
Terrorism has been around for centuries and religion-based violence has been around just as long. (Hoffman, 2). The violence was never referred to as terrorism though. Only up to the nineteenth century has religion been able to justify terrorism (Hoffman, 2). Since then, religious terrorism became motivated and inspired by the ideological view (Hoffman, 3). Therefore, it has turned against the main focus of religion and more towards the views of the extremist and what is happening politically (Winchester, 4).
On September 11, 2001, the destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon changed the mindset and the opinion of nearly every American on the one of the most vital issues in the 21st century: terrorism (Hoffman 2). Before one can begin to analyze how the United States should combat such a perverse method of political change, one must first begin to understand what terrorism is, where it is derived from, and why there is terrorism. These issues are essential in America’s analysis of this phenomenon that has revolutionized its foreign policy and changed America’s stance in the world.
As the theoretical consideration I mention above, my hypothesis would be that people’s economic condition (poverty) has no direct relationship with people’s participation and support for terrorism. As I mention above, people cannot determine the exact role poverty plays in determining terrorism. For example, educational level can work as a cofounding variable between poverty and terrorism since low educational level can both cause poverty and terrorism according to some studies. Also it is very hard for us to determine the position of political variables. For example, political repression and instability can both cause poverty and terrorism. As political instability increases, poverty and terrorism both increase. Under this circumstance,
In this world there are many different topics of controversy. With every controversial topic comes different views and arguments explaining why people believe what they do. There are problems that can be just within one country or throughout the entire world. Terrorism affects everyone in the world, specifically us as Americans, which is why it is one of the biggest controversial topics. Of course with a topic as big as terrorism, there are emic and etic perspectives involved. With past history, there are specific countries and religions that we think of when we hear the word terrorism, specifically Afghanistan, located in the Middle East and the Muslim religion in that general area. Being part of the American