Final Analysis

The American Case Terrorism in the United States

 Origins of the Civil Rights Movement  Equality for African Americans in the South.  Concept: Collective non-violence.  The Rise of Black Power  Reaction to violence directed against nonviolent civil rights movement.  Political independence, economic self-sufficiency, and cultural reawakening.

Leftist Activism and Ideological Extremism (continued)  Growth of the New Left  Arose in mid-1960s.  Concept: Direct action.  Military-industrial complex.  Counterculture.  Case: Students for Democratic Society.

 New Left Terrorism  Generational rebellion.  Case: Weatherman organization.  Case: Symbionese Liberation Army.  Ethnonationalist Terrorism  Few violent nationalist movements.  Case: Black Liberation Army  Case: Puerto Rican Independencistas and the FALN.

Left-Wing Terrorism in the U.S. (continued)  Leftist Hard Cores  May 19 Communist Organization.  New African Freedom Fighters.  United Freedom Front.  Single-Issue Violence  Groups who focus on one issue to the exclusion of others.  Cases: Animal Liberation front and Earth Liberation Front.

 Religious Politics and the “Christian Right”  Mostly Protestant fundamentalists.  Links strict Christian values to political agendas.  Rise off the Anti-Government Patriots  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.

Rightist Activism and Ideological Extremism (continued)  Racial Supremacy  Rooted in historical racial policies and culture.  Organized supremacist groups include the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi movements.  Racial Mysticism  Incorporation of mystical quality to racial supremacy.  Cases:  The Creativity movement.  Asatru.

Rightist Activism and Ideological Extremism (continued)  The Christian Identity Myth  Americanized strain of 18 th -century Anglo-Israelism.  One-seedline Christian Identity.  Two-Seedline Christian Identity.

 The Legacy of the Ku Klux Klan  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

Right-Wing Terrorism in the U.S. (continued)  Patriot Threats  Concepts: Leaderless resistance and phantom cells.  Case: Oklahoma City bombing.  Moralist Terrorism  Mostly anti-abortion and anti-gay violence.  Case: Army of God  Case: Phineas Priesthood.

 The Spillover Effect in the United States  Operations by international terrorists.  Cases: Omega 7. IRA. Jewish Defense League.  The New Terrorism in the United States  World Trade Center attacks.  Presence of support organizations for jihadist movements abroad.