Louisiana State University Domestic Terrorism in the United States Discussion

Module 8: Writing Assignment

We need to remember that terrorism is a tactic practiced by actors from a wide array of ethnic and religious backgrounds who follow various ideologies stretching from anarchism to neo-Nazism. Terrorism does not equal jihadism. Long before jihadism reared its head in the United States, anarchist Leon Czolgosz assassinated President William McKinley, white supremacist James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King Jr., Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Commonly referred to as the Oklahoma City bombing, the attack killed 168 people and injured over 600, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev killed 3 people and injured an estimated 264 others in the Boston Marathon bombings and Posse Comitatus member Gordon Kahl killed three law enforcement officers in a multi-state spree of violence.

• Do you believe that domestic terrorism is still a threat to the United States? Why or why not?
• Which do you believe is more dangerous to the American public, domestic terrorism, or international terrorism?
• What role do the federal government and its’ law enforcement agencies play in combating or encouraging the formation of domestic terrorist cells and or organizations ie? The Sovereign Citizens or others as identified on videos made available to you during the course?
• To best understand this question and to aide, in your response, you should have watched the video on “Ruby Ridge” “Oklahoma City Bombing” These two videos are over an hour long each please make sure to provide yourself with the time needed to view and internalize the information provided.
• “Oklahoma City Bombing” : https://archive.org/details/PBSAmericanExperienceO..
• Ruby Ridge:

Response Guidelines
Active engagement with the topic assigned will include the submission of a substantive post (500+ words) for each of the writing topics. Each submission should demonstrate your achievement of the participation criteria. In addition, these submissions should present supporting information relevant to the topic (do not plagiarize, use in-text citations and references in APA style). You are expected to use APA 7th edition formatting for your submission, if you are unfamiliar with it, look it up. Each work should have at least two sources used in response.