Weather Underground Research Paper

There have been several domestic terrorists who started out as activists and turned into terrorists. The activists made the jump into terrorism due to their actions. The Weather Underground started as a group who wanted to protest the Vietnam War and see changes in the government to a group who would forcefully attempt to make those changes to the government by committing violent acts. According to the FBI, the first characteristic of domestic terrorism must “involve acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law”. According to the FBI definition, the acts must be considered dangerous to human life and are in violation of the law. The definition does not state that the act must have injured or killed a human life but must be “considered dangerous”. Therefore, acts that may injure or kill a humane but do not could fit the definition of terrorism even if no actual harm to humane life occurs. Furthermore, …show more content…
The Weather Underground have often argued that their actions never harmed anyone. However, their bombings have been responsible for the deaths of police officers and an armed robbery committed by them also resulted in the death of law enforcement (Aim). The Weather Underground started off by attempting to put together a bomb meant to go off at a dance on an Army base, but accidently went off and killed three of its own members (). The Weather Underground changed from an activist group to a domestic terrorist group. The Weather Underground also partnered with the Black Liberation Army and did so in an armed robbery responsible for the death of law enforcement officers (). The armed robbery could have been a terrorist act as they want to send a message to the government, banks and law enforcement or could have been an attempt to get more funding to further their terrorist acts, perhaps