Domestic terrorism in the United States

controversial topic in the United States; where the two main sides are the people opposed to gun control and the people in favor of gun control. It has been a major controversy since owning guns has come into question regarding the nation’s overall safety. It has become increasingly popular with the growing fear of terrorism, and how easy it is to attack the United States. “The effect of [the Second and Fourteenth Amendments] on gun politics was the subject of landmark United States Supreme…

officers, agents, and guards and sent millions of innocent Soviet citizens to the GULAG, supported international terrorism, and forced Solzhenitsyn into exile because his writings were considered politically dangers? Some key questions to consider are: To what degree are the Russian security services (FSB in particular) the KGB’s successors? Is the FSB more powerful than the USSR’s domestic security apparatus? Finally, if the FSB is more powerful than the KGB, what are some of the potential…

NSA surveillance programs were carried out by the United States government (Barrett, 2015). One of the NSA programs involved mobile data throughout the United States including numbers, amount of time during a call, and location of phone calls. Although, the second program the NSA was using is called PRISM. This program allowed the…

When Timothy McVeigh attacked Oklahoma City Federal building on April 19th 1995, the United States saw 168 people killed and saw more than 608 people injured. The blast was so strong that it destroyed or damaged more than 300 buildings in a 16 block radius. McVeigh a war veteran of Desert Storm what could make a war veteran want to attack a federal building killing incident men, woman, and children. According to. Explains some do the events that led to McVeigh attacking Oklahoma City " McVeigh…

An executive order I learned in Lesson 2, was Executive Order 9066. The Executive Order 9066 was issued during world war 2 on February 19, 1942. This sent not only Japanese-Americans, but German, and Italian-Americans as well into internment camps. This occurred ten weeks after the Japanese bombed pearl harbor. How did this executive order effect American citizens? Well for starters we ripped Japanese-AMERICAN citizens from their homes and their families, and through them in internment camps. We…

drones, domestic surveillance software, facial recognition software, and body cameras have violated the privacy of millions and therefore should be restricted. Drones have done tremendous things for our country. They have been proven to help carry out numerous missions, such as locating high targets to kill or capture without risking the lives…

Homeland defense protects the country by conducting many of the same actions as homeland security but does so outside the United States. Their missions although similar, have specific limitations based upon their capabilities and scopes of responsibility. Their ultimate goal remains the protection of the United States from acts of terror and, with potential overlapping responses, will at times require the two programs to coordinate…

” Civil liberties are the freedom of a citizen to exercise rights, without government interference. Every citizen of the United States is allowed right, but what about refugees? Ten-thousand Syrian refugees fleeing a war-torn country will be accepted into the United States. The big question within this debate is this right and should it be allowed, according the United States Constitution? This specific debate is not a debate on who is right and wrong in the situation.…

156. That is the number of countries that the United States has a military presence in. After World War II the US became a world superpower and since then the US has become increasingly interventionist. Although interventionism could be considered a practical foreign policy, isolationism is the only practical foreign policy as it is not one countries place to police the rest of the world since interventionism creates hatred for the United States, domestic affairs are of more importance, and…

between a strong state and a weaker non-state opponent would permit the stronger adversary to win. However, history illustrates a different picture, since weak non-state actors have been the side reaping victory. This paper will limit its scope by examining why strong counterinsurgent state actors lose in asymmetrical wars, which will ultimately explain why weaker insurgents win. This paper adopts the dictum that counterinsurgent actors lose when they do not win the war, and non-state insurgent…