Terrorism Act 2000

available, but the political elites were embezzling public funds and living extravagantly (Okoro, E.). The government inability to provide its people the necessities that were needed to function in society outside the realms of poverty resulted in the acts of violence, to include crimes of kidnapping, armed robberies and ultimately made them ready armies in the hands of terrorist organizations. Organizations like Boko-Haram, which Nigeria’s leaders proved to be incompetent at disbanding.…

The conflict between the United States and the Middle East has been waging for more than a decade. America has found a new types of criminal activity throughout this time; specifically combatting terrorism. This situation is not as simple as it has been in the past, where people would single out a specific demographic of individuals and categorize them as the “enemy”. However, we can currently see U.S. citizens stereotyping Muslim-Americans throughout our daily lives, ignorantly muttering broken…

US and carry out malicious acts. Newland says that “the direct threat to the United States is small in the wake of post-9/11 security measures, but the potential would be increased were our large immigrant population to be alienated by xenophobic rhetoric from national leaders” (Newland). To clarify, Newland believes that the anti-immigration stance from many politicians and national leaders could actually cause the acts that were trying to be prevented, terrorist acts being committed in the…

internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.” Dylann Roof appeared to have committed his heinous act out of hatred for the African American race. While it seemed clear that what Roof did was out of hatred for a race and thus was a hate crime, some called it an act of terrorism. Roof’s…

such is due to the fact that a sense of unfairness has been a part of their lives. Fairness is the rock that our court system has established in the United States. In today’s world, suspected terrorism has become a more increasingly important topic that needs to be discussed. The issue of alleged terrorism has now been entangled with the court system. Should a suspected terrorist be detained without a trial? To ensure a suspected terrorist is treated fairly, they should not be detained without…

they are hard to prevent, they are carefully planned and carefully executed. ISIS is the largest and most powerful terrorist the U.S. has ever dealt with. In recent discussions of Islamic Terrorism, a controversial issue has been whether The U.S. shouldn’t intervene with ISIS and other forms of Islamic terrorism. On the one hand, some argue that the U.S. should intervene and stop Islamic Extremism from this perspective, ISIS’s primary target is the U.S. homeland and critics…

rally a country together. American’s felt obligated to donate blood and as a means to give back after the occurrence of 9/11. Within just two weeks of the attacks, donations to charities hit over 500 million dollars (Denee). The social effect of terrorism helps to bring those surrounding the area for a common purpose and spread pride in their country (Silke). The day after 9/11, Wal-Mart alone sold over 88,000 American flags (Denee). Likewise, after the Paris attacks in November of 2015,…

The idea of a narrative is to tell a story, the events occurring on the day of September 11, 2001 will provide an opportunity to relay my feelings, moving beyond the initial pure and basic anger at those responsible for such a desperate act. The image shows two emergency responders in the cloud of debris left by the collapse of the Trade Centers and what drew me to this picture is what they must have been talking about. The questions and issues I initially considered included: the loss of life;…

Terrorism is described by various sources and groups as both a strategy and a tactic; a crime and a holy duty; a justified reaction to oppression and an inexcusable abomination. A lot depends on whose point of view is being considered, though I’m sure many can agree that terrorism is a criminal act of those whose intentions are to influence an audience beyond the immediate victim. The phrase “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” is a view that the terrorist groups themselves…

fight the politicians. Terrorism is the use of threats and violence for political ends, and that everyone who practices it will be tried as a terrorist. The people who are dedicated to this, belong to non-governmental groups often operate in two or more countries, and amassing wealth these have generally been obtained from drug trafficking, weapons or sale. We can find three major types of terrorism; for example, narco-terrorism, is called thus…