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CHAPTER
DOMESTIC TERRORIST GROUPS
The Forgotten Threat
This is the endgame for the animal killers and if you choose to stand with
them you will be dealt with accordingly. There will be no quarter given, no
half measures taken.
Eco-Terrorist Statement Claiming Responsibility
for a 2003 Bombing
CHAPTER OVERVI EW
Political protest is both a right and tradition of the American people.
However, for certain groups protest has lead to extremism, which has
lead, in some cases, to terrorism. Homegrown terrorists have fought
for a wide range of right-wing, left-wing, nationalist, and special-
interest causes. United by their disdain for the democratic system and
choice of political violence as a tactic, they have made domestic ter-
rorism by far the most frequent form of terrorist activity in modern
U.S. history.
Recent trends in domestic terrorism suggest a continuing level of
violence employing sophisticated tactics that make detection and
arrest more difficult. With a proven interest in WMD, domestic ter-
rorists pose a significant threat to the U.S. homeland.
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CHAPTER LEARNI NG OBJECTI VES
After reading this chapter, you should be able to
1. Define domestic terrorism.
2. Describe modern historical trends in domestic terrorism.
3. Identify major extremist movements linked to modern domes-
tic terrorism.
4. Explain the threat raised by evolving characteristics of domes-
tic terrorism.
THE ENEMY WI THI N
George Metesky was a quiet man. None of his neighbors suspected
that he was responsible for a string of bombings that terrorized New
Yorkers for 16 years. In January 1952, Metesky confessed to being the
Mad Bomber and planting 32 bombs in New York, which injured 16
people. Metesky was hardly an aberration. America has never been
immune from the threat of political violence emanating from domes-
tic sources, be they individuals like Metesky, or large organized
groups. It is the kind of threat that will likely present itself again in
the future.
DEFI NI NG DOMESTI C TERRORI SM
In contrast with Islamic extremist and international terrorism, which
often occurs abroad under the direction of foreign leaders, domestic
terrorism is usually conducted by U.S. citizens operating in their own
country. The FBI defines domestic terrorism as acts of violence that are
a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any state, com-
mitted by individuals or groups without any foreign direction, and
appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, or
influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, and
occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United
States. 1
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THE I NCI DENCE OF DOMESTI C TERRORI SM
Domestic terrorism has been the most common form of terrorism in
the United States and until 9/11 was the most deadly. The FBI
recorded 353 incidents or suspected incidents of terrorism in this
country between 1980 and 2001; 264 of these incidents were attributed
to domestic terrorists.2 Domestic terrorism cases nearly doubled from
1999 to 2003 according to the Bureau.3 Between 1999 and 2001 alone
the FBI prevented 10 possible domestic terrorist incidents, including
two potentially large-scale, high-casualty attacks by right-wing
groups.4
I SSUE:
WHAT IS THE LINE BETWEEN EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM?
In July 1999, Benjamin Smith, a follower of the white suprema-
cist World Church of the Creator (now known as The Creativity
Movement) and its doctrine of racial holy war, launched a shoot-
ing spree across Indiana and Illinois. His targets were Asians,
Jews, and blacks; he killed two people and wounded nine more
before committing suicide.5 The next month Buford O. Furrow, a
mentally disturbed racist with links to the Aryan Nations,
walked into a Los Angeles area Jewish community center and
opened fire with an AR-15 rifle, wounding five people, including
three children from the facility s day-care center. After stealing a
car, Furrow gunned down a Filipino-American postal worker,
whom he considered a target of opportunity because he was a
minority who worked for the federal government. Once
arrested, Furrow reportedly announced he had wanted to send
a wake-up call to America to kill Jews. 6
In both cases, the killers had longstanding ties to known
extremist groups. But in neither case was there proof they had
been acting as part of a plot. Such cases pose a serious challenge
for those tasked with preventing domestic terrorism. It is a rare
person who wakes up one morning and suddenly abandons a
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mainstream life, picks up a gun, and begins killing for a political
cause. In most cases, the killer has been associated with a politi-
cal or ideological movement and moved, sometimes with others
or the group as a whole, to the fringes of legal dissent, before
making the leap from protest to terror. It is this connection
between legitimate protest, extremism, and terrorism that has
often challenged America s response to domestic terrorism. As
discussed earlier, during the 1960s and 70s, the FBI and U.S.
intelligence community gathered vast amounts of information
on demonstrators, extremists, and terrorists alike. Abuses by
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