Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorist on U.s. Soil

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorist on U.s. Soil
Author: Jaspar Pharr
Publisher: RoseDog Books
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2016-01-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781480966468

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorist on U.S. Soil by Jasper Pharr The most plausible conclusion to be made from analyzing these 215 federal convictions from the last 15 years is that we are in a new era. In this new era we will not be enjoying the life and liberties that we have taken for granted in the past. The enemy is on our soil and can be described by what they have exhibited: patience, planning, preparation, participation and perversion. No other time in recent history have we witnessed Americans willing to kill Americans on U.S. soil or Americans willing to kill Americans halfway across the globe. In no other time have our enemies been able to cross our borders with ease to plan and perpetuate the killing and maiming of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil. This is a crisis in the history of this country and in the life and liberties that we enjoy. We are in a new era and, unlike in the past, the enemy is located here on U.S. soil. In this new era, the war on foreign and domestic terrorist is not fought with ¿boots on the ground¿ but with high tech telecommunication worldwide. With the advent of the personal computer and the internet, the availability and accessibility of information is just a click away. Terrorists are utilizing the internet as a recruiting tool to target and radicalize Westerners and, more particularly, U.S. citizens and immigrants who are legally here in the U.S. About the Author Jasper Pharr is a retired attorney living in his hometown, Cincinnati, Ohio. His criminal practice spanned over three decades in Louisiana. He has been certified as an expert in his field in both Civil and Criminal Courts. His interests include baseball, college and pro football and basketball. His hobby is collecting antique and vintage vinyl records for his library.

Female Terrorism in America

Female Terrorism in America
Author: Jonathan Matusitz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2020-09-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000192067

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of female terrorism in America, both past and present. The volume takes a fresh look at women’s actions of left-wing political violence, right-wing political violence, and religious extremist violence (among others). It also examines the multitude of roles that women have played over the past few decades in such organizations (including leadership positions and more passive roles)—not to mention the diverse methods of recruitment, radicalization, and propaganda. The objective of this book is to examine—using a wide range of case studies, facts, statistics, and theoretical methodologies—how collective or personal factors have influenced or reinforced the actions that these women take. Government agencies continue to underestimate the ability of women to support and perpetrate terrorism. As such, the United States is facing a wholly inaccurate and incomplete picture of the complexities of domestic terrorism, and this is contributing to a serious neglect of the issue at the national level. This volume ultimately aims to offer policy-relevant solutions to decrease the threat of domestic female political violence in the United States. Female Terrorism in America will be of much interest to students of terrorism and political violence, American politics, gender studies, and sociology.

The NSA Report

The NSA Report
Author: President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, The
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2014-03-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1400851270

The official report that has shaped the international debate about NSA surveillance "We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake of wholly 'trusting' our public officials."—The NSA Report This is the official report that is helping shape the international debate about the unprecedented surveillance activities of the National Security Agency. Commissioned by President Obama following disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward J. Snowden, and written by a preeminent group of intelligence and legal experts, the report examines the extent of NSA programs and calls for dozens of urgent and practical reforms. The result is a blueprint showing how the government can reaffirm its commitment to privacy and civil liberties—without compromising national security.

Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups

Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups
Author: Mark S. Hamm
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1437929591

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.

The Patriot Act

The Patriot Act
Author: Lauri S. Friedman
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780737735253

Examines six controversial essays that debate the issue of the Patriot Act, and includes model essays, sidebar notes and guided exercises.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Author: Charles R. Kesler
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2012-03-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1442213353

Over the past 10 years, the Claremont Review of Books has become one of the preeminent conservative magazines in the United States, offering bold arguments for a reinvigorated conservatism that draws upon the timeless principles of the American Founding and applies them to the moral and political problems we face today. With essays by the likes of William F. Buckley, Jr., Christopher Hitchens, Richard Brookheiser, James Q. Wilson, Allen C. Guelzo, Victor Davis Hanson, Ross Douthat, and many others, this collection surveys the range of issues addressed in the Claremont Review of Books first decade, from the conservative critique of American progressivism to foreign policy, politics, history, and culture. Liberally illustrated with art director Elliot Banfield's popular cartoons, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness provides the magazine's many devotees with a treasured keepsake of a tumultuous decade and will be of interest to all those who care about American politics and culture. Among the contributors are Hadley Arkes, Martha Bayles, the late William F. Buckley, Jr., Paul Cantor, James Ceaser, Joseph Epstein, Christopher Flannery, Harvey Mansfield, Wilfred McClay, Cheryl Miller, the late Jaroslav Pelikan, Joseph Tartakovsky, Michael Uhlmann, Algis Valiunas, William Voegeli, and the late James Q. Wilson.

Vietnam

Vietnam
Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2012-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1456610856

Zinn's compelling case against the Vietnam War, now with a new introduction. Of the many books that challenged the Vietnam War, Howard Zinn's stands out as one of the best--and most influential. It helped sparked national debate on the war. It includes a powerful speech written by Zinn that President Johnson should have given to lay out the case for ending the war.

Theological Perspectives for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Theological Perspectives for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Author: A. Isasi-Diaz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2013-11-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137372214

Rather than wield religion as a weapon or a ruse in irrational appeals, the book attempts to reimagine a shared American mythos and ethos, by reminding us of our shared stake in creating an America committed to the life of all peoples and species and to the full developments of our capabilities as an exercise of liberty.

Relentless Pursuit

Relentless Pursuit
Author: Samuel M. Katz
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2003-09-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1466825243

Al Queda's war on America did not start on September 11, 2001. Just ask the Diplomatic Security Service. It was on February 6, 1993, that the United States was first attacked on its own soil by foreign terrorists. A zealous band of Middle Easterners, holy warriors determined to punish the U.S. for its supposed transgressions against Islam, packed over a ton of home made explosives into the back of a rented van. They drove their bomb across the Hudson from New Jersey, maneuvered it through downtown traffic and parked it in the underground garage at the Vista Hotel, beneath the twin towers of the World Trade Center. They lit a long fuse, which allowed them time to get back to New Jersey to watch the results of the explosion on CNN. They hoped to topple one mammoth tower into the other and kill ten thousand people or more. Miraculously, only six people were killed. Most of the group were captured within a week, but the mastermind behind the attack, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, had immediately gone to JFK airport to fly to Pakistan. Before leaving, he phoned the Associated Press and claimed responsibility for the bombing in the name of the Arab Liberation Army, a terrorist group led by Saudi exile Osama bin Laden. A succession of such brazen crimes has revealed complex connections among terrorist groups with an implacable hostility toward Western civilization. Outrages such as the assassination of the Jewish Defense League founder Meier Kahane, a huge plot in the Philippines to plant bombs on intercontinental airlines and to assassinate the Pope, the bombing of U.S. embassies, culminating in the African embassy bombings of 1998, the attack on the USS Cole in 1999, and the devastating attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 have made it clear that a worldwide network of terrorists led by Osama bin Laden is making war on the United States. On the front lines combating these terrorists in 150 countries around the world have been the 1,200 agents of the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service. A little-known but highly effective branch of the government, the DSS is the one arm of federal law enforcement with international powers of arrest. These agents maintain close ties to local police commanders in many countries and can entice informants with bounties of up to $4,000,000. After a challenging international search, it was DSS agents in Pakistan who captured Ramzi Yousef. DSS agents have been in the vanguard of the War on Terrorism long before it was declared. In Relentless Pursuit, Samuel Katz review the escalating series of terrorist attacks on the U.S. during the last decade, including those in many foreign countries and finally in New York and Washington. In the process, he tells the gripping story of the DSS and its agents protecting us and our representatives here and abroad. Katz's detailed, personal, on-the-ground anecdotes bring home the contexts and linkages of the War on Terrorism that has been fought on our behalf by the DSS since the 1980s. Relentless Pursuit is a stirring tribute to an unsung group of brave Americans. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In Pursuit of Justice

In Pursuit of Justice
Author: Richard B. Zabel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2008
Genre: Law
ISBN:

In recent years, there has been much controversy about the proper forum in which to prosecute and punish suspected terrorists. Some have endorsed aggressive use of military commissions; others have proposed an entirely new "national security court." However, as the nation strives for a vigorous and effective response to terrorism, we should not lose sight of the important tools that are already at our disposal, nor should we forget the costs and risks of seeking to break new ground by departing from established institutions and practices. As this White Paper shows, the existing criminal justice system has proved successful at handling a large number of important and challenging terrorism prosecutions over the past fifteen years-without sacrificing national security interests, rigorous standards of fairness and due process, or just punishment for those guilty of terrorism-related crimes.