ADMJ 1245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: State Terrorism, Psychological Trauma, Extortion

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Typically, non-state actors (states can terrorize but are not called terrorists. Criminal dimensions: violence, physical harm, death, destruction. Political dimensions: desire for political change, or to prevent change. There is no real profile of a terrorist. Zealots: murdered romans in broad daylight in jerusalem. French revolution: word terrorism is first used here: rule by fear/terror. Iraq: hussein regime uses chemical weapons to subdue uprising among kurdish villages. Early terrorism in the us: sons of liberty : provoked stamp act, organized mobs to tar and feather colonists still loyal to the king, forcing many to flee to canada. Doctrines: seeking to provoke state to the point where the reaction leads to popular revolt. Technology: communication and transportation patterns, telegraph, daily newspaper, railroads; guns and knives and dynamite. Doctrines: freedom for indigenous peoples to decide their own system. Technology: faster means of communication, transportation, money transfer. Financing: diaspora support, particularly from immigrants living in western countries.

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