CRIM 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Domestic Terrorism, Timothy Mcveigh
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1980-2000 there were 335 incidents of terrorism, 74% committed by. The hard part becomes on where the line is drawn between freedom of speech and stopping a terrorist group before they succeed. Our founding fathers are the original home-grown terrorist. They started a revolution that overthrew a government that had already established power. Even before the revolution: 75-100 riots in america with at least 40 of them being efforts to overthrow regional governments. After the revolution, the federal system was meant to be weak, the. States were meant to be powerful (the government today seems to being working in the other direction) Emptied jails, burned public buildings, closed courts, started their own governments. Shay"s rebellion trying to overthrow the state of massachusetts. The weather underground- advocated the violent overthrow of the government. America has hated just about every religion at some point.
