Does a Terrorist Live Next Door to You?

The man next door or across the street
Each time he hits, strangles, or spits on his wife or child
Road raging violent drivers who kill
Rapists, murderers, and pedophiles
Or local community drug dealers and gang members
Rioters on American soil during tragedies or natural disasters
Individuals who use fear to control and harm others for an individual or collective gain
Should ALL be regarded as
Terrorists just the same, regardless of location or citizenship.

1 in 4 women and 1 in 8 men have reported experiencing domestic violence, which is an act of terror by one individual who claims to love another individual. Did you know that more than 3 women are killed each day by a husband or boyfriend in the United States of America? Did you know this equals more women killed by husbands or exboyfriends in the US than terrorists killing U.S. citizens each year? Love is not abuse. A loving spouse or partner would not use abuse to coerce, control, or manipulate his or her partner.

Domestic violence is terrorism against a family, a community, and our society at large. Non-political terrorism is defined as violence with a "conscious design to create and maintain a high degree of fear for coercive purposes, but the end is individual or collective gain rather than the achievement of a political objective" according to that National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals.

American citizens who rape, steal, murder, deal illegal drugs, and commit acts of violence or create a fearful environment through threats and intimidation are Americans committing terrorism in our own nation and walking our own streets. The only reason we don't send armies of soldiers after them is because they are American citizens.

Does being an American citizen give an individual the right to walk around and put other nonviolent citizens at risk? When a terrorist group attacks the United States of America, what do we do? We send our armies all over the world to fight a war against terrorists but what is being done about the terrorists on our own soil terrorizing our own citizens? We try to prevent another attack. Is American, your government, your politicians, and the laws in our nation working hard with your tax payers dollars to protect you, your children, your grandchildren, and your businesses from the terrorists walking the streets in the United States? Or are these terrorists protected by a slew of "rights" and "freedoms" to continue to commit repeated acts of terror?

Abuse in America, National Domestic Violence Hotline
Disorders and Terrorism, National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals (Washington D.C.:1976), "Terrorism," Wikipedia