Terrorist Threats in America Today

This is the first of a two part series that will identify and discuss various modern (modern is a relative term) day terrorist organizations, their ideologies and their history. It is by no means complete, and I am not an expert. the research I have done might just be a way of looking the monster that is modern day terrorism in the face and seeing it for what it is. Perhaps this might lead to a better understanding of what we will need to do to call an end to the madness that is overtaking us like a new fashion fad.

It recently came to pass that a small population of religious zealots and terrorists invaded a nation where they immediately appropriated the land and natural resources of the indigenous people, declared the imposition of their religious beliefs and political system, and began a policy of imprisonment, enslavement, and open genocide. Literally millions and millions of native residents have already been massacred since the initial invasion of their homeland began.

This group, well known for engaging in torture technics that include burning religious non-conformists while they are tied to a stake, has not only unleashed a reign of terror upon the aboriginal masses of the land that they have invaded, they also turned upon the very government that funded and subsidized their imperialist expeditions in the first place.

They have openly engaged in international slave trading, dehumanization, and the most horrific violations of basic human rights including rape, mutilation, and disfigurement . They reap huge profits from drug trafficking and production. They are able to wreak havoc over the society they have conquered, and the their former governing body by consistently acquiring state-of-the-art weapons and technology which they openly posses and use to instill a state of constant fear, or, at the very least, subservience.

Along with the human toll that has been taken, the environmental devastation that has resulted in the wake of the infestation by these barbarians is almost beyond measure. Among other atrocities, it is estimated that timber in some areas has been harvested until only a paltry 2.0% of the original forested areas still stands. Rivers and waterways have sustained so much damage that a great many species of indigenous fish have become extinct or are well on the way. Dumping sewage and industrial waste directly into rivers and lakes has led to pollution levels that are so high, it has not been uncommon for fires to combust and burn on the water. Many areas experience acid rain. There are countless lead indicator species that have vanished from the landscape or are in serious or unrecoverable states of distress.

There is a lot of talk today about terrorism. It is not unwarranted. Political terrorism, in one form or another has been around since the dawn of time. There is a humorous saying that states that there is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the bank. By the same token, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. There is no doubt that the United States Of America came to be the independent nation that it is only because of the acts of the founding fathers which were nothing less than criminal, barbaric, and terrorist in nature to say the least. Victorious in their efforts to overpower, if not decimate the original inhabitants of North America and overthrow the provincial government, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other familiar names associated with the birth of the new world and the United States were nothing less than the most vile, dangerous, and criminal, terrorists known to the native american nations of North America, and the United Kingdom of King George.

OK, so that is who we are and where we came from. Next I will identify the top ten or twenty terrorist organizations identified by the U.S. government as being our most significant threats today.