Domestic Terrorism

Killing 168 people, 19 children, and injuring over 680 others, the Oklahoma City bombing marked a new chapter in American History that had been written in blood, fear and dismay. Terrorism had struck home and nothing would ever be the same again. Timothy James McVeigh, the U.S. Army veteran who…

Don’t call yourself paranoid, just prepared. A reasonable person would want to have a backup plan to counter the growing number of intimidating events like a cyber-attack on critical infrastructure, a tornado or hurricane, power outage, wildfire, domestic terror attack, a heat wave with temperatures soaring above 120 degrees… any…

The Edward Snowden affair makes me think back to 9/11. Shortly after witnessing the horrors of that day, I was upset when a domestic surveillance program was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge. At the time, I posed reasons why Beijing should pick up the slack. Yes… Beijing…as in China…

Attorney General Merrick Garland reassured the nation in a speech that the Department of Justice is deep into its investigation of the domestic terrorist attack on our Capitol a year ago today. He reminded the public that this investigation is historical in scope and nature, “The circumstances we face are…

I’ll sound like a grumpy old man yelling at cloud, but in my day, journalists aimed to tell the facts and the various positions without bias. These days the news channels are becoming polarised. It’s no doubt that instead of giving facts, we can paraphrase Plato that those who tell…

Extremism is a symptom of broader social and political headwinds within civilian society. — by Marek N. Posard Now might be a great time to get into the extremist business. The pandemic has laid bare a tangled pathology of inequality that was decades in the making. The last national election highlighted the deep political divides in this country. Thanks to social media, it’s cheap…