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EXTREMISM 1984 – Present Right – Wing Extremist Violence 1 st Period Halee Williams Aven Davis Dillon Martin. The Oklahoma City Bombings.
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EXTREMISM1984 – Present Right – Wing Extremist Violence1st Period Halee WilliamsAven Davis Dillon Martin
The Oklahoma City Bombings • On an April morning in 1995 in Oklahoma City workers were starting their morning when an enormous bomb truck drove through the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. It left a scene of destruction the death roll was 168 including 19 children from the buildings day care. Right after the attack the media suspected that it was foreign terrorists to blame. But within 48 hours the FBI apprehended two home grown suspects. Gulf war veteran Timothy McVeigh and his accomplice Terry Nichols.
Footage of the Oklahoma City Bombings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnR94KueJFQ&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1
Right wing extremist groups do not belong to a specific group. Their views range from Christian fundamentalism, patriotism, militarism, racism, and deep resentment toward government authority. The basic beliefs that all Americans share are there within extremists, but they are exaggerated and forced upon everyone that they encounter with violence if they believe they must.
This video clip shows a news story on an abortion clinic that was bombed on January 29, 1998. http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/jan-29-1998-abortion-clinic-bombed-12748142 In the 1980's, extremist groups gained momentum; however, the authorities did not think of them as any special threat, they were merely treated as common criminals.
The right wing community was stimulated after an incident in 1992 where federal marshalls and the FBI engaged militiaman Randy Weaver in a bloody shoot out. The results of this shootout was the gathering of the most prominent extremist leaders in Estes Park, Colorado. These leaders plotted to stage a was against the U.S.Their strategy to overcome the U.S. involved creating isolated cells all throughout the fifty states so that each individual cell could carry out terror campaigns without provoking government action against a national leadership of the extremist cells.
"We don't want bloodshed. We want to use the ballot box and the jury box. We don't want to go to the carrtridge box. But we will if we have to."-John Trochmann, founder of the Militia of Montana Benjamin Nathaniel Smith was a white supremacist that began targeting African Americans, Asians, and Jews in Illinois and Indiana. He killed two people and wounded nine others before taking his life.
"Christian" Identity Church & Eric Robert Rudolph • Eric Robert Rudolph is said to be part of the racist Christian Identity Church. This church believes that only Caucasian people have soles. • Eric Robert Rudolph bombed abortion clinics, a gay night club, and the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. He was arrested and has a life sentence with no ability for parole.
Survivalists • The approach of the new millennium created a new group of extremists called Survivalists. Those were the people that believed the world could end in the year 2000. • Although survivalists are still present, when the turn of the millennium happened without incident, this group faded into the shadows.
USA Patriot Act • This act was enacted in 2001 in response to 9-11. • The USA Patriot Act dramatically reduced restrictions on law enforcement agencies' ability to search telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial, and other records. • (This means the government can track anyone and listen in on anyone’s phone calls.) • This has a good and bad side to it, and some people believe that it has taken away from our rights.
