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POS 339 10/31/2007

• Course status.
• Midterm follow-up.
• Paper Assignment 2 due next week (Nov. 5).
• Paper Assignment 3 advance notice.
• Distributed 11/07 due 11/28.
• Requirement collecting descriptive data.
• Use of Global Terrorism Database, other Univ.
  Maryland datasets, MIPT related terrorism
  databases.
• If above datasets not relevant, contact Prof.
  Erickson for assistance.
• GTD/MIPT/WITC. Comparison.
• Research links for course website revised.
• Demonstration of how to produce output from
  databases.

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• Class Agenda.
• Halloween and Terrorism.
• Jeff Dunham Achmed the Dead Terrorist.
• Youtube clip.
• Presentation.
• Discussion of concepts introduced by readings.
• Interspersed with
• Video case studies (as time allows)
• UBL, AQ, Holy Warrior 1979-1988.
• CNN 2006 In the Footsteps of Bin Laden.
• US
• Kehoe Family/Aryan Peoples Republic, 1970s to
  1990s (Part 1).
• New York Times/Showtime 1999.
• Timothy McVeigh (Part 1).
• ABC Rage and Betrayal- 1996
• Black Block Anarchist/Anti-WTO Collective in
  Portland/Eugene area November 2000.

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• Midterm Follow-up.
• Comments Sig? (significance), ex? (specific
  examples).
• For additional feedback comments, return exam.
• If below 2 or more points below average of 89,
  set up appointment w/me to discuss how to improve
  on exams.

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Martin (Chapter 7)

• Race and Order terrorist right.
• Why race and order?
• Unique properties of right-wing political parties
  and movements.
• Distinguishing characteristics (left vs. right).
• No singular event (like Revolutions of 1848 for
  Communist Manifesto).
• No core document.
• Documents Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Mein
  Kampf, Turner Diaries.
• No transnational leadership pantheon (except
  perhaps for neo-Nazis).
• Lack of systematic political ideology (except
  perhaps for neo-Nazis and Christian Identity).
• Video Case 2 United States Northwest - Kehoe
  Family.

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Right Wing Terror Characteristics

• Tendencies among right-wing terrorists.
• Theory less important than for left.
• Nonpolitical criminality larger.
• More single-issue.
• Vigilante/reactive - preserving status quo.
• Commonalities.
• Nationalism.
• Racism.
• Xenophobia.
• Antidemocratic.
• Strong state (militarism/law and order).
• Themes.
• Tradition and order.
• Lebensraum for an ethnically defined population.
• Scapegoating.

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Enemy Others/Scapegoats
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Right-wing Nationalism/Religion, Mysticism

• Loyalty, unity, identity.
• Divergence in right-wing basis of nationalist
  identity.
• Germany.
• National Socialist (Nazi) past.
• Opening in the East following collapse.
• Intense xenophobia.
• Norway.
• Variability - nationalist, not national
  socialist.
• Skinheads similar to American neo-Nazi
  affinities.
• United States.
• Complex and fluid set of beliefs/ideologies.
• ZOG, Christian Identity, Apocalyptic.
• Religion and mysticism.
• Nazi flirtation with mysticism/ neopaganism.
• United States multiple cults - primarily
  clustered around fusion of CI and neo-Nazi
  beliefs.

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Elders of Zion/Terrorism

• Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
• Okhrana forgery.
• Circulated throughout world.
• Basis of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
• Fusion of anti-communism and anti-Semitism.
• Invoked by fascists and some Islamic
  fundamentalists truth.
• Origins of ZOG.
• Right-Wing Terrorism.
• Paramilitaries most systematic terrorists.
• Largely characterized by indiscriminate attacks.
• Organization clandestine cells/street militias
  and fighters.
• Focus indiscriminate targets, greater tolerance
  for mass casualties.
• Longevity Rare.

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• Next Week 11/07/2007.
• Terrorism in the United States.
• Case Studies Continued.
• Kehoe Family and McVeigh.
• Anarchist collective in Oregon 1990s-2000s.
• Undergraduates may want to review graduate
  reading.
• Previous war on (anarchist) terror 1900 1914.
• Paper assignment 2 due.
• Paper assignment 3 distributed and discussed.