Introduction
Terrorism activities have spontaneously changed over the past few decades, with newer terrorist activities coming into lime lite in the 21st century (Lyman & Potter, 2019). While most of the terrorist activities covered a diverse range of death toll numbers and the use of heavy weapons to innocent citizens, it is essential to consider the gradual changes that have taken place in the fields of terrorism before redefining and revamping the sector. Therefore, the essay elucidates on how terrorism has rampantly spread under State-Organized crimes and the brisk steps employed to mitigate the situation.
Terrorism activities are deemed as any cowardice act that endangers or claims the lives of innocent people. Therefore, it is essential to understand circumstances through which terrorism may apply to both domestic or international. For instance, the international terrorist activities are among the increasing issues which have influenced most of domestic terrorism in the nation due to increased privacy of the American community. First and foremost, the demand for privacy for many Americans remains their top priority. It becomes easier for terrorist activities to thrive under the nose of the federal government. Therefore, in the quest to fight against the influence of foreign or international terrorism, it should be highly integrated with the government engaging in spying against its citizens to monitor and regulate threats within and outside that nation. In this case, the spying activity may be deemed as a state-organized crime in one way or another. However, the benefits of State-Organized crime may have far-reaching benefits than consequences when it comes to national security if the American citizens.
Secondly, domestic terrorist activities should be redefined to capture both extensive and minute crime activities, such as mass shootings and drug trafficking in the State. According to Chardel et al., (2016), Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act explicitly extended the definition of terrorism to cover both domestic and international acts that promote and facilitate terror activities. Therefore, a person engaging in activities that may affect the conduct of the government mass distraction, kidnapping, or even assassination consequently qualify to be classified as terrorism. Therefore, proper legislation and force should be enforced to help reduce these acts.
Terrorism as State-Organized Crimes
State-organized crimes are among the most malevolent and sadistic level of cruelty that can be categorized as terrorist activities. Since the Dawn of World War II, terrorist activities have sprung across every corner of the world. While the classification of the crimes and the degree of atrocities helps to set apart the ruthlessness of many maniacal ambitious dictators, state-organized crimes have widely increased the loss of innocent lives. In general, the complacent of State organized crimes has by far qualified to be classified as the modern concept of terrorism performed under the shadow of white color crime, as the perpetrators, cling in power to protect their skin, exploiting the innocent souls.
It is essential to understand the deeper mining of state-organized crime and the victims. On the contrary, it is critical to understand what motivates these crimes and how the offender reacts after they are discovered. According to Chardel et al., (2016), State organized crimes are conducted with the involvement or participation of the nation to help justify the State’s action, without raising further questioning. Therefore, the leaders responsible for these atrocities try to draw the public into the matter to help insulate themselves from the repercussions. Even though state-organized crimes are malevolent, most of the leaders responsible for these deranged views, are hard to put into trial since they are sturdy and influential to the government, making them slip away from the fierce teeth of justice.
As Chardel, et al., (2016) concluded, State-Organized crimes are a set of criminal activities conducted by a nation on its citizens, or citizens of another country, all in the interest of the State. Therefore, state-organized crimes are not performed for the sake of public gain, but rather for the State’s benefits, which may result in vicious and bloody endings.
World War II Atrocities
Drawing from the historical perspectives, World War II, remains one of the bloodiest wars in the course of history, that wiped out generations, and innocent civilians. As Vozniuk, et al., (2020) outlined, World War II is deemed as a war on racial annihilation, and the greed to expand for many superpower countries. Throughout the course of history, there have been many vicious dictators but non-outrages Adolf Hitler. While considering the definition of State-Organized crimes, in the context of world war II, the Invasion of Poland by German, and vast areas of Europe, were performed for the benefits of the Germany state, as opposed to interests of NAZI benefits. Therefore, the expansion of Germany during WWII, allowed the Germans to reclaim more than a third of their land, which was stripped off during the first world war. However, Germany did not use the right means of reclaiming back their land, but they further used crime activities, which led to the racial annihilation of the Jewish community in Europe. Therefore, the atrocities conducted by the NAZI party in the second World War, suits to be classified as actual examples and definition of terrorist activities sponsored by the government and bolstered by the public, all in the interests of the Germans, who were economically affected in WWII.
The Iran-Contra Affair
The Iran-Contra Affair in the 1980s remains to be one of the State-Organized crimes that involved the US government under President Ronald Reagan, in supporting the rightwing Contras in Nicaragua against the left-wing Nicaraguan government. The Nicaraguan contra is a classic example of state-organized crimes, even though the Congress had passed over three different laws to limit the ability of the American government supporting the Contras, as the levels of crimes were increasing.
The Iran-Contra Affair bolstered by the American government paved the way for crimes in Iran that perfectly suits in the frame of terrorist activities framework. Even though the American government remained in denial, most of the atrocities were revealed by a Lebanese newspaper to help shed some light on the scandals. Never the less, 11 members of the American government by then were arrested and convicted of various crimes. However, despite the prevalence and nature of these crimes, most of them escaped free, since they were serving the government’s interest, rather than their own.
The Korean Tension
According to Vozniuk, et al., (2020), the Korean Air Flight 858 bombing, is a classic example of State-organized crime, as it targeted to disrupt the economic stability of the South Korean. The North Korean agents planted a bomb in the flight to South Korea in 1987, killing all the 115 people on board, where most of them were from South Korea. The Bombing was geared towards frightening people away from attending the 1988 Seoul Olympics, due to the tolling tensions between North and South Korea. Therefore, North Korea took the opportunity to help increase fear and disrupt financial gains that South Korea was to benefit from hosting the Olympic games.
Proposal for the Prevention from the Terrorism
The war against terrorism involves a series of cooperation between the public and the government to help reduce the possible growth and development of criminal and terrorist activities. Therefore, formulating a framework document helps to outline the guidelines and classification of the criminal, and if they qualify to be categorized as terrorist activities. According to Chardel, et al., (2016), the US PATRIOT Act does not formulate a new crime of domestic terrorism but instead expands the type of conduct range that the government and further investigate. Therefore, under the new legislation section one, the president should be given emergency power and the right to initiate further investigations both within the nation and across the border to gather enough evidence on the victim.
The American government has the mandate of further investigating both academic and health records of the victim and personalized data that can offer valuable information on the victim’s behavior. In section two of the legislation, the victim or the organization allegedly supporting or sponsoring terrorism activities with the American borders will be affected by the Seizure of assets section. In the new legislation, which mandates that civil seizure of assets and financial record freezing will be applicable, before hearing, and without the suspects being convicted of a crime. The essence of the section is to prevent the further supply of resources to facilitate terrorism.
Lastly, section three of the document further extends to grant the president constitutional power to suspend communications between the United States and any other foreign government that may be an agent of terrorism, instilling and influencing American citizens to participate in terrorism activities. Therefore, American citizens may experience miscommunication from different states that may be bolstering terrorist activities.
Terrorism Evolution in the Upcoming Decades
The Fall of ISIS in 2014 marked a tremendous battle on terrorist activities across the globe in the 21st century. However, despite the considerable achievements in driving away from the group from its base, terrorist activities have been refined right away from the recruitment process to the execution of the long-planned terrorist activities.
With the increase in technology development, terrorist activities are taking a new direction, utilizing the concepts of technology to help conduct their terrorist activities. The use of technology as part of the infrastructure in conducting terrorism has been on the increase, especially with the fall of the ISIS groups. According to Vozniuk, et al., (2020), the driving of ISIS from its operational base in Syria did not mark the end to the evolution and redefining of terrorism but rather pave the way for newer means that are sophisticated and hard for the government officials to utilize. For instance, the use of technology has been used to recruit and disseminate training material for the terrorist. Telegram has been accused of being one of the tools targeted by the terrorist to help recruit and disseminate relevant training material. Therefore, the recruits do not have to travel out of the country to get Jihad teaching, since they can obtain them in their smartphones or any other electronic device. Therefore, suspicion of the real terrorist remains at a lower level until the event has been pulled successfully. As Vozniuk, et al., (2020) outlined, the benefits of using these techniques is the increased levels of encryption level, which reduces the possibility of sniffing and interjecting the shared information in the platform. Therefore, this remains to be one of the most suitable platforms for terrorist activities, since there are little potential possibilities of their activities being discovered before they are fully executed.
