Economic Post 1

INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
By Joshua Gomez

When you think of terrorism what do you picture? A majority would say weapons, Al Qaeda, and mass destruction. What if that wasn't the group to be pointing fingers at?
The picture above displays an ironic and insightful look at how terrorism and the powers behind it can be seen with different eyes. The media plays a big role on creating ideas for us and planting thoughts into our head. Personally, I find it interesting that this image allows the freedom of thought and imagination. It allows me to explore my political views.

My goal is to better understand terrorist motives and find out just who are the real terrorists of this world. In order to get to that, we must first understand the concept of terrorism, which would be considered concepts of political discourse are hardly models of clarity, but there is general agreement as to what constitutes terrorism. The economy plays a major role in terrorism. For example, if a country wanted to they could make the trading process of goods into a terrorist action. This would cause a huge stoppage on importation of products. Prices for the U.S consumer would be skyrocketed because of non imported products affecting consumers rights to purchase. the government would be forced to set higher standards and implement a monitoring system on other countries. As a point of departure we may take the official United States Code: "act of terrorism" means an activity that -- (A) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; and (B) appears to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping. By knowing the motives of a terrorist organization we can figure who's putting the pressure on society, is it politics? Is it poverty and the diminishing economy? or is it something deeper?

Reference: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/258577/understanding_terrorist_organizations.html?cat=9
U.S Article Code On Terrorism: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00002331----000-.html