Domestic terrorism in recent decades has taken various forms, with certain groups or individuals gaining temporary attention through specific terrorist acts.
This initial Smart City Tech Summit, to be held March 29 - 31, 2016 in Kansas City, will focus on the public safety challenges faced by cities and their citizens from
domestic terrorism and active shooter threat situations.
Public discourse on
domestic terrorism has been entrenched in a misguided identity narrative that is consistent with both right-wing and Islamist extremism.
While certainly the classification of a teenaged gamer, such as Paul Horner mentioned at the outset, as a domestic terrorist for his actions in a swatting scandal is a fiction, recognition of this political threat raises the question of whether or not swatting in the political context is deserving of treatment as
domestic terrorism and the heightened sentencing that comes with that designation.
Wherever the precise boundaries, constitutional doctrine likely allows much greater federal regulation of
domestic terrorism than current statutes permit.
Federal officials were treating the attack as a
domestic terrorism case, according to the US attorney.
The US attorney for the western district of Texas, John Bash, said federal authorities were treating the El Paso massacre as a case of
domestic terrorism.
"We have asked the FBI to identify all further resources they need to investigate and disrupt hate crimes and
domestic terrorism, whatever they need," he said.
"It is clear that violent white supremacists are the most significant
domestic terrorism threat facing our nation today," wrote Durbin and Booker, who's seeking the Democratic nomination for president.
Authorities in the United States (US) are calling the two mass attacks in the just the last few days, one at the Gilroy Garlic Festival and another at a Walmart in El Paso '
domestic terrorism'.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised on Sunday to fight what he termed
domestic terrorism after authorities said young thugs beat to death a man who was strolling along a Mediterranean beach with his family.
Bamford, who leads a team of professionals assigned to fighting domestic and international terrorism, as well as criminal matters throughout New England, will speak about issues of concern to the business and law enforcement communities, including
domestic terrorism, organized crime and white collar crime.
