TERRORIST GROUP PROFILE AND HOMELAND SECURITY POLICY.

Terrorist Group Profile and Homeland Security Policy

Terrorist Group Profile and Homeland Security Policy

Terrorist Group Profile

The first KKK was founded in 1865 as a charitable organization to help widows and orphans. It turned to violence in 1870 and was dismantled in 1871 by law. A second organization by the same name was founded in 1915 and yet a third incarnation surfaced during World War II.

Objectives:

The KKK's is a white supremacist group. It holds that only white, heterosexual Christians deserve civil rights. Its original mandate, to reverse the equality granted African -Americans after the Civil War has expanded as the social demographics of the United States have changed. It also opposes civil rights for Jews, gays, Catholics, and other ethnic and religious groups. Today, the various local groups that make up the Klan often focus their hate speech on immigrants.

Notable Attacks:

* 1964: three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were ambushed and shot to death with the assistance of the local police, in Meridien Mississippi.

* 1963: Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four girls were killed in the bombing. The bombing helped prompt President Johnson to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

* 1963: Assassination of NAACP organizer Medgar Evers

Organization and Membership

The first Klan was created by six men from Pulaski Tennessee, in the image of other secret societies of the day. The hierarchical organization with local chapters housed under a national umbressa structure. The officer structure was accompanied by an elaborate title structure, as laid out in the 1868 document, Organization and Priniciples of the Ku Klux Klan:

The officers of this Order shall consist of a Grand Wizard of the Empire and his ten Genii; a Grand Dragon of the Realm and his eight Hydras; a Grand Titan of the Dominion and his six Furies; a Grand Giant of the Province and his four Goblins; a Grand Cyclops of the Den and his two Night Hawks; a Grand Magi, a Grand Monk, a Grand Scribe, a Grand Exchequer, a Grand Turk, and a Grand Sentinel.

Analysis

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) defines themselves, according to www.kukluxklan.org as a political party that they also call the White Rights Movement. Their foundation is that by trying to join and mix ethnicities and race, whites are facing discrimination. Whites, according to them are giving up their lives in a sacrificial manner for those non-whites. They infer that older generations were oppressed by liberal thinkers (also referred to as communists) limiting our ability and our right to indulge and enjoy white pride. They also believe that this country was founded as a white, Christian nation and should be brought back to it. If they were to gain power they have a plan to induce peace and restore America's original goodness. The main foundation would be based form the bible. Homosexuals, other races, and other religions would not be wiped out, but segregated and inferred transporting out of a purified ...