Statement for Record Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. Nine Years after 9/11: Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland

AbstractTerrorism is a metaphysical problem that concerns the presence of beings today. Heidegger's own thinking of being makes possible a confrontation with terrorism on four fronts: 1) Heidegger's conception of war in the age of technological replacement goes beyond the Clausewitzian model of war and all its modernist-subjectivist presuppositions, 2) Heidegger thinks "terror" (Erschrecken) as the fundamental mood of our time, 3) Heideggerian thinking is attuned to the nature of the terrorist "threat" and the "danger" that we face today, 4) Heidegger rethinks the notion of "security" in a manner that alerts us to the oxymoronic character of "homeland security." The epoch of terrorism is likewise the era of political transformation that Heidegger identifies with "Americanism." In this essay an effort is made to think terrorism qua metaphysical problem and to inquire into the perhaps privileged role of America for the thinking of terrorism today.

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A Growing terrorist threat? : assessing andldquo;homegrownandrdquo; extremism in the United State : a report of the CSIS Homeland Security and counterterrorism program / Rick andldquo;Ozzieandrdquo; Nelson, Ben Bodurian.

10.2458/azu_acku_pamphlet_hv6432_n45_2010 ◽

2010 ◽

Keyword(s):

Homeland Security ◽

Terrorist Threat ◽

United State

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Incels

Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies - Mitigating Mass Violence and Managing Threats in Contemporary Society ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-4957-5.ch017 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 313-320

Author(s):

Jeffrey P. Rush ◽

Sheri Jenkins-Keenan ◽

Catherine Burton

Keyword(s):

Homeland Security ◽

White Supremacy ◽

The United States ◽

Small Cells ◽

Right Wing ◽

Personal Factors ◽

Terrorist Threat ◽

Department Of Homeland Security ◽

Draft Report ◽

The Right

In late 2020, then Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Chad Wolfe declared the greatest terrorism threat to be the right wing. To be white supremacy. The DHS draft report says, “Lone offenders and small cells of individuals motivated by a diverse array of social, ideological, and personal factors will pose the primary terrorist threat to the United States. We judge that ideologically-motivated lone offenders and small groups will pose the greatest terrorist threat to the Homeland through 2021, with white supremacist extremists presenting the most lethal threat.” One of the ideologically motivated lone offenders is also part of a small group, incels. The question is whether incels represent terrorists and terrorism or are the just criminals.

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