Domestic Terrorism in America Essay -- Islam Jihad and Terrorism Essay

"We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system."   -Ted Kaczynski  Ã‚   The sun rises to a deep spring-blue sky on Sunday the Fifth of May 2017; 51,000 people are converging on downtown Spokane for the 39th running of the Bloomsday road race. Thirty miles to the south, near the town of Fairfield, a small cluster of people watch from a distance as two men in protective coveralls and respirators pour fifty gallons of a clear fluid into the payload compartment of a Bell 300C helicopter. The crop duster, which was purchased for cash in Walla Walla, is a descendent of the Korean War era helicopters depicted on the television series MASH. After the liquid is loaded, and the outside of the helicopter is sanitized, the pilot runs through his preflight checklist and fires up the engine. Thirty minutes later, moments before the starter fires his gun into the air, the helicopter swoops in low over Riverside Avenue, coming from the east so the sun is to the pilot's back. As the pilot reaches the near edge of the crowd, his right hand depresses to trigger on the cont rol stick and begins to spray his payload on the assembled runners. Although the liquid evaporates before reaching the ground, most runners withdraw from the race. The continuing news coverage of the event reports that authorities are unable to trace the aircraft and cannot identify the mysterious liquid. Around 7:30 that same evening, the first of the exposure victims checks in to the Emergency Room at Sacred Heart Medical Center complaining of a general malaise. Before the hour is up, thirty more people are in the waiting room with a similar condition. By midnight, in a scene repeated at all of the Spokane area hospitals, hundreds of people line the hall... ...Port Townsend, WA: Loompanics Unlimited, 1997. "John Brown's Early Life." The John Brown Homepage. Norfolk Academy. http://www.norfacad.pvt.k12.va.us/project/brown/brown.htm. 28 May 2014. Kaczynski, Ted. "Unabomber Manifesto." Time.com. 1997 http://www.time.com/time/reports/unabomber/manifesto_toc.html. 28 May 2014. Kuroda, Tadahisha. "Case Study: Shays Rebellion." GH 322 History and Political Thought of the American Revolution Home Page. Skidmore College. http://www.skidmore.edu/~tkuroda/gh322/shayscase.htm. 28 May 2014. "Meet the E.L.F." Home Page. Earth Liberation Front. 2014 http://www.earthliberationfront.com/about/. 28 May 2014. "Shays' Rebellion." Wintergreen Associates. 2 July 2012 http://shaysnet.com/dshays.html. 28 May 2014. "Terrorism". Federal Emergency Management Agency. 10 Jan. 2013 www.fema.gov. 28 May 2014.