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“Terror” as an idea, an ideology, and a form of personal realization.

Terror - Without the insight of the class I can give you my reflection which I believe is the question posed to this country and the world we live in today.

The battle seems to be a conflict between “new” ideology and insight to the direct reaction to terror and terror threats.

We have on one side of the debate the “old school” time tested direct reaction of force. The other side of the debate suggests reason and rational non-violent, work through type of engagement. Both theories suggest the common end result being the extermination of terror

I will correlate this to what I know in my own experience.

We have several theories in the way we counsel clients to health. One being RET or Rational Emotive Therapy. This is basically the process of defining what is rational healthy behavior and working on establishing this said behavior in clients life. I find this therapy Hog wash in this field. Some of you may refer to this type of therapy as “touchy feely” “how does that make you feel” type therapy. In the world of corrections we are dealing with criminal behavior. This is not effective on individuals that do not have a belief system in place based on ethics and morals so reiterating proper behavior means nothing to said client therefore ineffective in the process of establishing guidelines for mental health.

Another theory of treatment is called Behavior Modification. This is the identifying of negative behavior, identifying is huge due to the fact that if said client doesn’t identify that his behavior is incorrect then his belief system will not change. What we believe will dictate or govern what we think, say and do. Looking through past experiences to gain this information is therapeutic but exploring the why’s is endless and should be avoided. Gaining new information will create new beliefs therefore changing behavior.

How does this correlate? Well Terror attacks on anyone is behavior, bad behavior, a violation of another persons right to exist and using fear as a catalyst to promote their beliefs. Behavior mod is necessary! Can you reason? Hell no! These behaviors are no different than any other criminal mind. Criminals will run the streets getting in and out of trouble building their belief system of how their personal ethical and moral system works. At some point probation stops, community supervision stops and we put you’re your little criminal ass in prison. When you finally take on the police and pick up a weapon because you feel your rights have been violated they will shoot you.

This is not about religion or rights this is simply a case of low life, criminal behavior on a larger scale. When the offender gets to the point where he believes he has a right to violate natural laws such as murder to prove his belief system we have to start behavior modification.

Our military system uses this system and is why most criminal boot camps are built off the military model. Boot camp is the process of breaking down a soldiers (Marine), belief system or in simpler terms developmental years, and then rebuilding them into a unified belief system that is based on the military format of ethics, morals and values. This is done through intense physical, mental and emotional impact. This is why some soldiers do better than some, It just depends on how much your original system of beliefs correlated to the new one. My personal belief is the more we regulate boot camp for soldiers the less effective they are becoming in the effort to mold these young men and women.

Our world is the same process just on a grander scale. If we lived in Utopia this would not be an issue but as long as we have the ability to choose there will always be conflict the boundaries have to be set in a manner that does not violate natural human laws. The ones to do this are civilized - evolved societies. In essence law enforcement on a larger scale. Are we the world police? No but we are the ones they aimed the gun at and took a shot at.

To validate I am not referring to Muslims as a religion but terrorist equivalent to criminal behavior in its finest form. The violation of human rights for the purpose of political and/or religious gain and notoriety

In prison treatment we have a term called “playing the Tape out” this simply means going all the way to the end of the process. If they had been successful in obtaining their goal and had created a utopia as they see it would the terrorism stopped? Would they have hung up their guns and had a party? Don’t think so ….. Much like our gangs when there is no one else to attack they will attack each other. Just my personal thoughts