**ANSWER THE DISCUSSION QUESTION 250 WORDS MIN**

 Discussion Questions: How should the United States government deal with the heightened concern about homegrown violent extremism and the growing concern for the preservation of civil liberties? What are the political and constitutional consequences of counter-terrorism? Lastly, how do we assess the tradeoffs between freedom and security?  

***REPLY TO EACH POST 100 WORDS MIN EACH***

1. The United States government will always have to face the homegrown violent extremist because with the internet alone people are able to research just about anything and find their answers. The civil liberties are being violated because you have FBI and CIA looking into what people on doing on the webs. I personally believe that you gave up the right when you decided to goggle whatever it is you’re looking up. It’s also like social media site take Facebook for example people are willing to give up their rights so they can be on Facebook and be able to look or post whatever they want. But just like ever website the owner of that site has a right to delete what they don’t want on it as well. So why can’t the FBI/CIA look into and potentially stop a homegrown extremist from attacking the nation or even just attacking schools, churches, and retail stores like the mall or Wal-Mart. All these locations have had attacks from violent extremist when if they were being watched or monitored those attacks could have been stopped or at least less death could have occurred. From a political and constitutional stand point, consequences of counter-terrorism can vary.  I political stand is to protect and preserve the freedom for the people. Protecting one’s Constitutional rights depends on what the politician’s plans on policies and procedures that could begin to take away those civil rights that were granted and give people the sense of freedom that the nation is built on. Policies and procedures can change everything take the mask wearing and social distancing for Covid-19, you have the people that are okay with it all and are following the rules but then you have the ones that have been protesting or fighting people over the fact that they don’t want to wear a mask. To me personally it’s simple to wear a mask but to others it’s a reason of rights being taken away by mandating it. Working for the military and DHS I personally don’t see freedom and security as a tradeoff. If agencies do their jobs correctly and protect the United States and National Security then freedom wouldn’t be at stake. I believe in freedom but the security measures in place are to help protect that freedom, without the security measures the nation would be under attack like 9/11 or worse.

2. The internal terrorist threat in the United States is operational and complicated, with continuing threats from extreme left- and right-wing extremist groups and radicalization and recruitment efforts by international terrorist groups. Since Sept/11, our nation’s entire security measures and agencies have been revamped and stricter in all levels of government. The intelligence community is significantly restricted in its ability to monitor or participate in domestic political groups secretly. The FBI is this nation’s domestic intelligence agency accountable for managing domestic terrorism, but the FBI does not report to the ODNI. I think the ODNI and the FBI should cooperate, and it may help fill in the gap where one organization cannot. The all around structure of government, by circumscribing coercive activities that might occur within the United States, protects the liberty of citizens in the United States, including foreign persons who are not lawful permanent residents. Take this for example, the military is hemmed in by strict legal rules that significantly reduce its authority to operate domestically and help preserve liberty at home. Many of the political drawbacks of counterterrorism efforts are inadvertent or unimportant. However, some pessimistic spectators might question that governments, predominantly officials of the executive branch, influence the danger of terrorism to magnify their dominances. Many provisions of the Patriot Act were set to conclude at the end of 2005 and, despite opposition from across the political spread and more than 400 state and community resolutions expressing concern about the Patriot Act, Congress reauthorized the law without reforming its most flawed provisions to bring these extraordinary powers back in line with the Constitution. The civil rights and civil liberties of all American citizens, including Arab Americans, African Americans ,Muslim Americans, and Americans from South Asia, must be protected. Every effort must be taken to preserve their safety. This announcement possibly bestows a worry between national security and the individual liberty of American citizens. It could be contended that the apparent mention to Americans of Arab, Muslim, and South Asian descent exemplifies that their security and civil liberties are under threat, not only from terrorists but possibly from fellow citizens and even the government elected to defend them.

• Article (no more than one-month old) from reputable news source such as The New York Times or The Washington Post

Reviewing the concepts of ethnic conflict and totalitarianism:

Often students are confused on what constitutes an ethnic conflict. Before you select a topic for this assignment, be sure to review the information below to gain a better understanding of what constitutes Totalitarianism and ethnic conflict.

Totalitarianism and ethnic conflict are not the same as violent act committed by a police officer that was officially deemed as being racially motivated. Ethnic conflict is when government has discriminatory policies in place. Slavery and segregation were examples of ethnic conflict. Many students confuse recent events of violence or shooting by police officers on individuals as examples of ethnic conflict. However, not all of those actions were acts of racially motivated violence.  In addition, they were committed by individuals in the execution of their job, which are subject to review and oversight (administrative and legal), and if deemed excessive and/or racially motivated, will be sanctioned and prosecuted because they would go against standing policies and laws that do not allow excessive force in the execution of police duties or racially motivated violence against others (by police or any other person). In the 1960s and earlier, we had state governments requiring African Americans to be segregated. This was an example of ethnic conflict. We do not have government policy in this country today promoting the harassment or killing of people because of their race.

If a person kills another person, it is a legal issue. If the killing took place because of the race of the person, it is also a hate crime. It is not designated as ethnic conflict. Topics centered on racial inequity such as Black Lives Matter, while important and viable topics in the context of race relations and social justice, are not the same as ethnic conflict in Totalitarian regimes and so are not appropriate topics for this assignment.

Instructions
Write a paper on a current event article that discusses restrictions on freedoms by a totalitarian state or an article on ethnic conflict within a nation. Summarize the article and explain why this issue is important to the global community. What outside influences might help change this issue? How? Is the article neutral? Why or why not?

Be sure to include a scanned copy of the article in your submission in addition to citations. Articles may not be more than one month old.

Writing Requirements (APA format). Refer to the APA manual.

• Length: 3 full pages (not including the title or references page)
• 1-inch margins
• Double-Spaced
• 12-point Times New Roman font
• Title and Reference page required
• APA cite article with link
• Scan copy of article required

Construct an effective communication strategy that addresses all the deliverables the CHRO wants to achieve. The communication strategy will do the following:

• State the business problem that will be addressed in rolling out the new adaptive leadership toolkit.
• Explain why these specific leadership skills and behaviors are being targeted.
• Provide a summary analysis of the employee satisfaction survey, identifying strengths and weaknesses.
• Introduce the new adaptive leadership toolkit, including how it will be used and the value it provides.
• Utilize your own personal development plan as an example for others.
• Provide a strong conclusion that supports your thesis statement and goes beyond merely restating key points.

Ensure all key points are addressed in a logical order by using the Five Ws and One H as an outline when developing the specific detail for each step of the communication strategy.

Why:

• Why was the adaptive leadership toolkit developed?

Who:

• Define who the audience, stakeholder(s), and owners are.

What:

• What is the key message?
• What is the organizational goal?
• What is the personal goal?
• What types of communication media will be used?

When:

• What is the timeline for program implementation and achievement of program deliverables?

Where:

• Where is the adaptive leadership toolkit located? Where are supporting documents, such as the FAQ?

How:

• How will we measure success?
• How will we track progress? How will we define important milestones?
• How will we communicate updates?
• How can employees provide feedback on any roadblocks, issues, or ideas for improvement?

What to Submit

To complete this project, you must submit the following:

Communication Strategy for the Adaptive Leadership Toolkit

1. A paper that articulates a well-defined communication strategy for implementing the adaptive leadership toolkit. Your submission should be an 8- to 10-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins.
2. Include your own personal development plan as an attachment. Your plan will be used as an exemplar for leaders across the organization.

The purpose of this final project is to apply what we have learned about “Asian American Activism” in our class discussions and each student will research a prevelant issue that the Asian American community is currently facing and how the Asian American community is addressing the prevalent issue. 

Part 1: What is the issue?

• Identify a problem/issue in the Asian American Community

• Research the problem/issue and how community leaders and organizations are addressing the issue– Students will gather data from studies and databases. 


Part 2: What are we going to do?

• Identify and Research an Asian American Public Official, Constituents and/or a Community Organization that addresses the issue
• Develop a collective plan of action to address the problem. 


You will apply the findings from your research on the topic chosen for the Community Project by creating:

Community Report (7 pages, Double Space, Times Roman, 12 Font)

1. History/ Background of the Asian American Issue [ 2-3 pages ]
2. Discuss what Asian American leaders, public officials and/or community organizations are doing to address the issue. [ 2-3 pages ]
3. Suggest a Plan of Action that the class can take to support the Asian American Issue [ 2-3 pages]
4. Works Cited/ Bibliography (4-6 sources) [ 1-2 pages ]

Provide (2) 150 words substantive response with a minimum of 1 APA references for RESPONSES 1 AND 2 below. Response provided should further discuss the subject or provide more insight. To further understand the response, below is the discussion post that’s discusses the responses. 100% original work and not plagiarized. Must meet deadline.

RESPONSE 1:

This week we are tasked with researching different malware attacks that are notorious and talk about one. I have chosen to talk about the Zeus trojan virus that was first seen in 2007. Zeus is a malware that is a trojan virus and is also known as ZBOT. Zeus targets Microsoft windows operating systems. Since 2007 Zeus has infected more than 3.6 million computers in the United States alone not including other countries. There are two main ways Zeus targets a computer one is through spam messages. The other way that Zeus targets computers is trough drive-by downloads. While Zeus can do many things if it is infecting a computer there are two major functions that most hackers use it for. One is to setup botnets and the other is to steal financial information form infected devices. The way it steals financial information is by keystroke logging and monitoring bank websites for credentials. Botnets are used to control a huge amount of computers in order to carry out large attacks. One attack I can think of that a Botnet would be useful for is a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service Attack) attack. A man named Hamza Bendelladj was responsible for creating Zeus and he was arrested in 2013 and charged with 15 years of prison time. This also include millions of dollars in fines that he was also given for his many accounts of cyber crimes he committed.

Jackson Propst 

Kaspersky, (n.d.). Zeus Virus. Retrieved From https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/zeus-virus

RESPONSE 2:

The malware I found most interesting made its appearance in 2017 as a self-replicating encryptor. The creators of this malware took advantage of a vulnerability in the Microsoft security before a later update. By utilizing this exploit, WannaCry could easily gain remote access to computers in order to install the encryption. Traditionally, encryptors gain access to and infect computers by part of the user who clicks on the suspicious link or downloads some type of attachment from an email that might not even appear suspicious at first glance because it’s using something known to the user to disguise itself. However, WannaCry was able to affect over 45,000 computers in just one day becauase of the fact that the user doesn’t need to do anything to allow the infection to occur. WannaCry detects the hole in the security and forces entry onto the machine. It then attempts to spread throughout the local network like a computer worm by scanning computers on the network to detect the same vulnerability. This was extremely damaging for any large networks because of the amount of machines that were compromised almost in an instant. WannaCry encrypts different types of files like documents, photos, videos, etc. that could potentially be of importance to the user and then renames those files to .WCRY, making them inaccessible to the user. Then the desktop wallpaper is changed to a picture that contains information about the malware and what the user must do in order to gain access to their files and computer again. This will typically include a demand for money to be transferred to the perpetrator in the form of bitcoin which cannot be traced to them, with an expiration date or time limit. In total, Wanna Cry has infect3ed more than 200,000 computers in 74 different countries. It was found in those 74 different countries within the first day. The malware author of WannaCry was never discovered. However, the malware can only effect computers which have not been updated unless a user takes some action to allow for the infection to occur like opening a link or downloading an attachment which would override the patch to fix the security.
¹ WannaCry: Are you safe? Kaspersky. Alex Perekalin. May 13, 2017. 

Felicia