by Richard Stratton

About the author: Richard Stratton is editor and publisher of Prison Life, a bimonthly magazine.

Week one of the revolution. America is shocked; America is horrified. America is terrorized.

Terrorism Comes to America

This does not happen in the good old U. S. of A. is the common refrain. We are used to hearing of acts of political terrorism abroad. Pan Am flight 103 [destroyed by a bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988]; the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship [in October 1985]; the murder of athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, to mention but a few. And we are accustomed to seeing the black-masked faces of the perpetrators. We expect them to be revealed as Palestinians, Arabs, bearded and mustachioed foreign types. Even the bombing of the World Trade Center...