“Lone Offender”?
Lone offenders are defined by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as one who inflicts fear upon a targeted group or the general public, independent of any direction from a terrorist group or organization (USDOJ, 2019). Lone offender attacks can be referred to as idiosyncratic (Joosse, 2017) and are delineated into four dimensions: idiosyncratic ideology, idiosyncratic motives, idiosyncratic tactics, and idiosyncratic strategic thinking (Norris, 2020), although this article is not to argue or separate attackers into any of the four dimensions. These offenders are commonly referred to as “lone wolf” terrorists by the mainstream media in the aftermath of the United States’ attacks on September 11, 2001 (9/11). Typically, the lone offender is classified as such because they commit acts of violence alone (some cases allow the inclusion of a pair), separate from any group or outside of the group’s direct commands.
“The analyses of the current existing capabilities of intelligence services indicate that there is no effective method or the possibility of an effective way of warfare with lone wolves” (p. 6).
why?
They just can't bring themselves to say exactly what causes all this "idiosyncratic" behavior, can they?
or the “gov” apparatchiks pushing them “lone” offenders. It is a very old and studied approach. Historians attribute the invention of this style of “policing” to Pyotr Rachkovsky- head of the Okhrana both in Paris and then in Moscow (and he had lots of pals in the Bolshevik- one model of such a “policeman”- who destroyed Tsar Nicholas for them).