Chapter Three: Manifestation of threats
Offence develops hatred and negative emotions towards them. Like birds of the same feathers, which flock together, the individuals are likely to get themselves involved with groups of the same negative sentiments. For example, they get themselves surrounded by friends, acquaintances or some family members who they can relate to, with the idea of impacting them with their negative emotions or hatred. When these hateful extremists associate with anyone or groups of people or individuals, the possibilities that these individuals or groups can absorb these bad and negative emotions are likely. The truth is no one gets up early in the morning and decides to hate and kill some individuals or group of people.
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It is in light of this that the relevant authorities should not just focus on the convicted terrorist or those who have threatened before, rather expand their focus on individuals and groups who have had any sort of affiliation, contact or relationship with those who are already on the radar of the police and the intelligence commissions. Still emphasizing on the phrase of the rotten apple, if they get in touch with a group of other apples, the good apples can be affected and this should not be taken for granted. When one person gets radicalised, he becomes an agent of transmission of what made him to become radicalised, and in their own way begin to discretely spread their hate. Such transmissions are only possible through the individuals’ circle of associations and acquaintances. To reduce or minimize such negative transmissions that breeds terrorists, individuals confirmed or suspected as extremist should be controlled rigorously, because the uncontrolled movements of the terror suspects within the country has been one of the major key pathways behind the spread of terrorist networks and cells and some times sudden terror attacks within the