Homegrown terrorism had just not been given the respectful amount of attention it deserved. On the other hand Brooks (2011) stated that "the United States was viewed as being relatively immune to terrorism committed by its own residents or citizens" (p.7). With that being said most of the post-September 11 attacks where an act of, out of the country terrorist. That does not mean it hasn't been present because Vidino (2009) said networks have been operating for over the last 30 years in the United States. They just hadn't been investigated. It wasn't affecting them as much, so they just ignored the problem. Then came the time when they were placed in the path of pain. At that point they started to see things from a different perspective and agents started to focus more on the topic. Since September 11 2001, the FBI and other agencies have focused on the homegrown terrorism problem. Since that day on they have found and detained many terrorist who were believed to be homegrown terrorist. Now that the agencies are more focused on the problem they have noticed that homegrown terrorism is increasing or so they think. .
What motivates these people to take action in homegrown terrorism? Some homegrown terrorist act upon money problems. They do their service and or harm in exchange for money. Others act upon true conviction, or hatred. Vidino (2009) gave an example of an American born Muslim Naveed Haq, who went into a Jewish Federation and opened fire, Vidino (2009) said that Haq told the police dispatcher "these are Jews and I'm tired of getting pushed around and our people getting pushed around by the situation in the Middle East" (p.10) this clearly indicates an act of anger and hatred towards the Jews as well as revenge against them. While some act out of hatred others act upon love to their culture and people. Lastly, some people commit those actions to gain power over a nation.