Straying members are treated as heretics, subjected to exorcism or intensive group therapy. The movement's basic unit is the closed cell, with three to seven the standard number. This is the classic unit of a revolutionary party or intelligence operation, but inappropriate to exercise influence upon a legitimate government. A great deal of money is raised this way, ostensibly for a good public purpose but actually to serve the movement's power drive and internal interests. The movement's tactics include infiltration and subversion of public institutions and voluntary associations, to bend their direction from public service in the declared purpose to organization of the group's drive for power.
Positions controlling the schools, police and public safety forces are special targets.
Dealing with governments where terrorist movements have already come to power is a much more difficult question than answering the question of how to smash terrorist movements when they are still weak enough to be dealth with at a minimum of violence. At the time when the UN Assembly cheered Arafat with his pistol, there were 88 member governments in the UN Assembly that were either despotisms or dictatorships, as compared with about 30 governments which had some measure of liberty and self-government. These unbalanced numbers make it all the more imperative for democratic governments to protect their ranks by developing the necessary Early Warning System to identify potentially threatening political movements and to generate the necessary courage to deal with the reptile before it hatches and grows. There are too few legitimate governments to let anyone fall from the ranks. Professor Franklin H. Littell, one of the world's most renowned experts on the Holocaust, is Emeritus Professor of Religion at Temple University, Adjunct Professor at Hebrew University, and a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council and the International Council of Yad Vashem.