Abstract Our world changed on the morning of September 11, 2001 when the world trade center and the pentagon was attacked by Islamic terrorist. Terrorism is a deliberate act of an individual to kill, intimidate or manipulate others in order to instill fear in a society. Homeland defense is a security effort to protect states against terrorist. In order to be successful in defending our country against terrorist attacks there must be processes put in place to ensure that our intelligence community is more knowledge on terrorist organizations and any possible threat they may pose. This paper will define terrorism and homeland defense, the categories of terrorism, the department of homeland security, FBI and the national incident management
This will improve the trading process for not only the company, but also the rest of the country. The benefits of a better transport infrastructure in our countries include improved capacity and better connectivity between cities and nations which helps to boost trade, and create growth and
Though in the attempts to obtain security, the people of the United States are giving up their freedoms and others are having those same freedoms taken away from them. The pursuit of stopping terrorism has taken precedence over an individuals civil rights. Surveillance has increased in attempts to catch terrorists. Under the USA Patriot Act which is the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism," police agencies are given the authority to conduct Internet and expanded telephone surveillance, as well as loosen the restrictions placed on the C.I.A in the 1970's to engage in domestic surveillance. The Patriot act presents a broadened definition of terrorism, and provides some level of detention of suspected terrorists as
Globalisation refers to the increasing interconnectedness of societies, so that what happens in one locality is shaped by distant events and vice versa. Globalisation has many causes including spread if information communication technology, the global mass media, cheap flights, deregulation of markets and easy movements of businesses. Moreover, the view that the process of globalisation has led to changes in both the amount of crime and the types of crime committed will be assessed. Held et al suggests there’s been globalisation of crime; an increasing interconnectedness of crime across national borders. The same process that brought globalisation of legitimate activities has also brought the spread of transnational organised crime.
Local and State government was required in rescue efforts from police, firefighters and EMT's. The attacks were also a national security issue which put the whole entire nation in alert, being a terroristic strike on our World Trade Center and the Pentagon- home of our Central Intelligence Agency. This drew out the efforts of our Federal government. New York was a little more prepared for this than DC was and extremely more prepared than New Orleans was to the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. If this would've happened in Philadelphia, we would have indeed reacted in the same manner as New York because we are similar in a lot of ways, although New York is fairly larger as a city.
In the article written with J. Bower Bell, Gurr argues that terrorism is a tactic used by the weak to intimidate the strong and, in turn, used by the strong to repress the weak. In this sense, America’s history is filled with terrorism activities. Labor violence was not the only source of early United States terrorism. The frontier had its own special form of violence. As people moved west, the laws of the United States trailed far from behind.
The real challenge to bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and its medieval, terror-laden theology, has come not from the West’s war on terror but from the Arab Spring, from the revolts that have shaken the region from Tunisia to Egypt to Yemen to Syria. The desire of the peoples across the Arab world for democratic change has not only humbled autocrats, it has also marginalized the jihadists who have played no part in the popular movements. These uprisings, and the hope that they engender, will transform the world far more than will bin Laden’s
Introduction The events of September 11th 2001 have cause a major alteration in the world. After 9/11 many countries throughout the world have increased security in airports and country borders, and increased security in main areas of major cities. The biggest consequence of 9/11 however was the USA’s war on terror. The war on terror was started with the objective of recognizing, finding and destroying terrorists, denying sponsorships to terrorist organizations and defending people all over the world from future terrorist attacks. However, the USA’s war on terror has had a negative effect on many countries in the world as well as their own, and their citizens by creating animosity in the international community, causing a downturn in their own economy and their major allies, and ruining their international reputation.
1), many political scientists believe that most terrorists are rational people with tactical goals. Evans, for example, argues that terrorism is a strategy. Those who use it want to publicize their cause, draw the enemy into a costly conflict, provoke an overreaction that will make the enemy look foolish or evil, recruit supporters, and prevent compromise. Robert Pape also believes that suicide terrorism has an underlying strategic logic. In his view, “Suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland” (as cited in McConnell,
Many individuals in the United States including Middle-Eastern males have been a subject to racial profiling. Racial profiling has increased dramatically since September 11th, 2001 and Homeland Security has deliberately wasted valuable time and resources when profiling ethic individuals of terrorist activities. As the director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office Caroline Fredrickson once said, “Racial and ethnic profiling are not only wrong, but they don’t work. The time and resources spent by DHS rounding up, interrogating and investigating innocent American immigrants could have been spent dealing with actual threats to our country” (ACLU). Another type of racial profiling occurred when Homeland Security and law enforcement officials passed a law indicating U.S citizenship was one of a job requirement for certain job position.