The Details on Security Change After 9/11

The word cliche is sure to have been used hundreds if not thousands of times for the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in phratry 11, 2001 or comm sole(prenominal) known as 9/11. The meaning of 9/11 first on the municipal scene is that America united the ranks of those that suffered the brunt of terrorism for decades such as the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. America lost its innocence since this terrorist incident is of greater magnitude compared to the World Trade Center assail in February 1993 or in terms of the socio-political impact, it re in ally brought home the marrow that no one is safe.On the global scale, 9/11 meant that thus far a superpower or the all superpower prat affect prey to a low-intensity type of warfare known as terrorism. It recruit that such an act can affect economic and market outputs considering that it shortened the stock exchange and flights were cancelled for a few days throughout the United States. 9/11 also redefined the mean ing of terrorism and holds lesson for former(a) states, not just America, by demonstrating the U.S. resolve and ability to remove regimes that apply or sponsor terrorism, 9/11should have strengthened the deterrent content to governments that would contemplate aiding terrorists. (Knopf, 2002) It showed that whether it is state-sponsored terrorism or ideological group-led terrorism like Al-Qaeda, governments and nations of the populace must unite to battle this modern-day organized plague.In reception to 9/11, the U.S. government implemented the Patriot Act of 2001 or all known as Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing curb Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001. This piece of enactment contains sections that defines and effects controls and measures in the fight against terrorism such asEnhancing domestic security measure against terrorismInter field of study money laundering abatement and anti-terrorist backingRemoving obstacles to investigati ng terrorismProviding for victims of terrorism, public safety officers and their familiesIncreased information sharing for critical infra social organization protectionStrengthening the criminal laws against terrorism and in any case the Patriot Act, 9/11 brought about the existence of the Department of homeland Security (DHS) through House Resolution 5005 and whose major mandate is to prohibit terrorist attacks within and reduce the vulnerability to terrorism of the United States. Since DHS became the focal stop consonant of the U.S. response to terrorism some major government agencies were transferred to the DHS. One of the major outputs of the DHS is coming out with the National Response Plan (NRP) in declination 2004 (DHS, 2004). The NRP is an all-discipline, all-hazards plan that establishes a single, comprehensive framework for the management of domestic incidents. It provides the structure and mechanisms for the coordination of federal official support to State, local, and tribal incident managers and for exercising direct Federal authorities and responsibilities. (DHS, 2004)Having been aligned with the National Incident Management System (DHS, 2004), the NRP had more(prenominal) 32 signatory government departments and agencies. Although it is an incident response plan, the NRP carries policies to protect national security, coordinates the activities of the other members of the law enforcement community to detect, prevent, preempt, and disrupt terrorist attacks against the United States.This includes actions to prevent, preempt, and disrupt limited terrorist threats or actual incidents that are based upon specific intelligence or law enforcement information. (DHS, 2004) Although brought out in general terms, the new security measures in place gives a signal to the domestic marketplace that vigilance and stricter enforcement of security rules is already in place. Trade and commerce with the United States became more squiffy especially in terms o f cross-border access between U.S., Mexico and Canada.On the whole, the effectivity of the change security posture after 9/11 is be met on two fronts. One group agrees with the measures believing that it really curtails terrorist activities. On the other hand, another group declares that starting with the Patriot Act, then the rebellion of the Department of Homeland Security and the implementation of the National Response Plan, all these are questioned due to their singular and collective effects on rights, independence and liberties Americans enjoy.But as in any history of the United States, the reflect or division brought about by the new security measures in effect is always welcomed since this is one of the true tests of democracy when two or more groups agree to disagree. Five years after 9/11, the all-inclusive measure of the efficacy of the security policies and methods in place can only be truly gauged when a future major terrorist incident can be prevented and the pe rpetrators captured only then can some of the questionable man rights violation measures can be vindicated But for now, we can only hope and pray that such incident will not go along again or else another event that would live in infamy would be in our midst.