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[[Image:Homeland security at Penn Station.jpg|thumb|300px|Military personnel have started to guard transportation facilities such as Penn Station as part of homeland security efforts.]] Homeland security or homeland defense is a neologism referring to domestic governmental actions justified, or allegedly justified, by potential guerrilla attacks or terrorism. The term became prominent in the United States following the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack, although it was used less frequently before that incident. Such domestic governmental actions include: * Emergency mobilization, including volunteer medical, police, and fire personnel * New domestic surveillance and spying efforts, particularly with respect to immigration, transportation, military installations, and utilities * Secret arrests and detentions * Infrastructure protection * Border control In the United States, the concept of homeland security extends and recombines responsibilities of much of the executive branch, including FBI, United States National Guard, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), United States Customs Service (now the United States Customs and Border Protection Service), United States Secret Service, United States Department of Justice, and the Central Intelligence Agency. The George W. Bush administration has consolidated these and many other such activities, formerly in separate United States Cabinets, under the United States Department of Homeland Security, a new Executive Department created for these purposes. ==See also== * Civil defense * USA PATRIOT Act * United States Department of Homeland Security * Tom Ridge Law enforcement in the United States

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Can anyone explain or justify the difference (in the U.S. between "homeland security" and "national security")? --user:danielcboyer :Yeah; We don't have one departmnt of "national security," we have a Departmet of Defense to maintain the military; anything else is "homeland security." :Actually, we have the National Security Agency. I wouldn't be adverse to a section in this article comparing/contrasting with national security --User:Babomb ---- Could there perhaps be a better way to put it than "justified by potential guerrilla attacks or terrorism"? Perhaps there might be some question whether the actions were justified or no. --user:danielcboyer Am I the only person that considers the term "''homeland'' security" somewhat Orwellian? When, before 9/11, have Americans ever refered to the United States as our "homeland"? Although in a loose sense it is, as in it is where I live and where many of use where born, it feels to me like a neologism that the Bush administration concocted to manipulate feelings of "patriotism" (read: Jingoism and nationalsim. Under the wikipedia definition of "homeland", a homeland is where people where born, or where historically their ethnic group has lived (i.e. Zionism, etc.) However, the United States is a ''nation of immigrants'' from many diverse cultural and religious backrounds. The United States of America is seen as the near-definitive polyglot culture. Further, many americans are naturialized citizens; immigrants who are full citizens but where not born citizens. The Madeline Albright and Henry Kissenger, et al, were not "born here", and no one ethnic group defines america. America, before 9/11, was never truly described as a "homeland", and in my opinion, the phrase homeland security is another attempt by the Bush administration to divide the world into two camps, "us vs. ''them'', in keeping with his statement that "if you're not with us, you're with the terrorists".--Ricimer == Essentially Wrong == This entry is essentially wrong. Homeland Security is not a "neologism". While the term has surged in its popular use of late, it's founding traditions go as far back as at least the constitution in this country and further in terms of its use. The concept of "homeland" emerged in the 17th century as a wartime term for the place where vanquished people are forced back to. The difference between now and the past is that Homeland Security was often thought of as an implied power of local and state governments granted by the 10th amendment of the constitution. As Federal jurisdication has increasingly encrouched upon state powers, so has the responsibility for domestic emergency response. 11 Sep 2001 was the catalyst for changes in regards to homeland security and terrorism. As recently as the Clinton adminstration in 1997, it was suggested that a major reorganization was needed in order to better prepare the country for a growing domestic terrorism danger. The actions the government has taken in terms of "homeland security" have been numerious. I believe the examples of "New domestic surveillance and spying efforts, particularly with respect to immigration, transportation, military installations, and utilities" and "Secret arrests and detentions" are somewhat misleading "NPOV(?)" and require some substantiation if they are to be used in this context. An authoratative source is warranted if they are to remain as written. Lets see...what else. The difference between Homeland Security and Homeland Defense. 1)Homeland security is the prevention, preemption, and deterrence of, and defense against, aggression targeted at U.S. territory, sovereignty, domestic population, and infrastructure as well as the management of the consequences of such aggression and other domestic emergencies.2)Homeland defense is a subheading of homeland security. It is the protection of U.S. territory, domestic population and critical infrastructure against military attacks emanating from outside the United States. National Security differs from Homeland security in that it takes on an international element and involves protecting and promoting the United States to the world. For these reasons, I plan on doing a major edit to this entry in the future after seeing what responses I receive from this discussion entry. As written currently, the entry implies a bias without really explaining the term. Cavaraba

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