a secret police known as the Cheka that began a campaign of terrorism that would later become known as the “Red Terror” (Beck et al., 2005, pp. 517-519). Under the Bolsheviks hundreds of academic professionals and artists were imprisoned and tens of thousands of churches were forced to close while many of the leadership and followers of the Russian Orthodox Church were imprisoned in forced labor camps or outright executed (Spindlove and Simonsen, 2013, pp. 211-212).
Another use of terror on a long term basis started in 1970 with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA or IRA) and other smaller independence militias using 153 bombs or fire-starting explosives against businesses in Northern Ireland that were owned by Protestants. This movement was a successor to a much earlier …show more content…
It would be a mistake to think that homeland security did not exist prior to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on November 25, 2002, though. The act that created DHS merged over 22 other organizations consisting of over 180,000 workers that had been involved in homeland security in some form or fashion before the creation of DHS (Sauter and Carafino, 2012, p. 67). Homeland security in realty has existed even long before that and can be traced to the very creation of the US and even further back under English colonization. It was clear after 9/11, however, that its present state was not working satisfactorily and something had to be done to increase its capabilities and effectiveness so an attack like al-Qaeda accomplished, or worse, would never happen
Another use of terror on a long term basis started in 1970 with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA or IRA) and other smaller independence militias using 153 bombs or fire-starting explosives against businesses in Northern Ireland that were owned by Protestants. This movement was a successor to a much earlier …show more content…
It would be a mistake to think that homeland security did not exist prior to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on November 25, 2002, though. The act that created DHS merged over 22 other organizations consisting of over 180,000 workers that had been involved in homeland security in some form or fashion before the creation of DHS (Sauter and Carafino, 2012, p. 67). Homeland security in realty has existed even long before that and can be traced to the very creation of the US and even further back under English colonization. It was clear after 9/11, however, that its present state was not working satisfactorily and something had to be done to increase its capabilities and effectiveness so an attack like al-Qaeda accomplished, or worse, would never happen