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The National Security Group, Inc.

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The National Security Group, Inc.
661 E. Davis St.
Elba, AL 36323
AL Tel. 334-897-2273
Toll Free 800-239-2358
Fax 800-239-2403

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.nationalsecuritygroup.com

This National Security Group is keeping homeowners safe in the South. The company's subsidiaries sell property/casualty and life insurance in about a dozen southern states. Most of National Security Group's revenues are generated by its residential premiums from homeowners and mobile homeowners policies. The unit also offers personal nonstandard automobile insurance. Its life insurance subsidiary offers a basic line of life, health, and accident insurance products. Alabama and Mississippi together account for more than half of the company's sales. The family of CEO William Brunson own nearly one-third of the company.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2007:
Sales: $69.6M
One year growth: 0.7%
Net income: $6.0M
Income growth: 42.1%

Officers:
Chairman: Winfield Baird
President, CEO, and Director: William L. Brunson Jr.
VP, CFO, and Treasurer: Brian R. McLeod

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The Hartford
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National Security

DVD Release

  • Release Date: 2003
  • Audio: English 5.1, French Dolby Surround
  • Subtitles: English and French
  • Digitally mastered audio and video
  • Remastered in high definition
  • Widescreen and full-screen presentations
  • Director's commentary
  • Deleted scenes
  • Alternate ending
  • Music video. "N.S.E.W." by Disturbing Tha Peace
  • Bonus trailers
  • Animated menus

  • Rating: Star
  • Genre: Action
  • Movie Type: Odd Couple Film, Crime Comedy
  • Themes: Unlikely Heroes, Bumbling Cops, Police Corruption
  • Director: Dennis Dugan
  • Main Cast: Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Colm Feore, Bill Duke, Eric Roberts, Timothy Busfield, Robinne Lee, Joe Flaherty
  • Release Year: 2003
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 88 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: PG13

Plot

Adversaries become wary allies in this free-wheeling action comedy. Hank Rafferty (Steve Zahn) is a Los Angeles Police Department officer who finds himself out of a job after he becomes involved in a violent altercation with police academy flunk-out Earl Montgomery (Martin Lawrence), escalating into a media event which brings the LAPD a wealth of bad publicity. Unable to find work, Hank finally takes a job as a "rent-a-cop" with a private security firm -- and discovers to his annoyance that his new partner is Earl. While neither of them are thrilled to be working together on the lowest strata of the law enforcement community, the two find themselves dealing with bigger crime than they expected when they stumble across evidence of a elite smuggling network operated by criminal mastermind Nash (Eric Roberts). Hank and Earl want to put Nash out of business, and they try without success to persuade the police of the importance of the case. But before long they discover it's not just Nash's men who are after them, but two high-ranking LAPD officials, Lt. Washington (Bill Duke) and Detective McDuff (Colm Feore). National Security was directed by Dennis Dugan, who'd previously helmed antic comedies starring Adam Sandler and Chris Farley; this film also marked Martin Lawrence's entry into the elite of Hollywood's comedy stars, with Lawrence taking home a 20-million-dollar paycheck for his work on the picture. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Cast


Matt McCoy - Robert Barton; Brett Cullen - Heston; Cleo King - Woman in Car; Stephen Tobolowsky - Billy Narthax; Amy Aquino - Councilwoman; Mike Brady - Smith; Carl Ciarfalio - Stanton; Keith Cooke - Ang; Maia Danziger - Jaguar Lady; Hal Fishman - Himself; Troy M. Gilbert - Cain; Robert Harvey - Cop at Impound Yard; Benjamin Hernandez - Detective; Ken Lerner - Hank's Lawyer; Dawnn Lewis - Woman at Impound Yard; Mark Lonow - Detective at Interrogation; Richardson Morse - Detective; Anthony Schmidt - Eddie; Mickey Gilbert - Driving Instructor; Jocko Marcellino - Sarcastic Cop; Terry Logan - LAPD Cop; Bruce Franklin - Training Facility Officer; Hiep Thi Le - McDuff's Secretary; Mari Morrow - Lola; Dan Sudick - Training Facility Officer; Jonathan Loughran - Sarcastic Cop; Jeff Ross - Security Guard; Noel Guglielmi - Latino Convict; Jackie Flynn - Guard in Solitary; Wayne Morse - Bailiff; Margaret Travolta - Judge; Bobby McLaughlin - Ashcroft; Greg Serano - Carjacker; Joe Bucaro III - Bratton; John Henry Binder - Cop at Impound Yard; Gerry Del Sol - Booking Clerk; Leslie Jones - Trucker Woman; Tom Forrest - Obnoxious Guy; Mike Grasso - Training Cop; Andy Dugan - Student Driver; Amanda Van Roberts - Rich Lady

Credit

Martin Lawrence - Executive Producer; Stan Rice - Stunts Coordinator; Moritz Borman - Executive Producer; Dennis Dugan - Director; Randy Edelman - Composer (Music Score); April Ferry - Costume Designer; Larry Fulton - Production Designer; Mickey Gilbert - Second Unit Director; Mickey Gilbert - Stunts Coordinator; Murray Miller - Location Manager; Douglas Mowat - Set Designer; Christa Munro - Art Director; Michael O'Farrell - Sound Effects Editor; Robert Olmstead - Special Effects Foreman; Jeffrey Silver - Producer; Jeffrey Silver - Unit Production Manager; Oliver Wood - Cinematographer; Nigel Sinclair - Executive Producer; Bruce Franklin - First Assistant Director; Guy East - Executive Producer; Joseph Geisinger - Production Sound; Larry Kemp - ADR Supervisor; Don McCuaig - Second Unit Director Of Photography; Gary Bourgeois - Re-Recording Mixer; Felicia Fasano - Casting; Mary Vernieu - Casting; Peaches Davis - Co-Executive Producer; David D. Johnson - Visual Effects Supervisor; Debra Neil-Fisher - Editor; Elton Ahi - Sound Mixer; Gary A. Hecker - Foley Artist; James W. Roberson - Second Unit Camera; Michele Kuznetsky - Musical Direction/Supervision; Mary Ramos - Musical Direction/Supervision; Bobby Newmyer - Producer; Anne McCarthy - Casting; Dan Sudick - Special Effects Coordinator; Chad S. Frey - Set Designer; George Anderson - Supervising Sound Editor; Lorrie Campbell - Set Designer; Scott Strauss - Co-producer; Jeffrey Kwatinetz - Co-Executive Producer; Captive Audience Prods. - Makeup Special Effects; Howard London - ADR Mixer; Howard London - ADR Recordist; Greg Orloff - Re-Recording Mixer; Matthew Dettmann - Foley Artist; Raymond Consing - Storyboard Artist; Alex Newman - Casting Associate; Freddy Luis - Casting Associate; Matthew Dettman - Foley Artist; Joan Cunningham - Second Unit Assistant Director; Jay Scherick - Screenwriter; David Ronn - Screenwriter; James Matheny - Dialogue Editor; Lowell Peterson - Second Unit Camera; Darryl Henley - Storyboard Artist; Conte Mark Matal - First Assistant Director; Patrick J. Don Vito - Associate Editor; Cindy Marty - Sound Effects Editor; Andy Given - Co-producer; Sharon Dugan - Co-producer; Dieter H. Busch - Second Unit Assistant Director; Susan Bierbaum-Owen - Script Supervisor; JoAnn Strafford-Chaney - Key Hairstylist; Michelle Morrissey - Production Supervisor; Derek Jan Vermaas - Production Coordinator; Hans Berggren - First Assistant Director; Joe Chess - Camera Operator; Kriss Krosskove - Camera Operator; Paula Truman - Costume Designer; Paula Truman - Costumes Supervisor; Nadyne Hicks - Key Make-up; Denise Fischer - Makeup; Andrea Young - Hair Styles; John Finklea - Music Editor; Mike Grasso - Technical Advisor; Michael Troy Waters [mu] - Makeup; Jonathon Klein - Foley Supervisor; Lane Burch - Foley Mixer; Lee French - ADR Loop Group; Jay Sherick - Screenwriter; Debra Denson - Department Head Makeup; Michael Green - Producer; Jon Taylor - Re-Recording Mixer

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Military Dictionary: national security

(DOD) A collective term encompassing both national defense and foreign relations of the United States. Specifically, the condition provided by: a. a military or defense advantage over any foreign nation or group of nations; b. a favorable foreign relations position; or c. a defense posture capable of successfully resisting hostile or destructive action from within or without, overt or covert. See also security.

 
Wikipedia: national security
Security measures taken to protect the Houses of Parliament in London, England. These heavy blocks of concrete are designed to prevent a car bomb being rammed into the building.
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Security measures taken to protect the Houses of Parliament in London, England. These heavy blocks of concrete are designed to prevent a car bomb being rammed into the building.

National security refers to the requirement to maintain the survival of the nation-state through the use of economic, military and political power and the exercise of diplomacy.

Measures taken to ensure national security include:

History of national security

The concept of security of a nation goes back to the dawn of nation-states themselves. Armies for domestic peacekeeping and maintaining national sovereignty have existed since the dawn of recorded history. Civil and national police forces have also existed for millennia. Intelligence agencies and secret services of governments stretch back to antiquity such as the Roman Empire's frumentarii and agens in rebus. While the general concepts of keeping a nation secure are not new, the specific modern English term "national security" itself came into common parlance in the 20th Century. Methodologies to achieve and maintain the highest possible desired state of national security have been consistently developed over the modern period to this day.

Over the history of the United States, policies such as the Monroe Doctrine, the domestic establishment of the United States Secret Service in the wake of the American Civil War, and the so called "big stick" corollary to the Monroe Doctrine by President Theodore Roosevelt all show a maturation of policies and systems of establishing and ensuring diplomatic, military, and economic security. Each nation has its own history of establishing national security mechanisms.

The modern concept of national security was introduced in the United States after World War II and became an official guiding principle of foreign policy in the United States when the National Security Act of 1947 was signed on July 26, 1947 by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.[1]

The majority of the provisions of the Act took effect on 18 September 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James V. Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense. Together with its 1949 amendment, this act:

  • created the National Military Establishment (NME) which became known as the Department of Defense when the act was amended in 1949,
  • subordinated the military branches to the new cabinet level position of the Secretary of Defense, and

During the Cold War's bipolar system, states often relied heavily on the two superpowers and other aligned nations to assist their national security. This principal is referred to as collective security, a term which came into vogue after the Armistice of World War I.

Since the breakup of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, and with the rise of terrorism, national security has had to shift its focus dramatically. Security Sector Reform (SSR) and Security Sector Management (SSM)[2] is needed in many nations for different reasons. Some are nations emerging from repressive regimes or recovering from civil wars. Others are developing nations with weak governments where national security sectors never existed or were never strong before. The United States saw its own security sector overhaul with the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

National security and rights & freedoms

The measures adopted to maintain national security in the face of threats to society has led to ongoing discussion, particularly in liberal democracies, on the scale and role of authority in matters of civil and human rights.

Tension exists between the preservation of the state (by maintaining self-determination and sovereignty) and the rights and freedoms of individuals.

Although national security measures are imposed to protect society as a whole, such measures will necessarily tend to restrict the rights and freedoms of individuals. The concern is that where the exercise of national security laws and powers is not subject to good governance, the rule of law, and strict checks and balances, there is a risk that "national security" may simply serve as a pretext for suppressing unfavorable political and social views. Taken to its logical conclusion, this view contends that measures which may ostensibly serve a national security purpose (such as mass surveillance, and censorship of mass media), could ultimately lead to a police state.

In the United States, the controversial USA Patriot Act and other government action has brought some of these issues to the citizen's attention, raising two main questions - to what extent, for the sake of national security, should individual rights and freedoms be restricted and can the restriction of civil rights for the sake of national security be justified?

Bibliography

  • Cohen, Fred, "World War 3 ... Information Warfare Basics", 2006, ISBN 1-878109-40-5
  • Chace, James, Carr, Caleb, "America Invulnerable: The Quest for Absolute Security from 1812 to Star Wars", 1988. ISBN 0-671-61778-8
  • Neocleous, Mark, "From Social to National Security: On the Fabrication of Economic Order," Security Dialogue 37 (2006): 363-384. DOI: 10.1177/0967010606069061.

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