Enemy of the State
Posted on January 21, 2006
Is it just coincidence that ABC is playing the 1998 movie Enemy of the State? It is about a lawyer with an ACLU lawyer for a wife being wrongly targeted and spied on by the NSA. I’m sure it is just coincidental.
Debbie Schlusselnotices too.
She adds in:
When Stanley Tookie Williams was making his last pleas for clemency from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, we noted that ABC played extensive trailers for the then-yet-to-debut “Injustice,” for an episode about an innocent Black man wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder and fighting to prove it on the eve of execution. The episode wasn’t “Injustice”’s debut episode. But ABC chose to run the lengthy trailers for a reason. His name was Tookie.
This weekend, ABC’s fictional programming took a similar turn, regarding the NSA’s wiretapping to stop terrorist plots. On Saturday Night, ABC ran the PRE-9/11 movie, “Enemy of the State”, about the NSA illegally wiretapping Americans. Interesting timing, given that the ACLU just filed a lawsuit against the NSA over its wiretapping, just last Monday. As the French might say, “Quelle coincidence!” (What a coincidence!)
But in the movie, the “evil” NSA doesn’t just wiretap. NSA officials, run amok with unlimited power to spy on Americans, murder a Republican Senator who won’t vote for expanded surveillance and wiretapping authority. They murder an environmental expert who accidentally tapes the incident. They murder an innocent woman working as a crack detective for a labor lawyer (played by Will Smith), who accidentally gets the tape. (The lawyer’s wife is an ACLU lawyer. Another coincidence?) They try to murder the lawyer and turn his life upside down.
In the end, all the evil NSA employees are killed or prosecuted. And expanded wiretapping is tabled. The movie’s posters say, “It’s not paranoia if they’re really after you.”
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I think you’re totally right, it’s a coinkydink.
I was thinking the same thing when I saw that tonight, Jay. These coincidences seem to be happening an awful lot lately.
That movie pi$$es my dad off to know end. (I mentioned he worked for the NSA 17 years?) Its fake, Hollywood garbage. Its also interesting the way the movie portrays the Deputy Director as some sort of evil bad guy.
I thought the same thing.
A great movie in my opinion, notwithstanding the errors mentioned in #4, but clearly a political move by ABC.