Critical Review of, “Enemy of the State”

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In the following critical review of, “Enemy of the State” I will be addressing the obvious issue of the government’s infringement upon the privacy of United States citizens by the National Security Agency (NSA). However, before I do so, I would like to begin by outlining some initial pieces of information that is imperative for setting the context in which I will be viewing this issue of privacy invasion. I will begin by first giving a brief overview of the United States Government and where it’s initially receives the power to exercise authority over its citizens, and its responsibility to us as the citizens. I will also be briefly discussing our role as citizens and out biblical obligations to the government. After doing this I will give a brief background to how we secured out right to privacy, and then the remainder of this paper will be dedicated to relating that right to privacy to specific violations within the movie. Despite my previous elusion to me analyzing, and critiquing this movie against a presupposed biblical basis, I would now like to explicitly state my intention to do so in the proceeding portion of this critique.
I will now give a brief background to where the government has its basic foundation from a biblically rooted point of view. Within the Bible, God only sets in place three institutes. The first institute that is ordained by God is marriage, which we can see is an arrangement that allows two separate humans, male and female, to enter into a covenant with each other before God in an attempt to better fulfil the roles which God has set in place for each of them. The second institution that God set in place is the church. The church is set in place in a hierarchical manner to organize its members so that...

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...e absolute power that this privacy bill would have implicated. He stated that the government knew and had recorded and cataloged anything that was on “every wire, every airwave!” this corruption would be inexcusably unconstitutional the questions raised in this movie go far beyond the limits of even my generation, and require a lifetime of thought, which is unfortunately longer than I believe the evidence points to before the implications of this movie become a reality. So I conclude with a statement made in the film by Larry King, who succinctly summarizes the very questions that fuels this privacy debate, “how do we draw the line – draw the line between protection of national security, obviously the government’s need to obtain intelligence data and the protection of civil liberties, particularly the sanctity of my home? You’ve got no right to come into my home!

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