I always like this movie. But lately I have come to like the following line by Capt. Jack Ross more and more. On the scene at the bar he told Kaffee: "I represent the government of United States without passion and prejudice, and my client has a case." I like the way that he refers to the government of United States as his client. What kind of government it is that it could be referred to just as a client.
This piece of opinion by Thomas Friedman regarding the spy case "The Spies Who Loved Us" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/opinion/14friedman.html?_r=1&hp is very interesting. I would just add to that whenever the Russia government could be referred to by an attorney as a client then they are moving in the right direction.
A worried sign in the States that has been developing over the past year is the government think that it could do no wrong, and that given it more power that it could do more good. And I have a very simple argument to it: no matter. I just don't want the government gets into my face. No matter whether they could do better or worse in the short term. We are almost 100% certain that it would do great harm in a long term.
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