From the Movie Good Will Hunting
	Tami transcribed the
	text for me in May, 1998

(Matt Damon, as Will Hunting, being interviewed for a possible job with 
 the National Security Agency - the spooks who conduct electronic 
 eavesdropping for the U.S. Government)

Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one. But I'll take a shot. 
Say I’m working at the N.S.A.  Somebody puts a code on my desk, something 
nobody can break.  So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it.  And I’m 
real happy with myself ‘cause I did my job well.  But maybe that code was 
the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East.  Once 
they have that location they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding 
and fifteen hundred people I never had a problem with get killed.

Now the politicians are sayin’ “Send in the marines to secure the area” 
‘cause they don’t give a shit.  It won’t be their kid over there, gettin’ 
shot.  Just like it wasn’t them when their number got called, ‘cause they 
were pullin’ a tour in the National Guard. It’ll be some guy from Southie 
takin’ shrapnel in the ass.  And he comes home to find that the plant he used 
to work at got exported to the country he just got back from.  And the guy 
who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, ‘cause he’ll work for fifteen 
cents a day and no bathroom breaks.  Meanwhile my buddy from Southie realizes 
the only reason he was over there was so we could install a government that 
would sell us oil at a good price.  And of course the oil companies used the 
skirmish to scare up oil prices so they could turn a quick buck.  A cute 
little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain’t helping my buddy at two dollars 
and fifty cents a gallon.  And naturally they’re takin’ their sweet time 
bringing the oil back and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic 
skipper who likes to drink martinis and play slalom with the icebergs and it 
ain’t too long ‘til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in 
the North Atlantic.  So my buddy’s out of work and can’t afford to drive, so 
he’s got to walk to the job interviews, which sucks ‘cause the shrapnel in his 
ass is giving him chronic hemorrhoids.  And meanwhile he’s starvin’ ‘cause every 
time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they’re servin’ 
is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State.

So what’d I think?  I’m holding out for somethin’ better.  I figure I’ll 
eliminate the middleman. Why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to 
his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the 
hash pipe and join the National Guard?  Christ, I could be elected president.






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