Is anyone else sick of "24" being used to justify torture?

[Ralph Wiggum]

Radical Activist(1000+ posts)
Mon Dec-22-08 12:56 AM
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Is anyone else sick of "24" being used to justify torture?
   
First, the show came up during the Presidential debates to suggest that there's some kind of fictional scenario where using torture will save the world. Clearly 24 has an impact on how people think about the torture issue.

Now I just saw a commercial for the show where the torturing hero Jack Bauer is telling some kind of Congressional looking committee that he won't apologize for what he did.

Is this show written by Karl Rove? They're making Rumsfeld's defense for him if Congress ever investigates or tries Bush administration officials for their crimes.

I'm not a fan of the show. Does it have some kind of twist that shows torture is wrong? Or is this really pro-torture propaganda inserted into a popular TV show? If so, someone needs to call out the show's producers for their pro-torture bullshit.

I know that the DUmmies bitch about this show often, but this is the first one in a while.

[formerlurker]

Torture has been the premise of this show since the beginning (2001).    Morons. 

[miskie]

What they forget is that 24 and its anti-terrorist/torture/ etc ways and methodology was in production BEFORE 9/11 happened. Then it got pushed back because of the event. And anyway, why do the DUmmies always confuse fact & fiction ?

[rich_t]

What they forget is that 24 and its anti-terrorist/torture/ etc ways and methodology was in production BEFORE 9/11 happened. Then it got pushed back because of the event. And anyway, why do the DUmmies always confuse fact & fiction ?

Well, when one lives in a fantasy world......