Votingisanillusion
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I read this on WagNews before watching the latest episode of 24:
<< Tonight's edition of Fox Tevevision's 'crisis-in-a-day' thriller '24 is a blatant apologia for torture:
To thwart a terrorist plot, hero Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) and his Counter Terrorist Unit have shot a suspect in the leg while interrogating him; subjected the son of the defense secretary to high-tech sensory disorientation; stun-gunned a suspected but innocent colleague; and used a lamp cord to shock information from a businessman.
For 24's producers, in their fourth season of constructing a save-the-world scenario that must be completed in one day, the use of torture is about ?real-time? drama, not politics.
?It goes with the 24 conceit that we need information and don't have days to break this person. Sometimes we don't even have hours,? executive producer Howard Gordon says. [USA Today]
If that last comment sounds like a gung-ho Pentagon statement defending torture in Iraq, then you are hardly surprized, are you? Apologists for the inhuman detention treatment in Iraq have made just such excuses. This is Fox after all. Here's another tidbit of Bush'ist propaganda to conclude:
?Jack Bauer is a tragic character. He doesn't get away with it clean. He's got blood on his hands,? Gordon says. ?In some ways, he is a necessary evil.? >>
Well, if you remember the scene in which Jack's girlfriend looks shocked by the new side of Jack, the torturer, she recently discovered, you may have felt that her father telling her that "we need men like him" and her reaction was a great piece of psychological manipulation directed at the women watching the show; they are encouraged to feel like her and accept the fact that some men do torture, and that it is alright to love these men.
Before that Paul and others, after having been subjected to very painful torture, uncritically accept to go back to work with their torturers. Again, gross psychological manipulation of the masses of fans of 24. I do not feel like a fan anymore.
Frankly, I am very disappointed by this fourth season. It has turned into blatant propanganda for the Pentagon and the CIA's criminal conduct in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Guantanamo, and at home thanks to the fascist Patriot Act.
24 is now a fascist series.
Just like FoxNews is a fascist channel. No surprise.
<< Tonight's edition of Fox Tevevision's 'crisis-in-a-day' thriller '24 is a blatant apologia for torture:
To thwart a terrorist plot, hero Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) and his Counter Terrorist Unit have shot a suspect in the leg while interrogating him; subjected the son of the defense secretary to high-tech sensory disorientation; stun-gunned a suspected but innocent colleague; and used a lamp cord to shock information from a businessman.
For 24's producers, in their fourth season of constructing a save-the-world scenario that must be completed in one day, the use of torture is about ?real-time? drama, not politics.
?It goes with the 24 conceit that we need information and don't have days to break this person. Sometimes we don't even have hours,? executive producer Howard Gordon says. [USA Today]
If that last comment sounds like a gung-ho Pentagon statement defending torture in Iraq, then you are hardly surprized, are you? Apologists for the inhuman detention treatment in Iraq have made just such excuses. This is Fox after all. Here's another tidbit of Bush'ist propaganda to conclude:
?Jack Bauer is a tragic character. He doesn't get away with it clean. He's got blood on his hands,? Gordon says. ?In some ways, he is a necessary evil.? >>
Well, if you remember the scene in which Jack's girlfriend looks shocked by the new side of Jack, the torturer, she recently discovered, you may have felt that her father telling her that "we need men like him" and her reaction was a great piece of psychological manipulation directed at the women watching the show; they are encouraged to feel like her and accept the fact that some men do torture, and that it is alright to love these men.
Before that Paul and others, after having been subjected to very painful torture, uncritically accept to go back to work with their torturers. Again, gross psychological manipulation of the masses of fans of 24. I do not feel like a fan anymore.
Frankly, I am very disappointed by this fourth season. It has turned into blatant propanganda for the Pentagon and the CIA's criminal conduct in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Guantanamo, and at home thanks to the fascist Patriot Act.
24 is now a fascist series.
Just like FoxNews is a fascist channel. No surprise.
