AlterNet: The Right's Jack Bauer Fantasy: 'Clip the Electrodes to His Balls and Turn on the Juice'

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The Right's Jack Bauer Fantasy: 'Clip the Electrodes to His Balls and Turn on the Juice'

By Larry Beinhart, AlterNet. Posted February 5, 2009.

"24" helped brainwash Americans to accept the brutal, illegal actions of the Bush administration.



Credit where credit is due. The TV show "24" is probably the most significant piece of political drama in the last decade.

On one hand, it is very likely that Barack Obama got elected because America had already had a serious black presidential candidate (one season) and two black presidents (one season each). And he was always the most decent guy in the room. Often, the only decent guy in the room. Just like Obama.

On the other hand, there's torture.

* Terrorists are going to nuke Los Angeles in three hours.

* Agent Jack Bauer has a suspect who knows where the bomb is.

* If Jack Bauer tortures the suspect, he can force him to say where it is, get there in 2 hours and 59 minutes, stop the bomb, and save 10 million people.

* What should, what must, Jack Bauer do?

That's a no-brainer. Clip the electrodes to his balls and turn on the juice. .......(more)

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1. the error is in step 2, 3 ...

* Terrorists are going to nuke Los Angeles in three hours.

* Agent Jack Bauer has a suspect who knows where the bomb is.

* If Jack Bauer tortures the suspect, he can force him to say where it is, get there in 2 hours and 59 minutes, stop the bomb, and save 10 million people.


How the FUCK does he KNOW the person has the info?

And so the guy tells him the RIGHT info?


Here's the show I want to see:


Jack captures some guy off the street who of course LOOKS like a terrorist. Tortures him until he gives ANY info that will stop the torture. The information is wrong but Jack acts on it and goes to the building / plane whatever. Pulling off the agents who are **just about** to find the real bomb. The bomb goes off - Jack fucked up.

Then he kills the terrorist in a rage - only to find out he was an innocent, good guy with family etc. Meanwhile, the real "terrorist" is laughing his ass off. Jack becomes depressed, winds up on skid row.

(remember BTW this is a TV SHOW so nobody "dies" - I (unlike Darth Chenny) dont want this to actually happen.

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2. but it has already happened ...

the only thing is, there was no bomb going off ...

the guy off the street was tortured (and killed), and the agents pulled off a PR coup, claiming that they stopped a terrorist plot ... which never existed ...