Army wants Jack Bauer to condemn torture.
The Army has invited Kiefer Sutherland, star of the hit TV show 24 and opponent of torture, to come and discuss why it is wrong to torture prisoners. Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan recently pleaded with the makers of the show to cut down on torture scenes, arguing that they are sending inappropriate messages to the troops condoning torture: “I’d like them to stop. They should do a show where torture backfires
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What does this tell us except that the media is as powerful as we sometimes think. It is so influential that the US Army wants a star of a show to publicly emphasize that torture doesn’t work.
The United States Military Academy at West Point yesterday confirmed that Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan recently travelled to California to meet producers of the show, broadcast on the Fox channel. He told them that promoting illegal behaviour in the series - apparently hugely popular among the US military - was having a damaging effect on young troops.
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Leave it to wingnut Laura Ingraham to use a televisions audience to throw away a century of civility. To het, torture on TV is OK, but Janet Jackson’s tit is awful.
The average American out there loves the show 24. OK? They love Jack Bauer. They love 24. In my mind that’s close to a national referendum that it’s OK to use tough tactics against high-level Al Qaeda operatives as we’re going to get.
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There is no bigger issue in my opinion than stopping the US from "playing tough" with prisoners if that means beating them, waterboarding them and otherwise humiliating and torturing them.
This is the biggest sin of all.
Just to throw this in:
80 Dead 27 days
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