522:(1) In Seasons 2-7, torture is portrayed as unreliable -- sometimes effective, sometimes not -- but justified to prevent imminent (within '24' hours) attack with nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction -- a sensational scenario that has never happened in reality, to public knowledge. However, in Season 7, Jack Bauer testified that he used torture to prevent a bus bombing, not a WMD attack. The show does not address the controversy over torture as part of on-going intelligence gathering, it always deals with a massive attack within '24' hours. In Season 7, the show was most manipulative on the issue: a Senator who opposes torture is ironically murdered by terrorists; the FBI is depicted as slowed down by their refusal to use torture; an FBI agent who opposes torture at the start of the day converts to Jack Bauer's 'Whatever It Takes' philosophy when Bauer is depicted getting faster results in preventing catastrophes. In Season 6, the President turns Jack over to terrorists to be tortured, in exchange for vital intelligence; Jack willingly agrees to be tortured 'for the Greater Good.' In Season 4, the Secretary of Defense tortures his own son. Jack tortures his own brother (Season 6) and threatens to torture his girlfriend (Season 5). He is also forced to execute two innocent colleagues in the Counter-Terrorist Bureau (Seasons 3,6) for his view of 'the Greater Good.' Bauer also uses summary execution of terrorists and traitors. In Season 7, Bauer discusses his views on counter-terrorism and says its up to the American people to decide whether they want to use him or not.
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Christian on ER is completely whacked out and intolerant of everyone, there is one episode the doctors give a pregnant girl with "crazy" religious parents an abortion drug without letting her parents know, plenty of sex/pregnancies outside of marriage, etc. Should we maybe add an "Allegations of Bias" section to the ER page? Better yet... should we add a section about ER being anti-Christian. I'm so sorry that this 24 may show terrorists who happen to be Muslim in a bad light. ER shows EVERY Christian as bad. There hasn't been one sane Christian on that show. Case in point, there's a huge double standard and my point is maybe to just identify it so that people are just aware that we need to be more neutral on these pages. -Brad
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Muslims is debated from both sides in the Oval Office, the 'left wing' argument presented cogently. Also, the one woman and two black Presidents are depicted as highly moral, the two white male Presidents as godawful. 24 does depict terrorism as a serious threat -- I suppose some on the 'left' think that's 'right wing' in itself.
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I don't think the show depicts torture as effective. The SECDEF tortured his own son, only to extract that his son was gay. A Muslim working in the
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Its funny that some people here claim this to be a right-left issue when it really isn't. Every conservative in their right mind (and I know quite a few) abhors torture. For the record: Its not left-wing bias to be against torture. It is common sense to be against torture. Torture is unanimously
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