I was emailing a friend the other day about Jack being a Democrat, and she had this to say:
Jack Bauer is not always the most sensitive about respecting human rights, but that's pretty irrelevant since he only causes trouble for people who resist him. And anyone who even considers going against the will of Jack Bauer is an evil idiot, so who cares about their rights anyway? You guessed it: only losers who don't even deserve an opinion!
Ok. So on a couple points, she's right. Anyone who considers going against Jack is an evil idiot. Clearly, President Logan was an evil idiot in Season 5. By extension, this proves that all Republican Presidents are evil idiots. And then Secretary Heller went against Jack. Even though Heller had good intentions, giving Jack the taser and then handcuffing him to a pole was an evil, idiotic thing to do, thus proving that all Republican Secretaries of State are evil idiots. Condi, that means you, sweet tits. This also means that we'll have to do away with China's rights, but they already don't have any so who gives a fuck anyway (and a pre-emptive middle finger to anyone considering giving me the
Rosie O'Donnell treatment for that).
So we know that people going against Jack should obviously have their rights revoked. And everybody knows that Republicans don't care about the human rights of Americans who aren't white and Christian, so let's not even go near what Republicans think about the human rights of non-Americans with darker skin.
The difference is, Democrats believe human rights can be revoked only for a good reason, while Republicans are sort of like the less competent, uglier little brother of Dr. Evil. The one who wasn't at all good at sports, but hung around in the showers for just a little too long after gym class in high school. But I digress.
So, the question is: If we could promote a system where you
always knew that the people you were torturing knew something vitally important, where the vitally important information
always pertained to a terrorist attack threatening to kill everyone in America in the next few hours, and where the torture would
always lead to the person divulging information that is 100% accurate and leads us to thwart the impending terrorist attack, does anyone really think Democrats would oppose it?
No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.But where on Earth could we find something like this? What system of interrogation could produce those kind of results? I mean,
where on Earth...
Well hooooolyyyyy shit. It's what Jack Bauer does
all the time. And everything in 24 is completely accurate and happens
exactly as things happen in real life, so there muct be a way (And yes,
Simon Brent, repeatedly shouting the same question--in a slightly louder voice each time--does
actually work for getting answers out of people. If it doesn't you break their fingers one by one. Do you have any other questions, you fucking moron, or can we move along now? Good.)
And it's a little known fact that the Democrats are actually going to implement this type of interrogation for use in our military and counter-terrorist efforts. I direct you to Section 4, Article 19, paragraph 12 of
H.R. 1, the Democrats' bill to implement the 9/11 Commission recommendations, which provides that:
All agents of the military, counter-terrorist organizations, Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense who are engaged in the gathering of intelligence or field operations shall receive thorough training in the Jack Bauer school of interrogation. Should it be necessary to kill the commie pricks in China who are holding Jack Bauer, America will take all action necessary.
And guess what. That was part of the Democrats agenda in the first 100 hours.
All 231 House Democrats voted for that legislation, but the Republicans were against it by a margin of 2-1.
I shit you not. You can't make stuff like this up.