Un-dirtyword-believable.
With real, and counter productive, torture going on RIGHT NOW, authorized at the highest levels of government, this twit has to use a bit of schlock TV, because he just wants to torture people.
What would Jack Bauer do?
Canadian jurist prompts international justice panel to debate TV drama 24's use of torture
COLIN FREEZE
June 16, 2007
OTTAWA -- Justice Antonin Scalia is one of the most powerful judges on the planet.
The job of the veteran U.S. Supreme Court judge is to ensure that the superpower lives up to its Constitution. But in his free time, he is a fan of 24, the popular TV drama where the maverick federal agent Jack Bauer routinely tortures terrorists to save American lives. This much was made clear at a legal conference in Ottawa this week.
Senior judges from North America and Europe were in the midst of a panel discussion about torture and terrorism law, when a Canadian judge's passing remark - 'Thankfully, security agencies in all our countries do not subscribe to the mantra 'What would Jack Bauer do?' ' - got the legal bulldog in Judge Scalia barking."
The conservative jurist stuck up for Agent Bauer, arguing that fictional or not, federal agents require latitude in times of great crisis. "Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles. ... He saved hundreds of thousands of lives," Judge Scalia said. Then, recalling Season 2, where the agent's rough interrogation tactics saved California from a terrorist nuke, the Supreme Court judge etched a line in the sand.
"Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?" Judge Scalia challenged his fellow judges. "Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don't think so.
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