Now, I actually think 24 is good for what it is, I mean....I quite like watching it....however I can see the amount of blatant psychological scaremongering and 'people preparation' within the show all the time and the new season looks to be taking it up a fair notch - it's a gradual and incremental process of tactics to further our acceptance of the globalist's FEAR - it's everywhere now though. If a news story can be linked to terrorism in ANY way it will. Even if it's just the use of the words 'middle-eastern' or the creepy suggestive headline banners on Fox News Channel, it'll be there, the FEAR angle well be included. Again, I quite like 24 but I hate the way it has a 'not so hidden' second audience - Your Psyche (or Psychie...however it's spelt)

 

 

New 24 Season Showcases Mass Terror, Concentration Camps

Propaganda Keeps Being Pushed by FOX

 

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

 

The new season of 24, that is to air this coming weekend, is to prepare the American people for the idea of concentration camps, detention centers and the rounding up of people in times of crisis.

 

The opener depicts an America besieged by mass terrorist attacks and public paranoia, with 11 cities, including New York, Atlanta, San Antonio and L.A., having been attacked in the space of a few weeks. Watch it:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTgI4r0DWGw&eurl=

 

A Fox news broadcast pumps out on street corners and at bus stops from TV screens as the terrified public are urged to report anyone they consider suspicious.

 

A brown skinned man is refused entry onto a bus as the people around him look at him as if he is some kind of space alien.

 

Cut to the Oval Office were there is an argument going on between the National Security Advisor and the President's aides about the morality and constitutional implications of using concentration camps/detention centers in America.

 

The National Security Advisor, who the President's aides are surprised to find is opposed to this, states "These places that you keep building, they are nothing more than concentration camps."

 

Note how the Security Advisor states that camps are already built and keep being built. She goes on to state that a "revised plan" on behalf of the White House "justifies locking up every American who prays towards Mecca."

 

 

As she continues to argue against locking up innocent Americans, the high ranking official played by Peter MacNicol (perhaps the head of Homeland Security, it is unclear from the clip) abruptly stops her and yells "security has its price." The aides, including the Attorney General then attempt to persuade the dubious President that in a "time of war" it is legal to suspend Habeas Corpus.

 

The second clip features a private conversation between the Security Advisor and MacNicol's character in which he tells her that he has "second guessed" the President by not rescinding an earlier secret order for the National Guard to prepare to set up detention facilities at sports arenas in L.A., Detroit and Philadelphia. Watch it:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Uk15f90Xc&eurl=

 

The Security Advisor questions "what happens when innocent people get caught up in this net?" To which MacNicol's character states "Like I said before, security has its price, just get used to it."

 

Although 24 has routinely depicted scenes of detainee torture, this latest plot-line is the first time that it has broached the issue of the detention of American citizens in a time of crisis.

 

At a time when legislation such as The Military Commissions Act is setting the precedent for the detention of American citizens, 24 serves as the perfect dose of fear-mongering propaganda to get the people to accept such attacks upon the fabric of freedom and to "just get used to it".

 

Thus when real attacks are carried out some will not be alarmed to see detention camps being used because they have already witnessed the scenario played out before their very eyes.

 

Laura Ingraham has previously stated that the average American's love of the show is a referendum for such tough tactics against anyone considered to be with "Al Qaeda" whether they be American citizens or not. Watch it:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Y0MN4SXmA&eurl=

 

Following the news first given wide attention by this website, that Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root had been awarded a $385 million dollar contract by Homeland Security to construct the very detention and processing facilities referred to in this episode of 24, the Alternet website put together an alarming report that collated all the latest information on plans to initiate internment of political subversives and Muslims after the next major terror attack in the U.S.

 

Yesterday we reported one such detention camp in Taylor Texas that currently holds hundreds of rebuffed asylum seekers who legally entered the country, half of which are children swept up in midnight raids. These things are all over the country and are prime locations for the enforced transfer of American citizens during a time of national emergency.

 

Furthermore, one of the last acts of Congress before Christmas was to send President Bush a bill that establishes a $38 million program of National Park Service grants to preserve Japanese POW internment camps in Hawaii, California, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho.

the first clip looks interesting, unfortunately 24 has completely passed me by. Season 1... here I come!

Never got into 24 in time, but I have heard plenty about the terrorism fearmongering.

 

What's really frying my brain this season is that one of my favorite stand-up comedians, Shaun Majumder, has been cast as one of the terrorists.

 

Shaun is from Newfoundland. His dad is east Indian, but his mom is from Newfoundland, and he has what you might call a steriotypical Newfie sense of humor. When he started doing jokes about his background on 'This Hour Has 22 Minutes' (A fake news show that predates Jon Stewart) it kind of weirded me out because I had always thought of him as a Newfie. If you want to see who he is for yourself, check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3hF5U4PC6U

 

I knew he was looking for dramatic roles too, and I'm sure he'll be good at them, but if there was ever someone who could prove just how much 24 likes to stereotype, it's him. Seriously.... Newfie. Terrorist. Newfie. Terrorist. It's like comparing a codfish to a pirana!!! Doesn't work. :dizzy:

 

news article about it: http://www.herald.ns.ca/Search/551658.html

the first clip looks interesting' date=' unfortunately 24 has completely passed me by. Season 1... here I come![/quote']

 

 

1st season was the best.... second was a bore... it picks up in the 3rd.... but I haven't seen the show since.... :\

It's actually interesting how this show is put together...

 

 

Is 24 Propaganda? Is The Pope Catholic?

Talking heads omit fact that U.S. government, Neo-Con ideologues met with cast members to run PR for war on terror

 

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

 

To coincide with the start of a new season of Fox's much vaunted 24 program, MSNBC featured a debate asking whether the lead character, Jack Bauer, was a right-wing propagandist. What the talking heads and others that defend the neutrality of the show consistently fail to omit is the fact that 24 cast and crew members met with U.S. government officials and Neo-Con ideologues to run PR for the war on terror last year.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iagkPq-7VSQ&eurl=

 

Those that defend the show against allegations that it is merely fearmongering propaganda used to prop up the facade of the "war on terror" either point to the wildly unrealistic tone of the plotlines or to examples where it isn't always Muslim jihadists behind the terror.

 

We can go back and forth all day discussing the intricacies of the plot, instances where the oil cartels are sponsoring the terror or certain individuals within the government turn heel and become bad guys. The majority of the American population do not watch entire episodes back to back for a whole day like some unfortunate souls choose to waste their time doing. The important aspect to make a judgment on is the impression that the show leaves as a whole and certain contextual storylines that are repeated in almost every episode.

 

This is what you come away with from catching a few minutes of 24, be it channel surfing or watching trailers - terrorists are everywhere and terror attacks are inevitably going to increase in both number and severity in the United States. The only way to stop terrorists is to violate the U.S. Constitution in a plethora of different ways and torture people into making confessions. In the current season, concentration camps are built to detain suspects.

 

No matter which way you slice it or dice it, that's what the average American gets out of 24.

 

Little surprise it is therefore that the U.S. government has chosen to attach itself to the show, a trend mimicked by Neo-Con ideologues.

 

In June 2006, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff joined a panel of 24 cast and crew members at a Heritage Foundation event that was moderated by none other than hillbilly heroin popping Neo-Con talk show walrus Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh put the morning forum in jeopardy when he planted a kiss on the lips of 24 actress Mary Lynn Rajskub, causing the media in attendance to almost projectile vomit their breakfast.

 

 

The conference also featured numerous self-described national security experts and even Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. You can watch the two hour event by clicking here.

 

The scope of the event was supposedly to discern if 24 was like real counterterrorism efforts, which is like making the argument that Teen Wolf is an accurate portrayal of the NBA. Everyone knows 24 is over hyped and overblown but that's not the point of this debate. The more telling aspect of this visit was when Chertoff embraced and praised the actions of the characters fictionalized in the show as an example of the kind of dedication Homeland Security should be showing towards fighting terrorism (including presumably season one's patriotic scene where our hero Bauer cuts off a villain's head with a hacksaw).

 

We have Limbaugh tonguing the lead actress and Chertoff lauding the virtues of the show in a public speech - and yet some still argue it's not Neo-Con propaganda! What do they need as proof? George Bush having Kiefer Sutherland's baby?

 

Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld have both publicly praised the show as one of their favorites, but to have Chertoff give the opening speech at an event that used the popularity of 24 as PR for the war on terror, provides no clearer conclusion than the fact that the Bush administration loves 24 - because it feeds the fear.

 

It's a completely unjustified fear that can be ridiculed with the knowledge that peanuts and accident causing deer kill more Americans every single year on average than acts of terror and the fact that there's a September 11 death toll equivalent on U.S. roads every month.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Y0MN4SXmA&eurl=

 

The show is also embraced by Bush bootlickers such as Laura Ingraham, one of a gaggle of press whores recently invited to the White House to get their orders, who told Fox News that the average American's love of the show is a referendum for "tough tactics" (torture) against anyone considered to be with "Al Qaeda" whether they be American citizens or not.

 

In addition to tacit spoken approvals from Bush admin bigwigs, big budget film and television productions that make use of government and military facilities, technology and hardware have to acquiesce to on-site narks who vet the script and demand that changes are made unless the relevant agencies of the state are represented in a positive light, and there's no reason to conclude 24 is any different.

 

Whether by accident or design, 24 is indoctrinating a generation of Americans into believing that the future of the country will be characterized by paranoia, fear and mass terror, and that the only way to combat such chaos is to give the government unlimited power to "protect" us. Only the government itself can benefit from such brainwashing and that's why the Bush administration and 24 are joined at the hip in a coordinated propaganda assault against the American people.

Guest Cites Fox's Fictional "24" as Evidence that Terrorists are "Out There"

 

News Hounds

Thursday, January 18, 2007

 

Former New York City police detective Bo Dietl was Neil Cavuto's guest today (January 17, 2007) on Your World. Dietl appeared along with Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini, of the Islamic Center of America, to discuss a January 7 incident in which Northwest Airlines prohibited a group of 40 Muslims from boarding a plane in Germany, after a pilgrimage to the Hajj, on their return trip to Detroit. The group said that Northwest's action was discriminatory and threatened to launch a boycott, whereupon Northwest apologized and agreed to pay for any expenses incurred as a result of the "snafu."

 

At one point Cavuto turned to Dietl and said, "Bo, you have a problem with Northwest apologizing, right?" to which Dietl responded:

 

No, I have a problem because things have changed, Hassan. We have to look at -- a bunch of Irish guys are not going to get on the plane now and blow themselves up or put themselves into buildings. The fact of the matter is, I mean, you don't watch '24?' On Fox TV? They're out there. They're out there. There are cells out there. We have to protect ourselves against them as Americans.

 

Comment: Either Dietl is a hack, shamelessly promoting a Fox television show; he's as ignorant as he appears, or both. Whatever happened, Cavuto, being a "journalist" and all, had an obligation to tell his audience that what appears on "24" is fictional, which he didn't do. Also, what a "coincidence" this is. Last night Keith Olbermann aired a segment with Robert Greenwald, the producer of Outfoxed, titled: "Fox Scaring You Into Watching '24?'". Maybe this is Rupert Murdoch's bullyboy way of telling both Olbermann and Greenwald to f**k off.