On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, BTR1701 <btr1702@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

In article <gUADf.9120$vU2.7283@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
"Gregory Hernandez" <gregrosa@earthlink.net> wrote:

That has got to be one of the most interesting hours of television I've
ever
seen.
At first, when Cummings gave his rationale for his actions, I caught
myself
thinking during the commercial break "well, that's it, my disbelief is
no
longer suspended". But when the show came back from the break and began
to
explore how the new dynamic between the weak president and Cummings was
going to affect the various characters, I found myself really fascinated
by
how this palace intrigue would play out over the next few hours. CTU
out of
the loop, Buchanan and McHale (sp?) and their respective decisions, the
President's wife, etc., etc. Really really fascinating and completely
atypical. I really didn't expect things to snap back into shape so
soon,
but when they did, WOW did we get a glimpse of Jack's dark side! It
would
not have surprised me for a minute if they had let Jack take out
Cummings
eye. How many shows let their heroes display such a vicious side? Not
many, I tell you.

That wasn't even his most vicious behavior. A couple of seasons ago, he
had a federal prisoner brought into CTU, interrogated him, then shot him
dead and decapitated him so that when he went to go meet the guy's
former boss, he'd have street cred.

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That was also a *great* episode. 24 ROCKS! America's
law-enforcement could learn a thing or two from our
man Jack.

As it is, our cops just beat the violent gang-banging
culprits up a bit with billy clubs, a few lame kicks,
etc. That doesn't eliminate gangs, or terrorists, but
only makes them mad. We need to ELIMINATE the problem.

Gouging out the eyes, a clip full of 9mm's, and summary
decapitation would go a long way in cleaning up America's
current bleeding-heart clusterphuck of a justice system.

I hope, I pray, that '24'-style, balls-to-the-wall, no-
holds-barred law-enforcement becomes actual *reality* in
America over these next several glorious years of across-
the-board conservative Republican control over all three
branches of our beloved United States Federal Government.

Hallelujah: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Alito is IN THERE!
We'll start by gutting the liberal A.C.L.U. like a fish... :-D

Gouging out the eyes, a clip full of 9mm's, and summary
decapitation would go a long way in cleaning up America's
current bleeding-heart clusterphuck of a justice system.