I really like the scenes where they just drop all the subtlety and violently assault the suspect, even in an interrogation room.
That and the tough talk referencing the Patriot Act. “You’re a terrorist, you don’t have rights! You’re not getting a lawyer, you’re getting a C-130 to Gitmo!”
In both cases you’re supposed to cheer it on, seemingly.
That was the mind-boggling thing about 24, in hindsight. Two months after 9/11, before Guantanamo Bay was even established, before anybody outside the US military had any idea how we were treating Afghan prisoners, one of the biggest TV shows in the country started hammering in the message that torture worked and torturers were heroes.
And people will still, even now, claim the US military doesn’t deploy propaganda weapons against American citizens.
The Propaganda around torture is so infuriating. There is this myth that good men torture and evil wilts before them giving out secrets. But good men can’t be broken under torture because they are just sooooo heroic. Reality is cruel men torture because they can. Truth information? Nah.
I remember a Fresh Air interview with a colonel from army intelligence who was very clear that torture didn’t work, forming a relationship involving mutual respect does.
I really like the scenes where they just drop all the subtlety and violently assault the suspect, even in an interrogation room.
That and the tough talk referencing the Patriot Act. “You’re a terrorist, you don’t have rights! You’re not getting a lawyer, you’re getting a C-130 to Gitmo!”
In both cases you’re supposed to cheer it on, seemingly.
That was the mind-boggling thing about 24, in hindsight. Two months after 9/11, before Guantanamo Bay was even established, before anybody outside the US military had any idea how we were treating Afghan prisoners, one of the biggest TV shows in the country started hammering in the message that torture worked and torturers were heroes.
And people will still, even now, claim the US military doesn’t deploy propaganda weapons against American citizens.
https://youtu.be/YPiL3-CYzWk
The Propaganda around torture is so infuriating. There is this myth that good men torture and evil wilts before them giving out secrets. But good men can’t be broken under torture because they are just sooooo heroic. Reality is cruel men torture because they can. Truth information? Nah.
Torture works! You can get them to confess to loads of things they never did!
I remember a Fresh Air interview with a colonel from army intelligence who was very clear that torture didn’t work, forming a relationship involving mutual respect does.