UPDATE: Well I finally watched three seasons or so and that is ENOUGH! This is appalling! The apparats of CTU stop presidential assassins, defuse nuclear bombs, off bioterrorists,twart any number of high tech mopes using sophisticated computers that enable CTU to follow baddies all over the planet. All of this is done in 24 hours!
I am glad I am 65 years old as this tripe exposes the government of the future that, I am afraid, is all too real. It shows a brutal, totalitarian, menacing and plain bad apparatus that we are building in our government. Yeah, the government is building it to stop terrorists, but it is also using it to to control and manipulate the average American slob, i. e., me and mine.
I hearken back to the late Samuel Francis and his coining of a new term "Anarcho-tyranny" that fits this program to a tee. The anarcho part of it applies to the way the government ignores the rampant crime in the streets, caused by drug dealers, people pouring over the border, thuggery and theivery in the big cities. The "tyranny" applies to all the numerous regulations, rules and laws that ensnare and apply to the rest of us. Think of all the stuff today that the government is using to trace, encode and curtail the law-abiding.
CTU operates out of LA, right? Who is more threatening to the average Angelino? Some murderous, burglar named Jose who snuck over the border and is robbing and raping at will? Or is it some terrorist named Anatoly or Mohammed who is going to set off a ricin bomb in the LA subway?
What is the federal answer to Jose? Nothing. We are spending all our time looking for Mohammed and Anatoly. Jose and his ilk are doing a lot more damage.
24 is the typical answer of the American elite. They are a bigger threat than any gaggle of spies in this country. They sacrifice us to political correctness. Remember how some airport flatfoot tried to take the Medal of Honor away from Joe Foss when he was boarding an airplane because it set off the metal detector? That is the tyranny part of anarcho-tyranny.
ORIGINAL COMMENT: The only way you can watch this is to buy the dvd. I hate this type of show where if you miss an episode you don't know what is going on.
