If you’re only reference for terrorists are movie villains this makes complete sense.

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    If you’re only reference for terrorists are movie villains this makes complete sense.

    You (probably) joke but it’s true. It may be extremely paranoid to say this, but I can’t help but feel the US government is entirely aware of the propagandistic power of television and have made full use of it in that way for decades, and I don’t just mean movies and TV shows.

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      Nah, I think you’re overreacting, there’s no way the US government would use the media to dehumanise the US’s enemies. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go watch a marvel movie where the good guy heros fight terrorists in the middle east with the US army and then maybe play some Call of Duty.

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      Justice Scalia responded with a defense of Agent Bauer, arguing that law enforcement officials deserve latitude in times of great crisis. “Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles… He saved hundreds of thousands of lives,” Judge Scalia reportedly said. “Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?” He then posed a series of questions to 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,” Scalia reportedly answered himself. “So the question is really whether we believe in these absolutes. And ought we believe in these absolutes.”