Despite the drone-strike collateral and the “out of control”
US government surveillance on its own citizens is the TV series 24 already an
anachronism in the Obama administration?
By: Ringo Bones
The runaway US government surveillance on ordinary citizens
on US soil and the rest of the world has been since de rigueur after the
September 11, 2001 terror attacks and yet does your average “civil liberties
enthusiast” seems to now harbor a feeling of complacency in the new Obama
administration? I mean those robotic unmanned aerial drones never ever tortured
a Palestinian-American who had since been granted political asylum and had been
living in brooking since 1985 – unlike the Dubya Bush era “extraordinary
renditions” program that tends to paint a rather broad brush at Americans
adhering to the Islamic faith. So is the TV series 24 an anachronism in the
current Obama administration?
Criteria used on whether American citizens and us ordinary
folks from the rest of the world’s are freer now compared to at the height of
the Bush administration’s extraordinary renditions program are rather sketchy
at best. As a way of comparison those Roger Moore era James Bond movies – to me
at least – seem to be more “anachronistic” in the time when the Berlin Wall
fell back in September 1989 in comparison to the season 2 of the TV series 24
during the 2012 US Presidential Elections. But that’s just my opinion.
