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dhole ([info]dhole) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2007-06-21 13:42:00

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070616.BAUER16/TPStory/TPNational/Television/

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Canadian Justice Richard Mosley get into it about Jack Bauer. Also giving their opinions on 24: Lord Carlile of Berriew, an independent reviewer of Britain's laws on terrorism, Stanley Cohen, a senior counsel for the Justice Department, and Maher Arar's attorney, Lorne Waldman.
Senior judges from North America and Europe were in the midst of a panel discussion about torture and terrorism law, when a Canadian judge's passing remark - "Thankfully, security agencies in all our countries do not subscribe to the mantra 'What would Jack Bauer do?' " - got the legal bulldog in Judge Scalia barking.

(...) "Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles. ... He saved hundreds of thousands of lives," Judge Scalia said.

Sadly, Judge Scalia does appear to be aware that Jack Bauer is a fictional character.
During a break from the panel, Judge Scalia specifically mentioned the segment in Season 2 when Jack Bauer finally figures out how to break the die-hard terrorist intent on nuking L.A. The real genius, the judge said, is that this is primarily done with mental leverage. "There's a great scene where he told a guy that he was going to have his family killed," Judge Scalia said. "They had it on closed circuit television - and it was all staged. ... They really didn't kill the family."


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