---- WHEN MEDIA CRITICS GO TO FAR You know, I don't know about you and maybe it is the way we as the general public and citizens have been treated during the last few years but I for one am really tired of being thought of a stupid, sheep-like, short sighted and gullible. Here we are told that "24", James Bond on meth laced steroids, scares people into a "dangerous climate" and gives terrorists "ideas". It's a fiction. Repeat, the show is a work of fiction. The administration has done its level best to scare the shit out of this country. They have us spying on one another. They are allowing themselves in to our phone calls, bank accounts, mail. They have held people without charges. They have exported people to be tortured. "24" has nothing on the secrecy and invasiveness of the present US government. And it will be a better day when terrorists do get their ideas from Hollywood script writers. If you look at the way a 24 story arc unfolds things happen by happenstance and circumstance. If a super secret government agency relied on luck and was muddled with petty jealousies as much as CTU is and terrorists depended on the dedication of suburban teens and antiquated Soviet era weaponry our biggest problem really would be who's the more powerful; Donald or Rosie.