I’m down to 2 more episodes of 24 – Season Three. It’s 4:30am and I have work tomorrow, plus I’m starting to get sick of the M&M’s I’ve been eating this entire time. Do note, I started to watch the series on Saturday and it’s only Monday night. Well I did get half of the series done on Saturday, and 25% more (75% total) by Sunday. So I just watched 4 more today, leaving me with 2.
Major Spoilers:
So if you’ve watched the series, you’ll know that Sherry was called in by President David Palmer to deal deal with Alan Milliken and then Alan dies of a heart attack because Sherry stopped Julia (his wife) from giving medication to Alan in time. However, that backfires when Palmer lies to the police chief giving Sherry a false alibi. For some reason, this series makes Palmer make quite a few immoral decisions which he would’ve never done in the previous 2 seasons.
To get to the point, Sherry and Keeler (the other party’s presidential candidate) blackmail Palmer, trying to force him to resign from the race for reelection. However, this brought back an interesting memory I had…
Don’t all presidents get one free kill/assassination? I don’t remember where I heard it from, probably a movie or something on TV, but a secret service agent would come up to that president and offer to take care of the problem because he had one free kill. What do I mean by free? By FREE, I mean that the president would need no reason for requesting that kill or have any consequences. Could be a personal grudge. Could be something bigger. Could even be that he just doesn’t like the look on his face. But either way, the president will only have one during his entire term (not sure if he gets another one if re-elected).
That’d be so cool!
From One Free Kill Theory, ljc brings up an interesting point:
Now I found his response highly amusing. But the whole “One Free Kill Theory” rather frightens me. It’s the concept that everyone in the world has One Free Kill. They can request, carry out, authorize the death of one person, without any repercussions. But you only get one. The idea is that you would think twice before cutting someone off in traffic for fear they may still have their “One Free Kill” and use it on you. The result is supposed to be a more polite, considerate society.
I see problems arising from this. People auctioning off their Free Kills on Ebay to the highest bidder and so on. And with my luck I’d get killed off for something inane like unknowingly taking the last jar of Marshmallow Fluff at the Wegmans.
So I didn’t find much with Google, but I did happen to find this. In one of the comments for the book Who’s Looking Out for You? by Bill O’Reilly, a user states:
I consider myself a moderate- I think that both parties screw up more than they do what they ought to do. However, I think that, if I were president, Bill O’Reilly would be my one free kill. The simple fact that his show is the “number 1 news show” on cable television sickens me… mostly because it’s not actually news. It’s O’Reilly’s opinion packaged as fact, which is not news, it’s a seperate kind of show and should be treated as such. But that’s O’Reilly for ya. And now Bill pops out another bs book of obvious advice (make good friends… geez why haven’t I thought of that) and paranoia-inducing drivel. Bill O’Reilly, congrats- you’ve made money off of people less educated than you and you ought to feel proud… or ashamed, but for you proud, I guess. And, since this is a review, I should probably mention how poorly written this book is. I mean, even by self-help standards, this is low-quality and uninteresting. It’s more than condescending and obvious- it’s bad literature.
So it’s definitely just not something I pull out of thin air and there must be some background to this. If anyone knows where I may have picked this up or have any other sources, I’d like to know!