Not all right, Jack

I have recently stopped watching “24” for the very reasons Laura Miller elucidates so well in “No Fun Allowed ‘24’/7” (April 3). After Jack had demonstrated his willingness to maim and torture in order to save his country from those who would maim and torture, I thought -- nay, hoped -- that it was all a joke, a satire, being played out against these torturous times. But, as Miller points out, it ain’t no joke, McGee.

Jack’s not funny, and he doesn’t represent the hero I’m looking for to save the day. He’s not the American hero I grew up believing in, the one who would die rather than become like the enemy, but who won out because he or she would not let the ends justify the means.

R.H. Bray

Encinitas