Batman supports Bush’s wire-tapping bill
Now I don’t believe in anything!
I watched The Dark Knight a few evenings ago and enjoyed it, especially the creepy performance by Heath Ledger. But did anyone else catch the wiretapping propaganda? Bush’s illegal and unconstitutional wiretapping bill is promoted by batman in the new film. Like Bush’s bill, the gross suspension of civil liberties is appropriate under extreme circumstances. This plays out in the film when a citizen stands and says “things have never been worse!”
The character Morgan Freeman plays further legitimizes the bill when he agrees to use it “just this one time.” The message here is, “don’t worry, we’ll spy on you only when we have to…and by the way, we get to decide when it is important.” Still most Americans are against this bill. So Batman, by violating the law (like the Bush admin), is the hero we deserve–even if we “have to chase him.”
This blogger writes more about this issue and even compares Bush’s–oops I mean Batman’s– law-bending-behavior with the failed attempt of fighting lawlessness with lawlessness, employed by character Harvey Dent.
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August 10th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Seems like a number of people caught on to this. I wrote a review (which I’ve submitted as my website above) entitled “Spoiler Alert! The Dark Knight is Unmasked as a Bush Apologist.” I’ve long know that Batman was a billionaire arms dealer who uses villainous behavior to get his way. In fact I’ve been involved in a low-scale wiki-war to get this information prominently featured on the Batman page. I’ve had very little success until recently when I was able to keep in the fact that “Batman uses torture in his war on crime.”
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