I reject the premise that in America the thing to emulate isn't snapping someone's neck 'for justice.' That's the whole point of a military; there are humans whom it is convenient and expedient to kill. If the consequence of killing is preferable to suffering the enemy, kill the enemy.

ssrc, I see where we diverge on reading Bane's roving gang. I thought the movie was commenting directly on the French Revolution. The sentencing hearings evoked paintings of tennis court oath, etc. All that talk of people taking control, breaking open the prison, that's gotta be about radical leftism more than…

ssrc, I see where we diverge on reading Bane's roving gang. I thought the movie was commenting directly on the French Revolution. The sentencing hearings evoked paintings of tennis court oath, etc. All that talk of people taking control, breaking open the prison, that's gotta be about radical leftism more than…

It's like Spain and France never happened!

It's like Spain and France never happened!

Deuteronomy is good times.

Deuteronomy is good times.

fastandsloppy,

Hard to see the fascism, Tobias—further, anarchy might mean 'chaos and disorder' in popular reference, but is quite different in political discussion.

Hard to see the fascism, Tobias—further, anarchy might mean 'chaos and disorder' in popular reference, but is quite different in political discussion.