  Scott Baker. Courtesy: OpEd News, July 28, 2012    Batman: The
Dark Knight by comicbooked.com     But I'd like to focus a bit
on a message that might have escaped most fans, Batman vs.
Occupy.  To recap the relevant part of the story: The movie
starts with Gotham City cleaned free of gangs by virtue of the
late Attorney General Harvey Dent's law -- a law that brings the
hammer down on organized crime, crushing it, perhaps at the cost
of liberty, but certainly at the cost of truth -- for Harvey
Dent was the violently schizoid villain of the last Batman film,
whom Batman killed but then allowed to be lionized in order that
a cult of personality would allow Dent's signature law to be
carried out.     Bane encourages the "People" to take back their
wealth from the 1%, to govern themselves, basically everyman for
himself, with a former Batman nemesis, Scarecrow, running a
Kangaroo court that is so corrupt it doesn't even bother with
trials, just sentencing: Die or face Exile - which turns out to
be basically the