“Kudos to Hollywood for doing right by our benevolent government, and once again associating anarchy with violence and chaos. We’ve all had it drilled into us — and we’ll have it drilled into us again, I’m sure — that without the FBI, the CIA, and our local police, we’d all be in that proverbial handbasket on its way to you-know-where. ‘If ‘The Dark Knight’ is about anything, it’s about civic catastrophe and the fragility of our institutions in the face of blind, consuming evil,’ says Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle. I suppose the only thing between us and this supposed catastrophe is that Thin Blue Line, then? I don’t know if that sums up Mr. LaSalle’s political beliefs or not, but it appears to be a running thread through many other reviews of The Dark Knight, including Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, Scott Foundas of Village Voice, and Nick Schager of Slant. The reviews appear to consistently associate anarchy with violence, terrorism and chaos.” (09/03/08)