Has Disney Betrayed America (Among Others)?

The third of Christopher Nolan's Batman movies will be coming soon next year - but is it something that we should avoid?

Scott Creighton, who posts the American Everyman blog, made this obsevation:

What is left out of the equation of Noland’s new Dark Knight is the fact that the class war began long ago. The people don’t want to rampage through the opulent mansions of the 1%, they want the 1% to stop rampaging through their humble middle class dwellings. But they wont and they are making that perfectly clear.

30 years ago the business class conspired with the Reagan administration to declare their “trickle down” warfare on the working classes 30 years ago then they went after the unions looking to break the back of collective bargaining.

They followed up with the “New Dem” Clintons and they advanced the assault with the North American Free Trade agreement, the Welfare Reform law, and their final assault which removed the New Deal protections granted by Glass-Steagall. The Clinton generals even sidelined Brooksley Born when she tried to warn of the coming disaster in the unregulated derivatives market. They created a law to make it illegal to attempt to regulate that particular weapon of economic destruction before they left office.

Then the Bush administration came to power via a crooked election and a sympathetic Supreme Court and they immediately started a program to help pay the down payments for under-qualified home buyers trying to get into their liar loan houses. And thus the sub-prime crisis was created.

And then there were the bailouts.

The middle class has been shrinking at an ever increasing rate since the 80s. Real wages have been diminishing and for the first time since the Great Depression, children aren’t living better than their parents did. Education is becoming a thing for the middle class alone, while unemployment is skyrocketing regardless of the Clinton administration’s new rules on counting the unemployed.

This latest collapse evaporated retirement accounts, 401ks, of tens of millions of working and retired Americans. They are currently looking to offset the deficit created by the bankers and the war-mongers in power by eliminating the social safety net and various programs designed to help the people when they need it the most. Cities are selling off public assets while the foreclosure rates have skyrocketed just like they did during the great depression.

The solutions being given voice in the corrupt halls of congress center around still more deregulation of big business and banking, more privatizations like the education system, more prisons, and the post office and of course handing over social security to Wall Street… the final nail in the New Deal’s coffin.

It is not us who is rampaging through your precious 1%ers sacred halls Mr. Noland, it is you who are rampaging through ours. And we are tired of it.

 For those of you who aren't aware, not only does Disney own DC Comics, they also own Marvel Comics. This means that the Disney company has control over the marketing of the most well-known superhero characters, and like control over the media being relegated to a handful of conglomerates, does not bode well for the industry and those it affects; mainly, our children.

I think he makes a very cogent point.

The antagonists in sequential art literature are made to be larger-than-life; they are purposely created in that fashion. One is not supposed to be able to easily identify with them; yet, the antagonists in the first two films could easily be your neighbor.

Remember the scene in Dark Knight where Bruce Wayne, played by the impeccable Christian Bale, turns everyone's cell phone into his spy network? At the end of the film, he does destroy this infrastructure, but it was an illustration of how the ends could sometimes justify the means.

How do we instill the proper qualities into our children if we allow even the most basic of lessons to be subverted?

This may be the lesson that is being taught in our business schools, considering what is happening on Wall Street, in Congress and at corporations.

Profits should NOT be placed before people.

Are you witnessing the constant and baseless smears being leveled against Presidential candidate Ron Paul?

The most they could find on him was a newsletter written by a disgruntled ex-employee?

Come on.

Newt Gingrich not only took $1.6 million from Freddie Mac for "advice", only for them to file for bankruptcy; he also left a former wife on her cancer death-bed, telling her she "wasn't pretty enough to be the First Lady".

Newty - no mirrors in that funhouse of yours?

Mitt Romney and his son have engaged in a Ponzi scheme which netted untold millions from unsuspecting clients?

Now - let me be clear - I haven't had at the Ron Paul Kool-Aid; but considering his campaign consists of removing debt-slavery from the economy and removing our foreign entaglements, some of which may or mat not have contributed to the events of September 11th, 2001; it's pretty clear to me as to who should be the Republican front-runner in 2012 against President Barack Hussein Obama.

To our lapdog mainstream media:

It may be too late for you to try and do the right thing. You should well remember that it's not what you have done before; it's what have you done for me LATELY?

You utterly failed us in correctly reporting the attack on Pearl Harbor.

You utterly failed us in correctly reporting the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

You utterly failed us in correctly reporting the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr..

You utterly failed us in correctly reporting the assassination of Malcolm X.

You utterly failed us in correctly reporting the assassination of Robert Francis Kennedy.

You utterly failed us in correctly reporting the attack upon the U.S.S. Liberty.

You utterly failed us in correctly reporting the made-up attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.

You utterly failed us in correctly reporting the true reason for the break-in at the Watergate Hotel.

You utterly failed us in correctly reporting the truth of the October Surprise.

You utterly failed us in correctly reporting the truth about the CIA's involvement in the crack epidemic that destabilized many communities throughout America.

You utterly failed us in correctly reporting the truth about the Iran-Contra scandal.

You utterly failed us in correctly reporting the truth regarding the S & L crisis which bankrupted millions of Americans.

You utterly failed us in correctly reporting the truth regarding the first attack on the World Trade Center; namely, that the bombs could have been substituted for non-functioning devices.

You utterly failed us in correctly reporting the truth regarding the witchhunt on former President William Jefferson Clinton, wasting $40 million dollars on a fishing expedition into his zipper.

You utterly failed us in correctly reporting the truth regarding the second attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

You utterly failed us in correctly reporting the truth regarding the "16 words" which led to the wasteful, improperly-declared wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which wasted the lives of some of our best and brightest, only to fatten the wallets of war profiteers.

You are epically failing us now with the utterly baseless link between Iran and September 11th, 2001.

Has it beem worth it?

Do you know what a user does with an object they no longer find useful?

THEY DISCARD IT.

I think you have had plenty of chances to decide which side you were on.

I hope the thirty pieces were worth it.



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