Significant Event in Politics / Society

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Relevance to The Dark Knight

Extraordinary Rendition

Usually occurs when people go to a different country to do something illegal that is legal over there.

Chinese accountant guy goes to Hong Kong to escape American Law - Goes to a place where what he does is legal

9/11

New concept for the world

Joker doesn't care about dying to get what he wants, and what he wants is chaos and to see the world burn.

USA PATRIOT Act 2001

Allows surveillance of citizens

Batman watches over people, hacks into telephones, this system destroyed at the end.

Torture

Was banned, yet they allowed ‘extreme persuasion’

Batman beats Joker up to get information from him - beats his face in, kicks him