I’m not sure a faithful Judge Dredd movie could have found an audience in America pre-9/11. The character’s embrace of fascist law enforcement is based on a combination of totalitarian practicality and right-wing fearmongering, the kind of “truthy” justification for dismissing due process that our namby-pamby liberal society would have rejected as unrealistically cynical (or worse, dangerously subversive) until the past decade,…
