Hey Anarchists, You Really Have To Get Some Rules

Over the past few days the newspapers have printed pictures of some of the rioters police have been looking for from the G/20 carnage.   They're the ones who like to think of themselves as anarchists.  Ah, you're not.

I guess the idea of these people is to protest globalization, the governments that support it and of course the no. 1 enemy and their main target, big business.   So it's ironic that 2 of the protesters/rioters/anarchists were wearing baseball hats.  One with a Toronto Blue Jay logo the other was a Detroit Tiger. 

America, of course, is the great satan for these people.  America is what capitalism is all about.  It didn't invent big business but it made big business bigger than anyone could have ever imagined.  And nothing says America like baseball.  The great national pass time south of the 49th. A metaphor for the American way of life.

Baseball is what capitalism is all about.  Owners use tax payers money to build their stadiums.  Your town wont ante up, that's okay we'll move.  And they do. Leaving all the fungo fanatics with no one to cheer for.  Baseball has a long history of carpetbagging. 

Baseball also has a long history of mistreating it's players.  For most of that history players were literally the property of a team.  The were treated like indentured servants.  There was no movement unless the teams said there was.  That didn't end until Curt Flood challenged the reserve clause and opened the door for free agency where, like in virtually every other profession, you can sell yourself to the highest bidder and ply your trade in the location of your choice.  But that didn't happen until 1970, just 40 years ago.

Baseball even had the US government involved giving the game an anti trust exemption which allowed it stamp out any compeition.  This cartel of capitalists cohorts even has a social structure.  The uber rich, Yankees and Red Sox and the subsidized teams on welfare, Pirates and Royals. 

Now, if I'm an anarchist do I want associate myself and promote a business with a track record like that?  And I wonder if these 2 idiots have any idea who owns the Tigers and the Blue Jays?  Techno giant Rogers has the Jays in Toronto.  Everytime the company comes out with a new gadget it shrinks the world a  little bit more.  The Tigers?  Owned by Mike Ilitch.  The most prodigous pizza peddler in the US who uses his Tigers and his Red Wings as vehicles to sell  his "large, double cheese, pepperoni, mushrooms, onions, olives, bacon, 30 minutes or it's free" pies. 

I have nothing against Rogers or Ilitch.  I like baseball.  I like the Blue Jays.  But you're supposed to an anarchist.  You're not supposed to give comfort and aid to you to your sworn foe.  And think of what you're doing the itty bitty budding anarchists who look up to you for leadership even though anarchy doesn't believe in leadership.  They see you wearing a Blue Jay hat they're gonna want one too. Got the hat, may as well go to a game at the Rogers Center.  But first they buy a Rogers cell phone so they can call all their friends and tell them to watch them waive from behind home plate.  They can see it on Sportsnet, also owned by Rogers.

You see?  You see what you've done by wearing that Blue Jay hat.  You've thrown anarchy into anarchy.  You should really be protesting you.  It's anarchists like you who give anarchists a bad name.  You should be ashamed.  Go take a radical sabbatical and turn yourself in.