[Marxism] Barry Bonds and George Mitchell

[Anthony Boynton]

Barry Bonds is a great athlete, and a shrewd and
calculating businessman. Both attributes make him a
symbol of the great victories of the civil rightys
movement. Black America became part of bourgeois,
capitalist US society.

Now black Americans right to participate in capitalism
is again under attack. This is what the "doping"
scandal in professional sports is all about, bottom
line.

Barry, bourgeois that he is, is not likely to take the
radical path in his own defence. But he should. Tough
and aggresive guy that he is, he might anyway.

Barry should come out swinging and investigate the
investigators. Starting with George Mitchell and
continuing with the Hearst newspaper that is is
investigating him. 

"John Dowd, the Washington attorney who headed the
investigation of
Pete Rose's gambling activities in the late 1980's
that resulted in
Rose's lifetime suspension from baseball said,
"Mitchell doesn't have
a great track record with me. It doesn't look like
he's independent."

"Mitchell was anything but independent of of MLB. At
the time the
commission was organized Mitchell was a part owner of
the Boston Red
Sox and chairman of the Walt Disney Corp. that owned
ESPN, the 24
hours sports cable channel. As early as 1996 ESPN
signed a $440
million contract with MLB to broadcast major league
games.

"Furthermore, Dowd said, "I believe Mitchell was named
to head the
commission in order to cage congress." In other words
Mitchell role
was to involve congress in the investigation-which is
ultimately what
happened and what led to the federal investigation of
the Balco
enterprise and why Bonds now stands indicted.


Anthony



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