TFC, Tasers, and the Meaningless of Life

I won't belabour the point here; a video of a tasering in Columbus. A still from this video made the front page of Canada's favourite sensationalist tabloid, the Toronto Sun, with an article inside underscoring how Toronto FC's traveling supporters are bunch of pseudo-firms out for an old fashioned country pillaging against good Christian folk and any yellow-bellied bastard dumb enough to get in their way. By lying down on the road in front of nine giant police officers with guns and tasers apparently.

Of course, now the Canadian soccer blogs are now rife with "a friend told me the cops tasered an eighty-year old midget" and "a Canadian man threw a beer at my four-year child and now my child is cold and wet and possibly at home, check with my wife" and "the flare caught someone's face on fire and now their face is gone, partially."

Fan histrionics aside, there is still something so...incredibly unnecessary about all this, the stories of piss and churches and racist, violent cops. LISTEN UP, SCARED AND PARANOID AMERICA. They're football fans from Canada, they sing dumb songs and go sis boom ba for a soccer team from Toronto. And no, just because one or two may have said the f-word or looked at one of you funny doesn't give you the right to send the horses at us like you're doing a civil war re-enactment in the parking lot. Do not kill/destroy us in future.