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They also called the batting order for the 1930's New York Yankees "Murderers' Row" but as far as I know, none of them stood trial for capital crimes.

The Yankees were uninvolved in murder, however. The Pirate Bay (as much as I love it), is inarguably involved in copyright infringement. It exists to tell individuals where they may find files, and yes, most of those are copyrighted files that cannot be otherwise obtained. Sure, that's probably legal in Sweden, but you can't seriously deny that they are intentionally aiding copyright infringement, can you? Note that in addition to the name, note that their Favicon features a cassette tape, suggesting a commitment to providing trackers for music. Note also that in the categories they divide their torrents into---the categories presumably created by TPB, and not by users---they include games for the PS2, XBox 360, and Wii, systems for which there exist few (no?) free titles. Including such categories does seem to imply that they are knowingly assisting copyright infringement---they must know that those will be useful categories only if their trackers refer to copyrighted files. Additionally, on their "Doodles" page, they state "The Greens made a great pro piracy commercial and we of course promote that!" (The commercial in question is found at http://www.iwouldntsteal.net/).

To put it bluntly, you're delusional if you think their purpose is anything but aiding piracy.

Actually, you're wrong. And your low /. uid suggests you're being wrong deliberately, to mislead, rather than through ignorance. The Green party has already started jumping on the pro-piracy bandwagon - http://www.iwouldntsteal.net/. That IS mainstream political support in Europe (the greens are actually in power/power-sharing governments in several european countries, such as Ireland and Germany).