Former MP Joins Pirate Party Germany
Written by Ernesto on August 28, 2009Herbert Rusche, the co-founder of the German Green Party and former member of the German Parliament, has joined the Pirate Party. Rusche praises the party for its open structure and its efforts to protect people’s privacy and fundamental rights. Those issues, he says, are the ones established parties fail to address.
Just weeks after the Swedish Pirate Party entered the European Parliament, the German Pirate Party unexpectedly gained a seat in the German government when Jörg Tauss left the Social Democrats Party (SPD) to join the Pirate Party.
The ambitions of the Pirates don’t stop there though, as they are currently preparing for a successful run in the upcoming elections. With Herbert Rusche, the Pirates add another experienced politician to their team.
Nicole Hornung of the Pirate Party says he is pleased with gaining such a prominent new pirate: “Herbert’s long political experience is invaluable for us. In addition, he has already helped to develop a group of dedicated young people in the direction of governing a party.”
Indeed, Rusche has plenty of experience. He is one of the co-founders of Germany’s Green party for which he served as a Member of Parliament for several years.
This fall, the Pirate Party hopes to do well in the German federal election so they can do something about the increased censorship of the Internet and abuses of copyright. The party is further committed to increase transparency and strengthen the fundamental rights and protection of privacy.
According to Rusche the Pirate Party can do a lot of good work for the German people by addressing these issues. “The established parties fail completely, for many people these issues are of paramount importance,” Rusche concludes.
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Nice going Germany! :D
No greenies please. They just pollute parties with their own wacky ideas.
Nicole is a girl ;) Just so you no.
Regards
Andi
Vice Chairman of the Pirate Party of Germany
Another win :)
What? The greens here are a lot better than most of the other parties. (exception being the pirate party.)
Message to romanians. Romania has an emerging Pirate Party that is available at http://www.partidulpiratilor.ro We need all the pirates to come onboard and fight the good fight.
More power to the people!
Good luck Herbert Rusche and German PP!
Great!! We need more politicians like that. Its seems that none of the normal political parties even care that our rights are being stripped away by wolf lobbyists from the media industry.
@8: That url is bogus. Takes me to some bulls**t page.
I am a giant faggot.
it’s astonishing how many (mostly young) people are joining german pirate party at the time…utterly amazing :)
http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Mitglieder
Fanfuckingtastic!
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Since the European elections in June, membership in the party has raised from ~1200 to now 6700, roughly 80 new members joining every day, which will make us the biggest German party currently not represented in parliament by next week.
yeah, 300 members or so and we’ve busted the nazis
that should be piece of cake
“Rusche praises the party for its open structure and its efforts to protect people’s [...] rights. Those issues, he says, are the ones established parties fail to address.”
Fixed that for you :)
if you buy something that’s mean that it’s yours so you can do anything you want with => you can give it, sSARE IT and the downloader can do SAme
Fuck majors !!!!
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beware of traitor .
Good job guys! all the power to ya! and in my opinion its better that they got someone from the greens because the greens aren’t as closed minded as any party that is in or could be in power.
I buy something > It’s mine > I do want I want wiht > give it, share it, hit it > and the Downloader who get it from me can do same !!!
FF uu cc kk m a j o r s
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Political Lobbying with corporate interests needs to be outlawed.
Gz to Piraten Partei for scoring a seasoned politician.
That’s just fantastic for Germany, and its great to see all these new Pirate Parties all over Europe… fucking awesome :p!
HORAAAYY!! It is growing! SHAKE IN FEAR ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY, TH OLD MODEL IS GOING THROUGH IT’S FINAL DAYS.
Go learn from RadioHead.
another sad desperate politican joins the ‘we want teh free games!!!!!!1111oneone” party.
What a sad bunch of delusional children
Any new formed group without apparent order, but that are apparent to succeed, will draw narcissist flies like crazy.
well it is better then what happens in Holland. people who join the Geert Wilders party which basically wants to kick out all foreign people in Holland.
I am ashamed for that. I would 1000x times more like to vote for a pirate party.
@TheCynicTroll
hehehehe
that is so true, hehehe You live in Holland btw? We had a lot of those people constantly changing parties in the previous decade.
but maybe she is a nice person. who knows :)
Awesome!
3> Pirate partys and TPB
LoL @ 23 (Mike)
Go read a bit b4 saying your nonsense. The majority of us just want decent prices and the freedom to choose what and when we will buy. Reminds me of a game I downloaded a while back, Indigo Prophecy was the name. The concept was great, the graphics were awesome BUT the ending was insanely crappy. I only buy those games that have a storyline if all the parts are AT LEAST decent. Now imagine if I had spent $50 on that garbage.
On the other hand, I downloaded that PS2 game, Disgaea, and although it doesn’t have the brightest ending it did entertain (and still does after some thousands lvl ups). I’m buying it next month – haven’t done so yet because I couldn’t find any shop (online or not) that would delivery in my region and had the title in their stocks. I’m also buying God of War I and II even though I already cleared II three times (this time the reason is the price has dropped to a level I consider fair). Now explain me where are the free games in this case? And please industry members out there, explain me how are you losing with my so called illegal download…
I was discussing the industry approach to file sharing with a teacher of mine after I found out 70% of what he buys is preceeded by the so called illegal downloads (and he’s a heavy consumer of music and movies, much more than I am). He concluded he’d buy much less if he didn’t file share (and save money lol). The numbers would be lower in my end because of financial restrictions (I’m currently unemployed), however I (and millions out there) follow the same path as my teacher.
Again, MAFIAA and merry friends should read this and review their behavior. There’s a huge market in their hands and they are… SUING the participants. It is plain idiocy…
“Nicole Hornung of the Pirate Party says he is pleased with gaining such a prominent new pirate”
Nicole is female, and i think that’s not only in Germany – that’s international ;)
@26
‘You live in Holland btw?’
Nope.
Hey, now you only’ve 202 countries left to chose from.
Standard communist tactic. Infiltrate all the small parties and take them over. Then it looks like a big consensus when lots of parties back the communist/greenist agenda.
BEWARE OF ANY GREENIES AND HIPPIES, THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED!
the green party didn’t do anything and now nuclear plants are everywhere pollution is getting worse and making a “new” party never ever changed anything for good in the whole history of humanity
25 Aug 29, 2009 at 01:45 by dave
Nobody is joining the PVV. Geert Wilders is the sole member of his own party and has made sure that nobody else can get in
one fact regarding herbert rusche is imho even more important than being a founding father of the german green party.
herbert rusche personally played a quite important symbolic role in the history of civil rights in germany: in 1985 he was the first openly gay mp.
well, it’s not exactly like rosa parks joining the pirate party, but … ;-)
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