Makes me suspect trolling because no man with half a brain would trip himself up as badly.

Other than that, the swedish pirate party, for example, charges no membership fee. People pay happily anyway, because the donations are needed in order to fund the campaigning.

And apparently pirates are very happy to donate money to any cause they feel is proper.

Plato

We could, I suppose, shitcan the entire political process, decide democracy is for the dogs, and start rioting in the streets. It’s been tried before. That will result in the small minority willing to use violence being incarcerated for keeps while the sheeple continue going “Baaah” on their way to the butcher.

Here’s a tip. Unless matters have gone so far down the road that roughly half the citizenry is already considering an armed revolt, any “act” made outside of the ring of politics is already doomed to fail. Your one-man crusade will only give more excuses to the incumbent powers to apply even stricter measures.

We would dearly like to live in a democracy, if possible, and that means having to play politics. As unpalatable as that is.

And to be frank, you are wrong. “Parties” were what implemented our original laws protecting civil liberties. Those same parties have now become stale dogmatists upholding the status quo. Which only goes to show that you need to re-evaluate where your vote should go at least three times in every generation according to how your chosen party has changed. That the citizenry actively shies from making an enlightened choice more than once in their lifetime is what has led us down our current road.

It however saddens me that at least the Serbian member of the Board of Directors chose to have provocative pictures published in the free daily newspaper…

http://www.24sata.rs/vesti/aktuelno/vest/prva-piratkinja-srbije-osniva-politicku-partiju/37291.phtml

If provocation was the aim, cool. But how am I to take her seriously after that?

First of all, EVERY political party starts as a narrow protest movement. Once it enters national politics and begins pushing it’s case you have perhaps one generation or two before you start having to focus on weeding out the opportunists eager to climb aboard the bandwagon looking for a free meal ticket. And that’s when the party risks going down the same road as every other political party has.

This progress is inevitable. Which is why Rick’s advice is that 40 years down the road, when “Pirate” politics are “mainstream” we should not be afraid to help out when a new protest movement arises led by young people demanding the “impossible”.

Broadening the platform of pirate politics is a given. Mainly because “pirate” politics is about very old core values – civil liberties, accountability, consequence-based legislation, and personal integrity. These are not narrow concerns. The entire “filesharing agenda” and the stance on “Intellectual property” in general is just a very narrow and inescapable direct consequence of what it will mean if ordinary civil liberties are in fact observed.