Sun Sep 25, 2011 at 23:05:11 PDT
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(10 am. - promoted by ek hornbeck)
I'm here.
Correction, "we're" here.
I got some people to meet up with, but then it's dodgin cops and ridin the rails all the way to Wall St. |
| Jack's Smirking Revenge :: Day 9 |
With laptops open like shields against the encroaching cameramen, the young men resembled Peter Pan's Lost Boys more than Captain Hook's buccaneers when they were introduced Monday as Berlin's newest legislators: They are the members of the Pirate Party.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09...
Go onnnnnn....
"They are absolutely not a joke party," said Christoph Bieber, a professor of political science at the University of Duisburg-Essen. While there was certainly an element of protest in the unexpectedly large share of the votes the Pirates won, they were filling a real need for voters outside the political mainstream who felt unrepresented. "In the Internet, they have really found an underexploited theme that the other political parties are not dealing with," Mr. Bieber said. |
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