[quote]As Berlin election results came in on Sunday evening, sweaty members of the Pirate Party danced arm in arm beneath a disco ball at popular club in the city’s Kreuzberg district. The smell of marijuana spread through the informal party, where guests made their own sandwiches and drank bottled beer.
“I can’t believe it,” said newly elected parliamentarian Christopher Lauer as he fell onto a sofa, sending a message of thanks out via his Twitter account for the 8.9 percent of voter support. “It is breathtaking, a surreal feeling, because there is nothing that compares to this.”
Standing before the television screen, the leader of the Pirate Party, Sebastian Nerz, called the historic moment “cool.”
“It’s the first time since the 1980s that a new political power has come onto the stage,” he said.
Indeed, the support for the party – founded in 2006 on a civil liberties platform that focused on Internet freedoms – was sensational. Not only will the Pirate Party enter a regional government for the first time, but its results far surpassed the five percent hurdle needed for parliamentary representation. The success was so unexpected that the party had only put 15 candidates on its list of nominations. Had their support been just a little higher, some of their seats would have remained empty because post-election nominations of candidates isn’t allowed. [/quote]
Does this mean that smirks with reference to the Tea Party are now to be tempered? Or in this day and age has financial/fiscal responsibility and the call for the same become something ridiculous?
[quote=“fred smith”][quote]As Berlin election results came in on Sunday evening, sweaty members of the Pirate Party danced arm in arm beneath a disco ball at popular club in the city’s Kreuzberg district. The smell of marijuana spread through the informal party, where guests made their own sandwiches and drank bottled beer.
“I can’t believe it,” said newly elected parliamentarian Christopher Lauer as he fell onto a sofa, sending a message of thanks out via his Twitter account for the 8.9 percent of voter support. “It is breathtaking, a surreal feeling, because there is nothing that compares to this.”
Standing before the television screen, the leader of the Pirate Party, Sebastian Nerz, called the historic moment “cool.”
“It’s the first time since the 1980s that a new political power has come onto the stage,” he said.
Indeed, the support for the party – founded in 2006 on a civil liberties platform that focused on Internet freedoms – was sensational. Not only will the Pirate Party enter a regional government for the first time, but its results far surpassed the five percent hurdle needed for parliamentary representation. The success was so unexpected that the party had only put 15 candidates on its list of nominations. Had their support been just a little higher, some of their seats would have remained empty because post-election nominations of candidates isn’t allowed. [/quote]
Does this mean that smirks with reference to the Tea Party are now to be tempered? Or in this day and age has financial/fiscal responsibility and the call for the same become something ridiculous?[/quote]
Moderator’s note: Excuse me Fred old chap, but are you trolling? No one made this connection except you, so your implications about Tea Party critics are somewhat out of line.
He, this is not about hating the central government or a certain president or reducing taxes, the pirate party is about…
…wait a minute. Free downloading from the Internet I think. At least that was what I thought when I voted for them in the last national election. Was kinda bored with the others anyway.
Damn it, the Fräulein in the middle is nothing I’d ever trade for a xiaojie…
These threads just aren’t the same without that rascally Rascal to rile, are they? Not that it isn’t good to see YOU, Mr. Fred Smith. Did you hear about the exodus to Taiwanease.com, and you’ve come to witness the Decline and Fall of Forumosa?
