[pp.int.general] Action Day

[Per von Zweigbergk]

Speaking about the experience of the Swedish Pirate Party - there is  
no way to avoid being considered a "joke party". Even today, some  
people consider us in Sweden to be a joke party. Mostly people who  
hear about us for the first time.

If you're going to be afraid to appear in public because people might  
not take you seriously, people will never take you seriously. And  
sometimes it helps to get attention by pretending not to be serious. I  
mean come on, who names a serious political party "The Pirate  
Party"? :-)

Remember, a sense of humor is a valuable political tool, and it is  
essential to have the courage to accept the possibility of failure. To  
do something and fail is better than to do nothing at all because it  
might fail.

In Sweden we failed to stop the FRA law (see the e-mail signature I  
put on all my outgoing e-mail) and we'll probably fail to stop the  
Swedish implementation of IPRED1, but from those failures we have been  
able to gather political support like a snowball. If we were to come  
from nowhere today, we wouldn't have been present in the large  
societal debates about FRA and IPRED1 and we wouldn't have gained any  
political credibility.
-- 
Per von Zweigbergk

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