[pp.int.general] God is officially on our side!

[Alex Foti]

yeh, treating the grateful poor is one thing, allowing freedom of
expression is quite another, namely exactly what the Vatican and
especially this pope (who headed the Inquisition prior to becoming
pontiff) stands AGAINST
he also said stop to precarity in the encyclical, but he's just
reaffirming the traditional the social doctrine of the church: social
harmony thru welfare paternalism; it's better than liberalism on
social rights, it's worse than liberalism on civil rights.

cioa pirati vs the g8 and concomitant repression of student activists,

lx

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Nicolas Sahlqvist<nicco77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would say the Pope is perhaps on our side, but history has proven that
> religion and politics is a tricky thing.. In Sweden the Christian Democrats
> (KD) are against PP so in my opinion this argument should be used with
> caution.
>
>
> - Nicolas
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Andrew Robinson <andrew at bml.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> "...there is excessive zeal for protecting knowledge through an unduly
>> rigid assertion of the right to intellectual property, especially in
>> the field of health care"
>> - Pope Benedict XVI (29th June 2009)
>>
>> I always thought Sweden would be the first country to adopt our
>> policies, but it seems that the Vatican City has beaten them to it! I
>> think this quotation might prove very useful for pirate parties,
>> especially in catholic countries?
>>
>> source:
>> http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_en.html
>> (section 22)
>>
>> - Andrew Robinson, Pirate Party UK
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