[pp.int.general] Some parting thoughts

[Rodrigo Pereira]

If the problem is the illegality, we are also illegal in Brazil! A party
illegal, as all serious parties are born.

We went through two dictatorships followed by more than 50 years. And that
dictatorship was possible only two parties. Two "equal" parties.
Our recent history is the history of the  parties hanging.

How much  parties are in the U.S.? I only remember two.

Rodrix
http://www.partidopirata.org


2009/10/17 Glenn Kerbein <glenn.kerbein at pirate-party.us>

> All,
>        I am stepping down as co-administrator of the US Pirate Party. I had
> a
> falling out with the new administration (Ryan, Bethany, et al.);
> surmounting issues were just straws that eventually broke the camel's
> back. My tenure will be completed by the end of the month.
>        Over the time that I've been here, talking with the other parties,
> Andrew, etc. I have some thoughts.
>        First and foremost: Unlike a majority of our counterparts, our
> body's
> structure is unique. Here in the States, a non-profit corporation
> [501c3] grants donors the ability to deduct a monetary amount from their
> income taxes. We, however, are registered through the tax authority (the
> IRS) as a Political Action Committee [PAC, or 527], which have
> tax-exempt status. 501c3 corporations are strictly prohibited from doing
> any lobbying or work with political parties and are forbidden from
> endorsing a candidate.Along with these tax exemptions comes great
> responsibility: each entity must provide arduous effort to not incite
> nor infer any illicit acts; this includes filesharing.
>        Many of our European counterparts want to outright deny any
> intelligent
> reasoning why filesharing should become licit, nor how to compensate for
> it. Simply saying "go ahead and do it, we can't stop you" only
> exacerbates the issue. It leads to litigation like the PRO-IP Act, the
> PIRATE Act, ACTA, any a slurry of other campaigns the entertainment
> industry launches. In conclusion: we have significantly more trenchant
> platforms to pursue than to vindicate illicit filesharers.
>        Secondly, the direction that a few of the PPs have been going may
> not
> be in the best of interests. I've spoken to numerous news outlets and
> had many stories printed with my name in them. Only two stood out - one
> on Ars Technica by Nate Anderson and the other on CrunchGear by Nicholas
> Deleon [the latter being my favorite]. The others seem to have the
> predisposition to link our name to a peach-colored website. I've said on
> several occasions (and above) that we were not created to vindicate
> filesharers, nor indemnify anyone in the employ of said website. The
> opposite sentiment is a notion that the other news outlets are
> predisposed to think, despite arguing with them. The press release PPNL
> sent out only supports this.
>        Granted - Exacting exorbitant fines is not a solution to mitigating
> filesharing. Millions of dollars awarded to record companies suing
> mothers in the name of bands (when the money itself does not go to the
> bands in question) is outright outrageous. That's the issue we need to
> be pursuing - not lobbying for increased uptime on The Pirate Bay.
>
>        I may be leaving the party as an officer, but I'm not all gone.
> Being
> relegated back to citizen status, I can participate in an unofficial
> capacity. Should you need me, that's how you can get ahold of me.
>
> --
> Glenn "Channel6" Kerbein
> United States Pirate Party
> "Burn, Hollywood, Burn"
> http://www.pirate-party.us/
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