[pp.int.general] Canadian Pirate candidate the first one outside Europe?

[Gregory Engels]

On 08.11.2010, at 12:21, Justus Römeth wrote:

> What about the one who got elected in a town in Russia? Was that in  
> the European part of the country?

He was not elected, but got "only" 20%. It was in the city of  
Shumerlya, and this is located in the center of the European part of  
russian federation. It is outside of European Union, but still on the  
European continent.

> Also, make sure to mention the students in the US, and that they are  
> not affiliated with PPI or PPUS (I would, at least).


No point in making the achievement of the Canadian Pirate Party any  
smaller. Those Students don't share anything with the pirate movement  
but a name. But so does also the Pitsburgh Pirates (a US baseball  
team) Croyden Pirates (UK baseball), Portland Pirates (hockey), East  
Carolina Pirates and Hampton Pirates (university sports teams),  
Cornish Pirates (rugby), East Kilbride Pirates (UK football team),  
Orlando Pirates (South Africa football), Essex Pirates (basketball),  
Pool Pirates (UK racing team), or the football club of Bristol  
"Rovers" who are nicknamed Pirates.

it would be of no sense pointing to the sports trophies  of those  
"Pirates", even if they happened to be outside of europe.

What come to my mind, is that the Pirate Party in Peru got two people  
elected to the Commission for the Development of the Information  
Society (CODESI) http://www.codesi.gob.pe/


Gregory Engels
International Coordinator
Pirate Party of Germany

mobile: +49 172 853 44 91
skype:gregory.engels
jabber:dichter at jabber.piratenpartei.de

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