<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">Translation of our press release about Tauss:<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Member of Parliament ("MdB") Mr. Jörg Tauss declared his accession to the<br>
Piratenpartei Deutschland today. The Piratenpartei Deutschland welcomes him<br>
into the party as one of the most experienced politicians in the areas of<br>
education, research and new media.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p> <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>This step takes part at the interim culmination of a long chain of failures<br>
of the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) in the areas of civil rights<br>
in the digital age and shows a dramatic loss of their credibility inside and<br>
outside.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p> <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>By adoption of the "Zugangserschwerungsgesetz" (Access Restriction Law) last<br>
Thursday the governing coalition pushed through a legislation, that is rated<br>
unconstitutional by many experts for many reasons and that has no deeper<br>
purpose than creating a infrastructure for censorship, controlled by police<br>
authorities. This is covered only poorly by the pretended purpose to fight<br>
child pornography in communication networks.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p> <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Investigations by the federal prosecutor have started in the run-up to the<br>
debate about internet blockades against Mr. Tauss that cover the possession<br>
of material containing child pornography.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>We know that also Mr. Zierke and Mrs. von der Leyen showed material<br>
containing child pornography in this debate as an "argument" against Mr.<br>
Tauss' position. As long as there will be no criminal conviction against Mr.<br>
Tauss, the Piratenpartei has no reason to question Mr. Tauss innocence and<br>
moral integrity. <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p> <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>It may be difficult to understand for outsiders, that Mr. Tauss is still<br>
commenting on this delicate topic despite these severe accusations, but<br>
along with him over 134.000 people signing a petition against Internet<br>
blockades made clear, that it is worse for them to remain silent on this<br>
impertinent attack against our democracy than to defend themselves against<br>
the unjustified accusation of defending child pornography.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p> <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Even the "Initiative Missbrauchsopfer gegen Internetsperren (MOGIS)"<br>
(initiative of abuse victims against Internet blockades) is fighting this<br>
law; these are exactly the people that the minister for family affairs<br>
pretends to represent. <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p> <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Against superficial news coverage many protagonists are personally involved,<br>
since an infrastructure for censorship offers the easy possibility to<br>
suppress other unwanted parts of the Internet. The kinsmanlike and financial<br>
entanglements of the potential beneficiaries start with Mrs. Krogmann and do<br>
not even stop at Mrs. von der Leyen.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p> <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>We PIRATES are not the ones that have chosen the back of abused children as<br>
the scene of a debate about civil rights in the Internet. This was done by<br>
the CDU (Christian Democratic Union - German political party) and the SPD<br>
followed them on the nose ring.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p> <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>We welcome every upright democrat in our joint fight for civil rights and<br>
against a surveillance society. <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Welcome pirate Tauss!<br>
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Bitte beachte, dass dem Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung zufolge<br>
jeder elektronische Kontakt mit mir sechs Monate lang gespeichert wird.<br>
Please note that according to the German law on data retention,<br>
information on every electronic information exchange with me is retained<br>
for a period of six months.<br>
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