<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Reinier Bakels <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:r.bakels@planet.nl">r.bakels@planet.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I am becoming a bit confused: is there actually a document, a sentence, anything, that is (more-or-less) "official" and on what (almost) all the Pirate Parties agree?<br>
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No, afaik there is not. By the end of 2008, the manifesto "A-B-C" project was abandoned by most contributors after heavy flame wars, and in the end is really was the project of a single man, Carlos Ayala. During the Helsinki meeting early this year, it was *not* discussed at all. Carlos was disappointed, but he was pretty alone.<br>
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The Uppsala document (composed during the summer 2008 meeting) wasn't so much intended as *the* PP "Manifesto", but more the by-product of a (very useful) workshop, a mental exercise to better understand PP goals and strategies.<br>
</blockquote><div> </div><div>The Uppsala document was written by the Swedish, alone, AFAIK. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I wrote a one page "PPI Principles" document for the Helsinki meeting (see attachment), more to provide an alternative than because I believe(d) that a manifesto was (or is) a priority. We spent little time on it in the meeting, fortunately. <b>The purpose of a political party is to gain votes</b>, and a "philosophical" documents like a manifesto should be judged from that perspective: does it help to get more votes? As you know, <b>actually deceptively few voters read party programs.</b><br>
</blockquote><div> <br>The purpose of any political party is or should be to achieve their political goals in order to enhace society. In a democracy, this is possible if people vote them.<br><br>If our purpose as political parties was just to gain votes, no social or copyright issue would matter us at all.<br>
<br>The purpose of a political party is/should be to enhace society, gaining votes is just the means.<br></div></div>