Hello,<br><br>I hereby post the message we sent CoreTX to explain our decision:<br><br>We had the discussions about our statutes during the
meeting. One point was that the statutes don't explicitly prohibit or
allow PPI to sign any declarations. Concerning the discussion whether or
not PPI can make political statements we came to the agreement that PPI
cannot force members to adopt or not any political ideas, but we can
act "in the interest and goals of our members" (statutes II (1) (a) ).
We decided to sign the declaration because the dealine was the day after
the meeting and we wanted to make sure Pirates are mentionned in the
document, pursuing to "raise awareness and widen the spread of the
pirate movement" (statutes II (1) (b) ). The fact that we were
mentionned in a New York Times article underlines that by our action we
promoted the pirate movement: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/external/idg/2010/06/23/23idg-petition-acta-threatens-public-interests-21875.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/external/idg/2010/06/23/23idg-petition-acta-threatens-public-interests-21875.html</a><br>
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<br>We did not act contrary to the statutes, in fact we believe to have
acted according to the goals of our organization.<br><br>Jerry<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:preineke@gmx.com">preineke@gmx.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi CoreTX,<br>
<br>
I was wondering myself, whether the PPI Board is authorised to do so. But I couldn't really find a place in the statutes clearly forbidding it. Can you specify what you are referring to?<br><font color="#888888">
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Peter</font><div class="im"><br>
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On 06/24/2010 02:46 PM, Core TX wrote:<br>
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PPI is not allowed to sign this.<br>
Please take a look into the statutes, or expect a impeachment procedure.<br>
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