Dear Pirates,<br><br>During the last weeks the mails lists of Pirata ES and PPI alike have been receiving a series of emails from ex Pirate -ES affiliate Choms (his real name is concealed at his request for reasons we'll explain later). Choms has been accusing Pirata.ES of several charges we'll don't bother to discuss in detail in the lists of PPI since they have been discussed in close detail in the lists of Spain Pirata, they are irrelevant to the PPI, and for the most part they are insubstantial, misguiding or plain false.<br>
<br>The Board of Spain Pirat would like to make a short statement concerning the case with this affiliate, since the moderators of the PPI lists seem unwilling to take any action against his trolling, and since he is echoed by a specific member of another Spanish Pirate Party who is trying to give credibility to any accusation made against PP-ES. We hope that this statement is enough to set the facts straight concerning this ex affiliate and his intentions towards PP-ES<br>
<br><br>Ex-Pirata affiliate Choms has been involved in most troubles inside Pirata for at least one year now, most of the times as instigator. To mention only some of them:<br><br>- In his capacity as administrator of the servers of PIRATA, he launched an unauthorised "official" voting to just one part of the affiliates.<br>
<br>- In the same capacity, he dismissed several members of his staff without giving any explanations for doing so.<br><br>- As administrator of the servers of PIRATA, he failed miserably to fulfill any role during several weeks before.<br>
<br>- As administrator of the servers of PIRATA, he discredited the voting system used for a specific question, in the middle of the voting process. Note that we not only encourage affiliates to report bugs in the voting systems, but are constantly improving the systems we have. We do not consider acceptable that the administrator of the servers cast doubts against the legitimacy of a on-progress vote that is using a same system that's been used again and again (in fact, it is the same system he himself used in his unauthorised votation, this time without objections)<br>
<br>- He has insulted publicly and in private most members of the current and the previous Board of Pirate. Please, bear in mind that we are not prickly when allowing the affiliates to express their dissatisfaction with the board. But we think that sending an email to the public lists called "You all are sons of bitches" in capitals, as the thread title, and directed to all the members of the board is not acceptable language (even less is acceptable behaviour to keep on the same thread for a full day.<br>
<br>- He has been sending letters to the lists of PPI (and now to twitter, etc) full with the grossest mistakes and contrary-to-fact stories about Spain's Pirate and his own role in the affairs. You can read all his tweets, giving his side of the stoty in twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/Choms">https://twitter.com/#!/Choms</a><br>
<br><br>- Probably worst of all, for more than nine months he has been threatening several members of the current and former Board with all kind of legal suits, without giving plausible explanations. One of the legal threads was related with the use of his real name together with his nickname in a document of the party. Apparently he considers that using both designations together is a crime, in his case.<br>
<br>This is just a part of the claims the party have against Choms.<br><br>Now, the situation is that the Comité de Derechos y Garantías (CdDyG, the party equivalent to the Court of Arbitration) voted by majority to ask for the suspension of militancy of Choms and MissAllSunday (this is a person who actively stands by the side with Choms in some the mentioned doings (those not connected with his role as coordinator of the IT group), and some more of her own, and who is referred to by her nickname for the same reasons stated before). This decision was supported by the board (with no vote to the contrary) and is currently voted by the General Assembly, that means, by all the affiliates.<br>
<br>Shortly after hearing the decision of the CdDyG to ask for theirsuspension of militancy, Choms tried to avoid the Assembly vote by asking to temporary sign off from the party (again, you can read about Choms departure in his tweets). The party has decided to carry on with the votation. <br>
<br>Upon the CdDyG vote to suspend Choms and Diana of militancy, Choms has presented at least two legal complaints against members of the Directory board. The case is so weak and fanciful that we hope the court will dismiss them as soon as its considers is legal validity. We will be happy to send a copy of the denounce to the members of the PPI Board, to judge by themselves.<br>
<br>Now, anybody might ask us why why on Earth did the party never take official action against this persons before. We are ready to assume this charge, since our very inability to firmly act against the worst trolls inside the party are certainly a sign of a dysfunction of the Board in the past, but finally we are ready to correct this now.<div>
<br></div><div>PP-ES National Board</div>