WE ARE WINNING: How the Pirate Party Is Changing the World
Among all the bad laws being passed right now, change is coming. The Pirate Party’s plan for changing the world is proceeding much, much faster than expected. While the laws on the drawing board are still asinine, we’re at a tipping point where the net repressors are about to lose their influence on lawmaking.
After the Pirate Party’s political entry in the 2006 Swedish elections, we set out on a five-step plan to make sure that the offline civil liberties would carry over into the online world, against the wishes of the old guard. Each of these five steps would traditionally be impossible, and we’re done with the first two and are approaching the fourth:
Create Sweden’s largest youth wing of any party (we did), giving us credibility enough to succeed in…
The European Elections, where we need to beat 4% (note: we got 7.13%), which in turn is a stepping stone to…
Getting entry in the Swedish Parliament, which would start turning things around immediately. But in order to really change European policy, we need to…
Take about 5% in 3-4 more key parliaments in Europe, in key countries like Germany, France, or Poland, and use the combined leverage of those heavyweight parliaments to change the view on information policy across the European Union. Once that is done…
The world would have to follow, since no monopolistic repression happens if Europe doesn’t agree to it - since the EU is the world’s largest economy, larger than the US.
This was, and is, the five-step plan. But with the German Piratenpartei now polling in the double digits with multiple survey firms, the landscape has changed.
Frank says: