PLEASE VOTE……… The Pirate Party makes a bid for the European Parliament

by Bianca Li

As you know, we pirates have long been underrepresented and remain a marginalized (not to mention villainized) group in society. Changing the most often unfair representation of pirates in pop culture remains one of the top challenges of our group. Now, at least in Europe, we will finally be represented.

In June, there will be 20 candidates running for seats in the European Parliament under the skull-and-crossbones flag of the Swedish Pirate Party. Yes we can!

“Our goal is to have a country that’s not divided by race. And my impression, as I travel around the country, is that that’s the kind of country that most people want, as well, and that we all have prejudice, we all have certain suspicions or stereotypes about people who are different from us, whether it’s religious or racial or ethnic, but what I think I found in the American people, I think there’s a core decency there, where if they take the time, if they get the time to know individuals, then they want to judge those individuals by their character.”

BARACK OBAMA, Larry King Live, Oct. 19, 2006

Kerstin Sjoden reports (Wired):

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