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Pirates are thriving, and it may be a good thing.<\/p>\n

On December 2, Iceland’s President mandated that Pirate Party Member of Parliament\u00a0Birgitta J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir form a government. In the October 2016\u00a0general election, the Pirate Party came in third, but the two top vote-getting parties, the Independence Party and the Left-Green Movement, failed to build a coalition large enough to run the country. It is now time for the Pirates!<\/p>\n

Yes, Iceland has a Pirate Party. As the Pirate Party\u00a0website notes<\/a>, it is patterned after the Swedish Pirate Party.<\/p>\n

The UK established a Pirate Party in 2009, again patterned after the Swedish party. Founded in Manchester, it espouses civil liberties, privacy, direct democracy, and other very sensible things, constrained only by the somewhat strange name. It has never managed to get anyone elected to the UK parliament, but a quick read of the pamphlet distributed in Manchester for the 2015 election demonstrates a very workable\u00a0set of policies:<\/p>\n

\"What<\/a>
What is the Pirate Party? “We believe that being a pirate means you are independently minded and independently minded politicians are what we need right now. If you believe most politicians are crooks, then maybe it’s time to try the Pirate Party. Think different, vote different.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Platform<\/a>
Platform of the Pirate Party: end mass surveillance, respect privacy, basic living income for all, openness and transparency in government, free health care, broadband for all, education as a lifelong right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Given the state of recent political rhetoric in the UK and the US, consider the Pirate Codex<\/a>. It lays out a simple set of principles that, despite being political, are remarkably non-partisan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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