2009
06.08

Let this be a lesson to the British Royal Navy.  If you let pirates go, they will just take over another country.

That’s right, the Pirate Party, now has one or two seats on the Swedish parlament.

When we asked Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge about the outcome, he told TorrentFreak: “We’ve felt the wind blow in our sails. We’ve seen the polls prior to the election. But to stand here, today, and see the figures coming up on that screen… What do you want me to say? I’ll say anything”

“Together, we have today changed the landscape of European politics. No matter how this night ends, we have changed it,” Falkvinge said. “This feels wonderful. The citizens have understood it’s time to make a difference. The older politicians have taken apart young peoples’ lifestyle, bit by bit. We do not accept that the authorities’ mass-surveillance,” he added.    ~ Via Torrentfreak

I’m sure he then ran his interviewer through with his cutlas, raped his wife, then burried all the crown jewels of Sweden on a deserted island, because that is what pirates do.