Tuesday, November 22nd 2011
Pirate Becomes Youngest EU Parliamentarian, Vows to Fight Archaic Laws and Mindsets
Amelia Andersdotter from Sweden will soon take oath as the youngest to join European Parliament in Brussels. The 24-year old member of The Pirate Party was voted to her seat more than two years ago, but her appointment was delayed all this while, due to bureaucratic hurdles. Andersdotter promises to fight archaic copyright laws and corporate interests.
In an interview to Torrent Freak, Andersdotter touched on issues like competition between telecommunication companies (state and private operators), certification, and the infamous ACTA legislation. "When national parliaments have been saying that they can't do anything about ACTA, activists and media just kind of happily accept. What national parliaments could do, and should do, is obviously tell their national governments not to sign the agreements. That is and would be within their power," she said. You can read the full interview at the source.
Sources:
TorrentFreak, DailyTech
In an interview to Torrent Freak, Andersdotter touched on issues like competition between telecommunication companies (state and private operators), certification, and the infamous ACTA legislation. "When national parliaments have been saying that they can't do anything about ACTA, activists and media just kind of happily accept. What national parliaments could do, and should do, is obviously tell their national governments not to sign the agreements. That is and would be within their power," she said. You can read the full interview at the source.
96 Comments on Pirate Becomes Youngest EU Parliamentarian, Vows to Fight Archaic Laws and Mindsets
Andersdotter's answer to haters would be "I'm in the EU Parliament, biatch!"
Edited 1st post to clarify
St. Politician sucked at problem-solving so he did coke for temporary escapes. He sucked at relationships so he went to strip clubs. You can attach a negative connotation to just about anything.
Besides, you'd think that her voters would have had some clue about who they're voting for, especially when they have such gaping scars. More importantly, you'd think that her voters looked beyond something as trivial as knifing scars.
Politicians are human, and they needn't look like 5th Avenue manikins. The ones that do usually turn out to be full of shit.
I have already said that if she got treatment for her issues, then i wish the best to her and hope she has much success.
One last thing if shes 24 now and was elected at 21, these problems are certainly still somewhat fresh, and unless someone knows her personally and can talk with her about these things, those "knifing scars" are most cetainly not trivial.
- Attaching a stigma to knifing that doing drugs somehow don't (ironic?)
- Trivializing her on the merit of knifing scars, overlooking one extremely huge achievement of hers, that is earning herself a seat in the EU Parliament
That's the same kind of prejudice certain people show against elected representatives who happen to be homosexual or transgender, overlooking their other, more important qualities.My personal feelings on this matter do not characterize who i am as a whole or how i even think as a whole, I believe that a person may express their feelings on an issue and back it up with thier reasoning w/o it being picked apart 'cause thats what im starting to see here. A person "blading" themselves is just as serious as a bad drug problem, but they are 2 different things. The only thing they have in common is that they are both used to escape mental pain for the most part.
it tells me not to take you serious and in the future to potentially just ignore your posts since you dont have logic and common sense
if not- then it should.
www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/opinion/firewall-law-could-infringe-on-free-speech.html
Why can you not take her seriously?