Pirate Party condemns house raid at Wikileaks

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sent on 25/03/2009


Pirate Party condemns raid on house of WikiLeaks,de domain owner

The police searched the residence on Monday evening by the domain owner wikileaks,de, Theodor Reppe. The background is obviously the release of secret internet censorship lists from various countries such as Australia, Denmark, Thailand on the Wikileaks website. The implementation of the search via a Stasi type raid on the premises has numerous legal irregularities and also highlights again the totally inadequate knowledge of the police officers regarding the attitude information on the Internet. The charge does not seem to be clear that Mr. Reppe owns the domain owner no substantive powers.A domain is only a traffic sign, not the street. The Pirate Party condemns this kind of action via Gestapo methods by the Saxon and Thuringian police sharp. This Dirk Hillbrecht, chairman of the Pirate Party: "Obviously the state is trying here to harass critical citizens to intimidate and otherwise as an explanation for this action would only high-grade technical incompetence, coupled with blind activism In both cases, a bad feeling created by the state of our.. liberal democracy. "

The Pirate Party was last fall victim of a dawn raid on the basis of materials of the Bavarian government in connection with the improper use of the so-called Trojan horse country. The Pirate Party declared its solidarity with the work of the organization Wikileaks and sees with concern the worsening trend of those in power to shift their censorship efforts to further and further into the secret area and be protected by criminal means. Far-reaching are the signals by which retention and house searches are sent out with dubious methods. The results as a whole saw a picture of the experiment a constant state of intimidation and preventive mature citizens. Not least this is what makes the law in question.

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The Pirate Party of Germany (PIRATE) are dealing with critical issues of the 21stCentury. The right to privacy, transparent government, a modernization of the copyright, free culture, free knowledge and free communication are the basic objectives of the PIRATES.

In the general election in September 2009, the Pirate Party of the state 2.0 percent or 847 870 votes. Compared to the European elections in June 2009 (0.9 per cent, 229 464 votes), the pirates could quadruple the number of their votes almost even.The Pirate Party now has 11,000 members over.