Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party takeover
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Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party takeover
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#2It has offered Edward Snowden a new place to call home.
I love Iceland. I truly do. My wife and I visited twice last year. I think it would be a wonderful place to live. Given a choice between Russia and Iceland I would pick Iceland without hesitation (although I have to admit that I have never been to Russia). However, I do not believe that they would be able to protect Snowden from the CIA. I hope Snowden sees this the same way and stays safe in Russia.
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#3It has offered Edward Snowden a new place to call home. I love Iceland. I truly do. My wife and I visited twice last year. I think it would be a wonderful place to live. Given a choice between Russia and Iceland I would pick Iceland without hesitation (although I have to admit that I have never been to Russia). However, I do not believe that they would be able to protect Snowden from the CIA. I hope Snowden sees this…
I hope he goes there and there then they run another poll which determines he should be extradited to the US to be held accountable for his actions.
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#4It's nice to see that libertarian ideas are winning at least in some counties when in most of the world governments get more and more control over people's lives.
Re: Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party takeover
#5It's nice to see that libertarian ideas are winning at least in some counties when in most of the world governments get more and more control over people's lives.
I wish that Johnson had been better prepped for some of his interviews. I really don't like where the democons are headed in this country.
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#6It has offered Edward Snowden a new place to call home. I love Iceland. I truly do. My wife and I visited twice last year. I think it would be a wonderful place to live. Given a choice between Russia and Iceland I would pick Iceland without hesitation (although I have to admit that I have never been to Russia). However, I do not believe that they would be able to protect Snowden from the CIA. I hope Snowden sees this…
I hope he goes there and there then they run another poll which determines he should be extradited to the US to be held accountable for his actions.
The people of Iceland are intelligent, as evidenced by their jailing of bankers and election of the Pirate Party, so would not hand him over. If small-minded people cared 1% as much about holding their own government accountable as they did whistleblowers, imagine how much better society would be?
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#7It has offered Edward Snowden a new place to call home. I love Iceland. I truly do. My wife and I visited twice last year. I think it would be a wonderful place to live. Given a choice between Russia and Iceland I would pick Iceland without hesitation (although I have to admit that I have never been to Russia). However, I do not believe that they would be able to protect Snowden from the CIA. I hope Snowden sees this…
I hope he goes there and there then they run another poll which determines he should be extradited to the US to be held accountable for his actions.
Sure, as long as the criminals who illegally spied on millions of Americans are held responsible for their actions as well and sent to jail.
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#8Could Iceland become the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin (or an alternative crypto) as its national currency? If the Pirate Party wins, this could be one of the numerous cool experiments in government to take place.
Re: Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party takeover
#9It's nice to see that libertarian ideas are winning at least in some counties when in most of the world governments get more and more control over people's lives.
I wish that Johnson had been better prepped for some of his interviews. I really don't like where the democons are headed in this country.
I'm holding hope for an actual political act to happen - there is remarkably much for the alt-right and the left to agree on, if the ideas can be put forth in such a way that they aren't wedged against each other. If the democratic party becomes the moderate republican party then you'll see a lot of the left break away.
Re: Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party takeover
#10It's nice to see that libertarian ideas are winning at least in some counties when in most of the world governments get more and more control over people's lives.
I wish that Johnson had been better prepped for some of his interviews. I really don't like where the democons are headed in this country.
No amount of prep was going to help that train wreck -- Johnson never had a reputation as a particularly smart politician (he was rather proud of his ignorance, actually), but he showed less knowledge of world affairs than the average evening news viewer. And he's still the most credible candidate the Libertarian party has posted!
If you want libertarian views to gain political credibility, you'd probably be better advised to try to start within the GOP, especially given the state of factional conflict likely to follow Election Day. Libertarian, moderate and the few remaining Rockefeller-style Republicans are the only ones who have kept their hands clean when it comes to Trump, and who have an arguable basis for reconstructing the party -- though it would be a long slog to do so.