{"id":60708,"date":"2016-10-27T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60708"},"modified":"2016-10-26T00:15:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T05:15:42","slug":"skal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60708","title":{"rendered":"Sk\u00e5l!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Pirate&#8221; party is poised to take power in Iceland..<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and <a href=\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/iceland-pirate-party-win-elections\/#8LbbWS9y5IwvjFGk.99\">then give it back<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although the Pirate Party formed just four years ago, its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/iceland-braces-for-a-digital-revolution-as-pirate-party-prepares-power-election-2016-a7377456.html\">popularity<\/a> has skyrocketed \u2014 most likely for unconventional tactics aligning loosely with libertarianism \u2014 the promotion of privacy rights and personal freedoms, and simultaneous shrinking of Big Government.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Snowden has been offered the safe haven of Icelandic citizenship should the Pirates likely victory come to fruition \u2014 which makes sense, given the party\u2019s anti-establishment roots.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the Pirates have experienced astonishing success in a short time \u2014 taking the nation\u2019s longstanding political traditionalists off-guard in the process \u2014 even the group\u2019s founder, a programmer and former Wikileaks activist, is stunned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The GOP needs to learn a few lessons from the Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll \u00a0be here to teach &#8217;em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Pirate&#8221; party is poised to take power in Iceland.. &#8230;and then give it back: Although the Pirate Party formed just four years ago, its popularity has skyrocketed \u2014 most likely for unconventional tactics aligning loosely with libertarianism \u2014 the promotion of privacy rights and personal freedoms, and simultaneous shrinking of Big Government. Edward Snowden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60709,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60708\/revisions\/60709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}