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Meet Jan Hemme: mild-mannered public relations executive by day, Pirate by night -- specifically, a strategist for Berlin's Pirate Party. This new political movement, with roots in the tech culture, is shaking up politics across Europe and hopes to make some noise in the coming U.S. elections.

"Die CDU Ratingen hat sich Domains wie piratenparteiratingen.de gesichert und Publicity bekommen - allerdings anders als erhofft. Dutzende tobten sich Dienstagabend auf der ungesicherten CDU-Seite aus"

"The German branch of the Pirate Party, which campaigns for civil rights on the Internet, has been raided Police in Germany have reportedly seized a number of servers belonging to the German Pirate Party, as part of a French criminal investigation. The servers, hosted at AixIT in Offenbach, were confiscated on the morning of 20 May, following a request by the French authorities. However, it is believed that the investigation only concerns a single public service on one of the party's virtual servers."

For those of you having trouble with the link: Dear Mr. Ambassador, I write to you with regard to events that have transpired on Friday, the gravity of which have led me to question the democratic integrity of the Federal Republic of Germany. On Friday morning, May 20, German law enforcement officers seized the information technology and communications infrastructure of the Piratenpartei, a legal and officially recognised political party. The seizures have transpired irrespective of the fact that the Party is not suspected of any illegal activity. Media reports suggest that the seizures have occurred as a result of investigations by the French law enforcement organisations into an alleged distributed denial of service attack, and event which itself occurred several months prior to the seizure. French investigators are of the opinion that one of the servers, which provides collaborative services and tools that may be used by the general public, may have been used by an individual or individuals in the planning of the alleged attack. Indeed, it should be noted, that we as a party also use services provided by the Piratenpartei which were affected by these seizures.