Is the Wikileaks Party a cypherpunk party?

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From: "CryptoFreak" <cryptofreak at cpunk.us>
To: cypherpunks at cpunks.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 1:30:43 PM
Subject: Re: Is the Wikileaks Party a cypherpunk party?

On 08/21/2013 09:04 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 05:01:07AM -0500, CryptoFreak wrote:
> 
>>> So what do you think? Is their finally a political party more
>>> closely aligned with the cypherpunk ideal than the Libertarians?
> 
>> Don't forget the Pirate Parties. Despite all the fubars,
>> the German Pirate Party is expected to hit 3+% in the
>> national elections next months.

>I've looked into the Pirate Party but, at least from the American side
>of things, they seem like a 'one hit wonder' who's nearly solely focused
>on IP law reform. Perhaps this isn't the same in other places (I can't
>imagine they would have won major elections with a single issue
>platform) but here in the States, where they exist, it seems to be the case.

In a winner-take-all system like the US, third parties are irrelevant, except
insofar as they (like Bernie Sanders) caucus with one of the duopoly.

Birgitta Jonsdottir gets good press as a PP member of the Icelandic Parliament.

FOr what that's worth.