What news from Sweden?

Sweden always seems like it has something interesting going on in the cultural or political department. This manifests itself even more so with news that I am only now getting a hold of.

It seems that the secret supressed dreams of every person alive are coming true in the Swedish political realm since January first of this year when the Pirate Party was founded. It is the largest organized political party outside of parlament. No, they are not a bunch of peg legged, eye patched buckaneers running for office unfortunately, but they aim to get into parlament for the only three goals on their agenda: shared culture, free knowledge, and protected privacy (Which basically means that you can't have your house taken away for downloading the latest boy-band pre-teen girl hit album). And they have a cool pirate flag logo too.

Quoted from Wikipedia,
"The May 31, 2006 Swedish police raid of the facility hosting The Pirate Bay (and Piratbyrån, along with over 200 other independent site owners, hosted at the same facility) meant a breakthrough for the party in the public eye. From before the raid the party was steadily growing with some ten new members every day, but the aforementioned raid by the police led to more than 500 new members by the end of the day, with a membership count of 2680. The next day had another 930 people register membership, for a total of 3611 members."