Democracy is a dish that is best served cold...

During my recent travels on the information superhighway (does anyone else even use that term anymore..?), I came across a rather intriguing news article:

Politician seeks votes in Klingon
Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:34AM EDT

HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Finnish member of parliament is aiming for re-election by campaigning with a translation of his Web site into Klingon, used in the TV series "Star Trek."

"Some have thought it is blasphemy to mix politics and Klingon," said Jyrki Kasvi, an ardent Trekkie. "Others say it is good if politicians can laugh at themselves."

He said his politics posed some translation difficulties, since Klingon does not have words for matters such as tolerance, or for many colors, including green -- the party under whose banner he is running in the national elections on March 18.

Non-warriors can also access the site, www.kasvi.org, in English, Swedish and Finnish.

Sure enough, upon checking, this guy does indeed have a Klingon niche in cyberspace:

http://www.kasvi.org/index.php?kli

Glad to see that there are fellow Trekkies/Trekkers in high places around the world! Major props to this guy...if I lived in Finland (and had Finnish citizenship, naturally), I'd definitely vote for him :-)