Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-10-26-Speech-2-056"
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"en.20041026.5.2-056"2
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"Madam President, in the run-up to this debate we have seen left-wing and Liberal hysteria reach a crescendo. When put to the test, those who talk the most about human rights and freedom of speech have hypocritically displayed themselves as utterly intolerant in their virulent attacks on Commissioner-designate Buttiglione.
I regret that the President of this Parliament diminished his office by joining the left-wing herd in what, however it is dressed up, amounts to a denial of the Commission-designate's right of freedom of thought and speech. It is a sad commentary on moral probity in this House that one who dares to hold to moral rectitude is so relentlessly vilified. However, for me the defining issue is something else. It is that I will not endorse by my vote government by unelected placemen. I for one will not lend the veneer …"@en1
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