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"Madam President, this debate centres on an issue that is of supreme importance for all of mankind. For many years now, Members of the House have reiterated the point that freedom is mankind’s most valuable asset, and that human civilisation cannot develop properly without it. It is true that terrorism must be fought by all available means and methods, but such a fight must not be waged at the cost of human freedom.
This directive does not in any way accomplish the goal it sets itself. Technologies are already in existence that will make it possible for genuine terrorists and genuine criminals to be highly successful in avoiding checks. What the directive will do instead is help bring about the total surveillance of millions of free citizens.
I should like to remind the Commissioner that such data will inevitably leak out. I also have to say that the Commissioner is a hypocrite. The comments he made yesterday before the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, when defending himself against accusations that the CIA had transported a number of terrorists to Europe and interrogated them there, were of a very different tenor. Today, however, he has come out in support of a solution that quite clearly curtails civil liberties."@en1
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