Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-12-14-Speech-3-144"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-12-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Presumed use of European countries by the CIA for the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051214.14.3-144"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-12-14-Speech-3-1452
lpv:speaker	lp:Lilli Gruber2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (2004-07-20--2008-09-30)3 unknown; Indipendente (2004-07-21--2008-02-18)3 substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 chair; Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen (2004-09-20--2007-03-13)3 member; LIBE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Iran (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2004-09-22--2008-09-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, during the Resistance and the Cold War, people died under torture in every one of our countries in order to protect the most precious thing we have: freedom. It was out of this sacrifice, too, that Europe emerged, founded on a specific idea: respect for the law as an inalienable prerequisite for freedom and democracy, with no ifs or buts. The choice is not between the life or death of one or more people, but between the civilisation of democracy and the barbarity of arbitrary power. Our continent has millennia of experience of torture and knows that not only is torture unreliable in the information it extorts, but above all it irremediably corrupts those same civilised values that it claims it has to protect. It is an insult to our freedom and intelligence, as well as vile blackmail, to claim that torture has helped to thwart even a single terrorist attack in Europe or elsewhere in the world. It is now our duty to discover the whole truth about the reports of the kidnapping and mistreatment of alleged terrorists by the CIA and their illegal transfer to other countries, with the complicity of certain European governments. The action by the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office on the disappearance of the imam Abu Omar, for which 22 members of the CIA are under investigation, and the Council of Europe initiatives are tangible expressions of the rule of law. Those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear. We must play our part by setting up a parliamentary committee; it does not matter whether it is an investigative, temporary or committee, but it must undertake to discover the truth. Our Parliament also calls for a different United States, one not subject to the fanaticism and economic interests of the George W. Bush Administration."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"ad hoc"1

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