Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-25-Speech-2-220"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-09-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Implementation of the Council decision on the moratorium against death penalty (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070925.30.2-220"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-09-25-Speech-2-2212
lpv:speaker	lp:Jean-Claude Martinez2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2007-05-23--2009-07-13)3,3 unknown; Front national (2004-07-20--2009-03-18)3,3 member; ITS (2007-01-15--2007-11-13)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; BUDG (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 member; AGRI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Members of the Council, in 1977, under the Carter Administration, two probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, were launched into space. You may think this has nothing to do with our debate. However, in these two probes, the late physicist Carl Sagan placed a message from President Waldheim, the drawing of a man and a woman, the principal mathematical formulas known on Earth, and a record with the sound of the wind, of a tractor, a baby, and extracts from Mozart, Beethoven and Chuck Berry. Last year, these two probes left the solar system, or the ‘heliosphere’, as it is called, to travel 42 000 light years to the nearest star; in other words, 200 000 kilometres multiplied by 3 600, multiplied by 24, multiplied by 365, multiplied by 42 000. In 30 years, these two probes have not sent back any signals, since none have been picked up. For the time being, the only known life is on Earth. From that perspective, it is evident that the penal codes of Texas or China, which can allow something as extraordinarily rare as life to be ended, are a real aberration. By contrast, the Portuguese proposal for a conference about life and human dignity reflects the perspective of this nation of explorers, because to be opposed to the death penalty is only one aspect of the challenge and of the political teleology. The aim of any policy can only be rich and diverse life. To be against the death penalty is all very well, but it is only one aspect, as is euthanasia, of a central political problem: what is the point of politics? To create the economic, social and physical conditions so that this mysterious thing called ‘life’ can flourish, or the Malthusian policy of no future, austerity pacts, rationing, prohibition, grubbing-up, Herod premiums, and the British foot-and-mouth slaughters and pyres? This is the crux of the matter and the real scale of the death penalty: it is this political choice between no future and life."@en1

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