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"Madam President, here we go again, with yet another good cause and good words hijacked and twisted for a battle cry for the liberal elite who run this place; a way to allow human rights to become no more than a charter for international human rights lawyers like the odious Cherie Blair to make a fortune. The EU tells us that we must let it regulate our emissions from our factories or the world will end. It tells us to join closer together or our external enemies will defeat us or, worse still, will fight each other. It now tells us that it must dictate human rights to the whole world. That is cultural imperialism. We should think more of justice, not of these so-called rights.
Think of 1993: a 14-year-old girl called Jennifer Ertman and a 16-year-old called Elizabeth Peña were gang-raped and murdered in Texas. A gentleman called José Medellín was sentenced to death. In 2005 the EU intervened with a legal case. It used our money to defend a child raping murderous monster. That is not rights; that is not what we believe in, surely. Recently, Randy Ertman, the father of Jennifer, died after a lifetime spent supporting victims’ rights.
Human rights are not granted by this place and this is cultural imperialism. All human beings need the right to freedom of expression and the expression of their opinions, but most importantly the right to wield justice just like that which this place sought to deny Jennifer. It is time for Britain to leave the EU and to lead the way to true justice, as we always have."@en1
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