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"Mr President, in the US, as in Europe, there is widespread concern about abuses of civil rights. No one is going to argue with that. I would just ask the Chamber to retain a sense of perspective. Look immediately on Europe’s doorstep and you will find regimes where torture is an instrument of state policy officially, where there are shootings of unarmed demonstrators, murders of journalists, and where there is no judicial process, and that is the fundamental difference. In a country that is governed by the rule of law, abuses are investigated and where proper punished, and that is not the case in a number of countries with which we also have relations.
Of course no country should be beyond criticism and when our American friends are in the wrong they are perfectly capable of self-criticism, as well as accepting criticisms from elsewhere, but let us just keep the bigger picture here. This is a country that is trying to save civilians from bad guys who are trying to kill indiscriminately. They are not in the same moral category as some of the murderous butchers both in government and in terror organisations to our south and east."@en1
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