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"en.20150211.49.3-353-000"2
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"Mr President, the immediate aftermath of a terrorist atrocity is the one time when we should not legislate, because a false equation takes hold. People think that the political response should be proportionate to the sense of public outrage rather than proportionate to the need to address an identified security problem.
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, on both sides of the Atlantic there were huge grabs of power by the state which would have made no difference in that instance, and which served to reduce our liberty without commensurately increasing our security. We are now doing exactly the same thing; in the aftermath of the abominations in Paris and the aftershocks that were felt in other European cities there is this terrible sense that takes hold – in all legislatures, because politicians are sensitive to public opinion – saying something must be done.
The something that should be done first is to exhaust the powers already at our disposal before we start grabbing for additional powers, and I cannot help noticing in this debate that a number of my colleagues in this House are using the recent atrocities to revive their long-standing calls for a further federalisation of security policy, rather than to address the need which we have in fact identified."@en1
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