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"Madam President, so the country of the Statue of Liberty, Jefferson, Lincoln, and human rights is listening in on all world communications by cable, satellite, telephone, fax, e-mail or mobile phone! That is obviously a shock, not in terms of our technical knowledge of encryption, but in terms of our political beliefs.
We have believed in the great market as if it were God, and competition and competitiveness, all under the governance of the WTO. With Mr Monti, and Mr Van Miert before him, we have done everything possible to keep competition pure and perfect, even against the interests of our own businesses, our banks, our airlines, our insurance companies, Crédit Lyonnais, Rhone-Poulenc. And now we find out that people are cheating and spying on this market, creating distortions of competition.
This Parliament, which wanted to use OLAF to spy on Members for the sake of protecting Europe’s financial interests, is discovering that we are being spied on by the United States against our financial interests, even as regards the WTO negotiations. We thought Mr Haider’s Austria was endangering our freedom. But it is through Mr Tony Blair’s Britain, Glyn Ford’s Britain, that fifteen thousand agents, stationed in Gibraltar, Cyprus, and even on British territory, are spying on us. So, Madam President, are you still prepared to go to London? Will you ever go to Sydney again? Will you ever go to Ottawa or Wellington again?
And we thought there was solidarity in Europe. Now we find that Britain’s solidarity extends across the Atlantic and across the Pacific Ocean. We thought we were building Europe, making Europe stronger. But stronger than whom? Stronger in opposition to Iraq? In opposition to the Serbs? Stronger in opposition to nations and nationalism? But with ‘Echelon’, we find that Boeing belongs to a specific nation, Rayton belongs to a specific nation, and they are having people spy on Airbus or Thomson because those companies do not belong to the same nation. ‘Echelon’ brings us face to face with nationalism, but it is the ethnic nationalism of the Anglo-Saxon ethnic group, which includes Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand, the United States and Canada. It is an ethnic group with a religious base, the holy alliance of Adam Smith and Calvin.
So is the Catholic Europe of Gasperi, Schuman and Adenauer going to apologise? Apologise to the people spied on, for all that evangelism? ‘Echelon’ is the French word for rung, and I am afraid this ‘Echelon’ is taking us down to the bottom rung and we will end up at dignity level zero. Poor old European Commission! Poor old European Council of Ministers! Poor old European Union! We are conditioned by the circumstances of our birth. Something born of a Harvard University lecture theatre under the presidency of the American, General Marshall, is bound to end up obeying its creator."@en1
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