Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-16-Speech-3-056"
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"en.20010516.3.3-056"2
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"Mr President, dark clouds are gathering over the Atlantic and they are storm clouds. I am not thinking only of the spiral of violence that American society feeds on and of which the string of capital punishments is only one symptom among others. In fact this society, which is based on genocide and whose values constantly give way to the law of the jungle that has been christened ‘liberalism’, can only survive by violence; that, in the end, is something that does not concern us.
What does concern us, however, is the custom of American policy to do what it wants where it wants in the world and to disregard all the international rules, including those it imposes on others. I am thinking here of the Kyoto agreements. Nor should we forget Washington's refusal to sign the agreement on nuclear testing, which the United States regards as applying to all states except itself, and a whole range of other agreements that show that Washington wants to tie down every state in the world without being bound in any way itself. Let us also remember the scandalous Echelon affair, which shows that Big Brother intends to keep watch over the entire planet while not accepting any right of inspection itself, as proved also by the insolent and scandalous reception recently given to our committee of inquiry into the network that brought his imperial highness to power. Worst of all, we are behaving like a rabbit fascinated by the boa constrictor or snake about to bite it and we are obeying this imperial policy; my last hope is that France will resist this general tendency of the world to grovel."@en1
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