Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-09-05-Speech-3-206"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20010905.5.3-206"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:translated text |
"We voted against this report, in protest not just at its accommodating attitude to the Echelon system, although we are not so ridiculous as to hope that the European Parliament can influence the decision of those who set it up, but above all in protest at the whole system of relations between states, as well as between financial and industrial groups, of which worldwide espionage is but one of the many consequences.
In their competing efforts to systematically bleed the planet, the big powers use political and military espionage as an instrument of their rivalry. The industrial and commercial secrecy extolled by all the defenders of the capitalist system in order to conceal from their people the many ways in which they appropriate and waste the riches of society is inevitably accompanied by industrial espionage. All these practices, in which every state that has the means to do so participates, infringe the democratic freedoms and rights of the individual.
Basically, this report’s only concern is to protect European industrialists from the handicap of their American rivals discovering their little secrets via the Echelon system.
Even the changes introduced by some of the amendments for which we voted do not alter our opposition to the report as a whole or our disagreement with all the minority opinions, the most innocent of which differ from the majority text only in the derisory desire to improve, control or enhance the morality of a system that can neither be controlled nor made more moral. And we are certainly not claiming to be defenders of ‘the logic of the free market’, which is nothing but the law of the jungle."@en1
|
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples