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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am horrified at what has been said in the House today. One after another, speakers have affirmed their belief in the Union and in its splendid achievements. What indeed can be more splendid than equality, freedom, brotherhood and an area of freedom, security and justice? But where is this area, I ask myself? Where is the justice and where are the equal rights, if you cannot even manage to provide interpreters during committee meetings, something all Member States and Members of this House are entitled to under the Treaties? Where are the justice, ethics and morals, if you fight against child pornography on the Internet, but at the same time promote access to pornography in general in the name of so-called citizens’ freedoms? Is this not a case of split personality and a peculiar schizophrenia? In my opinion, the European Union is currently at a crossroads. It is trying to build on quicksand, having rejected the principles of civilised ethics and Christian ethics, which have acted as a foundation for millennia. It is claimed that the spirit of the old foundation is being retained, as it is replaced by a new one, namely law and human rights. Yet at the same time I have sat through worrying debates, even within my committee, which is actually called the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. I have heard of the need to combat the criminal actions of paedophiles on the Internet. Simultaneously various sexual deviations are being allowed to proliferate in the name of this very freedom. So I wonder, Mr President, whether this whole edifice is not set to come tumbling down. In the name of these principles, I would like to end by referring to a Polish poet who said that anyone who dares to take sparks from the devil’s forge to scorch the devil’s power blasphemes against eternal wisdom and forces the world into outer darkness. Let this serve as a warning!"@en1
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