Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-26-Speech-3-161"
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"Mr President, I believe that there is not a lot to add following a debate like this, which has been calm, honest from an historical point of view and often moving.
I should simply like to say a word about the measures that need to be taken. I believe that we must now learn the appropriate lessons from this hideous experience of horror taken to the extreme. As the Presidency, we have been invited, together with the Commission, to resume work specifically on the proposal for a Framework Decision on racism and xenophobia. I believe we must do this, and I also think there are a lot of misunderstandings.
Freedom of speech and thought are sometimes invoked with a certain amount of good faith but also a good dose of naivety. That is not, however, what is at issue in this case. I believe that the verbal hatred and racism for which anti-Semitism serves as a vehicle have nothing to do with freedom of speech, since we know – and history teaches us – that verbal hatred is often followed by physical hatred: that which hits out and causes injury directly.
I therefore believe that we must be consistent with ourselves and resume this work. We must also see how we can prohibit unworthy symbols that, for their part too, incite hatred and violence, since verbal violence becomes physical violence and aggression. It is an action that we must embark upon now, and I believe it would be a modest tribute to the memory of all those who we lost in the most terrible way. I believe that, if Parliament can go down this path in conjunction with ourselves, as the Presidency, and with the Member States, it will be possible for us to make a considerable contribution."@en1
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