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"Madam President, there is no doubt that we need to defend and guarantee the security of ports as well as airports. Terrorism is, of course, something we live with and fear. As a journalist, I experienced at first hand the major case of piracy on board the cruise ship
outside Piraeus, when I saw arms and legs amputated and floating in the water. Terrorism is a terrible thing.
However, equally terrible is the fear of terror, which various governments use as a pretext for committing crimes against civil liberties. Citizens fear for their lives from terrorism and are afraid for their freedom from cameras watching their every move in streets, ports, airports, hotels, everywhere. Τhe ESΡS is tapping telephone calls. Citizens are monitored from credit cards, they are monitored from everywhere. We have terrorism and fear of terror. So let us protect our citizens. All the money which we are spending on terrorism – we spent a billion euros for the Olympic Games – could have been spent differently, repelling fanaticism and the extremism which leads straight to terrorism."@en1
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