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The European Parliament has just given its verdict on the work done by its Temporary Committee concerning the use of European airspace by the CIA for the illegal transportation of prisoners. The verdict was unsurprising: condemnation of the many Member States that have effectively given their support to the CIA.
Mr Fava’s report has one great quality, which is to point out a common basis of fundamental values: respect for human rights, the condemnation of torture and respect for the legal framework in the fight against terrorism.
It also has one great failing: it totally overlooks the fact that the only thing restricting our governments’ efforts is reason, reason that allows them to reject the impossible: the secret services will never be welcoming and transparent!
Let us not confuse humanism with naïve optimism. As the philosopher, Alain, put it: ‘there can be no freedom without security; security is worth nothing without freedom'.
This concern for security in the context of freedom justified my abstention. I am convinced that my friend, Antoine Duquesne, the former Minister for the Interior of the Kingdom of Belgium, would have delivered the same message, if he could have voted today."@en1
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