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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, terrorism is continually evolving and we must stay on top of the changing scenario.
Individual terrorists are difficult to identify and here we are discussing privacy laws and whether or not to adopt technologically more advanced measures. I believe that instead, we should be more concerned with certain judgments handed down by the Court of Justice in Luxembourg that open up breaches in the united front of the West against terrorism, or to refer to it by its proper name – Islamic terrorism – and be very careful of legal political correctness.
Legal political correctness is no good to anyone, it does not get us anywhere and it weakens us when we should be presenting a very strong front, because a persistent threat exists that is even more serious now that terrorists are so difficult to identify. So much for body scanners. They can get everywhere: tomorrow morning, they may be on the plane we are just about to take.
If Europe persists in over-guaranteeing civil liberties, we will open up an extremely dangerous breach in the internal security of our nations and this is what the Commissioner should be concerned with. Instead, I find him to be over-general and cowardly by failing to identify Islamic terrorism and the danger it represents by name."@en1
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