Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-09-07-Speech-2-586"
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"In the European Union, it is usual for a great deal to be said about freedom. However, reality – unfortunately – is rather different. Freedom of expression, and press freedom in particular, are under threat and will soon only exist on paper.
In Germany, for example, the statements by the German
board member, Thilo Sarrazin, regarding the failure of Muslim immigrants to integrate have led to a campaign by the politically correct guardians of virtue, although the majority of what the German, Mr Sarrazin, said is true and is confirmed by statistics and by everyday observations. People are even going as far as calling for the Social Democrat to be relieved of his office. Thus, anyone who expresses an undesirable opinion will have his civil existence annihilated – a form of behaviour that we are actually used to seeing in dictatorships.
There are also other dangerous threats to freedom of expression and press freedom in the European Union, led by the so-called Fundamental Rights Agency: only positive reports are to be made about immigrants, and problems such as abuse of the asylum procedure or crime committed by non-nationals should – because they contradict the publicised multicultural idyll – be kept quiet as far as possible. If, as in Sweden, a private television broadcaster refuses to broadcast an advertisement for a right-wing democratic party during an election period on account of an alleged anti-Muslim sentiment, then this is not only an act of self-censorship, but it is also the manipulation of an election."@en1
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