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"Madam President, there is something irritating about Mr Howitt’s report, as some other speakers have pointed out. Aside from fundamental issues such as the right to life, it is the fact that we are promoting human rights everywhere around the world, almost as a substitute for putting our own house in order.
For example, in my own country of France, the freedom of expression that this report champions is greatly restricted. It is restricted in the field of history, on the grounds that it is forbidden to dispute crimes against humanity by virtue of judgments in which certain judges ought to have been among the accused. Freedom of historical research is practically non-existent when it comes to the Second World War and various other major events of modern history.
The same goes for politics. People no longer have the right to challenge immigration. If they say anything other than good about the subject, they lay themselves open to being prosecuted, judged, or sentenced with varying degrees of severity, on the pretext of incitement to racial hatred, which, of course, has nothing to do with speaking freely about the problem of immigration.
Lastly, it is the same situation with morality. Those who prefer a family consisting of a Mum and Dad to homosexual partnerships risk, like one French MP from the party currently in power, being summoned to court and heavily sentenced to boot.
I therefore think we would do better to put our own house in order, rather than thinking we can preach to the rest of the world."@en1
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