Europees Parlements lid voor The Left Alliance Clare Daly uit Ierland slaat de spijker op z´n kop. ´we hebben dialoog nodig, geen oorlog!´
Hieronder de tekst van haar rede in het Europees Parlement.
´Listening to the relentless Russia-phobia in this place, why are people surprised that Russia sees no point in engaging in the EU?
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I’m as happy as anybody else to stand up for anybody’s rights, including Navalny’s, but let’s be honest about him, he’s a vicious anti-immigrant racist on maybe 4% of the support, rallying hundreds and thousands in cities of millions, hardly a mass movement.
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And we wouldn’t be discussing him at all if he’s been arrested anywhere else other that in Russia, meanwhile Julian Assange has been incarcerated for almost 10 years for exposing US war crimes, we can’t mention his name.
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Tomorrow, Pablo Hasél, a Catalan rapper is going to prison for his lyrics, where is the calls to sanction Spain?
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Tomorrow, 62 years-old Clare Grady is going to prison in West Virginia for her role in the non-violent Plowshares action against Trident(’s nuclear weapons).
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Where is the demand to break off links with the US, or the outcry about the hundreds of people arrested in this city on a protest a week ago? Nowhere, because this isn’t about human rights, this is a geopolitical agenda against Russia, fueled by a military-industrial complex that needs an enemy to justify their millions.
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Of course, you’re right to go to Russia, we should be engaged in dialogue, not war.`