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    "content": "this particular Bill is not meant for and must never be used for other unintended purposes, including harassing journalists or political opponents. The crime of terrorism, often times, is considered special. Therefore, it comes with that aura that it requires special attention. But the bottom line is that it is a crime like any other. There are more horrible crimes known to man, including the crimes addressed under the International Crimes Act. We have also given these agencies a number of other laws in the last few months, for example, the Anti-Money Laundering law, The International Crimes Act, The Organized Crimes Act, the Bill for the NIS and the police Bills. All these arsenals should be more than enough to address these issues. Our prayer is that those arsenals, all of them giving extreme powers to these institutions; of forfeiture, interception of information and arrest, be used for the good and not for harming our citizens. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is also a very clear fear that our security agencies should not be misused by foreign agencies. International law is said to be based on enlightened self-interest. We want our security agencies to have their relations based on enlightened self-interest of this country and not on the self-interest of other institutions or other countries, so that they are not agents for other countries. If they give certain accommodation to other institutions, it is done on the basis of reciprocity. If you are going to give a particular institution in a particular country certain access, you we have a similar access to their institutions. We should not have a situation where we have inferiority complex within our institutions where they are the ones that give information and act as agents for other institutions, yet they do not get the same. Like we do in our diplomacy where foreign embassies act with impunity here and our embassy does not act in such impunity elsewhere. This Bill, as we said, is critical and must be passed. It must be passed and hopefully, it must be reviewed as we continue with our review of laws. We are passing it in such an environment that we all see a clear present danger. Therefore, we might move with the emission of times to pass this Bill, but hopefully, like many other countries have done, we will come and review and the courts will review. As we clearly said, our Judiciary is not bound to accept this Bill just because Parliament has passed it. However, I am pleased with the fact that a number of the proposed amendments have been accepted by the Executive and the Minister, to his credit, and we will move forward as a country. With those remarks, I support."
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