The blatant monstrosity

A judge on vacation coordinates the disobedience of a Federal Police delegate to an appeals court judge. Meanwhile, members of the court overstep their prerogatives to annul a legitimate decision by the on-duty judge. The objective: to prevent a habeas corpus granted to the frontrunner in the presidential polls. This didn't happen in a Bolivarian or Islamic dictatorship. It happened in the country of democratic normalcy, where only the military carries out coups.

Everything was predictable, unfortunately. The avalanche of unconstitutional acts has been pouring down for months, foreshadowing a bleak future, while the stranglehold becomes normalized with each arbitrary action by Lava Jato. It happened again and it will happen again unscathed.

What truly stands out in this episode is the irreversible exposure of the political nature of Lula's imprisonment. The authorities vociferously issuing orders from their Sunday retreats and tourist trips. The desperate and almost clandestine mobilization, the undisciplined confrontation, the trampling of protocols. The recklessness of the highest levels of the Justice system, racing against time as if they were caught in an invasion by hungry aliens.

The circumspect media experts were part of the tragicomedy, inventing nonsense about "natural judgment" and "competencies," spouting empty jargon, distorting norms and concepts in a strange outburst of legal ignorance. Then we discovered that legal texts are far too ambiguous for the combative "fact-checking agencies."

The ideological savagery of the Anti-Corruption Crusade was instrumentalized by electoral cronyism. A kind of madness without madmen that protects judicial decisions and numbs public debates about them, obstructing the perception and denunciation of the absurdities committed against Lula. The ultra-punitive delirium is confused with hatred for the former president, serving as a pretext even to criminalize attempts to preserve his constitutional rights.

With no hope of victory in this desert of rules, the only possible fight is to break the illusion of the ritualistic game, to tear down the doctrinal cloak that hides the judicial dictatorship. Technical triumphs in Lula's defense, such as the bluff of the receipts, only force changes in the conviction strategy. Meanwhile, the symbolic imbroglio of the habeas corpus has ripped the guardians of Lava Jato from the pantomime of procedural rigor. It has stripped them of their republican personas.

Surely a fitting response will come to the infamous provocation from the Workers' Party. After all, by guaranteeing its own impunity and legitimizing itself, the Exceptional Judicial Regime has unlimited powers. In this, however, it becomes vulnerable. The greater the efforts made to destroy Lula's influence, the greater the defeat of the imperial obsession of the tribunes and the more obvious the disparity between the individual and the corporations that torment him.

The electoral nature of the offensive also harms its protagonists. Fueled by the threat of Lulaism, the fanatical radicalization brings the despots of Lava Jato closer to the reactionary pole of the presidential race. Judging by the polls, at some point the monsters will unite around a common cause. Then, aligned with backwardness, rejected by all party currents, they will receive from the country what they are trying to give to Lula. It may be delayed, but it will not fail.