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Carminha gives the "João sem braço" speech, but what she really wants is to consolidate the coup and remove Lula from the elections.

The judges want to speak for Brazilians and choose the elected officials instead of the people, disregarding and disobeying the Constitution.

Carminha gives the "João sem braço" speech, but what she really wants is to consolidate the coup and remove Lula from the elections.

Judge Cármen is the Dodge of the Attorney General's Office, or vice versa. The consolidation of the coup against Lula and the independent and sovereign project for Brazil.

The president of the Supreme Court (SCT), who is literally the shame, the disgrace, and the misfortune of Brazil, Judge Cármen Lúcia, is exercising the Presidency and, through her allies in the coup-mongering press, one of the biggest culprits for the comatose state of the Brazilian economy, as well as fomenting class, racial, political, and ideological hatred, the Globo Group is playing a leading role in the coup d'état that shames and humiliates Brazil throughout the world.

Carmen Lúcia predicted: "Law is the space of reason" and that "Criticism is valid, but challenging Justice is never acceptable." Evidently, this judge, who is perhaps the worst magistrate to have assumed the presidency of the Supreme Court in many years, is living in a parallel world, not Brazil, a country demoralized by groups that have united in a right-wing consortium, including the mainstream press, the SCT (Scientific and Technological Development Service), the MPF (Federal Public Prosecutor's Office), the PF (Federal Police), and the financial market.

Conservative groups defeated in four consecutive elections by the PT (Workers' Party), who, in addition to carrying out a coup d'état in 2016 that led to the deposition of President Dilma Rousseff without her having committed a single crime of responsibility and invalidating almost 55 million votes of the Brazilian people who voted for Dilma, also mobilized, cowardly and sordidly, to put former President Lula in jail, without any crimes having been proven that the leftist leader committed.

The rational world, both in Brazil and abroad, knows this, except for Judge Cármen Lúcia and many of her peers, as well as the bosses of the journalists who are complicit in and authors of the coup, who are giving voice to one of their partners in the parliamentary coup that took place so that the bourgeoisie of this country, associated with foreigners, could withdraw labor rights, eliminate social inclusion programs, break with Latin American integration, and hand over public assets and their natural and mineral wealth, with Petrobras, BNDES, and Eletrobras as targets of the usurping butchers of Brazil.

It is utterly senseless for such a judge of the highest court in this country to assert, in an assertive and hasty manner, that "Law is the space of reason" and that "Criticism is valid, but challenging Justice is never acceptable." Carminha, as she is called by the heads of Grupo Globo, may speak softly and slowly to appear balanced and thoughtful as a public servant. However, the truth is that the magistrate is, in reality, one of the main pillars of the political, social, and economic crisis that severely harms Brazil and oppresses its people mortally.

It is impossible to believe that Judge Cármen is impartial and republican when the realities and facts indicate otherwise, the path to consolidating the arbitrary and authoritarian impediment of Lula's candidacy and the attempt, through the control of the facts and lawfare, to subject him to oblivion and isolation.

This involves abuse of power and unconstitutional actions perpetrated by legal professionals at all levels, so that the right-wing candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, a politician directly involved in the 2016 coup d'état, can have a chance to win the elections without the presence of Lula's competitive and popular candidacy.

If the Judiciary at all levels and the highest Court, which is the Supreme Court (SCT), have blocked politics and the democratic process to overthrow the president legally re-elected by the people with 54,5 million votes, why do intrinsic parts of the coup d'état, such as Judge Cármen, who systematically refused to schedule Lula's habeas corpus and carried out countless chicanery maneuvers with Judges Edson Fachin, who shames the history of the great men of Rio Grande do Sul, Luiz Mata No Peito Fux and Alexandre Lex Luthor de Moraes, claim that Lava Jato cannot be legally questioned, nor can the Justice system itself?

How can one assert that the actions of judges cannot be challenged, when people naturally possess a sense of justice and value judgments, and the collective feeling is that justice is slow, biased, politicized, and unjust, treating the rich and poor differently, condemning Lula without evidence, fiercely persecuting him, and cowardly imprisoning him for reasons of social class and origin? People perceive this, because most Brazilians have been wronged at some point in their lives.

Magistrates who defend and act as spokespeople for the interests of the slave-owning elite, and who are committed to the coup by the PSDB, Brazil's main right-wing party, will now deliver the final blow: barring Lula's candidacy. Lula is leading all the polls by a wide margin, with 41% of the vote intention, despite not appearing on television and being shamefully prevented from communicating with the population and traveling throughout Brazil.

The right-wing members of the Judiciary, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, and the Federal Police know and understand the entire coup process worthy of a Dracula. In other words, what is at stake for the right wing is that, with Lula in power, the brutal plundering of Brazil's and the Brazilian people's assets will be fiercely combated. This is because the bourgeoisie is not only fighting Lula, but above all, the project of sovereignty and independence that the labor leader represents, as Getúlio Vargas, Juscelino Kubitschek, João Goulart, and Dilma Rousseff did. Despite their flaws and successes, as is the case with every leader and human being, this is a labor and left-wing policy.

It is, and always has been, the politicians of this ideological and pragmatic camp who have been inevitably fought and fiercely attacked by the infamy and iniquity of their enemies, the representatives of the status quo. Numerous judges and prosecutors have embarked on the crime of the third-world coup, even though these mediocre and perversely anti-democratic and anti-popular people continue to enjoy their high salaries and perks, which are a true affront to millions of poor and unemployed people, even if the left wins power. Change requires time and determination, such as an urgent reform of the Judiciary and the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, so that Brazil is no longer at the mercy and hostage of the violent and elitist coup-mongering of judges and police officers.

In turn, what is striking is Carminha, the "darling" of the Globo Group journalists, making such assertions that do not correspond to reality and manipulating the truth, along with the scribes of iniquity. And she's a judge! How so, pale face? "Law is the space of reason," according to the magistrate. But whose reason?

Ultimately, everyone knows that judges, prosecutors, and Federal Police officers actively participated in political-electoral battles, systematically offering opinions and attacking President Dilma Rousseff, former President Lula, and the Workers' Party (PT), as well as the entire progressive camp. The Lava Jato/DOPS/DOI-CODI operation, composed of judges, police officers, and prosecutors, is the most faithful example of the state as a spearhead for political and partisan interests. It's the establishment structured to persecute, defame, and imprison its enemies. It's the right wing. It's war against its own people—the workers.

The right wing and all its main sectors want to remove the left from the political struggle. This is a state of exception imposed by the right-wing consortium that assumed the Presidency of the Republic through a coup d'état practiced in Latin America and promoted by "elite" public servants from the Judiciary, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, and the Federal Police. Judge Cármen Lúcia is an essential part of this puzzle for the consolidation of the right-wing coup.

It is also surreal that the judge, queen of third-world chicanery and backroom lawyers, claims that "Criticism is valid, but challenging the Justice system is never acceptable," when the Justice system has not earned and does not earn respect from the moment it became politicized and partisan, choosing sides, opting for its candidates, preferring parties and, absurdly, becoming selective, ideological and, above all, unjust.

The Supreme Court, under Carminha's administration, has put Brazil in a straitjacket so that the wolves of the coup can break down the door and seize power by force. The Supreme Court justices could release Lula, who, I emphasize, committed no crimes, to initiate peace in Brazil, in order to pacify it and forge a new social agreement, like the 1988 Constitution, which was criminally torn apart by the right-wing parties, businesses, and judiciary of this country, which has been in hell, in a more radical way since 2013.

However, the Supreme Court of Justice Cármen Lúcia, committed to the rich and the very rich, both here and abroad, is playing a waiting game and is cementing an election that will not include the most important politician in Latin America and the most respected and admired abroad and in Brazil, who has never stolen and has never committed any type of crime. They imprisoned Lula so he couldn't run in the elections, and then Carminha from the Supreme Court comes along with her empty promises.

Cármen Lúcia even had the imprudence and folly to say that "Law and politics have different times and foundations," considering that "Politics is the space of passions and Law is the space of reason." How can that be, when that's precisely what those judges haven't done in all these years?

The truth is that the law has been used by its operators as a repressive and oppressive political weapon against the left, mainly against the PT (Workers' Party) and its leaders. If I were at the press conference of "President" Carmen Lúcia with journalists from coup-supporting private companies, such as Grupo Globo, I would ask: "Minister, why has no corrupt member of the PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party) ever been arrested?" I would like to hear the judge answer. Perhaps Carmen Lúcia would reply: "That's irrelevant!"

Cármen Lucia knows this and always has, and she will go down in history books as a coup-plotting authority who cooperated greatly in Brazil being plundered by a clique that took over the Presidential Palace and, in effect, humiliated and devastated Brazil. Carminha makes the speech of "João sem braço" (John without arms) and "The worst blind person is the one who doesn't want to see," when she talks about (In)justice.

The imprisonment of Lula, in the most cowardly and cruel way possible, undoubtedly represents what Brazil possesses within its borders: the most barbaric and savage "elite" in the Western world, which fiercely destroys any civilizational landmark, because it is directly historically responsible for the 388 official years of slavery.

Supreme Court Justice Cármen Lúcia is the exemplary champion of justice in service of the hegemonic social class. Now comes Attorney General Raquel Dodge, with her unsubstantiated accusations against Lula. These judges want to speak for Brazilians and choose their representatives instead of the people, disregarding and disobeying the Constitution and the Democratic Rule of Law.

The police and judges have plunged headlong into class and political struggle and, in turn, have lost all credibility and respect in the eyes of society, and still have the audacity to say that the ideologically and politically driven Justice system cannot be challenged.

Judges, prosecutors, and police officers who engage in politics, systematically and routinely, must listen to political challenges and face political opposition. They should return to their professional duties, as they should always do, since they are paid high salaries and enjoy countless perks.

Let them dedicate themselves, silently and discreetly, to the proceedings. Let them not expose themselves or any citizen. Let the Pandora's boxes of the Justice system and the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office be closed and sealed like those of the military, so that they may never again torment the Brazilian people and betray their legitimate interests.

Let them go back to their squares, to their little boxes! Brazil needs politics, democracy, and rights, with a recovered economy and restored citizenship. Lula is free to be voted for and elected by the people, the essence of Brazil! That's it.

* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.