Mother Joana's House

Brazil has been transformed into a free-for-all, where everyone is in charge. The media is in charge, Judge Sergio Moro is in charge, Prosecutor Fernando Lima is in charge, the Federal Police is in charge, Congressman Eduardo Cunha is in charge, Senator Renan Calheiros is in charge. The least powerful figures are President Dilma Rousseff, the Supreme Federal Court, and Minister José Eduardo Cardozo. Everyone does as they please, threatening death to those who don't think like the opposition, assaulting former government members in hospitals and restaurants, and insulting the President of the Republic on social media and even on stickers plastered on cars. And nobody suffers any punishment. The arbitrariness and widespread impunity have transformed the country's existing democracy into a masked anarchy.

Prosecutor Fernando Lima, for example, one of the main members of the Lava Jato task force, certainly feeling emboldened by the silence and inaction of the Supreme Federal Court and the highest authority of the Public Prosecutor's Office, even went so far as to publicly mock the President of the Republic. In response to criticism from President Dilma Rousseff regarding plea bargains, he told "Folha de S.Paulo" that "since there is neither Jesus Christ nor Tiradentes [among those implicated in Lava Jato], there is neither Judas nor Silvério among the informants. Because we live neither in imperial Rome nor in the times of Maria Louca (??). We live in a democracy."

He forgot to mention that if we live in a democracy today, we owe it, among other people, to Dilma herself, who fought against the dictatorship, even being imprisoned. And him? What is his contribution to democracy? In truth, if there were truly democracy in our country, prosecutor Fernando Lima wouldn't have the audacity to mock the head of state, because the institutions would be functioning perfectly, without fear of the media, and he, as a public servant, would be punished by his superiors. However, since we truly live in anarchy, nobody respects anyone anymore. The President herself doesn't react to the insults she has been subjected to.

As a consequence of the apathy of the government and the Supreme Federal Court, seemingly intimidated by the daily pressure from the mainstream media, Judge Sergio Moro has become the most powerful man in the country, promoting a festival of arrests and encouraging plea bargaining to obtain political results. The entire legal world criticizes his arbitrary methods, even Justice Marco Aurélio Melo of the Supreme Court, but since there has been no formal ruling from the Supreme Court to date, he continues to do as he pleases, aided by, among others, prosecutor Fernando Lima, solemnly ignoring all who disagree with him. And he is not worried because he has the media, which has even rewarded him, on his side.

Meanwhile, Senator Aécio Neves, still upset about his defeat in last year's presidential elections, continues to look for something to disrupt President Dilma Rousseff. To this day, no one has seen any project of his authorship aimed at improving anything in Brazil. In fact, he does nothing but attack the government and look for reasons to overthrow the President. This is certainly why he is losing ground to Governor Geraldo Alckmin of São Paulo, who appears more mature and much more balanced to run for President of the Republic in 2018. Moreover, in his party's television advertising, Alckmin made a point of separating the PSDB of São Paulo from Aécio's PSDB.

Meanwhile, Congressman Eduardo Cunha, currently the second most powerful man in the country after Judge Moro, is running rampant in the Chamber of Deputies, trampling over everything to get his way. He even managed to approve the reduction of the age of criminal responsibility on the same day the proposal was rejected, counting on the votes of even allied parliamentarians. Cunha, it seems, has the Chamber in his hands, as he also does as he pleases with the submission of the majority of parliamentarians. His difference from Judge Moro is that he is the head of a branch of government and has no one above him except the plenary of the House, which, however, has been ratifying all his decisions. Perhaps that is why he also defends Parliamentarism.

The fact is that someone needs to do something to change this situation of insecurity the country is experiencing. Beyond the indiscriminate arrests, at the whim of Judge Moro, the hatred disseminated by the mainstream media and social networks threatens to claim a victim at any moment, as verbal attacks against former government members and those who don't follow the Right's agenda are intensifying without any punitive measures. If nothing is done, one of the many unbalanced individuals who proliferate, especially in places frequented by the São Paulo elite, could commit a reckless act with tragic consequences. After all, after an imbecile advocated for the death of Jô Soares simply because he interviewed President Dilma Rousseff, anything is possible.