Innocentia perdidi
The Lava Jato operation was never transparent, with the exception of its never-disguised actions (political jurisdiction leaves dogmatic traces) against the Workers' Party and, in particular, Lula – otherwise, why would another Moro refer to FHC as an 'ally' in the episode of instructing his valiant errand boy not to attack the leader of the PSDB?
This news item from 247 reports that Attorney General Vladimir Aras strongly claims that the privacy of 38 Brazilian citizens was violated, with constitutional rights allegedly stored in a database maintained by the Lava Jato political operation. Even the Public Prosecutor's Office didn't possess such a database...
His leader, Sérgio Moro (the one Deltan refers to as 'the path to perdition' or 'my perdition,' which escapes us now), rushed to the defense of the brave, saying that the operation was always transparent.
The Lava Jato operation was never transparent, with the exception of its never-disguised actions (political jurisdiction leaves dogmatic traces) against the Workers' Party and, in particular, Lula – otherwise, why would another Moro refer to FHC as an 'ally' in the episode of instructing his valiant errand boy not to attack the leader of the PSDB?
However, the mere fact that a Prosecutor General (at the very top of the persecutory-state food chain of the Brazilian political organization) denounces such a fact and does not announce in the same speech, for example, the immediate initiation of an inquiry (they, so zealous in initiating investigative procedures in other people's affairs) to investigate whether there is a parallel political police force in Brazil, gives us the impression that it will end in nothing – after all, the public prosecutor's office has never cut into its own flesh. Nor has the judiciary, since, in Brazil, those who cut into their own flesh are the political parties and no one else...
History teaches anyone with more than two brain cells that in Nazi Germany there was a political police force created, in theory, to protect the leading figures of the National Socialist (Nazi) party – the Schutzstaffel militia, better known as the SS...
Its purported purpose (protecting Nazi dignitaries), as sold by the Führer's propaganda machine, was quickly redefined in the actual reality of its political actions – to persecute and exterminate ideological opponents of the Nazis.
In any case, when Moro maintains that "Lava Jato has always prioritized transparency," he is vehemently contradicting the truth, establishing a detrimental narrative of the reality revealed by The Intercept...
It is a lie, therefore, that Lava Jato is a transparent operation, because if the brave ones were transparent, there would be no need for the use of a parallel communication tool, guaranteeing end-to-end cryptographic secrecy, taken outside the official records between prosecutors and the double judge and political actor who presided over the whole mess...
Transparency and a cryptographic communication channel established outside of official court proceedings between one of the parties and the judge cannot be summed up in a single sentence...
Furthermore, we observe that a year after the leaks began, no one involved in the Lava Jato operation has come forward to deny the content of the conversations. On the contrary, these brave individuals have completely encrypted themselves, choosing to attack the very method by which the messages from their political consortium were obtained (hackers)...
Moreover, the mere fact of establishing secret communication between the judge in charge of the operation and the brave individuals who fueled it is so offensively aggressive to the democratic rule of law that it shames and diminishes us as citizens, insofar as the essence of such collaboration (entirely promiscuous, entirely illicit) negates civilizational benchmarks, establishing an elitist moral standard that imposes the will of power over the rights of the ideological adversaries of those who hold power, treated as and in the condition of enemies...
In any case, and beyond the promiscuity exposed in The Intercept, it is important to note the fascist origins of such a link, since any consortium of converging wills that overrides the legal text turns its valiant members into veritable 'golden rosemary,' insofar as it establishes a class of individuals (the aforementioned 'golden rosemary') who claim to be above ordinary citizens, since the law would be nothing more than a detail to be circumvented through the appearance of legality conferred by a façade jurisdiction, under the warm applause of a press that is prolific in apologizing every fifty years...
It is imperative to confront this situation. The Supreme Court is already slow to act, and there is at least one direct provocation in this regard, stemming from Lula's Constitutional writ, which questions the breach of impartiality of the judge and political actor – otherwise, there will no longer be any point in speaking of a democratic state governed by the rule of law!
Furthermore, there's no way to pretend that the filling in of a confidential database of 38 Brazilian citizens is within the law and reflects any institutional normality – only the Brazilian mainstream press would follow such a path, selling a narrative that 'accommodates' the newly revealed wrongdoing – we can already foresee Bonner promoting this concept...
The fact is: no Brazilian institution, under the protection of the law, is authorized to act as if the procedures and established paths of comfort in the rules governing the actions of its agents were mere accidents along the way, thus justifying their disuse and ignorance. No public figure, regardless of their rank, is above the law.
Indeed, the mere fact that Lava Jato was praised to the skies by the Brazilian media family, who saw in the hunt for the PT and, especially, the promise of Lula's head, an interesting political opportunity for the right, does not negate the critical need for institutions to operate, given that public affairs arise from the assumption of the regular functioning of their powers, and any interpretation that relativizes this premise is a blatant lie.
Operation Lava Jato was never transparent – what was transparent were its violations of the letter of the law, which higher authorities failed to correct in a timely manner, culminating in the situation we are currently experiencing.
From this perspective, the messiah is nothing more than the foul harvest of this shameless crop that has formed in Congress through the political actions of the brave, under the protection of a segment of the judiciary, strong in the political alignment of its figures...
In any case, if anyone doubted the political nature of Operation Lava Jato, I hope they will use their meager brainpower to address the following objection: if the operation was intended to be transparent, why did it maintain a confidential database outside the bounds of the law?
Furthermore, who will be there? FHC (whose protection Moro himself advocated) or the ideological adversaries of the brave ones? A prize to whoever guesses the answer...
Furthermore, one cannot confer legal validity upon a political-judicial operation that earned an absurd (billion-dollar) sum from a first-instance judge, a sum condoned long ago by the Supreme Court (Alexandre de Moraes) – especially if this same political-judicial consortium was denounced by the Attorney General for maintaining a database with information that the Constitution states is inviolable...
The fact is: the brave can no longer hide behind the way their political misfortune has been exposed, since now, those accusing them of maintaining an illicit database (with 38 citizens exposed) are no longer hackers, but the Attorney General of the Republic...
Sad and treacherous tropics.
Moraes Moreira, Aldir Blanc, Elis Regina, Tim Maia, Clarice Lispector, Florbela Espanca, Linda Lovelace, Martin Luther King, Marielle Franco, my beloved father, and so many others who taught us to live better and even to dream, are still greatly missed. But the political judge who became corrupt to shelter a political operation that, from its inception, had the preconceived vocation of persecuting the PT and Lula, is not missed at all...
* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.
