Moro will arrest Lula, who didn't steal and revolutionized the country. The judge will have to arrest members of the PSDB party because nobody is an idiot.
Lula may be arrested, but who will arrest the judges, prosecutors, and police officers who manipulate the law, create their own versions of the truth, and distort reality? Who will arrest the billionaire magnates of the mainstream media?
Finally, Moro's Lava Jato operation is coming to an end, even if it continues with its pantomime and its partisan media show after Lula's arrest, who did not steal. The Aécio-aligned federal police officers, the prosecutors obsessed only with the PT but never with the PSDB, and the Supreme Court justices who allowed the implementation of a violent, banana republic-style right-wing coup in Brazil after 30 years of democracy, will also have to arrest the "demotucanos" (members of the PSDB, DEM, and PPS triad), because rights and duties apply to all citizens, who, according to the Constitution, are considered equal before the law.
However, there is a huge part of the Brazilian people whose civil rights have been violated and disrespected, such as the electorate that cast 54,5 million votes for Dilma Rousseff, which were simply ignored and invalidated by a Judiciary that took the place of the right-wing opposition to the PT's labor governments, because it was allied and complicit with her in the coup d'état disguised, hypocritically, as legal and legitimate.
In turn, it becomes evident that the conduct and posture of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office of Paraná, a partner of Moro's court, still considers the delegates of that province as public servants dedicated to fighting corruption, but only if it refers to the wrongdoings of the PT (Workers' Party) or of authorities and businessmen who participated in the PT government, as well as those who provided services, mainly those related to civil construction, especially since Presidents Lula and Dilma transformed Brazil into the largest construction site on the planet, which contributed to the country's economic growth, in addition to revitalizing its infrastructure in all segments and sectors, as exemplified below:
Pre-salt oil reserves, hydroelectric plants, highways, railways, ports, airports, river diversions, subways, BRT (Bus Rapid Transit), LRT (Light Rail Transit), stadiums, and, most importantly, real estate, because the Minha Casa, Minha Vida (My House, My Life) program contracted 3,4 million houses and apartments throughout the country, and 1,7 million residential units were delivered, benefiting 6,8 million Brazilian citizens, not forgetting the numerous programs for inclusion and social participation, such as Luz para Todos (Light for All), Family Farming, the valorization and creation of worker cooperatives like can collectors, FIES (Student Financing Fund), SISU (Unified Selection System), ProUni (University for All Program), ENEM (National High School Exam), Pronatec (National Program for Access to Technical Education and Employment), and Science without Borders.
I also cite the Mais Médicos program, Digital Social Inclusion, SAMU (Mobile Emergency Care Service), and the internationally awarded and imitated Bolsa Família program, among many other programs and tools for oversight and information, such as the Federal Government's Transparency Portal, administered by the PT (Workers' Party), from which, incidentally, this coup-supporting and corrupt press extracts much information to then distort and manipulate it in order to attack the Workers' Party governments that created the Portal. Surreal, but true. The PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party) has only now created a similar and paltry portal in São Paulo. Those who sell public assets don't want a portal. It's the face and trademark of the PSDB...
I want to emphasize and remind everyone that Lula comes from a very poor background, was raised by his mother with several siblings, and certainly, because of the difficulties and suffering in his life, he was always concerned, as president, with taking care of women. The Bolsa Família program, it's worth informing the right-wing troglodytes on duty, is a program that has silently revolutionized society, reaching the poorest families, because it has empowered low-income or unemployed women, allowed children and adolescents to stop working or being on the streets at the mercy of crime, drugs, and violence, and also required them to attend school, a mandatory condition for families to receive the benefit.
In turn, the program is not limited to these important issues already exemplified. The Bolsa Família program, in the hands of poor women and mothers of needy families, made the economy grow. Micro and small business owners in small towns in the interior of the North and Northeast, the South and Southeast, as well as the Midwest, gained millions of new customers who barely consumed anything due to lack of income. Credit sales practically disappeared, and public banks became stronger because, through Bolsa Família, beneficiaries became account holders, possessing magnetic cards, which generates satisfaction and pride afforded by the right to citizenship.
Retail trade strengthened because the number of income-generating customers increased, just as wholesale trade began to sell more. These realities led to a booming economy, giving merchants more security to invest and increase their sales. Strong commerce is a sign of job creation, which indeed happened, as around 20 million jobs were created during the PT (Workers' Party) period. This also contributed to Brazil, among many other economic factors, strengthening its domestic market and not suffering as much from the international crisis between 2008, the year of the crisis, and 2012. Most people have no idea how much discontent and hatred it caused the bourgeoisie to see the dispossessed, those abandoned by the State, having a bank account and money in hand to buy whatever they want, free from the intervention of the powerful landowner, especially in the Brazilian interior.
It's no coincidence that while the Bolsa Família program was being awarded and recognized worldwide, here in Brazil, the slaveholders of the big house and their ferocious fascist right-wingers from medium and large cities, with brains the size of shrimp and reactionary thoughts, tried to discredit it, deconstruct it, and call it "Bolsa-Esmola" (Alms-Bolsa) or "Bolsa-Vagabundo" (Vagabond's Allowance). No comment... One shouldn't waste time with ignorant and perverse people with small souls. It would be like lowering oneself to their level. The level of the belly of a viper or snake.
And mediocre, destructive, and clearly conservative people are screaming with the support of the worst and most perverse press in the world, controlled by a handful of scoundrels who treat Brazil, an industrialized country and the seventh largest economy in the world, as if it were their own backyard. It's truly the last straw, and lamentable to have to coexist with these henchmen of the plutocracy, who desire a VIP country where wealth serves only them through the servitude of Brazilian workers.
All this work, organized and carried out by progressive and developmentalist leaders, is unsettling and causes hatred and envy (as happened with Getúlio Vargas and João Goulart), because the numbers and indices, regarding the economy and finances, are gigantic and, evidently, unscrupulous people from the public and private spheres took advantage to make money, to corrupt and be corrupted, including government employees and executives who, over time, succumbed to temptations and began to engage in illegal business, starting in the late 1980s, mainly in relation to Petrobras and some directors, civil servants who passed competitive exams, who are imprisoned in Curitiba, denouncing all the parties, with only the PSDB, PPS and DEM members not yet imprisoned. Why is that? Judge Sérgio Moro and prosecutors Deltan Dallagnol and Carlos Fernando have the answer.
I want to emphasize that my wish is that every corrupt person be punished and imprisoned, because public money is sacred, as is the salary of workers. However, what is noticeable is that one cannot imprison a person who did not steal, which is the case of Lula, who will certainly be held accountable under the "command of the facts," as they did, unbelievably and cowardly, with José Dirceu, who is imprisoned much more because his incarceration is emblematic and symbolic, due to his formidable political biography, than because the left-wing politician, who fought the dictatorship, actually stole, a fact that also did not happen because it was never proven.
Dirceu is imprisoned for being Dirceu, a guinea pig for the "domain of the fact" doctrine, which could happen to Lula, who is a much bigger politician than the leftist imprisoned without evidence and who, in a hearing with Judge Moro, the hero of the right-wingers and the coup-plotting bourgeoisie, put the PSDB judge from Paraná in a difficult position, as shown in a video that went viral on the internet. Moro is a legal technocrat, devoid of sensitivity, because if he had any, he wouldn't attend events with people from the PSDB or who support the "demotucanos" (a derogatory term for PSDB members), taking photos and allowing himself to be filmed, which is a serious mistake, because this provincial magistrate is directly linked to the imprisonment and convictions of politicians whose adversaries or enemies are precisely those politicians from the PSDB.
For the right wing, arresting Dirceu is actually an alibi for arbitrary judges who commit illegal, politically motivated, and therefore criminal acts, such as the leak of Lula and Dilma's audio recordings, which led a mob of hysterical right-wingers to surround the Presidential Palace and attempt to invade it. I repeat this because the image of these irresponsible people, who supported yet another coup in Brazil, is unforgettable. This coup involved the criminal participation of Judge Moro, which was, in fact, a crime to prevent Lula from assuming the position of Chief of Staff. A crime whose perpetrator is a judge, accused of being selective and partisan by important sectors of Brazilian society.
Someone might say: what's the problem? "Moro's social life has nothing to do with his work." But there is a problem, yes. A big one. It's not enough for Caesar's wife to be honest. She must also appear to be honest. Furthermore, Judge Moro is indeed linked to the PSDB party, because he has had social relationships for years with people from this sell-out party that sold Brazil without pity or remorse. Besides that, even the stones know this: family members and people very close to the first-instance judge who "Makes a Difference" for the Marinho brothers, a media-savvy, coup-plotting family through and through, as Brazilian history proves, are linked to the PSDB. His father is a founder of the party in Maringá.
The truth is this: in Brazil, politicians from the PSDB party don't go to jail. And why? I'll tell you: Because they are IMPEACHABLE! A simple answer, without any complexity or invention. It's as clear as clear, flowing water that in this country there is a privileged caste, not only in terms of having money and assets, but also in terms of privileges from the Justice system.
It is no longer possible in Brazil to tolerate judges, police chiefs, and prosecutors who behave like partisan right-wingers, paid handsomely by the Brazilian taxpayer, who is their boss, choosing sides and consequently calling everyone an idiot, as if they didn't realize what is happening, to the misfortune and shame of Brazil, which has criminals who assaulted public assets, stole a lot of money, and are free, carefree and cheerful, even calling their adversaries, in this case those from the PT (Workers' Party), corrupt and thieves, while the politicians from the PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party), DEM (Democrats), and PPS (Popular Socialist Party) have their closets and wardrobes overflowing with skeletons.
Enduring the cynicism and hypocrisy of these cretins, with the convenience and complicity of the judicial system, is no longer bearable, simply because—and I reiterate—no one is an idiot, much less naive. I talk to people in bars, restaurants, shopping malls, universities, at work, and whenever I can and have the time, I always go to street demonstrations, and people show themselves to be disappointed with the Justice system and its members, who are called selective and coup plotters. It's the purest truth. And why are citizens no longer trusting judges and prosecutors? Simple. Because these public agents have chosen a side, a party, they have an ideology, they are generally right-wing, and they are truly involved, according to their position in the system, in the banana republic coup, usurping and criminal against the 54,5 million voters of Dilma Rousseff.
There is also a clear perception that Lula is being cowardly and inhumanely persecuted by a media of unscrupulous businessmen, by selective delegates, judges and prosecutors, who at a certain point decided to govern in place of the one who was legitimately elected by the constitutional and sovereign vote of the people, in addition to allowing an adventurer and coup plotter, aka Michel Temer (the traitor's name is always written in lowercase because he is a moral, political and urban pygmy) to usurp power and then begin to take away the benefits and achievements of the last 12 years from the poorest, as well as promoting persecutions worthy of the times of the civil-military dictatorship.
This is a real bungler and incompetent, as bad as Woody Woodpecker from the cartoon. This interim and illegitimate president will rot from within, because he heads a ministry full of corrupt individuals, most of whom are facing charges or are defendants in court. Temer is also implicated in Lava Jato, as well as other scandals, as the Pandora's box of corruption will later show and prove, a box that hasn't yet been fully opened due to the fault of judges, prosecutors, and police chiefs. Temer, involved in corruption, brought down a leader who never stole. It's unbelievable, because with the complicity of the Supreme Court and a portion of the conservative population, who are now quiet and not making a fuss in the streets because they realized they made a huge blunder. Yet another one, in historical terms.
Public servants who refuse to reveal the names of the PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party) members involved for years in all kinds of corruption. One day, this spurious, disrespectful, and unjust shielding of Brazilian society will have to disappear so that the PSDB, DEM (Democrats), and PPS (Popular Socialist Party) members can finally be judged and, if necessary, imprisoned. Justice has no owner. Judges and prosecutors do not own the law. They are its slaves. That's how it has to be. The law is equal and, in effect, applies to all citizens, regardless of power or social class.
Lula is the man of the moment. In fact, the greatest politician in Brazilian history, who divided income and wealth, displeasing and causing hatred among the bourgeoisie and the conservative petty bourgeoisie, has always been the target of Lava Jato. Arresting him is a matter of survival for the right wing of this country, one of the richest, cruelest, and most ferocious in the world, which segregates and kills Black people, Indigenous people, and the poor. The racist, misogynistic, and homophobic right wing. The divisive, separatist right wing, and because of this, the creator of a caste society, to have more money and power over the majority it exploits. The hypocritically religious, materialistic right wing, because its faith is reduced to its consumer dreams and the pride and vanity afforded by its acquired status. The right wing that concentrates income and wealth, which, in the name of assets, becomes irremediably sectarian, selfish, and violent.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the antithesis of this perverse charade, because he represents the citizen who dared to break with what the establishment dictates through the caste system, which differentiates social classes in order to privilege the rich and very rich. A pyramidal system that manipulates people through its media, which conceals and disguises how draconian the capitalist system is, because it is based on the disguised servitude of work paid with low wages, which eternally keeps the proletariat and the self-employed in a condition of servitude.
This refers to the status quo controlled by the plutocracy, which only accepts people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds if they allow themselves to be co-opted. These are the cases of newly rich entrepreneurs, athletes, artists, and professionals who have achieved "success"—always in quotation marks because "success" is intangible, and even if a person becomes financially stable, it doesn't mean that this "success" will accompany them for the rest of their lives. As the wise Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius once said: "Soon you will forget; soon you will be forgotten." Perfect. The emperor understood that life is short and fleeting, just as we are, because of our fragile and erratic human condition, worthy of compassion, if not pity.
Lula did not allow himself to be co-opted, but, above all, this leader of historical and popular stature proved that a son of the people and the working class can and should assume great responsibilities and occupy important positions, exercising multifaceted power in numerous complex functions, and still carry out an extremely practical, redistributive, developmentalist, and profoundly democratic government.
Labor administration, recognized internationally and also by the Brazilian people, with the exception of the middle-class "coxinhas" (a derogatory term for right-wingers), whose stupidity and arrogance are incorrigible, but who have emerged from their cocoons filled with hatred and resentment to rant in the streets about all kinds of prejudice and intolerance, because they mistakenly and ridiculously believe that they have lost with the social ascension of the poor. Poor in spirit and depoliticized, these fascist-like "coxinhas"—pot-bangers with full bellies and empty souls.
Now, let's get to the burning question: who investigates, punishes, and imprisons judges, prosecutors, and police officers who commit injustices by inadvertently interfering in the Brazilian political process? The answer lies with the Supreme Federal Court (STF), which, obviously, will limit itself to being complicit in Lula's imprisonment, the cherry on top of this banana republic-style, third-world coup d'état aimed at freeing thieves from jail and seizing power from the Workers' Party (PT) by force, taking over the Presidency of the Republic, as bank robbers, shoplifters, home burglars, and pedestrians do.
Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki returned the investigations concerning Lula to Judge Moro's court. The discrediting of the PMDB party leaders, which will certainly tarnish the illegitimate and coup-plotting Michel Temer (I've never seen a lesser politician, so atrociously mediocre), also aims to "prepare" the population for the hypothetical imprisonment and mitigate the popular commotion that would occur with Lula's arrest, as was evident when they kidnapped the former president from his home to take him to the São Paulo airport for questioning, even though the labor leader never refused to testify. Pure arrogance and presumption – abuse of power.
The intention was to take him to Curitiba and arrest him, but it wasn't possible to commit the arbitrary and cowardly acts practiced by right-wing politicians disguised as public servants, who can't arrest members of the PSDB party because "It's irrelevant," as Judge Moro likes to say when questioned about this issue, as with others that can be seen in the Furnas List, the Odebrecht List, the Banestado List of prosecutor Carlos Fernando, the Alberto Youssef List (the PSDB's domestic money launderer), and all the construction companies that financed PSDB campaigns just like they financed the PT's. This just won't do...
The Lava Jato investigation aims to reach Lula through the apartment in Guarujá and the property in Atibaia, which demonstrably do not belong to him. The prosecutors and investigators have also become obsessed with the containers at Granero, which holds Lula's presidential collection. To this day, they don't know what's actually inside or where to store the items, because the objects, gifts, honors, and tributes have been kept by employees responsible for this matter. It's not the president who deals with these minor issues, as has been the case with all previous presidents, none of whom were investigated and disrespected in such a stupid, vile, and cruel way, with the purpose of tarnishing the image of a man who did not steal. They even found fault with the objects Lula received as president.
The difficulty for Lava Jato and the Plutarch-like figures of Paraná lies precisely in proving that Lula committed crimes or benefited from his position as president and former president. They won't prove it. They know this. However, why not use the "command of the facts" argument once again? After all, any reason is a reason, and the intention of these people, who are detested by millions of Brazilians for committing cowardly acts and acting unjustly and anti-republicanly, is, no matter who it hurts, and because Brazil has to pay whatever price it has to pay, that Lula must be imprisoned, because the PT is forbidden by the ruling class, allied with the national and international plutocracy, from electing labor and socialist presidents. Period.
Lula may be arrested, but who will arrest the judges, prosecutors, and police officers who manipulate the law, create their own truths, and distort reality? Who will arrest the billionaire magnates of the mainstream media? Who will arrest the members of the PSDB, DEM, and PPS parties? Who will arrest all those who violate the rules of the democratic game and tear up the Constitution because, in their authoritarianism, they did not accept their fourth electoral defeat and, consequently, chose to overthrow President Dilma Rousseff?
The truth is that the leaders who gave more autonomy to judicial branch employees, who think the judiciary belongs to them, are the ones being most persecuted and disrespected, because the opportunistic actions perpetrated against Presidents Lula and Dilma are only comparable to what happened to Getúlio Vargas, who they also wanted to imprison before the statesman committed suicide. Who told Lula to take care of the poor and govern the country better than those failed and incompetent doctors?
Now he's paying the price. Not the yellow-bellied, corrupt, and criminally tax-evading duck from Fiesp, which lives off the money from the "S" system spearheaded by Sebrae to sustain its sumptuous headquarters on Avenida Paulista. Lula is paying the price for being Lula, for being a nationalist, for being left-wing, for not having been co-opted by the establishment, for having a biography, for being the most international and respected politician in Brazilian history, for having votes and being admired by tens of millions of Brazilians. That's it.
* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.
