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Undergraduate student in History at UEPB; member of the "Jewish History" Research Project and the "Center for History and Contemporary Languages" Research and Extension Project.

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What to expect from Lula's inauguration? A coup?

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Photo: Reproduction)

What can we expect from Lula's inauguration on January 1st, 2023? Given the climate that is forming, as a result of the malfunctioning of institutions, one of a coup.

The concentration of extremists who proclaim themselves defenders of the homeland, who call themselves patriots of a nation where pimps, exploiters, bandits, corrupt individuals, and torturers are labeled as the great heroes and patriots of a nation, totals a period of more than thirty days. Therefore, the time to laugh at certain actions of these individuals, which are often unbelievable, has passed. They sang the national anthem to a tire, they call for military intervention, they even called for military intervention in the army, they called for alien intervention, based on a gospel song—which leads to the understanding that religion has become a weapon of persuasion to achieve any end. Pathetic actions like these have a certain humorous aspect, but the situation is very serious. Because the environment that is being created, as "patriots" are not punished in some way, is an environment of chaos, a conflictive environment, posing risks to Lula's inauguration in January. Throughout this article, a more in-depth discussion will be conducted regarding law enforcement in Brazil. 

These pathetic extremists concentrated on highways and in front of military barracks are carrying out terrorist acts, acting against democracy, kidnapping, torturing, killing, promoting hatred and violence (verbal, physical, and symbolic), mainly against journalists. People are being harassed every day, having their right to come and go taken away, children and teenagers having difficulty getting to school, people being forbidden from having contact with their families, not even being able to spend the last moments with a sick person, celebrities and artists being vilified, embarrassed, and unjustly filmed, as happened to Gilberto Gil at the World Cup in Qatar. 

Therefore, if the discourse repeated by the left, such as "Love conquered hate, we will conquer hate with love."If, in fact, the government promotes amnesty for all the scoundrels who contributed to this misgovernment during Jair Messias Bolsonaro's four-year term, the Nazism-Fascism that has always been strong in Brazil will continue to consolidate, lurking, always waiting for an opportunity to impose barbarity against the progress of civilization. Knowing that these patriots are alienated and live in a parallel world, that they are Nazis-Fascists, that they promote hatred and violence, what can we expect on the day of Lula's inauguration? In yet another demonstration, among many, threats and hate speech directed at the current candidate elected in 2022, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, were observed/caught on camera. In this specific demonstration, chants were witnessed, such as, for example, "If necessary, we'll camp out, but the thief won't climb the ramp."In light of this and various other hate speeches, what can we expect from January 1st? What can we expect from Lula's inauguration? A coup attempt? It's not possible to depend on Alexandre de Moraes (Minister of the Supreme Federal Court) for everything; this is a reflection of the fact that institutions are not functioning correctly. In other words, where are the prosecutors in this country, where are the federal public prosecutors, where are the civil and military police officers? If all these coup-mongering demonstrations continue, January 1st will be marked by a major conflict.

In a country where institutions don't function properly, logically, this fact contributes to certain questions, namely: Does law exist in Brazil? Is the law enforced seriously in a country like Brazil? 

The famous phrase, repeated countless times, "In Brazil, there are no laws, only judges."This ultimately proves to be a true statement in practice. There are examples of recent cases that fit and strengthen this statement. One example is the case of Francisco Buarque de Holanda, better known as Chico Buarque de Holanda, in which the lawsuit filed by the singer claiming the musical rights to the song (requesting its removal), "Roda Viva," in a post by Eduardo Bolsonaro—Federal Deputy for the PL party—was denied by Judge Monica Ribeiro Teixeira of the 6th Special Civil Court of Rio de Janeiro. The judge argued that there was no evidence to prove authorship of the song. Another clear example is the strengthening of legal sectors (evidently there has been strengthening in other problematic fields as well), contributing to what the historian and psychoanalyst José Adilson states in his article... "Brazil in Thanatos's Crosshairs: Bolsonarism, Illness, and Death"A true fascistization of the courts, through the "judicialization" and "militarization of politics." Therefore, between 2014 and 2018 there was a veritable witch hunt, a persecution of all individuals and fields related to the governments of Lula and Dilma, justified by the famous discourse of combating corruption. A crime that was orchestrated by the judges and prosecutors of Operation Lava Jato in Curitiba, especially former Judge Sérgio Moro, who based his actions on the persecution of Lula, succeeding in excluding him from the 2018 electoral race, even though he was leading in the polls for that year's election. Consequently, this growth of the legal sector due to the increased discourse of the corrupt and bizarre former judge, a fighter against corruption introduced into Brazil, legalized and bought by the middle class, the upper bourgeoisie, and the Brazilian mainstream media, also directly contributes to the consolidation of the phrase so often repeated by common sense, cited earlier.

Given this enormous increase in neo-Nazi groups, totaling more than five hundred, and the lack of control over this hate speech, which even threatens Lula's inauguration in January, and the disregard for the rules of the democratic political game and the rule of law—using power in an authoritarian way as a tool to oppress, coerce, and persecute adversaries and "enemies"—barbaric cases like the one that happened in Aracruz, Espírito Santo, will become more frequent. This case, in which a sixteen-year-old injured twelve and murdered four people in two schools using Nazi symbols, raises several questions—the objective of this article is to lead the reader to reflect—: If this sixteen-year-old had been black and had invaded these schools, would he have survived? When the subject is white, with light eyes, and from the middle class, are they automatically given privileges, that is, does this imply mental instability in such a case? Why did the boy's father (a military police officer) buy the book "Mein Kampf," written by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler? All these reflections are valid, since the news reports presented the story with an image of a black hand holding a gun. Why? 

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