If Bia Kicis is not impeached, the Chamber is paving the way for dictatorship.

On the day that Brazil reached the grim record of 1.188 human losses due to the coronavirus, Bolsonaro supporter Bia Kicis/PSL-DF took to the podium of the Chamber of Deputies not to express compassion and solidarity with the thousands of Brazilian families torn apart by grief, but to proclaim more death: the final death of democracy; the death of what little remains of legal order and law in the state of exception.

Using a text that had been read aloud – therefore, a text that was written, revised, and possibly conceived within military and militia circles – the gloomy congresswoman delivered her speech:

“If one of the branches of government decides to disobey, confront, or conflict with another branch regarding the application of the law, the Supreme Court is not the final authority. According to Article 142, it is the Armed Forces that must restore law and order; it is the armed forces. Not to break the order, but to restore it, to restore order.”

At the end of her speech, the Bolsonaro supporter challenged: "Despite this, numerous voices have treated it as criminal to ask Bolsonaro to invoke Article 142, as if such a provision were not part of the Constitution."

Professor Lenio Streck, in his masterful article dismantling Ives Gandra Martins' absurd arguments in favor of escalating the dictatorship, clearly explains that Article 142 does not permit military intervention!

Lenio teaches that "simplistic and distorted interpretations of article 142 must be aborted ab ovo"—that is, from the outset. In his opinion,

"Article 142 does not allow military intervention. Any constitutional law textbook teaches what the principle of the unity of the Constitution is. Why would the constituent assembly say that all power emanates from the people, with all the guarantees of suffrage, etc., and then suddenly say: 'Ah, but the armed forces can intervene at any time, as a kind of 'moderating power'?"

It would therefore be absurd to accept that "Democracy would depend on the military and not on civilian power. That would be institutional hara-kiri," Lenio concludes.

The Chamber of Deputies will commit institutional hara-kiri if it does not impeach Bolsonaro supporter Bia Kicis. If it acts with leniency and irresponsibility towards the terrorist congresswoman, the Chamber will pave the way for a dictatorship that will shut down not only Congress itself, but also the Supreme Court.

Riding on the coattails of this mix of omission, cowardice, and parliamentary cretinism from Congress and the Supreme Court, there will be the silencing of the press, the end of freedom of expression and criticism, the annihilation of opposition voices, and the decimation of the poor, the different, and the "racially inferior."

If the Speaker of the House, Rodrigo Maia, does not himself take the initiative to open an ethics process to remove the conspiring congresswoman from office, he will go down in history as the Auro Moura Andrade of the Brazilian parliament in the 21st century.

Moura Andrade was the president of Congress who, in the early morning of April 2, 1964, lied to Congress and the entire nation, claiming that Jango had fled Brazil, in order to declare the office of President of the Republic vacant.

With that lie, Moura Andrade paved the way for the appointment of the military government by a Congress that had already been purged of democratic parliamentarians and disfigured by arbitrary and illegal dismissals, carried out under the pressure of bayonets.

In the Chamber's plenary session, the outraged congressman Tancredo Neves exclaimed against the coup-plotting and lying Auro Moura Andrade, a potential 21st-century counterpart to Rodrigo Maia: "Scoundrel! Scoundrel! Scoundrel!"