The big ones and the small ones
Journalist Fernando Brito, from Tijolaço, assesses the episode to which former president Lula was subjected, being prevented from speaking and even responding to the public's solidarity during the wake of his seven-year-old grandson, Arthur Araújo Lula da Silva; "Scenes like today's bring history to the facts, expose those who are rats as rats, and show that those who are great will never be defeated by those who are minuscule," says Brito; "Lula is imprisoned, you fools, but you are much more imprisoned than he is, because you are shackled to your insignificance and human degradation."
By Fernando Brito, from brick - With the funeral ceremonies for Lula's grandson – little Arthur, just seven years old – now over, the essence of this painful episode remains.
On one side, dozens (hundreds?) of police officers dedicated to isolating an old man, 73 years old, naturally incapable of a physical outburst that would justify it.
A judge who rules that he can only stay an hour and a half in the cemetery, forcing him to remain seated alone in a hangar, waiting until the clock allows him to embrace his son and daughter-in-law who lost their child. The grief of Mrs. Carolina Lebbos is timed and petty.
Fanatics who, faced with the grief of a grandfather over the sudden death of his grandson, cannot contain their hatred and spout their rotten feelings on social media.
On the other hand, there is a person who, after decades of learning to cultivate tolerance, endures almost a year of solitary confinement, unjust and artificially fabricated, without developing feelings of revenge.
He walked, dignified and fearless, among the ranks of police officers and idle rifles that are not aimed at criminals, but at ordinary people who love their country.
No incident, no provocation, just a lot of pain and outrage.
Lula shows, day after day, that he harbors no hatred (even though it is harbored towards him), that he does not break the law (even though it is used to wrong him), and that he does not attack (even though he is being attacked in this moment of pain).
Lula has made ridiculous, in the eyes of everyone – except those whose eyes are filled with insane fury – the restrictions and the warlike apparatus that is being assembled to contain a man with a free spirit.
More than that. Without saying it, he makes evident the fear one has of him, even alone, silent, and overwhelmed by the pain of death.
They know that, even if they make him die in prison, Lula is destined to live on in history, while they, in their rotten and miserable power, are garbage to it.
Scenes like today's, however, bring history down to earth, expose those who are truly rats as rats, and show that those who are great will never be defeated by those who are insignificant.
Lula is in jail, you idiots, but you are far more imprisoned than he is, because you are shackled to your insignificant and degraded humanity.