Coffee Break: The Moro-Temer duo to "end Lava Jato"

By Miguel do Rosário, from Coffee

The title is ironic because I think all this shouting about "ending Lava Jato" is very crazy.

Operation Lava Jato has become personalized. It has turned into an individual, with political opinions and a bad temper. Frequently, it behaves like a helpless damsel, kidnapped by the villains of the Senate and the government.

"Ah, they want to end Lava Jato!"

Even left-wing parliamentarians are moved, forgetting that the maiden, at an earlier moment, was the very dragon serving as a bodyguard for the impeachment and, soon after, for the demolition of the State. Then they join the chorus of the audience monkeys, also wanting to take a slice of the Lava Jato approval among this sector of society that Hannah Arendt very aptly called the "rabble," and which we have been calling here, more recently, media zombies.

"Temer wants to end Lava Jato!", shout the PT parliamentarians, thinking themselves very shrewd.

Left-wing activists, who are also very clever, say that the coup was carried out to "end Lava Jato".

The right-wing activists, currently going through a rather cunning phase, smile and remain silent: they have never hidden their most ardent desire, which is for Lava Jato to arrest Lula. The rest doesn't interest them.

The obsession with imprisoning Lula isn't just about removing him from the 2018 elections. There's a bigger, older goal at play: to bury the dream of freedom and democracy that Lula represents.

This was the case with Oliver Cromwell, the "people's king," whom the British elites hated so much that they ordered his body to be exhumed, decapitated, and thrown to the vultures, in order to forever humiliate all those who dared to believe in him.

In his testimony to Sergio Moro, Eduardo Cunha accused President Michel Temer. Moro rushed furiously to the president's defense. He wrote a text of more than 100 pages, in which he does not disguise his indignation at Cunha's attempt to make "insinuations" against the president.

It's touching.

Does Sergio Moro also want to "end Lava Jato"?

Well, it's natural. He's tired. He wants to arrest Lula once and for all and go live in the United States with his wife. Who can condemn him for that? Brazil is in chaos! Moro himself admitted, in a lecture at Columbia (sponsored by a Brazilian businessman), that Lava Jato produced instability, but that, in the future, it will help the country become more competitive. He didn't explain how the destruction of industries and the medievalization of criminal procedures can make a country more "competitive".

Prosecutor Carlos Lima, one of the coordinators of Lava Jato at the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office in Curitiba, said he was relieved by Alexandre de Moraes' opinion in defending imprisonment after a second instance ruling, one of the many bizarre legal measures approved by the Supreme Federal Court to appease... Lava Jato.

Lima's statement was an endorsement from Lava Jato for the nomination of Alexandre de Moraes. Fine, they can nominate Alexandre de Moraes to the Supreme Court.

The National Council of Attorneys General (CNPG), one of the numerous coup-plotting Freemasons within the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, released a statement two days ago also supporting Moraes' nomination to the Supreme Federal Court.

The Brazilian Association of Magistrates, which has been working intensely in favor of the coup, also released a statement supporting Moraes at the Supreme Court.

The National Association of Members of the Public Prosecutor's Office (CONAMP), another Masonic organization, also wants Moraes as the reviewer of Lava Jato in the Supreme Court.

In other words, all those who supported Lava Jato, including prosecutors from the operation itself, support Moraes in the Supreme Court, even knowing that the minister is affiliated with the PSDB party, a loyal henchman of President Temer who is going there with the mission of... "ending Lava Jato"?

What a mess!

This proves a theory of mine, which seems rather obvious to me: in reality, the one who wants to "end Lava Jato" is Lava Jato itself. To subsidize the coup, it had to gather an enormous amount of material, almost all of it in a brutal and illegal manner, spying even on the defendants' lawyers, torturing executives, and bankrupting large strategic companies. With this material, it could do whatever it wanted: arrest, indict, and threaten whomever it deemed convenient for the political agenda of the moment.

For example, it's very good for the coup that Governor Pezão is down and out, impeached, with one foot in jail. A few years ago, it would never have occurred to Pezão to privatize Cedae. Today, what can he do? If he wanted to please the majority of the population and public servants, and stood firm against the crime of selling the state-owned water and sewage company of Rio de Janeiro, one of the best and most efficient in the country, Lava Jato, with the support of Globo, of course, would take care of removing him from the race, leading him to spend some time in Bangu III prison.

Alexandre de Moraes' mission at the Supreme Court is clearly not to "end Lava Jato." He would never be so ungrateful to the operation that brought Michel Temer, Jucá, Moreira Franco, and Sarney, the PSDB party, back to the core of power.

Moraes simply wants to give it the finishing touch, which is to remove the embarrassment from the prosecutors in Curitiba of indicting or requesting more violent measures against the PSDB.

One might ask: isn't that precisely what "ending Lava Jato" means?

The maiden smiles mischievously, already a little tired of her fragile role, and perhaps irritated by the number of idiots who keep repeating that cliché about "ending Lava Jato".

She knows very well what's going on. It's a double-deal. Alexandre de Moraes "controls" Lava Jato in the Supreme Court, and Sergio Moro "controls" it in Curitiba. The focus is on the PT, Lula is arrested, and that's the end of it.

The game carries a series of tensions and risks. There are many powerful figures from the coup itself who could be sacrificed, as was Eduardo Cunha, and as Renan may be in the future, and who could blow the whistle. It's a calculated risk, because some of them could disrupt the narrative. We cannot risk waking people up and making them realize they have become fuel for the Matrix: millions of people trapped in cocoons, like in the movie, dreaming of the "end of corruption," while the system uses their human energy to transform the country into a devastated, lifeless, hopeless, joyless landscape. No! That cannot happen! People need to remain trapped in the Matrix.

In case of extreme necessity, Lava Jato could even arrest an Aécio. Or drop a few more bombshells against Serra. But that would be so embarrassing! Fortunately, the latest developments, especially the appointment of Moraes to the Supreme Court, have already made it clear that the country is heading towards a major "deal".

Moro's almost servile docility towards former president FHC, during his testimony in defense of Lula, shows that the PSDB, in general, no longer faces great risks in Lava Jato.

Ufa!

The same Lava Jato operation that pretends to be innocent is, in reality, a very clever young woman who has learned to manipulate a government that, she knows and is proud of, was put there by herself, through her calculated machinations. A leak here, another there, an arrest here, a headline there, all according to a very well-thought-out political agenda. The left puts 200 people on Paulista Avenue against the coup? Lava Jato then makes a spectacular arrest the very next day, preferably against the PT (Workers' Party), so that the press is "forced" to ignore the demonstration and give headlines to Sergio Moro's latest heroic diatribes...

It's very useful to terrify the government. It's the only way, let's be frank!, to keep it "in line," that is, promoting the plundering of public assets and the dismantling of the State at record speed. This is, after all, a purely instrumental government that has no interest in being re-elected. Nizan Guanaes, a São Paulo advertising executive, summarized the thinking of the coup-plotting elite during a meeting between the president and businessmen: "Mr. President, popularity is a prison! Take advantage of your unpopularity and implement the right reforms."

That's an interesting way of thinking. Why bother with public opinion? Didn't the population vote for the candidate Temer conspired against? So don't trust the population, Mr. President! To hell with the people! Trust only us, the big business owners. We voted for the PSDB and we know what's good for Brazil. If the unemployment, GDP, education, technological development, and infrastructure figures don't confirm our competence, that's not our problem!

Meanwhile, Lava Jato looks in the mirror, smiles like a Mona Lisa, and prepares for another trip to New York. It knows that no one will "finish" it off, because it has already taken control of the entire judiciary. The judge from Rio de Janeiro who sentenced Admiral Oto, a pioneer of Brazilian nuclear energy, to more than 40 years in prison, was not Sergio Moro. It was another, a clone of Moro, a man who, they say, was even a legal, democratic judge before, but who underwent the same alchemical transformation that we observe in almost all the ministers of the Supreme Court. There is no judge or prosecutor in the Brazil of the coup with the courage to confront the overwhelming fascist wave that has taken hold.

At one of the anti-coup events, held at Fundição Progresso in Rio, theater director Amir Haddad compared this wave to a powerful virus that infects people. From one day to the next, a person begins to behave completely differently. They become violent, reactionary, a tool of the media. A humanist judge starts handing down 40-year criminal sentences, even if the defendant, as is the case with Admiral Oto, is an octogenarian.

The country is living through a profoundly turbulent and authoritarian period, where de facto power has been transferred to the judiciary and Globo (a major Brazilian media conglomerate). This causes great instability because – with regard to the judiciary – it creates enormous anarchy, as we saw in the attempt by judges to prevent Moreira Franco from taking office. The tragic death of Teori (very timely, it's always important to emphasize) and the nomination of Moraes to the Supreme Court signal a reaction from the government to bring order to the dictatorship. It's fine for Brazil to become a dictatorship of judges, but then let it be a dictatorship with order and hierarchy!

The Supreme Federal Court (STF) is in charge, and it, in turn, obeys Globo, which is an arm of American imperialism in Brazil.

When all this becomes clear, then we will return to balance, to order (albeit without progress).

The greatest challenge, naturally, will be keeping the people under control, through repression, fear, manipulation of the news, and judicial processes.

The constant presence of the army on the streets, the intensification of police repression against popular demonstrations, the blasé attitude of the Espírito Santo state government towards the chaos in the state, the covers of weekly magazines that continue to target the PT (Workers' Party), the exaggerated sentences of more than 40 years in prison against Cabral and Eike, obviously to force them to denounce Lula, Dilma, the PT, etc., all this proves that the coup is going very well, thank you.