Fiúza: Santiago's killer was "nice Brazil"

247 - The person responsible for the death of Band cameraman Santiago Andrade during a demonstration in Rio was "nice Brazil," or "this Brazil varnished with kindness and plagued by hypocrisy," states journalist Guilherme Fiúza in an article in the newspaper O Globo. According to him, who calls last year's protests a "civic carnival," "barbarity has never been treated with so much affection."

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The kindness of murderers

The supposedly good Brazil murdered cameraman Santiago Andrade. No one else was the criminal. It was this Brazil, varnished with goodness and riddled with hypocrisy, that killed Santiago. No masked, feeble-minded individual could have killed Santiago without the complicity of this monster.

The cursed legacy of the "Foolish Spring" has been exhaustively pointed out in this space. The well-meaning and the demagogues—today practically indistinguishable—continued to hammer away that politicians needed to heed "the message from the streets." A lie. There was no message at all. There isn't a single usable message from that civic carnival, where exuberant crowds marched against everything and nothing—in the most pathetic waste of political opportunity in the era of the Empire of the Oppressed.

Of course, this imaginary heroism of the marches couldn't end well. Any bunch of lost souls blocking a street could be applauded by the traffic-jammed society. "Sorry for the inconvenience, we're changing Brazil," said the video game revolutionaries. Changing Brazil to where? To Afghanistan?

Nobody asked. And nature doesn't forgive: where there is no light, there is darkness. Quickly, the sacralized space of the headless revolution was taken over by obscurantism. And Brazil began to kill Santiago Andrade when it allowed itself to hesitate about what to do in the face of the masked buffoons and their medieval tantrums. Or rather: the kindest and most compassionate part of this Brazil didn't hesitate. It created a movement for the liberation of those detained in the riots, black blocs, and associated idiots.

Well-meaning congressmen, intellectuals of goodwill, and savvy artists shouted—loudly—for the freedom of those imprisoned in demonstrations. There is no more lethal weapon than kindness pregnant with ignorance and moral weakness. And the commanders of public security, intoxicated by the populist wave, began to declare that "the police are not prepared for this new type of demonstration." A mockery. Barbarity has never been treated with such affection.

So, what do you do with criminals who go out into the streets destroying public and private property, besieging citizens and attacking their physical integrity? You arrest them. Then you prosecute them, judge them, and convict them. With the laws that are in place, with the judicial and police apparatus that is in place, without a second of idle talk about new times and new brutality. This progressive Brazil that killed Santiago allowed itself to hesitate in the face of the affront to the rule of law. It confused attack with protest, and decided (although it will never confess this) to relativize violence. Murderer.

The criminals who blew the cameraman's skull off were easily identified and are in jail. But they and their fellow terrorists grew tired of carrying out equally lethal acts, extensively filmed and photographed—and were able to calmly return to Facebook and plan their next escapade. This is because civilized society has decided it doesn't know how to combat "this new type of manifestation." The mother of the man who shot Santiago, terrified, didn't know she had a criminal in her house. Brazil hid this from her.

Those who dared to investigate the computers of the masked cowards, even managing to arrest some of the orchestrators of this cancer, were bombarded by progressives on social media. And so Brazil went on to debate whether or not it can condemn the ideological thugs, leaving mothers without decent news about who their murderous children were.

Brazil, explain this now to Santiago's children.

No, nobody is going to explain anything. Theories are already raining down about what terrorism is, what black bloc is, what reforms should be proposed to the National Congress (it's laughable). Soon the irrevocable Mercadante will propose a "popular plebiscite," and the country will calmly return to its murderous lethargy. Speaking of murder, MST diplomats left ten police officers seriously injured in Brasília. Brazil is waiting for one of them to die to be horrified.

And what happened to the aggressors? They were then received by Dilma Rousseff at the palace for an hour-long chat about agrarian reform. What are you waiting for to grab your club and go after what is yours?

But hurry, because what's yours is being devoured quickly by the people's friends—those whom the "Dumb Spring" didn't see. Santiago died covering a supposed protest against bus fare increases, and not a single ninja revolutionary was seen directing their revolt against the popular government's inflation factory. And Dilma can go to the PT's anniversary to support the imprisoned Mensalão figures—no problem, without even a single street hero to boo her on the way out.

Santiago was unlucky. The lucky one in his country is Delúbio Soares, who raises R$ 1 million in a week online—tax-free and free from masked cowards.