According to Reinaldo, the PT violated the rights of wealthy prisoners.
A neoconservative blogger claims that the Workers' Party's commitment to prisoners' rights is recent; he states that three prominent prisoners in the recent past – Eliana Tranchesi, Celso Pitta, and Daniel Dantas – had their rights violated.
247 - Neoconservative columnist Reinaldo Azevedo, from Veja.com and Folha, claims that the PT (Workers' Party) only recently discovered the rights of prisoners. Below is his analysis:
Lying, conspiring, betraying
In a democracy, the PT's motto can be summarized as follows: 'To friends, everything, except the law; to enemies, nothing, not even the law.'
The Workers' Party (PT) neither invented nor inaugurated corruption in Brazil. But only this party dared, among us, to transform it into a category of thought and a theory of power. And that makes all the difference. The party is a follower of the moral relativism of the left. In a democracy, its motto can be summarized as follows: "For friends, everything, except the law; for enemies, nothing, not even the law." To have a future, one must have a memory.
Eliana Tranchesi was arrested in 2005 and 2009. In 2008, it was Celso Pitta's turn, surprised at home in his pajamas. Daniel Dantas, in the same year, was paraded in handcuffs. In all three cases, and there were many more, TV crews accompanied the federal agents. This partnership violated the rights of the accused. Who cared? Lula boasted: "Never before in the history of this country have so many people been arrested." It was the Federal Police in the rhythm of "The Rich Also Cry."
Even if they were ultimately convicted, which they weren't, the spectacle would have been illegal. Woe to anyone who dared to point out, as this writer did (the archives exist), the fascist-like circus! They would become the target of the fury of the "swordsmen of others' reputations," accused of defending the wealthy. Try to find a single PT (Workers' Party) intellectual—as if such a thing existed—who has written a single line against the excesses of the "repressive State." On the contrary! For example, a hellish fuss was made against the correct 11th Binding Precedent of the Supreme Federal Court, which regulated the use of handcuffs. "The right wing only wants to handcuff the poor!" they roared.
Until the time came for the trio of PT criminals to pay their debt to society in Papuda prison. Then everything changed. The persecutory glee gave way to humanist and celebratory rhetoric. They accuse Joaquim Barbosa of brutality and the sensationalism of the arrests, but they don't cite, because there isn't one, a single law that has been violated. Where is the code, the article, the paragraph, the clause, the sub-clause? Nothing comes.
This mentality has a history. In a text entitled "Their Morality and Ours," Trotsky explains why the Bolsheviks can, and should!, commit crimes, unacceptable only to their enemies. He imagines a "moralist" asking him if, in the struggle against the capitalists, all means are admissible, including "lying, conspiracy, betrayal, and murder."
And he replies: "Admissible and obligatory are all means, and only those, that unite the revolutionary proletariat, that fill its heart with an unwavering hostility to oppression, that teach it to despise official morality and its democratic heralds, that give it awareness of its mission and increase its courage and selflessness. From this it follows that not all means are admissible."
The text is from 1938. Two years later, a Stalinist agent infiltrated his entourage and struck him in the head with an ice axe. Sinisterly and ironically, like Robespierre, he had written the (im)moral justification for his own death. Look there. Conspiring, lying, betraying, killing... Anything goes to "fight oppression." Only infidelity to the cause is unacceptable. Indeed...
José Dirceu wants to work. The "private business consultant" doesn't need money. He needs a hotel. He could make a t-shirt: "It's not about the R$ 20!". Paulo de Abreu, who offered him, let's say, the job, won this week the right to transfer the antenna of his Top TV from Francisco Morato to Avenida Paulista, Júlia Borba reported this week. SheetThe government made the decision against the technical opinion of Anatel, with whom Abreu has a considerable dispute. What can one say? To paraphrase a famous saying, the PT members have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
For friends, anything but the law. For enemies, José Eduardo Cardozo and Cade. That's their moral compass.