Bricklayer: “Task Force” admits Lula’s accusation was a political response.

By Fernando Brito, from brick - This so-called "Task Force"—I don't know why these military expressions always remind me of the famous "Fourth Fleet"—released a statement explaining, from their perspective, the reasons for denouncing former President Lula once again. In terms of facts, there's nothing new; it's the same story about the building that was supposed to be—and never was—the Lula Institute, and the highly relevant rental of an apartment next to the one where he lives, in the stunning... Saint Bernard du Champs.

But there is a final section (it's here, at the very end of the UOL articleThat would be hilarious, if it weren't for the situation of threats to freedom and the law in Brazil, something that is making one want to cry.

"This complaint reaffirms the commitment of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office to fulfilling its constitutional and legal duties, regardless of attempts to intimidate the accused and their lawyers, abuses of the right to defense in disrespect of the Judiciary, and abuse of the power to legislate used in blatant revenge against the Institutions."

So Lula and his lawyers are threatening or intimidating the prosecutors and Judge Moro?

Are they being taken somewhere under coercive measures?

Did they record his phone calls, including personal ones, to see if Dr. Moro, in private, uses the occasional swear word, so they could show it on Globo?

They are entering your homes, rummaging through your closets and seizing any trinket that can be displayed in triumph, a pedal boat, a tin dinghy, a Corinthians shirt?

Are the lawyers, or Lula himself, perhaps snooping through the bank accounts, records, and paperwork of the prosecutors and the judge?

But the worst part is the end, where it talks about "the abuse of legislative power used in blatant revenge against the Institutions."

See how everything is twisted: laws against abuse of power become "abuse of the power to legislate".

By twisting things like that, imagine what they do in investigations?

But even without that, one has to ask: Are Lula and his lawyers legislating, and where are they abusing their power?

No, it is the "Task Force" that is engaging in politics when it assumes that the accusation "reaffirms the commitment" to the positions that it is, in fact, trying to turn into laws. It acknowledges the link between its official actions and its political interests.

In fact, it was [a problem] and now it is again, after Minister Luiz Fux took – according to the unimpeachable Gilmar Mendes – something that was put in the water.

Since I don't believe the guys from the "Task Force" are drinking "spiked" water, what comes out of their lips and pens is a different liquid: it's poison.

I just don't know if it works with a jararaca snake.