Lula must go to the streets and prevent the coup by Joaquim and Gurgel.

I affirm and reaffirm again in this space: if former President Lula and the PT do not prepare to go on the offensive, the Brazilian right wing, which lost three presidential elections to the Workers' Party, will tie the hands and feet of the main PT politicians, as if they were cattle in a rodeo or bullfight. The intentions of Mr. Joaquim Barbosa and Mr. Roberto Gurgel, president of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) and Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), respectively, regarding attempts to investigate Lula, are clear and audible.

The purpose of this action is not merely to investigate the former president to prove or disprove his involvement in the mensalão scandal, but, above all, it has the political aim of involving his name in this process and, consequently, discrediting and undermining him in the eyes of the Brazilian nation, which elected him twice, as well as voting for his candidate and current president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff.

The Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) and the Attorney General's Office (PGR) have for some time been the main interlocutors of the powerful Brazilian right wing, and they treat the political process of this country as if it were a third-class segment of society. But it is not. It is a mistake and petulance, shamelessness and arrogance for robed men to arrogate to themselves the right to be above the political and electoral choice of the Brazilian people.

The judicialization of the political process and the criminalization of politicians without conclusive evidence, as occurred in the Mensalão scandal (the PT's case, of course), is an affront to the Constitution and the democratic rule of law. I even believe that Brazilian society, at first, may not realize what is happening with the first politicians from the left who have actually taken over the central government.

I'll go even further. When the Brazilian working people realize what they want to do with the most popular president in Brazilian history, as well as being the country's leading politician and the most internationally known, the streets will be filled with people, the workers who transformed and enriched this country, and who voted twice for Lula to be president of the Republic.

Time is short, and for this reason the PT and its allies, such as the PCdoB, the thousands of unions and their federations and confederations in the countryside and the city, the progressive wings of the Catholic Church, the MST, secondary and university students, the numerous workers' associations and cooperatives, housewives, retirees, small and medium-sized urban and rural entrepreneurs, and the poor communities of the peripheries and hills that were, in one way or another, benefited, respected, and considered by the labor government.

The people must take to the streets to stop the arrogance, the haughtiness, the perversity, and even the incoherence and senselessness of public figures without votes, paid monthly with taxpayer money, who have decided to transform the Supreme Court and the Attorney General's Office into tools and instruments of intimidation and political persecution against those who, for three elections, have defeated a reactionary, violent, selfish, colonized, provincial right wing, possessing an immeasurable and indescribable inferiority complex, and unquestionably being heirs to slavery.

The accusations against Lula are mere suppositions, but Mr. Gurgel and some members of the Supreme Federal Court, led by the constable Judge Joaquim Barbosa, who usually has relapses into the ways of Tomás de Torquemada, continue their political escapades and clearly align themselves with the political interests of the PSDB and its smaller DEM and PPS parties, as well as always having on their side the spokespeople of a market-driven press that is openly opposed to the labor party that has been governing Brazil for ten years, with the acquiescence and vote of the Brazilian people. It's never too late to remind them.

Marcos Valério, the agent also involved in the PSDB's mensalão scandal who, it seems, will never be seriously investigated and judged by the conservative judges of the Supreme Court, negotiated with Attorney General Roberto Gurgel because what interests him is reducing his 40-year sentence. Gurgel wants Lula, as well as the right-wing judges of a court that has transformed itself into a conservative party.

The right-wing parties, businesses, media, and judiciary are betting on destroying Lula's image because they know very well that the labor politician is the biggest vote-getter in Brazil, while the PSDB vote-getter known as Fernando Henrique Cardoso—the Neoliberal—doesn't have the strength and influence to elect the superintendent of the building where he lives.

There is no evidence against former President Lula. Gurgel's Attorney General's Office knows this, and that is why, according to the press, the institution met with four Supreme Court justices, led by Mr. Joaquim Barbosa. According to conservative media with a historically coup-supporting character, the meeting was to formulate strategies on how to get to Lula, then accuse him, prosecute him, judge him, and perhaps imprison him.

Lula must be included in the Mensalão scandal, which for me is the biggest lie, now and immediately. This way, there will be time for him to be deconstructed, sacrificed, and morally flogged until the presidential elections that will take place in October 2014. The big lies of José Dirceu and Genoíno were the fuel used by the right-wing cannon in the 2012 elections. But they, even with the support of the private business press, lost the election even in São Paulo.

The right wing, which has never given anything to the Brazilian people, only taken from them and exploited them for 500 years, wants to silence Lula. To them, the lathe operator from the Northeast is audacious and daring, and he dared to step onto the carpets of the Presidential Palace and sit in the chair of the Presidency of the Republic.

The establishment and its instruments of political action embedded in the Brazilian state, such as the Attorney General's Office and the Supreme Federal Court, do not want the distribution of income, wealth, or the emancipation of the Brazilian people. Behind this perverse mechanism lies money, the struggle for money, in ever-increasing amounts, with the aim of enriching the rich, the very rich, and those who occupy the top of the social pyramid in international terms.

These excessively wealthy and patrimonialistic people don't want to lose anything, and that's why they even fight against minimum income programs like Bolsa Família. They are the sharks of the planet, financing coups and counter-coups, whose main objective is to maintain the status quo of the privileged and therefore wealthy classes, who dominate power through violence, intimidation, empty accusations, and the moral deconstruction of those who think differently and put their thoughts, purposes, and ideology into practice.

Lula will not remain silent in his home listening to malicious, often unjust, accusations and insinuations, and taking the finger pointed at him. He will take to the streets because it is not healthy to remedy or equivocate regarding the facts and realities presented. The right wing is coup-plotting. Period. For the right wing, ethics is nothing more than a piece of rhetoric. And those who generally believe, in bad faith or not, in this Greek charade are, as always, the middle class of a conservative nature and resentful and bitter soul. Not because they hate the poor so much. But, above all, because the middle class knows, deep down in their hearts, that they will never be rich, despite embracing the values ​​of the consumerist bourgeoisie with superficial principles.

The suggestion is that Lula should go out into the streets and reactivate the Caravans of Citizenship. The struggle for survival is the fundamental principle of human existence. That's who we are, and we fight for what we believe in. I don't believe in the Supreme Court or the Attorney General's Office. However, I don't advocate for a coup because I am a man who believes in democracy, institutional legality, and the Constitution. In turn, believing in these principles doesn't make me a coward, much less a pusillanimous person, when it comes to accepting that the right wing promotes coups, manipulates news and realities, and makes truth an instrument of its interests. Lula has to go to the streets! That's it.