Anonymous Rio protests against anti-terrorism law.
A group published a manifesto on Facebook repudiating the proposed criminalization of terrorism, signed by various entities and social movements; "Beware, rulers, it is dangerous to create a people who have nothing to lose. Your schemes and 'maneuvers' are useless," wrote Anonymous.
Rio 247 – The Anonymous Rio group has been disseminating, on social media, a manifesto repudiating the proposals to classify terrorism as a crime, which are being discussed in Congress after the death of TV Bandeirantes cameraman Santiago Andrade, who was hit by a firework during a demonstration. "Beware, rulers, it's dangerous to create a people who have nothing to lose. Your schemes and 'maneuvers' are useless," says Anonymous in one of its posts. Facebook.
The document, signed by a long list of entities and popular movements and published in September of last year, states that "a proposal that criminalizes Terrorism will further increase the already much-lauded segregationist Penal State, which functions, in practice, as a mechanism for containing democratic social struggles and selectively eliminating a class of the Brazilian population."
Another excerpt suggests that, given that the demonstrations are carried out for ideological and political reasons, it is clear that Senator Romero Jucá's Bill, for example, which defines terrorism as the act of "provoking or instilling widespread terror or panic by offending life, physical integrity or health, or depriving a person of their liberty, for ideological, religious, political reasons, or due to racial or ethnic prejudice," will be used, if approved, "by conservative sectors against legitimate demonstrations."