These recent events in Brazil make me happy. No, I do not speak of the minority of assholes that broke everything. I speak of those thousands of people who took to the streets to peacefully protest against the direction in which the country is going. These directions concern me a lot! They seem silly things, since most people do not make the connection between the attitudes and the government proposals and only look at them as isolated facts. Let's consider some, shall we?
- Decrease the power of the press and banning journalists to be heard,
- Revoke the right of a woman raped to make her abortion in a legal way and give the right of paternity to the rapist,
- Remove the investigative power of the prosecution (PEC 37)
- Allow Congress to have control over the actions of the Supreme Court (PEC 33)
- Repealing laws that protect personal freedom (see the "gay cure")
- Criminalize demonstrations during the Confederations Cup and the World Cup 2014 as terrorist acts,
- Lack of real political opposition to the government,
- Minimize the demonstrations as if they were only about he increase of public transport fares in order to underestimate the dissatisfaction of the Brazilian people,
- The disrespect of politicians when commenting on the protests and dissatisfaction of the people knowing that they are protected behind the shield of corruption and power (eg Alderman Pastor Henry Braga - BH, President Dilma Rousseff to say that "the voices of the street must be heard" but not doing anything other than commenting),
- Etc ... etc ... etc ...
All these reasons analyzed alone are already enough to make anyone angry. But if we analyze all together one can see that the path that is drawing in Brazil is a veiled dictatorship.
If the government wants to take away the power of prosecutors, claims to have actions over the Supreme Court, the law imposing censorship of opinion, the violent reaction of the police against the demonstrators (peaceful demonstrations, by the way) , restrictions to the rights of citizens; these are nothing more than attitudes of authoritarian and dictatorial governments. So begins slowly, do not need a blow like that of 1964, just give money and other kind of populism to all the poor population to keep them satisfied "without having anything to complain about." This way earning up well, a big slice of the population. As for the middle class, to trivialize its importance for the country's economy. The government ignores the demonstrations in the streets, the written petitions (see the petition against Renan Calheiros), anything that shows the dissatisfaction of the people with what happens.
What kind of democracy is that the people is not heard? That does not respect and even mocks its claims?
Continue on the street, Brazil. At some point the politicians will realize that they can not survive if the people are not silent and things will start to change. Let's not a new kind of dictatorship be estabilished again. Let's allow a dictatorship masquerading as democracy to take over a country that can grow and flourish.
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| Let's hope that this new movement achieves political conquests as the other two. |
