What's he accused of? Something from 2 years ago? Why would he need to be under house arrest, just start the trial immediately you had forever to prepare. If you can't get the evidence in 2 years then maybe they didn't commit the crime or you should have a slam dunk obstruction of justice case.
vitorgrs · 1h ago
He trial is happening. There's a bunch of proofs. He likely will get convicted next month at worse.
SilverElfin · 5h ago
This is just continuing a disturbing trend of lawfare, censorship, and constitutional violations from Brazil’s top courts. Whether it is Trump doing it or Brazil’s courts, targeting political rivals this way is corrupt and can destabilize society.
Brazil is not a democratic society, it's a dictatorship of the judiciary. Not a single brazilian voted for these judge-kings who also legislate and execute.
That "attack" was directly caused by the "activism" of these judge-kings on the eve of the 2022 election. They engaged in blatantly unconstitutional political censorship and disproportionately targeted Bolsonaro and his supporters. Journalists and online influencers were forced to seek political asylum in other countries.
It wasn't enough to make a mockery out of our constitution, they also had to brag about it in public. They actually went to public events to showboat about their accomplishments. "We defeated Bolsonarism!" -- Barroso, an "impartial" supreme court judge-king.
henry2023 · 3h ago
Perhaps you forgot to answer the question.
matheusmoreira · 3h ago
There's no point in answering a question whose premises are invalid. The question was predicated on Bolsonaro being responsible for it. He wasn't.
He straight up tried to stop those people. There were lots of protests prior to that so called "attack". I saw him trying to call them all off. Numerous times. People protested anyway. Because they understood that Brazil was not a democracy.
He is a coward. He did literally nothing while the judge-kings were silencing his supporters with no due process. While people were going to jail in order to protect everything he came to represent, he was in the USA enjoying a vacation as if nothing was happening. He betrayed every single person who ever supported him from the very beginning.
And yet people are still assembling in the streets to protest the political unelected supreme court. Whatever Bolsonaro may or may not have started, it's bigger than him now. His current usefulness is limited to the fact Trump apparently likes him enough to sanction the brazilian despots who are persecuting him.
lesuorac · 2h ago
> Whatever Bolsonaro may or may not have started, it's bigger than him now.
I mean, it's a pretty big deal if he started it or not.
The part where the current president's former lawyer is one of the "impartial" judge-kings involved in the case.
"We defeated Bolsonarism!" -- Barroso, one of the judge-kings.
Is further proof necessary?
Daishiman · 2h ago
Yeah, you'll need more than that because the results of the investigations so far are pretty coherent with Bolsonaro's beliefs in democracy as well as all the people who surrounded him.
https://archive.ph/j5EBq
What's he accused of? Something from 2 years ago? Why would he need to be under house arrest, just start the trial immediately you had forever to prepare. If you can't get the evidence in 2 years then maybe they didn't commit the crime or you should have a slam dunk obstruction of justice case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_January_Bras%C3%ADlia_attack...
how should a democratic society respond?
That "attack" was directly caused by the "activism" of these judge-kings on the eve of the 2022 election. They engaged in blatantly unconstitutional political censorship and disproportionately targeted Bolsonaro and his supporters. Journalists and online influencers were forced to seek political asylum in other countries.
It wasn't enough to make a mockery out of our constitution, they also had to brag about it in public. They actually went to public events to showboat about their accomplishments. "We defeated Bolsonarism!" -- Barroso, an "impartial" supreme court judge-king.
He straight up tried to stop those people. There were lots of protests prior to that so called "attack". I saw him trying to call them all off. Numerous times. People protested anyway. Because they understood that Brazil was not a democracy.
He is a coward. He did literally nothing while the judge-kings were silencing his supporters with no due process. While people were going to jail in order to protect everything he came to represent, he was in the USA enjoying a vacation as if nothing was happening. He betrayed every single person who ever supported him from the very beginning.
And yet people are still assembling in the streets to protest the political unelected supreme court. Whatever Bolsonaro may or may not have started, it's bigger than him now. His current usefulness is limited to the fact Trump apparently likes him enough to sanction the brazilian despots who are persecuting him.
I mean, it's a pretty big deal if he started it or not.
Punish crimes or take the laws off the books.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230108201723/https://www.busin...
"We defeated Bolsonarism!" -- Barroso, one of the judge-kings.
Is further proof necessary?