Brazzil

What could we expect from Veja??? It walks hand in hand with Globo.
It licks George Bush's scrotum, praising the Bush Doctrone of preventive attacks even if violating international law, is deliberately pro Israel and anti-palestinian, it hates Lula and Chavez...
I am not at all surprised. Why do most brazilians still bother to read this crap?

It amazes me that a reader can take comments on a subject and link it with other issues that are clearly above his level of understanding. The issue of legality in Iraq's invasion is a complex and involved one. The issue regarding the USA's policy in the Middle East just as complex and with very deep roots. This writer is clearly unprepared to discuss either issue as clearly suggested by his pathetic description of Veja and Globo's attitude toward the Bush administration.

In 1996, Australia experienced the worlds largest mass murder by a single auomatic weapon at a small town called Port Arthur in Tasmania; 33 people were killed in 2 minutes of shooting in a restuarant by one person.
Tough gun laws were introduced within months ( the politicians were almost unanimous in support on this occasion), a wepeans amnesty was conducted, and millions of guns were confiscated or handed in.
9 years on, homicide rates from guns have dropped 30% since 1996.
John

Veja went to great lengths to prove itself unreliable, to say the least.

I have kown that for a fact for such a long time, I don't even bother to see what's inside Veja anymore.

Veja = cheapest kind of journalism

I commend Veja magazine for the important work of information about the dangers of disarming the honest citizen in Brazil.

Before the legislative in Brazil enacted its gun-control legislation, figures from the city of Rio de Janeiro pointed towards an annual rate of 66 murders per 100 thousand people. Today, the rate of murders in this city has grown dramatically, to 205 per 100 thousand.

In the United States, the right to bear firearm is protected by the U.S. Constitution and figures from 2002 have shown merely 5,5 murders per 100 thousand people.

This number is 13 times lower than in Brazil, with 71,7 per 100 thousand.

In Britain, for example, burglary grew by 117% since the 1997 Firearms Act was enacted.(17)

In fact, the idea of disarming law-abiding citizens favour only outlaws and potentially despotic government. such as those that members of the Lula administration so much admire.

All tyrants, before they started killing millions, firstly disarmed the civilians.

To conclude, this idea of disarmament is very DANGEROUS, and may easily become a slippery road towards tyranny in Brazil.

If I am right right, and Brazilians vote for yes, then we will have the chance to see that I unfortunately was right in what I say.

I agree with the above poster. Veja is right. When it's our own safety that's in danger, forget about being unbiased. And I'm not just talking about criminals. I'm talking about the despotic government that we have in Brazil these days. They do whatever they can to have a totalitarian government, such as taking away the freedom of press and controlling statistics publication (I have no doubt, should they have passed the control over IBGE, they would manipulate statistics on this issue). In order to keep our press unbiased, this government must be thrown, and Veja is more than right regarding this subject.

For those of you who still insist in defending "unbiased press" I ask you: should we be unbiased towards Nazism and Hitler? Should we consider the german reasons to kill all those jews, without condeming it? Don't forget, they started all that by disarming the jews, in the first place. Think about that.

P.S.: It's time for a southern republic!!!

If you didn't think Veja readers are idiots, the two posers above should convince you.

For the journalists defending that Veja is manipulating, I'm sorry to disapoint you but... there is no such thing as unbiased press. The wonders of free press is that if you are not happy about the point of view of a determined newspaper or magazine, you are free to choose another. If you are not happy about Veja, then read O Globo. I'm sure you will find bias in the last newspaper too.

Outside Brazil, if you don't like the republican support that Fox News provides, then watch to CNN. Is CNN independent for you? Let's go to Britain now. Is BBS an example of independent press? A news network that requires every british citizen to pay the ridiculous TV License in order to have those ridiculous and uninteresting programs? And don't take it wrong, they are leftist biased. Just check that.

What Veja did was to make it too explicitily. But I support them and I say they have all reasons to do that. And we brazilians should not condemn them, but applause them instead, because it's a matter of survival for us now. Don't forget that Delubio Soares, in the middle of a billion dollar scandal accused Veja magazine to be trying to overthrow the government and stated that freedom of press should be abolished in this country. Don't forget that. It must clear for everyone here that this government is a threat to democracy and should be stopped immediately. And I also agree that brazilian press should not give any more voice to politicians who want to forbid citizens to things, for there are so many prohibited things here that running a business 100% legal has become an utopia here.

Indeed, Veja was absolutely biased. However, the points presented by the magazine were worth reading, logical and clear. Why so much hate for that? Unreliable? Cheap jornalism? In a country haunted by violence and bad politicians, being logical and rational is always positive. I believe It is still worth paying to read these intelligent biased arguments inside Veja.

"quando todas as armas forem propriedades do governo e
dos bandidos, estes decidirão de quem serão as outras
propriedades."
benjamin franklin [ 1706-1790 ]

No problem. Just call a spade a spade. Veja is a right-wing rag.

Shut up you all and vote 1, vote não!