Brazzil

i am a canadian, educated and in a caring profession and i have spent a few months in sao paulo and belo horizonte, brazil. i know little about the brazilian justice system for criminals however, i do feel that something has to be done to clean up society of humans who build their lives on crime, killing, and raping.

in canada, criminals like karla homolka waste tax payers money and show others with similar tendencies that they can and do exist among us and are given far too generously: healthcare, education, food, and rights that way surpass their capacities for empathies toward other humans who they have killed, or just ruined.

old people who show tendencies for cruelty and abuse are kept with other vulnerable, sweet and kind people and can kill in the nursing homes they reside in together and no screening apparently exists.

children of even 11 years of age begin a life of crime and police can't do much about it. they just grow up and get other vulnerable kids involved, do more serious crimes and become more destructive to themselves and to society. prison guards can't swear or hurt them so they act out and continue to have their rights along with their caustic attitudes. canadians are quite naiive. with the growing influx of immigrants from other war and terror struck countries, i think the conflict will keep on growing.

i do believe that some humans, even if only a very few, are in fact nasty animals who will persist and even gain more fury from their experiences with others like them.

it seems brazilians are more able to see that and give them the treatment they deserve, leaving a warning to any other person NOT to do that!

Wake up and smell the coffee Canada!

"i know little about the brazilian justice system for criminals"
Indeed, you should have just ended your worthless, unfounded, uninformed commentary right there. I will not even justify your disicable comments with a blow by blow response, other than to say I am terrified that people like you, you who hold yourself above others you readily label as animals when you know nothing of their suffering or social situation. You are part of the problem. If people are forced to live in conditions not even tolerated for most animals, you are damn right they will begin to act like animals, and worse. We need social policy and social reform to hold ALL members of society accountable for their conduct, including a corrupt and inhumane Brazilian juvenile criminal justice system that routinely produces monsters. These criminals do not fall out of the sky, they are created by a society that has relegated them to the status of parasite, and they act accordingly. In a country where 8 and 9 year olds can be found in favelas toting pistols and hand grenades with no sign of positive productive law enforcement, what the hell do you expect? Pleasantville? Be part of the change you want to see in the world, and dont assume society holds no responsibility over the monsters it routinely creates through horrific living conditions and a criminal justice system that treats troubled populations as pests to be exterminated. Remember the street children massacres by the Brazilian police in 93? What effect do you think that had on the orhphaned babies and children who witnessed that atrocity? There are many senseless killings /abuses/people selling (arrested gang members are routinely sold by Brazilian police to enemy gangs) by law enforcement/military officials that happen routinely in the outskirts of Brazilian cities, where society's invisibles are forced to live like animals, no education, no literacy, no healthcare, no social support, no police protection (quite the opposite), right from birth; and don't think people and the Brazilian government don't know about it. Widespread crime is not a disease, it is a social problem that reflects the concerns and conditions of the dominant societal forces.

someone has to be very stupid so as to consider torture as a method to get something good. The only thing you will have is more violence. Tomorrow you can be arrested and if they decide that you deserve torture, you will be the one then. Think, you need it.
Andrew from Uruguay

Violence is a method as the war. US sent military team to kill Sadan Hussen, Osama Bin Laden, and other terrorists. US also takes Vietnam, Camboja, as pictures of terrorism. Guantamo, the land of prison of wars, also uses violence to remove information from enemies. I would like see the effect of a flower given to terrorists.
Using another example: UK. They shut first and ask before. So, to understand a situation or classify it as torture you must, first, think what the reason for that. A "bad boy" with a gun pointing to your head is not a film. It may be real. If you talk to this "bad boy" he said: "Please, I will kill you because I love flowers". One being that kills another without reason is not a man. He is the worst of animals, because he thinks, knows exactly what he is doing, and he is doing what he want. This kind of human can not be asked with flowers or kisses. Nobody is arrested without a reason and only because he is "suspected".
A citizen is not arrested because he is walking to take a train, but he "may be" arrested if he kills, stolen, drive at high speed and using drugs. And if a police man ask you about anything that he see and had the proof then it is better you be smart and do not lie.
This is what a man with fifty years old, with 2 scared of bullets shutted by gangsters, after a "carismatic meeting" while walking the street. I see the gun at my head and I did not die because someone calls the police and an ambulance.

I don't think it is uncommon for political prisoners to be tortured. It goes on around the world. I would like to pay tribute to the military torturers of brazil in the 1970's. It was remarkable how extensive your program was and how good you were at exploiting the prisoners sexuality in the torture session, using it against him. excellent work