Brazzil

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"A State which insists that "everything is under control" even as the number of deaths increases and the violence in the streets does not abate, is in extreme denial, and cannot be trusted by its constituents."

But brazilians live in denial! Nothing is ever their fault, I'm sure you knew that already.

"A State that does not invest in its schools in the poorer neighborhoods, does not invest in more jobs and training for jobs, does not invest in health care for the uninsured, is perpetrating institutional violence at a level of which the full impact is totally immeasurable.

A State which sentences a reporter to 19 years in prison for the cold blooded murder of his ex-girlfriend, but allows him to stay home while he awaits the result of his appeal (which will take a minimum of one year to resolve), while it sentences hundreds and hundreds of people to prison because they have shoplifted, will never have credibility or authority in front of its population."

For a long time Brazil has been in a state of civil war and it is disgusting to see how the politicians turn a blind eye to the situation.

Even more disgusting is to know that the guys that are in power now (some of them were political prisioners under the military dictatorship) are the guys that trained the PCC and the likes (CV in Rio de Janeiro) in guerilla warfare.

It is simply disgusting what has, is and will happen in Brazil. I spoke to several of my friends yesterday in Brazil to find out how things are going and in a typical calm brazilian manner, the answer was, everything is cool and we are waiting for the World Cup! Boy, I do not know what has to take place to awaken this sleeping giant i.e. Brazil.

They'll never wake up until it's too late.

...that innocent citizens killed and murdered annually by the police force are never counted with the same precision as the policemen who were killed during the SP crisis.

Looks like than 1 policeman death is worth 10 or 20 innocents killed by the policemen !

Strange also that so few remember how Lula and Brazilians were so angry during the London bombing and the Jean Charles tragedy.
But Lula and No Brazilian care that much for far more innocents killed by the police during the SP chaos !

This simply demonstrate how unfair you are constantly !
You expect justice elswhere, but are just unable and unwilling to provide the same justice in your own country.

And as the Keen Observer says : who cares....you are waiting the World Cup. And the politicians are saying who cares...it is shortly election time. They have far more important things to do such as.....filling their Caïxa 2, 3, 4 and 5. And filling one way or the other with Government or Government agencies or government controlled corporations. that is where is the Big Money available to them ! But...it is your money....not theirs !
No citizen really care either.

A forum member said : nothing will ever change.
He is dead right ! Why should something change when there is no risk to go in jail....whatever politicians do illegally ???????

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"Strange also that so few remember how Lula and Brazilians were so angry during the London bombing and the Jean Charles tragedy.
But Lula and No Brazilian care that much for far more innocents killed by the police during the SP chaos ! "

Ohhh, remember it well. There were protests in brasilia in front of the english embassy, a high ranking brazilian gov't. official went to london and demanded compensation for the family in the amount of more than 1 million dollars. Where is the compensation for the innocents murdered by the sao paulo death squads?

Where are the rallies in the streets?

Where is the indignation displayed in the media for months about the murder of one innocent brazilian in another country, but nothing for the numerous that the brazilian police murdered right here in brazil?

Brazil, unfortunately, is not a country of laws, it's not a country of justice, never has been, and unfortunately, the way things look now, may never be.

There was a riot today in the federal building in brasilia, numerous people rioted in the very building where the senators and congressmen hold session...and from just watching the news, the senators are infuriated, as well they should be, but shouldn't they be more infuriated about a criminal gang controlling its largest city and economic anchor? Shouldn't they be more infuriated about the innocent people murdered by the police in sao paulo, rather than a group of 20 breaking some chairs in the federal building?

Until these problems of income distribution, distribution of land, a minimum wage that is a disgrace and one of the lowest, if not the lowest on this planet, until these problems become much less severe, these problems of riots are only going to get worse....not better.

As a Brazilian I have to admit that our government, media and people acted very hypocritically.

I am of the Brazilian posters here to defend a massive public demonstration against this situation. I did my part; I sent a letter to the government, although I know that fell on deaf ears.

I believe that the British people have the right to complain.

not only the british people, but all foreigners that have been killed by the police here in brazil throughout the years, and ESPECIALLY brazilians!

Americans even have the right to complain, after the childish act of reciprocity in identifying americans entering the country? Was there a reason for this other than "reciprocity"?

If not, then the U.S. should have a "tit for tat" policy in regards to brazil. We should tax brazilian imports, ALL brazilian imports, the same rate american imports are taxed here, and naturally they are not, matter of fact 15% of brazilian imports are not taxed at all.

The brazilian gov't. only sees things one way, and that's things in their favor and benefit, which in all fairness, that's what most all, if not all, governments do. But, the people of a country are another story. Where is the reaction, and only an equal reaction to that of jean charles, for the innocent brazilians murdered?

It's ok when it happens in brazil by brazilians, but god forbid it happen accidentally in another country.

by the way, there are justifications of what happened to jean charles, he lived in the same building as some of the actual terrorists. It was a mistake, a terrible mistake. What excuse do the sao paulo police have? Do you think they simply made a mistake, or were they out to kill anything and everything that moved in revenge for their colleagues?

Does one not think the sao paulo police weren't "profiling" when they went out on their witch hunt?

For the guys out there that can read Portuguese.

Por trás da subversão
Olavo de Carvalho
Diário do Comércio, 5 de junho de 2006

Um amigo envia-me o seguinte lembrete: “No dia 30 passado a polícia de São Paulo prendeu a peruana Juliana Custódio, envolvida na morte de um bombeiro durante aqueles dias. A TV Bandeirantes deu destaque para o caso. A Globo deu uma nota e esqueceu o assunto. Acontece que ontem um juiz entrevistado pela Band disse o seguinte: em dez anos estará formada no Brasil a maior rede terrorista jamais vista nas Américas. Eu, particularmente, acho que a ‘Coisa’ estará formada antes mas ela é inevitável. A peruana é apontada como elo de ligação entre as FARC e o PCC.”
Enquanto isso, o sr. Lula continua atribuindo a onda de violência em São Paulo à (aliás inexistente) falta de vagas para as crianças nas escolas. É um cínico e um cara-de-pau como jamais se viu.

during those 8 days, there were slightly over 400+ people that were received by the morgues in the state of sao paulo that died from unnatural causes.

If you want to break the back of organized crime, you have to have the death penalty for crime bosses.

Yeah, I know you peole don't like that, because you don't care about the hundreds of people that these crime bosses sentence to death each year!

Hypocrites!

Brazilian girls have nice butts.