{"id":297,"date":"2015-07-10T16:35:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T19:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2016-06-26T20:44:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T23:44:56","slug":"the-1988-constitution-and-the-far-rights-rise-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/10\/the-1988-constitution-and-the-far-rights-rise-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1988 Constitution and the far right&#8217;s rise in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/lang\/pt\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\",\"email\",\"print\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"pt_BR\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"blogdootavio\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"The%201988%20Constitution%20and%20the%20far%20right%27s%20rise%20in%20Brazil\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pedro was going to the Bakery, when a young man holding a clipboard, approached him and said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Hello, Sir, How are you? Would you like participate on a poll? \u2014 asked the young man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 About what? \u2014 answered Pedro.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Your political opinions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 I could. How is it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 I will state some quotes and tell your opinion and me if you agree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 All right. You may begin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 What\u2019s your name?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Pedro dos Santos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Mister Santos, let&#8217;s begin. Brazil must has as fundamental objectives:\u00a0 to build a free, just and solidary society; to guarantee national development; to eradicate poverty and substandard living conditions and to reduce social and regional inequalities; to promote the well-being of all, without prejudice as to origin, race, sex, color, age and any other forms of discrimination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Honestly, that is not a good start. It sounds like what a pothead human sciences student would say. And reducing regional inequalities? Enough with carrying the Northeast on our backs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Ok, Sir. Next one then: Brazil must has as its foundation the dignity of the human person and shall be governed by the prevalence of human rights in its international relations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Humans rights and dignity only for those who have dignity at the first place; not the case of criminals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Wrote it down. Another one: Brazil shall seek the economic, political, social and cultural integration of the peoples of Latin America, viewing the formation of a Latin-American\u00a0community of nations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 God forbid! This is Bolivarianism. They want to dominate Latin America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Got it. This one now: men and women must have equal rights and duties and it must exist a prohibition of any difference in wages, in the performance of duties and in hiring criteria because of sex, age, color or marital status.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 I think it is mostly fair. However, there are things that cannot be the same. Women get pregnant, you know? How can I criticize an employer who pays less to a newly wed woman? What if she gets knocked up? The boss will pay the price? Unfair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 I see&#8230;. No one no one shall be submitted to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Hard working people cannot be tortured. But thugs? Those punks must be tortured. If you are a straight up man, no one will torture you. Has that ever happen to you by any chance? Am I right or not?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 I cannot comment, Sir. Freedom of conscience and of belief must be inviolable, the free exercise of religious cults be and the protection of places of worship and their rites guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 I agree, of course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 All religions, Sir?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Yes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 What about Camdombl\u00e9?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Oh, no, because Candomb\u00e9 is not a religion, but a cult. It is not from God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Next: no one shall be deprived of any rights because of political conviction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Look, all right. However, those who defend humans right, they exaggerate. Something should be done about them. Perhaps even some jail time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Ok. Someone\u2019s home must be his inviolable refuge, and no one may enter therein without the consent of the dweller, except in the event of flagrante delicto or disaster, or to give help, or, during the day, by court order;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Yes, I don\u2019t want anyone entering my home<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014\u00a0Do you defend that in all cases?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Of course, why not?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 What about cases like the \u201cfavelas\u201d occupations in Rio? Do you think police should enter (to look for criminals, drugs and weapons) homes even without a court order?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 That is diferente. That\u2019s war. How will the police tell who are criminals or not? They must enter every home indeed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Next: property shall observe its social function and rural properties, which are not performing it, should be expropriated for agrarian reform purposes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 I disagree. Sounds like commie talk. The property is mine and I can use it as I please.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 The practice of racism must be considered a non-bailable crime, with no limitation, subject to the penalty of confinement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Racism is terrible indeed. But people overreact. There is not much here in Brazil, prejudice is more of a social thing, the person\u2019s financial status is more important.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Ok. Next: there shall be no punishment of death, life imprisonment, banishment or that which is cruel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 No way! What about the victim? Good criminals are dead criminals. If not killing, then make them do forced labor and stay in jail until they die.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Still on this subject: it must be ensured to prisoners respect to their physical and moral integrity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Again? Do prisoners even have morals? \u00a0They must suffer in the jail. It should not be Disneyland in there. Will you ever finish this? I am in a hurry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Just a few more, Sir. I appreciate your patience. Next one. The following are social rights: education; health; food; work; housing; leisure; security; social security; protection of motherhood and childhood; and assistance to the destitute are social rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014\u00a0People should have most of those things indeed, but that sounds a little exaggerated. Government should not be anyone\u2019s nanny. I don\u2019t want them to take my money away to give as handouts to bums.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Next: all those over 16 years old (including the illiterate) should have the right to vote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 In my opinion, those who receive food stamps should not have the right to vote or at least have the decency to give it up. Same for the illiterate. I don\u2019t think is fair that their vote are worth the same as mine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014\u00a0I got it. One more: State should ensure, with absolute priority, rights to children and adolescents, and to obey the principles of brevity, exceptionality and respect to the peculiar conditions of the developing person, when applying any measures that restrain freedom;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 You must be kidding me. Adolescents? If you feel sorry, adopt the teen criminal and take him home. Then you will even have the nerve to complain with people tie those punks on street poles. I hope you or and your family become victims of one of those thugs. You know what? I\u2019m tired! Enough!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 That\u2019s all right, Sir. However, I must say that there were still some quotes left about the environment, the prohibition of monopoly and oligopoly in media, worker\u2019s rights, the right to strake, among others. I would like also to inform you that those quotes were taken from our Constitution, all present since its original text.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Really? That\u2019s why Brazil only has gotten worse since then. I miss the military regime. You can write that down. I\u2019m not ashamed at all \u2014 Pedro, irritated, left, ending the interview.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>COMMENTARY:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Important to clarify that I censure and reject \u201cPedro\u2019s\u201d opinion from the text. Nevertheless, I do not commit the injustice of putting all the \u201cRight\u201d on that level of reasoning. I believe that a significant part of the right still don\u2019t agree with that kind of thinking and simply think that their ideology is the best for all Brazilians. I criticize here the views of the extreme-right that, unfortunately, has been gaining strength in Brazil. Of course, I must say that there are still in our country those with extreme left view (some even defend the North Korean regime), however, they do not have the reception on media sectors or among a considerable part of the population.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I wrote this small story, therefore, to oppose the extreme right wing view, so evil, intolerant and reactionary, that would reject most part of the constitutional text of 1988.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pedro\u2019s opinions might sound ludicrous or exaggerated, but, unfortunately, they are common among the thinking of several Brazilians and some famous people close to that line of reasoning have even spoken some of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having said that, I hope this post helps in some way people to ponder about this theme.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/lang\/pt\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\",\"email\",\"print\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"pt_BR\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"blogdootavio\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"The%201988%20Constitution%20and%20the%20far%20right%27s%20rise%20in%20Brazil\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/lang\/pt\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\",\"email\",\"print\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"pt_BR\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"blogdootavio\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"The%201988%20Constitution%20and%20the%20far%20right%27s%20rise%20in%20Brazil\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Pedro was going to the Bakery, when a young man holding a clipboard, approached him and said: \u2014 Hello, Sir, How are you? Would you like participate on a poll? \u2014 asked the young man. \u2014 About what? \u2014 answered Pedro. \u2014 Your political opinions. \u2014 I could. How is it? \u2014 I will state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/lang\/pt\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\",\"email\",\"print\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"pt_BR\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"blogdootavio\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"The%201988%20Constitution%20and%20the%20far%20right%27s%20rise%20in%20Brazil\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,61],"tags":[7,63,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}