Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Tax-Funded CPAC Brazil, Brazil’s Largest “Conservative” Event, Criticizes… Tax-Funded Socialists


Tax-Funded CPAC Brazil, Brazil’s Largest “Conservative” Event, Criticizes… Tax-Funded Socialists

By Julio Severo
Defending the minimum state, Eduardo Bolsonaro presented CPAC Brazil, which he said it was the biggest conservative event in Brazil. Although the idea of “minimum state” means “less taxes” and fewer government people spending tax money, what was seen at CPAC was “conservatives” criticizing tax-funded socialists at an event that cost the Brazilian taxpayers US$ 275,000.
Eduardo Bolsonaro introducing Olavo de Carvalho at CPAC Brazil
CPAC stands for Conservative Political Action Conference. CPAC Brazil, which happened on October 11-12, 2019 in São Paulo, was the first ever event of this kind in Brazil.
Although the event was designed for 2,000 people, according to its organizers the conference had about 1,200 participants.
For socialists, it is very easy to use the state machine for their power projects. Now, in the right-wing version, Eduardo Bolsonaro used the state machine for his personal power project.
Instead of promoting their causes with their own money, socialists always use the money of others, preferably taxes. Not unlike that, “Prince” Eduardo promoted CPAC in Brazil not with money from his own pocket, but with tax money. If this is not right-wing socialism, then what is it?
However, the problem is not just taxes being used to fund what Eduardo Bolsonaro called Brazil’s biggest conservative event. As stated on the event website itself, the CPAC Brazil conference was officially held by the Indigo Foundation, which has already advocated the legalization of the medical and recreational use of marijuana.
“The legalization of possession, distribution and sale of marijuana for medical and recreational purposes could solve several Brazilian public problems, such as prison overcrowding, the existence of complex and very profitable trafficking schemes, reduction of crime rates and reduction of deaths caused by trafficking and overdose by the use of more toxic substances,” argued Indigo Foundation, which sponsored CPAC Brazil.
Because Eduardo Bolsonaro and his allies did not want, according to conservative values, to fund CPAC Brazil with their own money, the Indigo Foundation was used to fund the event with tax money.
This is not the first time Eduardo has held a tax-funded “conservative” event using the Indigo Foundation. In July 2018 he attempted to hold the Conservative Summit of the Americas, which was eventually held on December.
It is obvious that with so much tax money used in a “conservative” event, what was exalted was not conservatism. The exaltation was given to Eduardo Bolsonaro, who is the son of President Jair Bolsonaro. The second most exalted man was Olavo de Carvalho, a Bolsonaro advisor who for his long history as an occultist and astrologer is considered “Bolsonaro’s Rasputin.”
The Conservative Summit of the Americas, which glorified Carvalho, cost the Brazilian tax-payers US$ 125,000.
Under Brazilian law, funding events with tax money is not illegal. But from a conservative point of view, its not correct. It is even immoral.
“He paved the way for Bolsonaro to come,” said the president’s son about Carvalho’s glorification at CPAC. In March 2019 Eduardo was reprimanded by televangelist Silas Malafaia for dismissing evangelicals to credit Bolsonaro’s victory to Carvalho. Malafaia, who is the greatest conservative evangelical voice in Brazil today, was not invited to the CPAC conference, although he led millions of evangelicals to vote for Bolsonaro.
The only major international news service that wrote a report on the CPAC conference was the BBC, but only in its Portuguese edition. Its English edition ignored the event. In fact, although the U.S. has thousands of conservative websites, none have so far written about the CPAC event in Brazil.
The BBC showed a big screen at CPAC where Carvalho was exalted. The truth is that the president’s son can say and do anything he wants, from extolling a Rasputin to channeling taxes to hold a “conservative” event.
This is not the first time the BBC has addressed Carvalho. In 2017, when no conservative U.S. channel wrote about Carvalho taking part in a debate with a Brazilian socialist at Harvard University, the BBC was the only big news outlet to interview Carvalho, who said he supports the socialist idea of “minimum income,” where the state grants a minimum wage for each citizen. This seemingly generous salary would come entirely from tax money.
In a very real sense, Carvalho is not far from Satan, not only for his poorly explained occult connections, but also for being the greatest advocate of Inquisition revisionism in Brazil. Carvalho’s opinion is that American evangelicals are liars for supporting the “lie” that the Inquisition tortured and killed Jews and Protestants.
Because it is the largest Protestant nation in the world and it is the nation that most protected Jews in the world, the United States has also become the country that fought the Inquisition the most. Although Carvalho does not hide his disgust at the role of American evangelicals in helping Jews fight the Inquisition, he prefers to live in the U.S., an inconsistent behavior not unlike Brazilian socialists who criticize American capitalism and evangelicalism but prefer to live in the US.
Carvalho also said that evangelical churches did more harm to Brazil than the entire left did.
However, defending the Inquisition is not their only problem. Allan dos Santos, who was extolled by Eduardo Bolsonaro and Mercedes Schlapp as official representative of the “conservative press” in Brazil, is an adherent of Carvalho who was unmasked by journalist Felipe Moura Brazil in his report in Crusoé magazine “Os Blogueiros de Crachá” (Accredited Bloggers) about bloggers who support Carvalho and Bolsonaro and receive financial favors.
Moura Brasil’s report shows how Allan dos Santos and even Felipe G. Martins, the president’s special international adviser, allegedly act in conspiracies to overthrow ministers who are not aligned with Carvalho. One of the overthrown ministers was General Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, who allegedly objected diversion of his ministry’s tax money to fund Carvalho and his groups.
Thanks to the action of these militant groups, there is no real freedom in the Bolsonaro administration. All ministers who tried to criticize Olavo de Carvalho’s harmful influence on the government were fired. So if people say in the future that Carvalho was a person respected by everyone in the Bolsonaro administration because all the ministers praised him, it’s because no one had a choice.
How not to praise Carvalho? He received from Bolsonaro the highest award from the Brazilian government, a clear signal, according to the words of a Bolsonaro’s party leader, that Bolsonaro is in love with Carvalho. It is also a sign that Carvalho cannot be criticized in government.
Fortunately, I am not in government and can criticize Carvalho with Christian responsibility. When Carvalho advised President Bolsonaro to appoint Ricardo Velez as Minister of Education, I reported that Velez supported Hillary Clinton and did not like Trump. When Velez fell, Carvalho advised Bolsonaro to choose Abraham Weintraub, exposed by me as a socialist rightist.
In Brazil, it is not the leftist mainstream media that criticizes Carvalho for his defense of the Inquisition. In fact, the left does not seem to care that he defends such past atrocities. His biggest critic on this subject is me. Because of my criticism, Carvalho, using and abusing his influence in government, has already appealed to the Federal Police to investigate me, as if it were a crime to criticize him for the Inquisition and his occult involvement.
Although evangelicals were the main supporters for Bolsonaro in the Brazilian presidential election of 2018, there are very few evangelicals in senior government positions. These evangelicals are also not free to criticize Carvalho.
In an exclusive interview with HuffPost Brazil, Eduardo Bolsonaro scoffed at the denunciation of journalist Moura Brasil, saying that there is “a deliberate persecution of anyone who does not align with the conduct desired by the left.” (His interview was inconsistent, because if he does not like the left, why did he accept to be interviewed by left-wing HuffPost?)
For the simple fact that the journalist denounced witch hunt in Carvalho’s service, he was labeled a leftist. It is an unjust accusation.
Felipe Moura Brazil is the editor of a best-selling book by Carvalho and the author of a video against socialism with over 7 million views in the United States. The video (https://youtu.be/bKhR9i5CGkA),) entitled “How Socialism Ruined My Country,” was shared by Dennis Prager, a well-known anti-Marxist Jew.
There is no Brazilian anti-Maxist video more famous in the U.S. than Moura Brasil’s video.
If criticizing occult influences in the Bolsonaro administration makes you vulnerable to being labeled a “leftist,” Eduardo Bolsonaro will soon use this charge against me, although I have anti-Marxist militancy long before him. During the Lula administration in 2006, I criticized his homosexualist campaign. One of the biggest exposés published in the U.S. against the Lula administration was written by me in 2006.
While in 1999 Jair Bolsonaro was supporting Hugo Chávez and his Venezuelan socialism, I was fighting socialism and the gay agenda. I am the author of the book “O Movimento Homossexual” (The Homosexual Movement), originally published by the Brazilian branch of Bethany House Publishers in 1998. This was the first Brazilian book against the homosexual agenda.
Because of my Christian conservatism, I am even criticized by the U.S. left.
So who participated in CPAC Brazil, where the most exalted men were Eduardo Bolsonaro and Olavo de Carvalho?
The American speakers were:
Matt Schlapp
Mercedez Schlapp
James M. Roberts
Christine S. Wilson
Charles R. Gerow
Senator Mike Lee
Kassy Dillon
Since they do not understand Portuguese, the Americans were unable to understand that instead of being with representatives of Brazilian conservatism, they were actually seeing representatives of the Olavo de Carvalho movement who, not surprisingly, were the Brazilian speakers, including:
Minister Ernesto Araújo, an open fan of Olavo de Carvalho, René Guénon and Julius Evola. Islamic occultist René Guénon, much recommended by Carvalho for decades, had as his main disciple Evola, whose books advocating a right-wing occult inspired Italian fascism and Nazism.
Abraham Weintraub, the education minister who promised to create more day care centers in Brazil than previous socialist administrations in a campaign of right-wing socialism. His ministry also launched a campaign using astrology and the Brazilian public attributed this nonsense to Carvalho’s influence on his life.
Bernardo Kuster, a former evangelical who converted to Carvalho’s esoteric political cult. Today he defends the idea that the Inquisition was a court of mercy.
Ana Campagnolo, an “evangelical” fan of Carvalho. She became famous for battling Marxism in the classroom, and was equally famous for indoctrinating students into making star charts (astrology) without their parents’ consent and knowledge.
Damares Alves, a Pentecostal minister, also spoke. Her subject was pro-family issues. She is not a Carvalho disciple but she is also not free to criticize him and some homosexualist items of Bolsonaro administration’s agenda. In fact, she has been ordered to implement such items.
CPAC Brazil also had a round table with Carvalho’s supporters — Filipe G. Martins, Rafael Nogueira, Flavio Morgenstein and Taiguara Fernandes — to discuss his importance.
In addition, there was a round table with “independent media” — a term that Eduardo uses to mean the media that extols Carvalho. In “independent media” Eduardo included Conexão Política, Visão Macro, Daniel Lopez, Terça Livre (of Allan dos Santos) and Crítica Nacional.
As president’s son, Eduardo Bolsonaro can include or exclude who he wants. He has privileges guaranteed by his father and plenty of tax money to do what he wants. The fact that he used tax money to hold CPAC Brazil shows the power of the “prince,” a term used by Major Olimpio, leader of the Bolsonaro’s party in the Brazilian Senate. He said President Bolsonaro’s children have “princes’ craze” and cause problems for their father.
The latest prince craze was for him to want to be Brazil’s ambassador to the U.S.
Daniel Lopez, who is considered an evangelical pastor and attended CPAC as “independent media,” has fallen into Carvalho’s loquacity and today promotes books openly against the evangelical faith, including books sanitizing the Inquisition. One of these books is entitled “Inquisition, a court of mercy.”
In Daniel Lopez, there is no independence from Carvalho. In fact, all the other “independent media” are not independent from Carvalho.
The hallmark of Carvalho’s supposedly rightist movement is the intransigent defense of the Inquisition. I say supposedly rightist because Carvalho himself refuses the title of right-winger and conservative. Another hallmark of this movement is Carvalho’s personality cult.
Allan dos Santos, from Terça Livre, was the main “independent journalist” exalted by Eduardo. According to UOL’s exposé, Allan has already benefited from tax money for his personal expenses. What is missing in Brazil is an “independent journalist” whose pocket is independent from tax money.
I don’t know if Matt Schlapp, Mercedez Schlapp, James M. Roberts, Christine S. Wilson, Charles R. Gerow, Senator Mike Lee and Kassy Dillon would attend CPAC Brazil if they really knew who Olavo de Carvalho is, and I don’t even know if they agree that CPAC Brazil was only used and abused to glorify Eduardo Bolsonaro, Carvalho and their supporters.
However, apparently they had the idea that the leader of the conservative movement in Brazil is “prince” Eduardo Bolsonaro. Walid Phares, CPAC’s U.S. speaker, said Eduardo is “leading a rising conservative national movement.”
I don’t know if the American organizers of CPAC are innocent and did not deserve to be duped. Last year their U.S. event banned a conservative pro-family evangelical group and hosted a homosexual group. In addition, CPAC has already featured a prominent conservative homosexual speaker, who eventually humiliated CPAC after engaging in a public pedophilia scandal.
Attempting to unite homosexuality with conservatism is something a real conservative Christian would never do or accept. But a money-driven opportunist does and accepts anything.
At CPAC Brazil, Eduardo Bolsonaro proudly posed with the rainbow flag, showing that he believes there is homosexual conservatism.
Eduardo Bolsonaro and the gay flag
If there are “conservatives” with socialist attitudes (spending US$ 275,000 of tax money to hold a “conservative” event like the CPAC), why not gay “conservatives” as well?
Nevertheless, U.S. businessman Sean Fieler displayed at CPAC Brazil in sequence the flags of the Soviet Union, Cuba and the gay movement, equating them as forms of totalitarianism.
 “It’s the most dangerous movement in the U.S. today,” he said. It is such a destructive movement that it is already infiltrating conservative groups and parties, including CPAC itself.
The Brazilian lesson that will remain with CPAC for a long time is that CPAC Americans are highly vulnerable. They preach minimal state, less taxes and denounce tax-funded socialists. But at the earliest opportunity, they accept to attend a highly tax-funded event.
President Jair Bolsonaro did not attend the event, perhaps as a dissatisfaction with Trump’s refusal to include Brazil in the OECD in 2019, after Bolsonaro showered him with several signs of good will.
At this point, CPAC organizers may be wondering if the Brazilian swamp, which is full of problems on the left, has no problems on the right. Whether it wanted to or not, CAPC eventually legitimized the extremist pro-Inquisition right that threatens true Christian conservatism. It also legitimized Carvalho’s personality cult, who spares no effort to glorify himself, even at the expense of true conservatism.
It legitimized a misrepresentation of the Brazilian conservatism.
As for Eduardo Bolsonaro, CPAC was a great toy for the “prince.”
With information from CPAC Brasil, BBC, HuffPost Brasil, O Antagonista, Notícias Yahoo, Congresso em Foco, Gazeta do Povo, Notícias UOL and El País.
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