Condemnation of Former Socialist President for Corruption in a Traditionally Corrupt Brazil
By Julio
Severo
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio
Lula da Silva has been condemned on corruption charges. His condemnation
carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
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| Lula |
There is a culture of corruption in Brazil
that is evident not only in politics, but also in people’s behavior. When a
truck capsizes in a crash, often the reaction of the local population is to
loot it.
Lula promised to bring into earth a
paradise of honesty in Brazil, but what he did was to capsize the Brazilian
State in a greater moral and ethical disaster. He eventually brought into a
spotlight his own corruption. He was condemned because he received millions of
illegal dollars for personal use.
He was the man whom former U.S. socialist
Barack Obama called “the
most popular politician on Earth.” He was featured in Time’s 2010 The 100
Most Influential People in the World.
Yet, his socialist politics threw Brazil
into a quagmire of moral and economic corruption. Not that Brazil had no
corruption before. Brazil was essentially colonized by criminals from Portugal,
which chastised the colonial Brazil with excruciating taxes, which continue an
excruciating chastisement on Brazil even today.
Lula’s
socialist politics, even though mocking U.S. imperialism (the conservative
aspects of America), accelerated the Brazilian cultural and legal importation
and assimilation of many left-wing items from the American culture, including
on abortion and the homosexual agenda. In fact, the Lula administration was one
of the strongest allies of the Obama administration at the United Nations on
the defense of abortion and the homosexual agenda.
In 2006 the late Calvinist theologian
Harold O. J. Brown invited me to write an extensive feature report in his The
Religion & Society Report. The report, titled “Behind the homosexual tsunami in
Brazil,” dealt with Lula
administration’s obsessive politics advocating the homosexual agenda. Brown
wanted my report to show to the conservative world the Lula that the mainstream
media did not show. I disclosed then to the American conservative public who
Lula actually was.
Besides, the Lula administration was
hostile to Israel. Such hostility is not new in Brazil, where the Catholic culture
traditionally does not sympathize with Israel. All the Catholic Latin America
does not sympathize with Israel. So it is no surprise the first Latin American
nation to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is a country that is trying
to leave Catholicism behind: Guatemala,
which has an evangelical president and whose population is 50 percent
Protestant (especially Pentecostal and charismatic).
Lula, who founded the Workers’ Party, with
the kind assistance of Catholic bishops, has seen his party shipwreck in
corruption. Several of the most prominent leaders of his party are in jail.
All of them deserve their fate. Socialism
and corruption are inseparable.
Yet, in the context of the Brazilian
culture, corruption, which exists long before socialism, is an epidemic problem
in the behavior of politicians and the people, probably also fueled by the
traditional heavy taxes and a Christian culture based on mostly nominal
Catholic values.
Corruption is rampant in Brazil.
The successor of Lula in the Brazilian
government was socialist Dilma Rousseff, a leading member of Workers’ Party.
Her administration (2010-2016) was plagued by corruption and she was impeached
in 2016.
Her impeachment
was made possible because Congressman Eduardo Cunha, a Pentecostal, fought
against her agenda and her corruption. While she was pro-abortion and
pro-homosexuality, he was pro-life and pro-family.
She fell. And next, he also fell, and
today he is jailed on minor corruption charges — which are vastly lesser than
the charges against Lula and Rousseff. Yet, he was arrested as soon as he was
accused, while Rousseff remains free, and Lula is not jailed, even though he
has been very tardily condemned by a court.
Even
Sergio Moro, the judge who has condemned Lula and Cunha, does not have escaped the
blemish of “corruption.” Brazilian judges who have no house or apartment
receive a housing aid from the government that, in Moro’s case, amounted to
thousands of dollars. The problem is: He had a house during all the years he
received the housing aid.
Lula
cannot accuse Moro of corruption because during his two terms as Brazil’s
president, he could have terminated the immoral house aid for judges, but he
did not so. Besides, Moro’s moral “corruption” pales in comparison to Lula’s
corruption.
Moro’s
case perfectly exemplifies the Brazilian quagmire: Corruption in the Brazilian
culture touches everybody and everything.
A perfectly honest judge would never
accept a housing aid when he already has a house.
A perfectly honest people would never
elect Lula.
Of course, as a Pentecostal, Eduardo Cunha
also knew that corruption is wrong. His activism as a congressman was so
fundamental for Rousseff’s impeachment and the promotion of pro-life values
that the Workers’ Party labeled him in 2015 as the most dangerous man in
Brazil! He was the only conservative leader mentioned nine times in a strategic
guide of Workers’ Party on how to fight right-wingers, while Jair Bolsonaro was
mentioned just one time.
Corruption is in the Brazilian DNA since
Brazil’s birth. Even evangelical politicians do not escape its tentacles. In
the traditional survival efforts to avoid excruciating taxes inherited from a
Portugal that exploited and abused Brazil, Brazilians continue perfecting their
survival efforts and the government continues exploiting and abusing Brazilians
through excruciating taxes.
Cunha
was quickly condemned because he had secret accounts in Swish banks — to
protect his money from excruciating taxes. There are no Brazilians who do not
want to be free from such oppressive taxes, which are also corruption. High
taxes are a powerful enemy of the Brazilian economy, of the Brazilian people
and free enterprise. Brazil is always in poor economic condition because of
high taxes.
An American once asked me how to vote in
this context, as corruption is rampant. I answered that there is no option: Or
you elect a pro-abortion corrupt candidate or a pro-life corrupt candidate.
Corruption is in the DNA of the Brazilian
politics, culture, society and, above all, the excruciating taxes.
Lula and his socialist comrades fully
deserve their condemnations because they amplified the exploitation of an
exploitative political system inherited from Portugal 500 years ago.
Do Moro and Cunha deserve a condemnation? I
do not think so, because they just exemplify that corruption is so rampant in
the Brazilian history and culture that no one goes untouched. They should be
given an opportunity to correct themselves.
In comparison to Lula, whose corruption
involved millions of dollars and sank Brazil in greater corruptions that
deprived the Brazilian economy from billions of dollars, Moro and Cunha are
saints.
Brazil, the largest Catholic nation in the
world, colonized by criminals, needs to know the liberating power of the Gospel
of Jesus Christ to make Brazil free of spiritual and moral slavery among its
people and politicians. Without Jesus, there is no solution.
About 500 years ago, the first
Protestant service in the Americans was held — exactly in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
It was a privilege. But Catholics led by Jesuits and its machine of the
Inquisition were quick to torture and kill the first Protestant missionaries to
Brazil. They had been sent by Calvin.
About
400 years ago, the Netherlands formed its first Protestant colony in Northeast
Brazil. In this colony, Catholics, Protestants and Jews enjoyed the first
system of religious freedom in Brazil. But again Catholics, led by Jesuits and
its machine of the Inquisition, were quick to kill and expel the Dutch “heretics,”
and Brazil returned to its routine of corruption, excruciating taxes,
Inquisition, persecution of the Jews and no religious freedom. The surviving
Brazilian Jews, transported by the Dutch Protestants, headed to New York, where
they established a flourishing Jewish community and the first robust financial
system in New York.
Brazilian Catholics, oppressed by the
Catholic Portugal, could have given these Jews and the Dutch Protestants
freedom, and they would have established in Brazil, not New York, their
financial system. The opportunity the Catholic Brazil rejected, the Protestant
America welcomed and was blessed. Northeast is today one of the most cursed and
poorest regions in Brazil.
Brazil could have become what America
became: powerful. But Catholic corruption hindered Brazil from prospering.
In the Dutch Protestant colony in
Northeast Brazil, the Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil,
erected in 1636, was the first synagogue built in the Americas, which was
eventually closed, because the Brazilian Jews had to flee to New York to save
their lives from the Jesuits and their Inquisition.
Even today, historians recognize that the
most important progress Brazil had in culture, architecture, religious freedom
and non-persecution of the Jews was during the Protestant Dutch administration
in Northeast Brazil.
All that is left is a sad memory. Brazil
has today the Museum of the Inquisition to remind Brazilians of the horrors
Brazilian Jews suffered from Jesuits, and Pernambuco, a state in Northeast
Brazil, has a Memorial
Day of Jewish Victims of the Inquisition.
The
Gospel brings transformation, but Brazil preferred corruption, excruciating
taxes, Inquisition, persecution of the Jews and no religious freedom.
Who can say that Brazil does not deserve
what it is suffering?
Corrupt Lula is a result of the Brazilian
DNA.
Moro’s opportunism comes also from this
DNA.
In
fact, Jair Bolsonaro, who is today a candidate for the Brazilian presidency
representing right-wingers, said
years ago: “I evade all taxes that I can.” He said that he did it for survival and
also because politicians use taxes for corruption, and he advised the public to
evade too. Cunha seems to have followed his advice.
My worry about Bolsonaro is not tax
evasion, but the Inquisition and its horrible marks against the Jews in the
Brazilian history. Bolsonaro has praised a revisionist of the Inquisition. This
is very worrying because there is an
increasing Brazilian movement of pro-Inquisition right-wing Catholics.
In the past, Bolsonaro praised Lula
as an honest politician!
While
Lula and Rousseff are not jailed for his big crimes, Cunha is. It seems that Cunha’s
real “crime” — opposition to abortion and the homosexual agenda in a corrupt
and politically correct Brazilian culture and be the number 1 enemy of Brazilian
left-wingers — was worse than all Lula’s socialist crimes.
Portuguese version of this article: Condenação
do ex-presidente Lula por corrupção num Brasil tradicionalmente corrupto
Source:
Last Days Watchman
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