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.
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| 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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
In Daniel Lopez, there is no independence
from Carvalho. In fact, all the other “independent media” are not independent
from Carvalho.
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.”
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.
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| 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.
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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