Martin Niemöller, the anti-Nazi Lutheran minister who warned how Christians should speak out when people are persecuted. But how valid was his advice?

By Julio Severo

Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) was a German Lutheran theologian and minister who criticized Nazism and was imprisoned by Nazis in 1937. He is more known for his famous declaration:

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.”

By “they,” he meant Nazis, who came after socialists, trade unionists and Jews. All these groups were basically socialists in Germany. Trade unionists are mostly socialists, and one example is former Brazilian socialist president Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, who has a history as a trade unionist. And the Jewish preference for socialism has been a historical fact.

So what Niemöller meant was: Nazis were persecuting socialists.

What he meant is that many Germans did not care if Nazis were persecuting, imprisoning and killing socialists, trade unionists and Jews. But such indifference, as he pointed, would eventually bring persecution to Christians.

The Encyclopedia Britannica says about Niemöller:

“As founder and a leading member of the Bekennende Kirche [Confessing Church] within the larger Evangelical Church (Lutheran and Reformed) of Germany, Niemöller was influential in building opposition to Adolf Hitler's efforts to bring the German churches under control of the Nazis and the so-called German Christians. The resistance of the Confessing Church was openly declared and solidified at its Synod of Barmen in 1934. Niemöller continued to preach throughout Germany and in 1937 was arrested by Hitler’s secret police, the Gestapo. Eventually sent to the concentration camps at Sachsenhausen and then Dachau, he was moved in 1945 to the Tirol in Austria, where Allied forces freed him at the end of World War II. He helped rebuild the Evangelical Church in Germany.”

From his experience seeing Nazis persecuting, imprisoning and killing socialists, trade unionists and Jews, Niemöller understood that Christians could not be indifferent when such groups are persecuted.

Visitors stand in front of the quotation from Martin Niemöller that is on display in the Permanent Exhibition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

He is seen as a good Christian example. His name and especially his famous declaration “First they came…” stand permanently in the Holocaust Museum in the United States. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, his declaration was also said in stronger terms than socialists:

“First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a communist…”

So it is no wonder that Niemöller received in 1967the Lenin Peace Prize, the Soviet Union’s equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize. And from 1961 to 1968, he was president of the World Council of Churches, a socialist Protestant organization.

He was courageous for speaking out against Nazism, but because he saw the extremism of an anti-socialist and anti-communist political system, he fell into the polarization trap, and he chose the other extremism. Even so, his famous declaration “First they came…” is used today by left-wingers and right-wingers.

His declaration dispels confusion today among those who did not live in that time and try to see Nazism as a socialist movement. In fact, both Nazism and Italian fascism, which are identified by Jews as right-wing movements, received inspiration from a famous right-wing writer, Julius Evola, who was the guru of Benito Mussolini.

Francisco Franco, the dictator in Spain and one of the most prominent right-wing leaders in Europe in that time, received military assistance from Nazism in Germany. The Encyclopedia Britannica says that the main influence in his life was that he was “close to his mother, a pious and conservative upper middle-class Roman Catholic.”

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Franco, who followed the military career, was so intelligent that “In 1915 he became the youngest captain in the Spanish army” and “In May 1935 he was appointed chief of the Spanish army's general staff.”

The Encyclopedia Britannica also says Franco’s support was “derived mainly from the antileftist middle classes” and that he was “one of the world’s leading anticommunist statesmen.”

Modern right-wing readers just do not understand how Nazis militarily helped Franco and his anticommunism.

The problem with Nazism is that it was inspired by occultism, and Evola was also an occultist. And occultism always brings confusion.

One of these confusions was a very brief treaty between the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939. Even though this treaty lasted less than six months, often it is used as an “evidence” that both were two kinds of socialism. Yet, if such short-lived union to the Soviet Union is an evidence that Nazi Germany was socialist, what would the same critics say about the U.S.-Soviet alliance, which lasted from 1941 to 1945 during the World War 2, for much more time than the short Soviet-Nazi alliance did?

And because the Soviet Union fought against Nazism, the U.S. put the Soviet Union in the foundation of the United Nations. This is the polarization trap.

You fall into the polarization trap only when you do not understand that there were higher forces operating in Germany. These forces were occultist, with its many pitfalls of confusion.

Martin Niemöller was unable to understand the political and spiritual tensions of this trap and these pitfalls.

And today people do not care if Niemöller had embraced socialism. For them what matters is that he embraced anti-Nazism, which was an anti-socialist and anti-communist system, as Niemöller saw with his own eyes.

What did Niemöller miss that he did not understand that socialism was so destructive as Nazism? He lacked the anointing of the Holy Spirit and his supernatural gifts, which could have helped him see realities he was unable to see with his human eyes.

He embraced socialism because he saw the horror that socialists in Germany suffered from Nazis. But he never saw that socialists in the Soviet Union committed the same and bigger horrors.

So Niemöller’s famous declaration is spiritually wrong. Christians have no calling to defend communists and socialists. And they should be careful with groups using extreme anti-communism as a flag. Such flag was used in the past by groups, including Nazis and fascists, which got inspiration from Evola. The same flag is used today by groups with the same occult inspiration.

The calling of Christians is to preach the Gospel to communists, socialists, Nazis, right-wingers and left-wingers. Every sinner needs to hear the Gospel.

While you are busy with the preaching of the Gospel and are open to the Holy Spirit and his gifts, you will never fall into the polarization trap and occult pitfalls in this polarization.

Portuguese version of this article: Martin Niemöller, o pastor luterano anti-nazista que alertou como os cristãos precisam abrir a boca quando as pessoas são perseguidas. Mas até que ponto o conselho dele é válido?

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Mike Pompeo: Chinese Communism is “the Central Threat of Our Times”

By Julio Severo

U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo has rightly said that Chinese Communism is “the central threat of our times.” He had such conclusion after he saw that China is using capitalism to infiltrate the federal, state and local governments in the United States.

Pompeo said in a speech to the National Governors Association in Washington on February 8, 2020 that China is pursuing a policy of exploiting U.S. freedoms to “gain advantage over us at the federal level, the state level and the local level.” His language was strong: “The Chinese Communist Party presents the central threat of our times.”

His comments contrast with President Donald Trump’s more conciliatory language on China. On January, Trump called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “very, very good friend of mine” and said he planned to visit China in the not-too-distant future. He also visited China in 2017, in the first year of his administration. Trump also congratulated China’s communist revolution that killed millions of innocent Chinese.

To see a threat before its dangers are materialized is vision. To see a threat only after all its dangers are materialized is a lack of vision. Even though Pompeo’s assessment is correct, it fits the latter.

Not seeing the threat of Chinese communism, for decades administration after administration in the U.S., Democrats and Republicans, left-wingers and right-wingers, in a lesser or greater degree, gave China special commercial privileges, which helped thousands of U.S. companies to move to China, where labor is cheap.

The truth is that the U.S. used and abused Chinese labor for its own profits. In return, the Communist Party in China took advantage by profiting from these U.S. companies and Chinese labor to build the biggest communist army in the world. The U.S. government and its companies never cared about slave labor and persecution against Christians in China.

If the U.S. can use — and it really used — communist China for profit, why could not China use the U.S. capitalism for ideological profits?

Capitalism is not a moral tool. It can be a moral tool only if its handlers are moral people. There was a time in America, which is the largest Protestant and capitalist nation in the world, when capitalism and Protestant values walked hand in hand. Later, they divorced, and now the U.S. capitalism is at the mercy and whims of its materialistic, non-Protestant handlers, who do not care about the past marriage of capitalism and Protestantism in the U.S. history.

So, the U.S. handlers, without the original Protestant values, use and abuse capitalism any way they see fit. And China, with its communist values, also uses and abuses capitalism any way it sees fit. But the U.S. is not pleased with this.

Capitalism is sheer materialism. Conservative Protestantism is spiritual vision. Both the U.S. and China want capitalism, but no Protestantism leading capitalism.

For a lack of vision, in the 1970s the U.S. had the idea to turn China in a capitalist power to defeat the Soviet Union. The plan was successful: China actually became a capitalist power recognized by all. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, when visiting China in the 70th commemoration of its communist revolution, said, “I’m in a Capitalist Nation.”

China is a “Capitalist Nation Made in America” — made in an America that divorced capitalism from Protestantism.

The geopolitical plan of the U.S. was successful by turning China into a capitalist nation to defeat the Soviet Union. The problem is that the Soviet Union died in 1989, Russia has returned to its Christian Orthodox roots, and China has replaced the Soviet Union as “the central threat of our times.” That is, the U.S. plan in the end backfired miserably, because it had a materialist vision, but no Christian, no spiritual, no conservative Protestant vision.

China is not the first example of the U.S. funding communism. The birth of the Soviet Union was funded by American bankers, as discussed by Antony C. Sutton in his 1974 classical book “Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists.”

Later, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt greatly helped the Soviet war machine by giving military equipment and even food to the starving Soviet soldiers during the World War 2, according to General William T. Still in his book “New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies.” Roosevelt’s plan generously gave Eastern Europe and Eastern Germany to Stalin.

No one helped, equipped, funded and fed the Soviet Union more than the U.S. government and U.S. capitalists did.

These are not the first U.S. plans to fail for lacking spiritual vision and prioritizing materialistic goals. To defeat the Soviet Union, the CIA trained its Saudi agent Osama bin Laden in the 1970s and gave him billions of dollars to found and fund al-Qaida. In the end, the Soviet Union died, and al-Qaida and bin Laden became the central threat to the U.S. The U.S. plan backfired.

The U.S. invested heavily in al-Qaida and did not perceive that such investment would be counterproductive. In fact, the U.S. has massively, especially in military terms, invested in Saudi Arabia, and what have Americans received? Saudi terrorists becoming the authors of the largest terrorist attack on U.S. soil in 9/11.

In 2011, to fulfill the U.S. plan to oust the Syrian president, the U.S. government and Saudi Arabia funded and armed Syrian rebels and ISIS. Thousands and thousands of Christians were martyred. In the end, the U.S. had to fight ISIS because, again, the solution became worse than the alleged problem. The U.S. plan backfired.

Even though the U.S. has many military bases in the Middle East, the Christian communities being martyred by ISIS received no help from the U.S. military forces, which were too busy protecting Saudi Arabia and its interests.

In spite of the hard lessons the U.S. was supposed to have learned — the spiritual, Christian, conservative Protestant vision is more important than materialistic plans —, the U.S. insists on seeing Saudi Arabia today in the same way it saw China in the past.

Does it take a big vision to see that the U.S. is creating another threatening monster? The hard lesson not learned is that the U.S. will only see the threat when it is too late.

By now, the U.S. government should be asking itself: “Why have our political and military plans backfired for decades?” The U.S. Founders, who read and valued the Bible, would have some helpful answers. For example, they would say, “Why spend trillions of dollars to maintain over 800 U.S. military bases around the world if our own borders have decrepit protection?”

So instead of saying that the Chinese Communism is “the central threat of our times,” Mike Pompeo should have said, “The U.S. made the Chinese communism the central threat of our times.”

Instead of rewarding Saudi Arabia for “fighting Islamic terror,” Pompeo should forcefully address Saudi impunity.

There is a saying that the wise man learns from others’ wrongs. I have learned a lot from the current U.S. wrongs, even though I have learned many more positive lessons from the Protestant U.S. history.

The spiritual, Christian, conservative Protestant view that guided the U.S. Founders is hugely lacking in today’s U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Pompeo, who is an evangelical just as I am, should know it better than I do. He knows the Bible. In fact, on February 9, 2020 he tweeted a Bible verse on his personal Twitter account:

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” Deuteronomy 6:5

Yet, how good is this if the State Department, under his command, continues celebrating June as LGBTI Pride Month?

Is not this lack of vision? How can an evangelical love the Lord with all his heart, soul and strength and at the same time celebrate sodomy, which God calls abomination? God says in his Word:

“You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.” (Leviticus 18:22 ESV)

How can an evangelical with such mixed loyalties have a good vision to address political, geopolitical and military issues without the U.S. historical failures with the Soviet Union, China, Saudi Arabia, al-Qaida, ISIS and Osama bin Laden?

How can God bless a nation where even evangelicals in high government offices bless an abomination?

It is not only China that is exploiting U.S. freedoms to “gain advantage at the federal level, the state level and the local level.” Saudi Arabia has been doing it for decades for the sake of Islamic expansionism. The abortion industry has been doing it for decades profiting billions from the blood of unborn babies. The homosexual movement has been doing it for decades too in its aggressive predatory campaign against families and their children.

As an evangelical, Pompeo was supposed to have a larger vision for large problems.

The Chinese communism is the central threat of our times.

Legal abortion is the central threat of our times.

The homosexual agenda is the central threat of our times.

Islam is the central threat of our times.

To expose one threat and celebrate other two is not a Christian vision, for a normal Christian or a Christian in a high-profile government post.

With information from DailyMail and the Associated Press.

Portuguese version of this article: Mike Pompeo: O comunismo chinês é “a ameaça central dos nossos tempos”

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Billy Graham and The Forgotten Factor in the Overthrow of Soviet Communism

By Julio Severo

As an American tourist in the former Soviet Union, Billy Graham prayed in a Moscow empty stadium in 1959. He prayed for God to open the doors for the Gospel to be preached in that nation.

Billy Graham preaching in Moscow in 1992

The answer came decades later. Before and after the fall of the Soviet empire, Billy Graham had the unique opportunity to preach the Gospel to the Soviet people and leaders. Before the fall of the Soviet Union, critics interpreted his evangelistic trips to Moscow as an American being a naïve pawn in the hands of Soviet communists. What critics did not know was that before the trips, Graham took advise with his Republican conservative friends, including Ronald Reagan.

Billy Graham in a Moscow stadium in 1959

A Republican conservative president told him, “The message you have is more important than the criticism you will get.” Being criticized, Graham preached the Gospel in Moscow. He said that he knew that they would be using him, but that this was also an opportunity for him to use them to share the Gospel with them, including Soviet political and military leaders.

After the fall of the Soviet empire, Graham preached in a Moscow stadium to 50,000 Russians in 1992 and God’s action was so fantastic that the choir singing “The Battle Hymn of Republic” (Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! His truth is marching on) was the Red Army itself. Several red soldiers in the choir went forward to receive Christ after Graham gave the invitation.

Red Army soldiers singing Glory Hallelujah in a Billy Graham Crusade in Moscow in 1992

Left-wing historians rule out the Gospel as a factor in the overthrow of the Soviet Union. Yet, conservative historians are not immune to misrepresentations.

I have all the anticommunist books by Paul Kengor, a Catholic author who writes extensively about Soviet communism from the Catholic standpoint.

Even though Billy Graham visited Russia several times before and after the Soviet Union, and Pope John Paul II never visited Russia, Kengor singularly extolled the pope as the most prominent Christian to defeat Soviet communism.

This representation goes against what Kengor said in his book “A Pope and a President” where he quoted President Ronald Reagan as saying at the National Religious Broadcasters in the early 1980s: “The most awesome military machine in history [the USSR]… is no match for that one, single man, hero, strong yet tender, Prince of Peace.”

Billy Graham preaching to 50,000 people in Moscow in 1992

The proclamation of the Gospel was so a powerful factor to defeat communism that, as Kengor recognized in his book, “Reagan unleashed VOA literally to spread the Word.” VOA is the Voice of America, the official radio of the U.S. government. VOA was used by Reagan not to spread Catholicism, but the Word of God.

There is no greater force against communism than the Gospel. And no one in the West preached more the Gospel in the Soviet Union than Billy Graham did.

Yet, the Gospel is no once mentioned in Kengor’s book “The Crusader,” where he chronicles Reagan’s battle against Soviet communism. Billy Graham, whom Kengor recognizes as a close Reagan friend, is marginally mentioned in Kengor’s books. On the other hand, Pope John Paul II is extensively mentioned.

The only antidote against communism and socialism is not the right. There are right-wing groups, like the Moonies, who follow the false messiah Rev. Moon, which brainwash their followers.

The only antidote against communism and socialism is not Catholicism. Catholic Latin America is filled with socialism and communism, thanks to the Liberation Theology preached by Catholic leaders. This is the reason that the more Catholic is a Latin American nation, the more prone to socialism it is. Venezuela is massively Catholic — 97 percent of its population. Cuba is also massively Catholic.

The only antidote against communism and socialism is the Gospel. This is the reason the more evangelical is a nation, the more prone it is to oppose socialism. Guatemala, which has now become 50 percent evangelical, is not so prone to socialism as Catholic Venezuela is. This is the reason that the main political base of Bolsonaro in Brazil against socialism was evangelicals, even though he has been empowering right-wing groups that brainwash people. Brazil, which was some decades ago so massively Catholic as Venezuela and Cuba, now has become about 30 percent evangelical.

The main political base of Donald Trump was also evangelicals.

It is not coincidence also that the most anticommunist president in the U.S. history — Ronald Reagan — was supported by evangelicals and was a Protestant himself. In fact, Reagan proclaimed 1983 as Year of the Bible in the United States.

The basic difference is that in Catholic churches the Gospel is not so prominently preached as it is in evangelical churches. This is the secret against communism: The proclamation of the Gospel.

When the Gospel begins to be effectively proclaimed in the Catholic churches in Venezuela, Liberation Theology will die away and socialism will disappear.

Yet, if the Catholic Church in Venezuela and other Latin American nations do not begin to preach the Gospel, evangelical churches will increase and emerge as the main force against communism by merely preaching the Gospel.

There is no greater conservative and anticommunist force in the universe than the Gospel of Jesus Christ. All the other “antidotes” fail and brainwash people, but only the Gospel transforms, delivers, heals and saves people.

Information and pictures about Billy Graham Crusade in Moscow were taken from the movie “Billy Graham: God’s Ambassador.”

Portuguese version of this article: Billy Graham e o fator esquecido na derrubada do comunismo soviético

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Trump Congratulates China’s Communist Revolution as Chinese Nuclear Missiles Threaten the U.S.

By Julio Severo

No one can imagine U.S. President Donald Trump congratulating Cuba for the anniversary of its communist revolution. After all, this revolution killed about 100,000 people. And even today, the Cuban tyranny persecutes Christians.

If Trump congratulates Cuba, Marco Rubio and all the neocons will blacklist him as a “communist sympathizer.”

So it is impossible for Trump to congratulate Cuba for the anniversary of its communist revolution without being massively attacked, criticized, lambasted, morally lynched, etc.

Yet, what has happened on October 1, 2019 is vastly worse. Trump said on this date:

“Congratulations to President Xi and the Chinese people on the 70th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China!”

No conservative leader would survive if he dared to make the congratulation that Trump did.

The 70th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China is the anniversary of the communist revolution that destroyed all freedoms of the Chinese people. It slaughtered millions and millions of Chinese. Even today, it persecutes, imprisons and kills Christians.

Besides, communist China has communist missiles that are a threat to the U.S.

The Chinese communist revolution is vastly worse than the Cuban communist revolution.

If the Cuban communism deserves criticism and condemnation, the Chinese communism deserves much, much more.

Very appropriately, Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) in a report titled “Nothing to Celebrate: China's 70 Years of Repression and Murder” said,

China's 70th anniversary celebration displayed all the pomp and grandeur befitting a world empire.  But for the countless millions who have suffered under Chinese communism, it was not a happy day.

“The 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China is not something that I think we should feel the least bit congratulatory about,” says Frank Gaffney at the Center for Security Policy. “As I say, I think (the founding of communist China) was a very, very bad day for the world and what’s flowed from it ever since has borne that out.”

As many as 45 million Chinese people died under Mao Zedong’s “Great Leap Forward.” Today China is not only repressive, it is an economic powerhouse, challenging the United States.

And in a brutal crackdown on Christians, China has been bulldozing churches and ripping down crosses.

Reggie Littlejohn, founder and president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers recounted, “There was one pastor’s wife in Hanan province in 2016 who stood in front of a bulldozer as it was bulldozing a church. She wouldn’t move and she actually got bulldozed. She was killed, buried alive by the Chinese Communist Party.”

Perhaps Trump is thinking in economic terms. It is very easy to criticize Cuban communism because Cuba is poor and has absolutely nothing to offer. But communist China has much to offer.

Even though as a conservative evangelical Christian I would never congratulate China’s communist revolution, who can blame Trump? Previous U.S. presidents, representing the right and the left, gave special economic status to China. For decades the U.S. has enjoyed cheap products produced by U.S. companies in China.

The products are cheap to American consumers, but very costly to Chinese workers who are under virtually slave labor. So when the U.S. politicians complain today that China has taken advantage of the U.S. technology they forget that U.S. companies took advantage of Chinese slave labor for decades.

I do not congratulate the anniversary of China’s communist revolution and I do not congratulate the special economic treatment previous U.S. presidents granted to China. In this spirit, I cannot also congratulate Trump for congratulating the anniversary of China’s communist revolution.

I also do not congratulate Trump for supporting the homosexual agenda.

What all of this shows us? Trump needs prayers. Not to become conservative, but to be saved by Jesus Christ. Being saved is far more important than being right-wing or conservative.

China also needs our prayers. Not to become conservative, but to be saved by Jesus Christ.

Conservatism without salvation in Jesus Christ is just a political convenience or inconvenience. Salvation in Jesus Christ is, by far, the most desirable goal. One of its automatic results is conservatism: commitment to God’s Word and a solid stance against abortion and sodomy in all their forms.

With information from CBN and Associated Press.

Portuguese version of this article: Trump parabeniza revolução comunista da China enquanto mísseis nucleares chineses ameaçam os EUA

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Senators and Congressmen of Brazil’s Bolsonaro Go to China to Import Communist Surveillance System of Citizens

By Julio Severo

Senators and Congressmen of President Jair Bolsonaro’s party were invited by the Chinese communist government, which is paying all travel expenses, for them to get a closer look at the facial recognition system.

One of the objectives of the trip is for Bolsonaro’s PSL (Social Liberal Party) to know the communist headquarters where the Chinese surveillance system of Chinese citizens is operated, as well as communist companies that dominate this technology. The idea of the PSL is to achieve a partnership with Chinese communists and bring this technology to Brazil.

“The Chinese are very much ahead of us on the issue of public safety, and as a representative of the State of Rio de Janeiro this whole technology interests me very much,” said the Brazilian congressman Felício Laterça to the Brazilian news site UOL before embarking with a delegation of 12 lawmakers on their trip to China, on Tuesday (January 15).

Included in the trip are Senator Soraya Thronicke, and members of the Brazilian Congress Carla Zambelli, Daniel Silveira, Tio Trutis, Felício Laterça, Bibo Nunes, Charltes Evangelista, Marcelo Freitas, Sergeant Gurgel and Aline Sleutjes, Delegada Sheila, all from Bolsonaro’s party.

Senators and Congressmen of Bolsonaro’s party doing to China

The Communist Party of China uses the surveillance system to keep broad social, political and religious control over its citizens by watching over them without their perceiving or doing anything wrong. Although the Chinese Communist government says it only uses this system against criminals, Christians and political dissidents are routinely punished and imprisoned.

According to UOL, congressmen and senators from PSL in the Brazilian Congress will introduce a bill requiring the establishment of facial recognition technology in public places to assist law-enforcement agencies in the fight against crime and the capture of suspects or fugitives.

Communist China employs the largest and most modern surveillance system in the world, which uses facial recognition to identify citizens — and thus arrest criminals and suspects. The equipment can recognize the faces of people, allowing to identify their sex and age, including information such as the car that the citizen uses, his more frequent routes, his relatives and the people with whom he comes in contact, financial and professional data and others issues.

The partnership with communist China comes at a time when the Bolsonaro administration, widely seen as right-wing, has clearly condemned the dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. Nevertheless, the Venezuelan dictatorship has been less communist than the Chinese government, because Maduro’s dictatorship has not persecuted Christians as much as the Chinese government has persecuted them. So he who denounces Maduro has the obligation to denounce much more the Chinese communist dictatorship.

If the Workers’ Party, the socialist party that ruled Brazil during the Lula or Dilma administrations (2002-2016), had sent its senators and congressman to China to import into Brazil the Chinese communist surveillance system of citizens, there would have been an outcry. All conservative and right-wing writers would have denounced it as a communist maneuver for controlling citizens. But what will happen now that the right-wing Bolsonaro administration is doing it?

Many supporters of Bolsonaro criticized Pope Francisco for sending a representative to Maduro’s inauguration. But who will criticize the senators and congressmen of Bolsonaro’s party for doing something vastly worse?

Even if Bolsonaro’s party sent its senators and congressmen to the U.S. to import into Brazil some U.S. surveillance system of citizens, this would still be a dictatorial control. For many years American conservatives have denounced the immoral surveillance of the U.S. government over American citizens. The exposés of Edward Snowden against this system were widely supported by American conservatives.

Whether being imported from communist China or the U.S., constant state surveillance and control of citizens is a dangerous thing.

Regardless if it is Lula’s Workers’ Party or Bolsonaro’s PSL that is seeking such control, it should be exposed.

Regardless if they are seeking this system from Venezuela, China or the U.S., it should be exposed.

One of my favorite TV shows was “Person of Interest,” with Jim Caviezel struggling to keep the U.S. government from gaining control of a supercomputer for citizens’ surveillance. Unfortunately, the surveillance problem does not exist only on TV shows. It is a reality that is craved by left-wing governments and — who could tell? — a right-wing government in Brazil that wants the help of communist China to monitor Brazilian citizens.

With information from UOL.

Portuguese version of this article: Senadores e deputados federais do partido de Bolsonaro vão à China comunista importar sistema para monitorar cidadãos brasileiros

Source: Last Days Watchman

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