Four-year girl who lived with a gay “couple” is raped

Julio Severo

Hairdresser Orani Fogari Redondo, 28, was jailed October 31, 2008, in Araraquara, SP, Brazil, suspected of raping a 4-year girl. The child lived with him and her uncle, a 54-year homosexual male.

Redondo and the girl’s uncle had lived together for almost 10 years and, one and half year ago, her uncle received the definitive custody over the girl because her parents had been jailed, condemned for drug traffic.

An anonymous tip led police to the hairdresser. In his defense, the uncle, who is a retired nurse, said that he left his niece with his partner to go to the physician and when he came back he saw blood running on her legs.

According to the TV Record news of November 1, 2008, the girl needed to have a surgery because the aggression was so severe. She will continue under medical attention.

Pressured by police, the uncle confessed that it was not the first time that his partner had abused the little girl. In interview, police said that the young man has a criminal record of sexual abuse of children.

Because the uncle is a HIV carrier, the suspicion exists now that his young lover may also be infected, which increases the probability that the girl may have been contaminated.

Because her uncle requested, the press hid his name. In fact, it hid much more — in none of the news on the case the word “homosexual” or “homosexuality” was used in reference to the uncle and his relationship with a younger man. A politically-correct, anti-discrimination “moral” code pressures the Brazilian media not to show homosexuality in unfavorable news, but giving to it totally inverse treatment when the news are favorable.

The goal seems to be to bother the least possible homosexuals and their behavior, and this may be the reason why no state social assistant — who are well-known meddlers — got interested in “meddling” in the dirty record of the uncle’s lover during the process of transference of the custody over the little girl. But it is at the cost of the health and life of the innocents that homosexuality receives such covering.

The questions that do not want to be silent are:

Which was the state agency that delivered the custody of the little girl over to a homosexual living with another man?

If the rapist had already a criminal record of sexual crimes against children, why was he free?

The case smells a terrible scandal of state recklessness…

Source: http://www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

Miracles of the Obamic faith

Olavo de Carvalho

Midia Sem Mascara (São Paulo, Brazil), Oct. 31st., 2008-11-02

[Footnoted version]

NB – Last Saturday, my son Pedro and a friend of his were verbally offended and threatened of physycal aggression by a group of more than twenty Obamaniacs in downtown Richmond, VA, for the simple reason that my son’s friend dressed a McCain-Palin T-shirt. They got to escape in my son’s car but were persecuted for several blocks by the group of fanatics. This is change we can trust in.

Nothing like this has ever been seen before in human history.

At war against revolutionary Islam, the almost victorious country is getting ready to appoint as its commander-in-chief a politician enthusiastically supported by Al-Qaeda, (1) Hamas, (2) the Palestine Liberation Organization, (3) Iranian president Ahmadinejad, (4) Muhamar Khadafi, (5) Fidel Castro, (6) Hugo Chavez, (7) and by all anti-American, pro-communist and pro-terrorist forces of the world, without any visible exception.

It is exactly as if, at the height of the Vietnam war, one elected a Ho-Chi-Minh sweetheart to the White House.

Yet, if you dare to suggest, even mildly, that so many enemies of the U.S. are in favor of Obama because he must be at least a tiny bit in favor of them, half of the American voters will say you are a hopeless racist and a good portion of the other half will call you deranged, paranoid, a conspiracy theorist.

It is forbidden to apply to Obama the old common sense rule: "The friend of my enemy is my enemy." In order to prove their sanity, Americans must piously believe that Obama will not do anything, absolutely nothing in favor of communists and islamofascists who love him, but will do everything to defend the nation that he called "Nazi" (8) and the Constitution, which, according to him, is the cause of terrible evils. (9)

If you think that the wager on the Obamic faith is too high and that it would be more prudent to take a closer look into his life, you should realize that this has become practically impossible. He has blocked access, in the U.S. and in Kenya, to all his documents, (10) even the ones dealing with his public life, from his birth certificate to the list of small donors to his campaign, including his student records at Harvard and Columbia, which are at the same time invoked as definitive evidence of his towering intellectual gifts, denied only, it is clear, by stubborn racists. The media considers it an insult and a sickly presumption any attempt to examine these papers, and three courts, from Pennsylvania, (11) Washington (12) and Ohio, (13) have already ruled that the common citizen has no right to question even the nationality of Barack Hussein Obama. One must trust his word or take leave from decent society.

But his words do not elucidate anything. He has already made up so many phony stories about his life (that he was a member of the Senate Baking Committee, that his uncle liberated Auschwitz, that his father was a goat shepherd), he has already omitted so much essential data, (that he was a member of a socialist party, that the genocidal Raila Odinga is his cousin, that he campaigned for Odinga in Kenya, (14) that his brother is starving in a slum in Mombasa, that his aunt is an illegal alien in the U.S.), and he has concealed is such a way his connections with ACORN (15) and with terrorist William Ayers, (16) Islamic agitator Louis Farrakhan, (17) and the crook Tony Rezko, (18) etc. – that to try to uncover his true biography is almost an impossible mission. His own book of memories, which won him literary fame, is of dubious authorship. Computerized exams for authorship investigation concluded that the book was not written by Obama, but by William Ayers. (19)

As a last resort, one can try to find something about Obama through witnesses. It is interesting what they tell. The grandmother says that he was born in Kenya and not in Hawaii, as he claims. (20) His Kenyan brothers say that he is a Muslim and not a Christian as he claims. His sister says that he was born in one hospital, while he claims to have been born in another one. The sponsor of his studies in Harvard says that the money was provided by a well-known pro-terrorism agitator. Old friends say that he was always by Frank Marshall Davis when Davis was selling cocaine. (21) Up to now, the only witness to be seriously disproved was a nutcase from Minnesota who said he had sexual relations with then Senator Barack Obama – which, if true, would not raise a shred of the risk to national security contained in the other depositions.

At this point, you may ask: "But why will voters trust in the word of someone who has no word, whose birthplace is not known for sure, who hides two-thirds of his life and lies about the other third, who is loved by all who hate the U.S. and clumsily conceals his affections for their friends?" In Brazil you can ask that, but if you are in the U.S. ask in a soft voice. If you dare to display your suspicions in a very audible way, the government will investigate your records, in search of heinous crimes such as tax dues and unpaid traffic tickets, as it did with Joe, the Plumber. (22) Or it will send to jail, as it did with Brent Garner, from Lawrence, Kansas. (23) You also run the risk of having your garage vandalized (24) or of being beaten, as happened with some Republican activists. (25)

The answer to the question on the motives of such a purposeless confidence comprises four elements:

1. The big media, almost entirely owned by Obama's supporters and sponsors, does not publish anything grievous that is known about him, but makes an awful uproar about the slightest insignificance that may hurt the image of his adversaries. (26) The double standard, which began in newspapers and TV, ended up impregnating itself on the whole society as a normal habit. Example I: A hanged dummy of Sarah Palin was greeted by the police itself as an innocent and good-humored prank. In the following day, two kids manufactured a dummy of a hanged Obama – and they were arrested. (27) Example II: The young Republican activist Ashley Todd, after having claimed to be robbed, spanked and cut with a razor with a latter "B" on her right cheek as soon as her attacker noticed her McCain campaign button, suffered a barrage of insults form the media and very quickly changed her mind and swore that she had made up the whole story. Ashley did not explain if she had only been robbed and spanked, and made herself the cut in her face, or if there was only spanking, with no robbery or cuts, or if there was nothing at all and she hit herself until she got a black eye and, not happy about it, proceeded to carve a "B"on her own face. Even though her brief and inconsistent recantation sounded much more unbelievable than the original story, it was promptly accepted as final truth by the whole media. No more questions were asked, and it was thus proved that Republicans are mean enough to disfigure their own face only to lay the blame in a black man and, indirectly, in the most holy Barack Obama. (28) Example III: Signs of violence against the Obama campaign were missing, but were soon delivered. Two young skinheads who entertained thoughts of shooting Obama, without taking any action to that purpose, were denounced by their own mother. Even though it is virtually impossible to find a single skinhead in Evangelical assemblies, Catholic masses, Republican conventions, or in Hudson Institute or Heritage Foundation, this is the fact: if you wish to be considered Homo sapiens instead of a Pithecanthropus erectus, you must swear that the plan of those two idiots brings the ultimate proof that the American conservative movement is racist, Nazist, and murderous by nature. (29)

2. American society believes in the big media because it is not capable of imagining a general and systematic scam like the one that took place in Brazil when all newspapers and TV stations concealed on purpose, for sixteen years, the existence of the Sao Paulo Forum, the largest organization of political delinquency that ever existed in Latin America. As in the title of the of Sinclair Lewis famous novel, everybody believes that It can’t happen here. Well, it happened.

3. Whatever one says against Obama meets an automatic reply: It is racism. Racial blackmailing is so violent, generalized and systematic that the simple fact of saying that there is racial blackmailing proves that you are a racist. Therefore, the monopoly of verbal violence remains with the Democrats, while Obama's critics protect themselves behind self-limiting roundabouts.

4. What Obama says does not make sense. His speeches, when not totally devoid of content, unceremoniously contradict themselves – ant that is exactly why they work so well. Their content has no importance at all. It is just a filler for the active substance, which is constituted of magic appeals and hypnotic messages, in such a way that after a few minutes everyone's intelligence is numbed to the point of accepting, without the least critical reaction, statements such as: "You will se a light shining from above. You will experience an epiphany and an inner voice will tell you: I must vote for Barack Obama". If he proclaimed this by spontaneous faith, he would be called a madman. But as he says it in the best style of Ericksonian neuro-linguistic programming, people will vote for him for president of the most powerful nation in the world.

The combined effects of these four factors are almost miracles of faith, of an atrocious surrealistic character: polls show that three in four Americans who live in Israel prefer John McCain, but three in every four Jews who live in the U.S., away from Palestinian bombs and close to a TV tuned to CNN, prefer Obama. (30)

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Footnotes

1. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=79660 e http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49T76620081030?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true.

2. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/04/020315.php.

3. http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//081028/481/1caabe54532f44d592c6db0934f62302/.

4. http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3611840,00.html.

5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsemkPChvHo.

6. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/2039018/Barack-Obama-gets-Fidel-Castro%27s-support.html e http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93ON3T00&show_article=1.

7. http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Mundo/0,,MUL846628-5602,00-CHAVEZ+CONFIA+EM+QUE+OBAMA+LEVANTE+O+BLOQUEIO+A+CUBA.html.

8. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=79533.

9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11OhmY1obS4.

10. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=79174, http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_secrecy/2008/10/22/143157.html?s=al&promo_code=6DF8-1.

11. http://bobmccarty.com/2008/10/25/obama-citizenship-lawsuit-tossed-scotus-next/.

12. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_wa_obama_citizenship.html.

13. http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081031/NEWS0106/810310417/1055/NEWS.

14. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7176683.stm.

15. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI=.

16. http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/26/newly-released-documents-highlight-obamas-relationship-with-ayers/.

17. http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/farrakhan_obama_islam/2008/11/01/146685.html?s=al&promo_code=6F79-1.

18. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=79390.

19. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=79403.

20. http://countryfirst.bravehost.com/grandmaO/Obama%20Affidavit%20of%20Kweli%20Shuhubia10302008corr%5B1%5D.pdf.

21. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=79467.

22. http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/24/joe.html?sid=101.

23. www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=79513.

24. http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=203503, http://texashillblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/republican-senator-and-3-congress-members-houses-vandalized/,

25. http://thesilentmajority.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/up-date-on-the-assault-against-a-mccain-manhattan-volunteer/, http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1129748/black_republican_candidate_gets_burned.html?cat=8.

26. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D945SHBG1&show_article=1&catnum=0; http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=79325.

27. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=79437.

28. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9411R800&show_article=1.

29. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49Q7KJ20081028.

30. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/30/news/ML-Israel-McCain.php e http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017612413&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FshowFull.

The candidate of fear

Olavo de Carvalho

Diário do Comércio (São Paulo, Brazil), October 24th, 2008

Called “the Messiah” by radical Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan and “My Jesus” by the college associate editor of a student newspaper, Barack Hussein Obama informs us, “Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger.” What if he did not let us know?

Whatever the case, he has already performed at least one confirmed miracle: he is the first presidential candidate who has won the applause of all the enemies of the United States without it having ever aroused the least suspicion of the American establishment against him. Counted among his enthusiasts are Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Iranian president Ahmadinejad, Muammar Khadafi, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, and the television station Al-Jazeera. I wonder what would have happened to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s candidacy in 1932 if he had received ostensible support from Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini.

It is true that Obama pledges to dismantle the space defense system of the United States, to slow down unilaterally the American program of nuclear research, to turn victory in Iraq into defeat, to ban new oil drilling, and to grant driver’s license and health care to illegal aliens, that patriotic mob which wants to turn Texas and California into Mexican states. But if you insinuate that any of those things is a good reason for Communists and radical Muslims to like him, the media en masse will say that you have “crossed the line” and that you are virtually guilty of a “hate crime.” Ahmadinejad has declared that the victory of the Democratic candidate in the election will give the green light to the Islamization of the world, Khadafi has proclaimed that Obama is a faithful Muslim financed by Islamite millionaires, and Louis Farrakhan, availing himself of the wave of pro-Obama enthusiasm, has announced that the Nation of Islam, the secret society of radical Muslims he presides over, which has been making slow progress for decades, is having a “new beginning,” and will be fully operational soon. The meaning of those facts is clear, but noticing it is immoral: every decent citizen has to swear that the support coming from the enemies of America is only a mistake on their part, since Obama has never given-oh, no!-the least pretext for them to sympathize with him. To insinuate any convergence of interests is to impute to Obama “guilt by association”- an act of perfidy, obviously, loaded with racial “overtones.”

Besides, any stronger word used against the black candidate is pointed out as proof of racism, and the least suggestion that there is racial blackmail in this is double proof. John McCain himself makes a point of confining the debate to the sphere of “ideas,” emphasizing that his opponent is “a decent person and a person you do not have to be scared of.”

This statement is unintentionally ironic. The thing that every American fears most, nowadays, is being suspected of thinking bad things about Barack Hussein Obama. Following the example of their leader, Republican militants are doing their best to show respect and veneration for the person of the adversary. A staffer at the John McCain campaign office in Pompano Beach, California, who posted behind his desk a sign associating Obama with Marx and Hitler was immediately fired. An Ohio citizen, who asked some tougher questions to the Democratic candidate about his tax plan, paid dearly for his boldness. He had his life rummaged through by reporters and was severely criticized for the heinous crimes of working as a plumber without a license and of not having paid a traffic fine he had incurred in Arizona eight years ago. That gives an idea of the exasperated zeal with which the mainstream media protects Barack Obama’s image. Samuel Wurzelbacher, or Joe The Plumber-the nickname by which he has become known nationwide-draws from his experience an unavoidable conclusion, “When you can’t ask a question to your leaders anymore, that gets scary.”

This fear is not just psychological. Several Republican activists have already reportedly been beaten up by Obama supporters, McCain campaign offices in various states have been broken into and destroyed, and only police action managed to prevent, just in time, hundreds of well-trained Obama agitators, armed with Molotov cocktails, from setting fire to the buses heading to the Republican Convention in St. Paul (even so, the remainder managed to wreak quite some havoc). When a candidate employs terrorist methods, and at the same time the establishment decrees that calling him a terrorist is insanity to the utmost, it is clear that this candidate has unlimited rights. He is allowed to receive 63 million dollars in illegal contributions from abroad, and nothing bad will happen to him. An NGO that patronizes him can flood thirteen states with fraudulent voter registrations, and woe to them who suggest that he bears some guilt in the case. In contrast, McCain was charged with criminal verbal violence for the simple fact of mentioning the widely attested link between Obama and William Ayers. A pro-McCain-Palin march, in New York, was received with every sort of insult and threat. As, on the other hand, no violence could be observed against Obama militants, it was necessary to invent a story that, in a Sarah Palin rally, somebody shouted “Kill him” after hearing Obama’s name mentioned. The police looked carefully into the tapes of the rally and concluded that nobody shouted any such thing at all.

Another intimidating factor is economic superiority. Obama’s campaign collected nothing less than $605 million in contributions. For every McCain ad, four Obama ads come out. Even more overwhelming is the free advertisement provided by the big media for the Democratic candidate.

To this day, the only newspaper of some importance that has reported the lawsuit filed by Democratic attorney Philip Berg against Obama was the Washington Times-nominally Republican-which, nonetheless, categorizes doubts about Obama’s nationality as mere “internet rumors” and, alluding to the lawsuit only in the last lines, as if it were nothing but one more rumor, omit informing that Obama, instead of presenting his birth certificate as requested by the plaintiff, preferred making use of a complex legal argumentation in order to dodge doing so. The second lawsuit on the same issue, filed in the state of Washington, is not even mentioned.

The major newspapers and television companies protect the Democratic candidate not only against his adversaries but against himself. Acts or statements that may show him in an unfavorable light are carefully omitted. In all the American mainstream media one will not find a single word about Obama’s long career as an abortion militant, let alone about the only important activity he undertook on the international level: the campaign set up, with public money, to bring into power in Kenya the anti-American and pro-terrorist agitator Raila Odinga, guilty of ordering the murder of more than a thousand of his political opponents and of conspiring with Muslim leaders to impose the Islamic religion on a Christian-majority nation. Not only did Obama help Odinga with American tax-payers’ money, and introduce him to contacts in the Senate, but spoke in his favor at rallies in Kenya. If there is something that shows the true nature of the international commitments of the Democratic candidate, it is this episode-but even Fox News omits touching upon the subject.

Here in the United States everybody says that Obama’s victory is certain. It seems to me that, even if Obama loses the election, he will be a winner. The party of his adversaries was already on its knees at the moment that, instead of an authentic conservative, it chose a typical liberal Republican for a candidate, a sure promise, if he is elected, of a weak administration subservient to critics, exactly like George Bush’s. After this first fit of frenzy, there followed a worse one: from the moment when Republicans, instead of filing a thousand lawsuits like that of Philip Berg, accepted as a legitimate and decent electoral adversary a candidate with no ascertained nationality, with a misty biography full of flagrant lies, aided and subsidized by the most heinous enemies of the country, it became clear that they had abdicated all sense of honor and consented to legitimate a farce. If they lose the elections, they will deserve as many tears as those who preferred to allow Lula to win the presidency of Brazil rather than tell what they knew about the São Paulo Forum.

As for Obama’s campaign, its profile is clear. The amalgam of utopian promises, overwhelming advertisement, psychotic beatification of the leader, racial appeal, media control, and systematic intimidations of voters, is identical in the least details with Hitler’s electoral strategy in 1933, but in order to say this in public-or even to become aware of it in a low voice-it takes more courage than one can expect from the average voter nowadays.

Olavo de Carvalho, 61, taught Political Philosophy at the Catholic University of Parana (Brazil) from 2001 to 2005 and is the author of twelve books. He now lives in the United States as a correspondent for Brazilian newspapers. Website: www.olavodecarvalho.org.

Source: Laigle’s Forum

Divulgation: http://www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

Brazilian Supreme Court Ends Hearings Stacked in Favor of Eugenic Abortions

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

BRASILIA, September 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Brazil's last round of Supreme Court hearings on the issue of eugenic abortions ended Tuesday of last week with more controversial testimony by government witnesses.

As in previous hearings, which have been stacked in favor of the pro-abortion position, witnesses gave testimony that contradicts the statements of medical organizations about anencephaly, in which babies are born without part of their upper brain matter and skull and which some are arguing should be permitted to be aborted.

Luis Roberto Barroso, an attorney with the pro-abortion National Confederation of Health Care Workers, repeated the claim earlier made by Brazilian Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao that anencephaly can be detected in the womb with 100% accuracy, a claim contradicted by the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the American Medical Association, which has noted that "misdiagnoses of infants as anencephalic have been documented in the medical literature and detected by surveillance programs."

Moreover, doctors are still arguing over whether Marcela Ferreira, who died after one and a half years of life, and around whom a great deal of the abortion debate has swirled, was actually anencephalic (See: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08060502.html). The pro-abortion side has submitted testimony that she actually wasn't, which has in turn undermined its claim to be able to easily diagnose the condition in the womb.

The undersecretary of Justice, testifying on behalf of the administration of Luiz Lula da Silva, also claimed that "100% of cases" of anencephaly die "in the first hours" of life, despite the fact that anencephalic babies often live for days or weeks, and sometimes even years, in their condition.

During the four rounds of hearings the Supreme Court heard testimony by a total of 26 witnesses, 16 of them in favor of eugenic abortions, and 10 against. Although Supreme Court Justice Marcus Aurelio Mello had previously predicted a quick approval vote by the Court, last week he appeared to be retreating from his previous confident statement, admitting that "only with much optimism could I maintain the hope for November."

The current case began four years ago, initiated by the National Confederation of Health Workers, but was shelved after it became apparent that there were not sufficient votes to support it. Mello revived the case in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling in favor of allowing embryonic stem cell research earlier this year, stating that he believed the court was now ready to rule in favor of abortions.

With the completion of the hearings, the case will now be reviewed by the Federal Public Ministry (Justice Department) of Brazil, whose undersecretary, Mario Gise, has already stated his opinion that it is "torture" to prohibit women from obtaining abortions in the case of anencephalic pregnancies. It will also be reviewed by the General Advocacy of the Union, the agency charged with handling legal issues for the government.

Related LifeSiteNews Coverage:

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http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/sep/08090512.html

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http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08082201.html

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http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08082809.html

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http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08060502.html

Source: LifeSiteNews

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Brazilian President Luiz Lula Defends Abortion, Gay Unions

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

BRASILIA, September 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Brazilian President Luiz Lula used pro-abortion rhetoric and supported homosexual unions in an interview given to TV Brasil yesterday.

Echoing the claims of many pro-abortion politicians in the United States, Lula stated that he is against abortion, but that topic should be treated as a "public health" issue.

"For 26 years I have had a position, which is to treat abortion as an issue of public health. Many people die from clandestine abortions, because the government is prohibited from carrying them out," he said.

"If you ask me, President Lula, if I'm against abortion, I'm against abortion, my wife is against abortion, but I believe that a woman who has an abortion never does it because she wants to or for pleasure, but because she is constrained by a situation and it is at that time that the government should attend to those people."

Lula's Health Minister, Jose Gomes Temporao, has consistently fought to expand access to surgical abortion in Brazil, as well as abortifacient drugs. He recently testified before the nation's Supreme Court in favor of abortions for anencephalic babies, who are born without most of their upper brain, although they exhibit signs of consciousness.

Regarding civil unions for homosexuals, Lula stated openly that he has "defended the right to civil unions for my whole life. I believe that we have to cease with the hypocrisy, because we all know that it exists. There are men living together, women living together, and often they live extraordinarily well."

Asked about homosexual adoption and benefits for homosexual partners, Lula approvingly noted that various city and state governments in Brazil have already approved such measures. He also highlighted his recent appearance at the National Conference of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transvestites and Transsexuals, where he stated that "homophobia" is "the most perverse disease impregnated in the human head."

"Why don't politicians who are against (homosexual adoption and partner benefits) refuse their (the homosexuals') votes?" asked Lula. "Why doesn't the Brazilian government refuse to receive the taxes that they pay?"

"Look, we need to treat the life that each person has within his own home without any discrimination," he added.

Related LifeSiteNews Coverage:

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http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/sep/08090910.html

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http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08060904.html

Brazilian Homosexuals Accused of Manipulating Statistics to Further Political Agenda
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08062510.html

Source: LifeSiteNews

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Homosexual Agenda in Brazil Suffers Defeats

By Julio Severo and Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

BRASILIA, September 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Despite the official support of President Luiz Lula da Silva, the homosexual movement in Brazil has suffered serious defeats in recent weeks in two cities in the state of Rio de Janeiro as well as the national Chamber of Deputies, Brazil's lower legislative house.

The first occurred on August 10th, when Dr. Zenobio Fonseca, a candidate for the Niteroi city council, won a suit against a law providing pensions for "partners" of homosexual city employees.

Citing articles from the federal and state constitutions, Dr. Fonseca said that marriage was a union between people of the opposite sex, and therefore, any other relationship could not be granted benefits. He also declared, "I think that homosexuality cannot be awarded benefits, because we are talking about personal behavior and not anything inherent in human nature."

On August 21, just five days before Gay Pride Week - which was approved under heavy pressure from the government, activists, and media - city council representatives in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro voted to revoke Law 6.508/08, which established Gay Pride Week in the city, an action that was denounced by homosexual activists and the newspaper O Globo.

The same day, the homosexualist agenda suffered a major defeat at the national level in the Chamber of deputies, when the Chamber voted on the National Adoption Law. Despite direct pressure from the Special Secretary for Human Rights, which is directly linked to President Lula, Catholic and Evangelical deputies managed to remove the expression "homosexual couple" from the bill. The expression would have made it possible for homosexual couples to adopt children.

Such opposition is a reminder that, despite enthusiastic support from Brazil's President Luiz Lula da Silva, large segments of Brazilian society are opposed to the homosexual political agenda.

Although there are very few opinion polls available regarding Brazilian public opinion and homosexuality, a strong majority of over 60 percent of respondents to a 2005 poll said they opposed civil unions for homosexuals, and only 32 percent supported them.

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Brazilian Health Minister Gives False Testimony in Eugenic Abortion Case

Claims that the birth defect "anencephaly" can be detected with 100% accuracy

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

BRASILIA, September 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In defending eugenic abortions before the nation's highest court, Brazilian Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao claimed that the test to detect an anencephalic pregnancy is "100% accurate", according to local news reports.

"According to Temporao, public and private hospitals have the technical capacity to diagnose the absence of the brain with 100% certainty with a simple sonogram," reported O Globo.

However, that testimony is contradicted by the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the American Medical Association, which says that "misdiagnoses of infants as anencephalic have been documented in the medical literature and detected by surveillance programs."

Anencephaly is a condition in which the upper brain and skull do not develop completely in the womb. Some doctors theorize that the remaining neural cells that do develop could provide consciousness to the child.

Temporao's claim comes on the heels of a disagreement among doctors over the famous case of Marecela Ferreira, a Brazilian child who lived with anencephaly for a year and a half, and showed signs of consciousness.

Noting that doctors still can't agree if Marcela, who died outside the womb, was really anencephalic, representative Luiz Bassuma of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies recently asked, "Would it be possible to have certainty about the diagnosis when the fetus is still within the uterus of the mother?"

Temporao, who has long promoted abortion and abortifacient contraception as Minister of Health in the socialist administration of Luiz Lula da Silva, was among several government officials and experts testifying before the Brazilian Supreme Court on the constitutionality of abortions for anencephalic babies.

Other witnesses included Osvaldo Gomes, an attorney with the Pro-Life Group, who denied the claim made by other witnesses that the short life span of "anencephalic" babies justifies terminating their life in the womb.

"'Therapeutic anticipation of birth' is a euphemism hiding a despicable crime, which is the crime of abortion," he told the court. "We would have to frame the question in terms of the length of life. If it's going to die later, one second, one minute, for us it is life, and therefore there exists the hope of life. The expectation of having a child that is going to die doesn't justify eliminating that life before birth."

Leda Verreschi, a doctor representing the Association for Family Development, said that killing anencephalic babies in their mothers' wombs would represent "a regression of society to barbarism" and added that "in the intolerance of those who are imperfect, we will lose the capacity to love, which diminishes the human person."

The court will continue to hear testimony on September 16th. A verdict will be rendered in November.

Previous LifeSiteNews Coverage:

Catholic Bishops Denounce Attempt to Legalize Eugenic Abortion in Brazil
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08082201.html

Brazilian Supreme Court Hears Testimony on Eugenic Abortions
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08082809.html

Brazilian Anencephalic Baby Shatters Pro-Abortion Myths
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08060502.html

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Brazil Admits Strange "Vaccination" Program Will Cause More Life-Threatening Reactions than Birth Defects Prevented

Revelation casts further doubt on campaign resembling previous sterilization programs

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

MARANHAO, BRAZIL, September 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - With two people in "serious" condition following reception of the rubella vaccine during Brazil's massive inoculation campaign, government authorities have admitted an adverse reaction rate that should cause a total of 70 such illnesses during the course of the campaign.

The victims, who suffered kidney failure and difficulty breathing in Sao Luis, in the State of Maranhao, were said to be in "grave condition" by Marco D'Eca, a blogger sponsored by the Globo television network.

D'Eca says that the campaign's promoters are acknowledging that one out of every million persons receiving the vaccine may suffer an adverse reaction. The campaign's goal is to vaccinate 70 million people, the most in history, which should therefore result in 70 adverse reactions, by the campaign promoters' own admission.

However, other sources admit that the adverse reaction rate for the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccine (MMR), which is the form generally being given in the Brazilian campaign, is much higher.

According to a Finnish study, one in 110,000 people given the MMR vaccine suffered "febrile seizures", one in 200,000 suffered anaphalaxis (a life-threatening whole-body allergic reaction), and one in 500,000 suffered pneumonia. One in one million contracted encephalitis -- that is, their brain swelled.(http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/band84/MMR.html).

If these statistics are accurate, then approximately 700 or more people will suffer severe reactions to the mandatory vaccine, which the Brazilian government says is being given to prevent 17 birth defects annually due to rubella.

"Curiously," says D'Eca, "the side effects of the vaccine, in spite of being rare, are more serious than the disease itself. But no one says that in the vaccination campaign."

The revelation of such statistics cast further doubt on the motives of the program, which pro-life organizations regard as bearing a suspicious resemblance to covert sterilization programs conducted in other countries, including Argentina, Nigeria, the Philippines, Nicaragua, and Mexico.

Magaly Llaguna of Human Life International's Hispanic Division responded to the news by expressing "deep concern at the health risks involved in this vaccination program in Brazil, and also about the possibility that the vaccines might be laced with the HCG anti-pregnancy hormone, as has been suggested by several sources."

"We call on the Brazilian government to conduct a thorough investigation before continuing with such a massive campaign to vaccinate 70 million people," she added.
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Brazilian Homeschoolers Score Surprise Victory in Showdown Against Government

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL, August 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a surprise victory against government officials who sought to prosecute a homeschooling family for refusing to participate in the public school system, David and Jonatas Nunes have passed tests proving a high level of knowledge in a variety of subjects, including history, the natural sciences, the arts, sports, computing, and mathematics.

The tests given to the Nunes children were so difficult that public school teachers admitted that they could not pass them. The two boys, aged 14 and 15, had only one week to study for several of the tests, which were announced only a week in advance.

The exams were ordered by a local court in an attempt to determine if the Nunes had committed the crime of "intellectual abandonment", which could have resulted in a heavy fine, and possibly jail time for the two parents, as well as loss of custody of their three children.

While the boys were told well in advance they would be tested on mathematics, geography, science, and history, they were informed only one week before the test date that they would also be tested on Portuguese, English, arts, and physical education, including questions about the history of handball, basketball, soccer, and other sports.

Despite the short time they were given within which to study, both children passed their tests, David scoring 68% and Jonatas 65%, according to Cleber Nunes, the children's father. Although the government has not yet rendered a verdict on the scores, the minimum passing grade in Brazilian schools is 60%.

"The tests were very difficult," Nunes told LifeSiteNews. "There were questions that are given in entrance exams in the big universities. In addition, we were surprised with the addition of four subjects, one week away from the exams. They studied a lot in order to assimilate all of the material."

"For me, the process by which they passed was very strong evidence that they are, in fact, learning to learn," said Nunes.

"They studied a majority of the subjects alone. We had the help of a mathematics teacher. They studied the rest of their subjects on their own. I gave them very little guidance. That's the principle of the method that we use."

Nunes says that he now wants public school students to take the same tests his children did. He says he is certain that they would not come close to passing, and points out that on international tests Brazilian students produce extremely low scores.

The 2007 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which compares student performance in 57 countries, gave Brazil well below-average scores in mathematics, reading, and science. On its own Index of Basic Education Development (IDEB), Brazil's public schools score between 3.5 and 4.2, depending on the grade level.

"It's interesting that if these same tests were given to public school students, the vast majority would not pass them," said Nunes, who noted that if failing such tests is to be regarded as a crime, "then the government itself would be condemned since their agencies admit the total failure of the educational system that they are requiring our children to attend."

The Nunes' victory comes after a year and a half of struggles with Brazilian government authorities, who interpret existing laws to mean that people cannot educate their children at home. The Nunes say they removed their children from the public school system because of the low standards and immorality that pervades the system.

Although David and Jonatas Nunes had already passed law school entrance exams at the age of 13 and 14, the results were insufficient for local government authorities, who threatened to deprive their parents of custody and attempted to levy a steep fine. The Nunes say they have been fighting the case with the help of pro-bono attorneys.

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Brazilian Representative Seeks Answers Regarding Suspicious Vaccination Program

Pro-Abortion World Health Organization denounces internet "rumors" that vaccines include sterilizing agents

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

BRASÍLIA, August 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In response to questions raised about Brazil's massive vaccination program for Rubella, which appears similar to other campaigns that have included sterilizing agents in the vaccines, Brazilian Representative Miguel Martini has submitted an official request for clarification from the country's Ministry of Health.

In his letter, which cites LifeSiteNews articles as well as other sources, Martini observes that Argentina conducted a similar rubella campaign in 2006, and that tests showed the presence of the Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin (HCG) hormone, which creates immunity against pregnancy when included in a vaccine, triggering miscarriages.

"In Argentina, the Faculty of Pharmaceutics and Biochemistry of the University of Buenos Aires confirmed the presence of the HCG hormone in vaccines against rubella distributed by the Ministry of Health of that country: http://www.diario7.com.ar/nota_completa.php?id=1536 ; he writes.

Brazil's Health Minister, like his counterpart in Argentina in 2006, is a strong promoter of abortion, contraception, and other population control methods.

Martini points out that the Brazilian campaign, which is the largest in history, is being carried out to prevent only 17 birth defects annually, in a country with 180 million people, and is mandatory even for those who have already been inoculated.

"Because of only 17 cases of rubella in babies in gestation per year, the Ministry of Health wants to vaccinate 70 million Brazilians, even those who have already had the disease or have been vaccinated," he writes.

Martini asks the Ministry of Health to answer eight questions, including: "if any test has been done to detect the presence of HCG", "what is the origin and name of the laboratories that manufactured the vaccines", and "if the objective is really to eliminate rubella to eradicate the illness, then why vaccinate those who are already vaccinated?"

"It is urgently necessary to receive verification regarding the vaccination being done in Brazil," continues Martini. "It is minimally necessary that such tests be done in Brazil, by appropriate research institutions, on the vaccines distributed in Brazil."

Meanwhile, the questions raised by Martini, as well as pro-life activists Julio Severo and Human Life International, have been circulating widely on the internet, provoking a defiant response from the pro-abortion World Health Organization (WHO).

After stating its support for Brazil's rubella vaccination, the statement claims that "rumors" are being spread on the internet "by special interest groups to propagate false information with the objective to divert attention from the campaign. Rumors can begin with anonymous messages that question the safety of the vaccines used or the justifications for the campaigns" ( http://www.opas.org.br/sistema/fotos/comunicado_ref_rumores_sobre_vacina.pdf ).

The WHO claims that "antivaccine" organizations have spread such rumors in such countries as Argentina and Nicaragua, and denounces such activity as "defamation". However, it does not mention the fact that laboratory tests in Argentina and previous campaigns proved the existence of sterilizing HCG.

Julio Severo, a pro-life activist who helped to raise the alarm about the current vaccination program, dismisses the WHO's statement.

"The role of the WHO in population control efforts has been documented for more than 20 years," he told LifeSiteNews, "and since the 1970s, the WHO has supported research for the invention of sterilizing or micro-abortive agents to work stealthily in conventional vaccines."

"Yet, when caught and exposed in its dirty works, WHO blatantly denies, as if it did not know anything about population control and as if it were the most pro-life group in the world, innocently concerned only about unborn babies and their health."

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Brazilian Supreme Court Hears Testimony on Eugenic Abortions

Mother of anencephalic baby who lived 18 months testifies that her daughter was "marvelous"

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

SAO PAULO, August 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Supreme Court of Brazil continued to hear testimony today from various organizations regarding eugenic abortions for anencephalic babies.

Following a previous, narrow decision to allow embryonic stem cell research, the issue was revived by a pro-abortion justice in the hope that the court was now "ready" to decide in favor of terminating the lives of unborn children at later stages of development.

Anencephalic babies are born with part or all of their upper brain missing. Although they normally die within days of birth, some have lived for years, and their parents report that they exhibit signs of awareness, a conclusion that is supported by some doctors.

The first round of hearings on Monday included comments from religious groups and medical experts.

Father Luiz Bento, representing the Catholic Church, testified that aborting anencephalic babies is "a racist and discriminatory act" as well as being a form of "pre-natal euthanasia."

Also in attendance was Cacilda Galante Ferreira, the mother of Marcela Ferreira, an anencephalic baby who died earlier this month after a year and a half of life (see LifeSiteNews coverage at http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08060502.html).

"My relationship with her was marvelous, she was marvelous," said Ferreira. "She would breathe, react, and smile. I would caress her and she recognized it. She would sense my presence and my absence."

"It never crossed my mind to interrupt the pregnancy," she added. "It wasn't difficult to take care of her, it was a true joy. God gave me a more than special child. I never suffered for even a minute."

Rudolfo Nunes, a professor of Medical Science in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, testified that the very term "anencephalic" is misleading, because such babies always have some brain matter.

"Anencephaly is not the equivalent of brain death," he said. "A child with anencephaly, when he breathes, is not in a state of brain death. Despite the high mortality rate, some children can survive for months or even years."

"No in-depth studies exist on the part of the brain that is not compromised by anencephaly. Many things exist that are unexplained. For that reason, is it necessary to be prudent."

However, the court also received testimony from a pro-government sect known as the Universal Church of the Reign of God, which has a close association with the socialist Worker's Party of President Luiz Lula da Silva, and which has a history of supporting abortion. The leader of the group, bishop Edir Macedo, when queried about his religion's view on abortion, asked, "Who is interested in a multitude of children without parents, without love and without anyone?"

"Catholics for the Right to Decide", an organization long-denounced by the Catholic Church for misleading the public about Catholic doctrine on abortion and other human life issues, also was invited to testify.

Today's hearings include medical experts, scientists, and government officials. The final hearing will be held September 4th.

Source: LifesSiteNews

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