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by loup-vaillant
2627 days ago
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> […] what does [Chomsky] expect would happen? Probably exactly what he observes. I don't think he's in any way surprised that powerful people do what they can to preserve and extend their power. He's just speaking up, so that maybe, one day, we relieve those people of some of their power. > Would he really give da Silva immunity just because he's from a labour party? From what I have heard that's not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that while being jailed, he's not even allowed to make a public statement, or even read a newspaper. There's a whole spectrum between that and full immunity. Besides, I'm not sure how much that would weaken his arguments: whether he deserved jail and why he actually ended up in jail are probably pretty separate things. He might be corrupt, but the reason he was punished may very well because his opponents wanted him down, instead of some independent judge. (I'm speculating here, I know nothing about the facts.) |
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Sérgio Moro, one of the judges who pushed his case forwards to jail him before the elections is now the Justice Minister under Bolsonaro. It's not even hidden.