Brazil cops find tanks during stolen goods hunt

[Judi Lynn]

Brazil cops find tanks during stolen goods hunt
Published on the 27 January 2015 20:34

A POLICE raid in Brazil aimed at recovering stolen cars and cargo threw up a more interesting find - two war tanks.

Sao Paulo police said that the two engine-less tanks were uncovered in a warehouse in Sacoma, a low-income district of Brazil’s biggest city.

Police also confiscated 500 televisions, car parts and a recently stolen lorry.

It was reported that the two tanks are not the property of the Army, and their origin would be the subject of a detailed investigation.

Officials did not say what type of tanks they were, and no indication of age was given, but they are thought to be American-made M-41 models.

More:
http://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/brazil-cops-find-tanks-during-stolen-goods-hunt-1-3671582

[Judi Lynn]

1. I surely wish our great Brazilian poster, ocpagu, could tell us about this.

There has to be some kind of story behind private ownership of tanks!

We clearly miss ocpagu.

We know who benefits from her loss: the right-wing trolls who conspired to get her banned after they gang-bullied her in the General Discussion forum, where few of us ever even saw it.

Wish we could overturn that aggression against a fine, intelligent, good person by a cluster of assholes.

[forest444]

2. Hear, hear

I'm new to DU and can't say I'm familiar with the ban controversy Judi Lynn just described; but I know this kind of chicanery happens because I have seen it happen to competent, hard-working editors on Wikipedia (not to mention real life, in one way or another). In at least two cases that I know of, editors were harassed and provoked in a concerted way by war/privatization apologists until they obtained the desired result (i.e. that of either waiting until the target breaks some arcane rule, or until he/she loses their temper).

If administrative staff here at DU ever decide to take a second look at ocpagu's ban, and an extra juror is required, I'll be happy to bone up on the case and vote on it if required.

[forest444]

3. But getting back to Brazil's policing problem:

It's worth remembering that, as bad as crime is there, the critical situation they have by way of police corruption and brutality is at least as longstanding, serious, and real.

That -and their foreign debt burden- is perhaps the worst legacy from the 21-year dictatorship that ended in 1985.

http://guardianlv.com/2014/03/death-squads-terrorize-rio-de-janeiro-as-brazil-readies-for-world-cup/