Pro-Bolsonaro Attacks Following Bannon's Playbook?

[Judi Lynn]

By Sharmini Peries, Lorena Barberia
January 15, 2023

Was Lula’s response proportional to the attacks on the Presidential Palace, Congress, and the Supreme Court?

Transcript

This is an unedited version of the transcript. An edited version will be arriving shortly.

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We have to remember that Bolsonaro did not hand over power to Lula. He left on a diplomatic passport before the transition could take place, a transition ceremony throughout his government. He stressed and he emphasized that the elections would be manipulated and that he questioned the legitimacy of elections. And when Lulu assumes power in January 1, that occurred in the context of assuming power with a very fragile electoral majority. As you noted, he won by 50.9% of the vote. Congress, many congressmen were elected that support Bolsonarodo. And we also have a strong military and police support of Bolsonaro. And several governors were also elected that support the president. So he assumes power trying to construct a broad coalition cognizant of the opposition that exists to his election and trying to build consensus about the need to make a peaceful transition within democracy given his electoral victory, but also recognizing important forces of dissent. And not only that, throughout Brazil, not only in Brazilia. Bolsonaro supporters constructed encampments starting in November and December that were really well staffed, well organized encampments right near the military barracks. So there’s already these mobilizations, those mobilizations grow in Brazilian to have at least 40,000 people in the encampments in December before Lula transition.

So there’s already kind of an environment that’s indicating that there’s interest in provoking the police, provoking the military and creating instability that would lead to the military wanting to intervene.

Sharmini Peries
There are 40,000 encampments are fairly large in terms of preparation for any kind of resistance against Lula. Now, many people analyzing these events alluded to the fact that the role of the military and the police one clip I saw said that the police were actually sitting on the sidelines, sipping on their coconut and ignoring the mobsters that were attacking these democratic institutions in Brazil. What are your thoughts on that?

Lorena Barberia
So I think it’s important I’ve spoken with a number of people who visited the encampments. When we talk about these encampments, it’s important to underscore. They had electricity, they had generators, they had hospital, many hospitals set up already. They had computers and offices working in these barracks, in these encampments near the barracks. So you don’t do that unless you have a lot of people who are very experienced in logistics and financing. This is not some kind of like Boy Scout encampment that in the imaginary. People need to understand. These are very well set up camps that were very well organized and well set up. And they’re right, they’re situated near the barracks. But what’s important to understand is that, as you were, alluding the security in Brazilian is managed by the state government because it’s a federal district and the governor of Brazilian is in charge of the policing in the federal district and provides security during the transition to the government that’s in office. The chief of police of Bolsonaro, who is we have to remember this, is a person who during the elections mobilized and set up inspections of buses to try to slow down voting in the poorer parts of the northeast of Brazil especially.

So there was sanctioned by the chief of police of Bolsonaro. There was already during the elections, a lot of activity by the chief of police. When Bolsonaro loses the election, the governor who governs in this federal district of Brazilia appoints the same police chief as the head of policing in the city. And that already signals alarm bells because this is the police chief that’s going to be in charge of the transition, in charge of ensuring security for the Lula government taking office. There’s a bomb that goes off on December 26 in the airport as Brazilian, brazilian is getting lots of influx of new newly appointed ministers and newly appointed elected officials and different civil servants that are coming in to take over and start working on the transition. So there’s a bomb that goes off. The chief of police is managing the security in a very adverse context, not sharing a lot of information with the Lula government. And on top of that, you have these kind of very well funded and organized encampments in Brazilia, but in other parts of Brazil. And as that happens, one of the things that we start to notice and we know is that there’s a huge mobilization in terms of the military and in terms of police forces of neglecting or indicating kind of a lackluster support for guaranteeing security during the transition.

And that includes the fact that during the naming of his staff, lula tries to negotiate with the military by naming into the military establishments the generals that are the ones who have seniority and not someone who’s trusted by Lula. So as a way to compromise, lula, understanding this very difficult political context, tries to strike a compromise by saying, I will seed and let the key posts in the military be named by who has more seniority and not who’s more trusted by me. So neither the chief of police, neither the key military posts are really people close to the newly elected administration. It’s a very difficult context. Just today, as we speak today, we have found documents because the Supreme Court ordered inspection of the former police chief of Brazilia’s house and they discovered documents that there was a three page document actually outlining an order that would be admitted that would be used to justify the illegitimacy of the elections and justify an intervention to not allow the transition to take place. So we know that right now what we know is not only were there actual speeches made by these figures in the military and in the police, publicly and in social media, decrying the legitimacy of the elections, not ensuring security during the transition period.

But there’s actually now physical evidence that they had written documents to plan how they would precisely decree the non legitimacy of the election. So we know that this isn’t some theoretical conspiracy theory we have. There is actual evidence that they spent a lot of time working on the documents that would legitimize intervening and not transitioning power to who was democratically elected.

More:
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/pro-bolsonaro-attacks-following-bannons-playbook/

[SheltieLover]

1. Straight out of Pootin's playbook.

[GreenWave]

2. The last chapter of Bannon's playbook includes going to prison.

Not sure about wearing double shirts.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Maybe his Aryan Brotherhood will shave his head for him and add tattoos to his dome.

That could look heavenly with his two striped shirts and his happy smirk.







A picture of Trump would make a tremendous impact on Steve's shaved head, just like Roger Stone's picture of Nixon across his back!