— I’m close to the position, are you going to cancel the game?
— Abort… Austria returns to the landing site, we are still here.
— Ghana proceeds to bailout with Japan.
— Brazil has already gone to the rescue point.
The , codenames of the executors of the plan to kidnap and murder the “teacher”, codename , illustrates the most dramatic moment in the Bolsonaro coup operation. “Where is the teacher?” he asked shortly before. “Information that he went to school in SP”. Perhaps they were referring to .
“Brazil has already gone to rescue” gave us a remarkable metaphor. Of those finds that summarize an era. The “rescue” of the military institution against its subjection to constitutional control is underway once again. The tradition of leniency towards our largest institution of political delinquency once again shows its strength.
For this rescue, it is crucial to distinguish the institution from the individuals that make it up, a refined analytical strategy, but with limits. It is stated about the crimes committed by some of its members, which deserve to be held accountable. The honor of the institution is preserved with the expectation that only individual crimes will be seen and not institutional corruption.
Once again we seek to find out if there are loyalist military personnel who resist coup plotters. If there ever were sincere legalists or just hypocritical legalists. If, in the gap to attack democracy, the “legalists” decided not to embark because they subordinate themselves to the law or just the fear of defeat, the risk of being arrested or losing some sinecure. If, in the end, the leadership of the institution comes down to active scammers and passive scammers.
The rawness of the evidence provides evidence for the attribution of individual responsibility to the soldiers who committed crimes. Not punishing them would invite them to reoffend.
João Castro Rocha recalled: “There were two coup attempts against Juscelino. In the first, JK amnestied the leader of the coup. What did the amnestied leader do? He attempted a second coup against JK together with Captain Burnier. Jânio amnestied Burnier. He was one of the architects of the 1964 coup. And he was one of the most abject torturers of the dictatorship. He was the one who began torturing former deputy Rubens. Paiva and helped transform the Air Force into one of the dictatorship’s torture centers.”
And he concluded: “That’s what happens when you give amnesty to a scammer. He comes back stronger.”
The recipe applies to individual delinquency, but above all to institutional delinquency. The underlying structures and current mentality facilitate insubordination to constitutional democracy.
They remain shielded by this consortium between two traditions of cowardice: military cowardice, which opts for dictatorship when democracy does not meet its delusions of grandeur; civil cowardice, which prefers “not to mess with” the military.
It will be expensive to absolve the dozens of soldiers who committed crimes. It will be much more expensive to amnesty the military institution. Preserve your exemption from civil control and any demonstration of competence and integrity: that will be the Great Amnesty.
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