Not even a professional slanderer would be able to predict that the Federal Supreme Court would enter into a crisis because of the evolution of the assets of some of the conduct of magistrates towards businesspeople. In the interest of justice, it is worth noting that, together, they form an audacious, omnipotent and, in some cases, vengeful minority.
To this day, the Supreme Court has been in big trouble, always caused by what ministers thought or said. Now it doesn’t matter what they think, but what they do. Three of them (, and ) got stuck for the privilege of using business jets for their comfort. Moraes and Toffoli flew on the wings of a banker’s company. One to leave Brasília, the other to rest at the Tayayá resort.
Your friend’s jet allows you to take off at the time you want, heading to the airport of your choice, without passing through the departure lounge where common bipeds grate. The airport is for poor people, those who are good people go to a privatized hangar.
Jet is a symbol of power, prestige or heritage and has become widespread over the last 50 years. The first known public jet was the . It had belonged to a bankrupt papermaker and his lawyer would say: “At a certain point, negotiating with the bureaucrats, I realized that they were keeping an eye on the plane. I toughened the negotiation and they took the jet, but made concessions with which they could have bought a fleet.”
The Central Bank jet served ministers and hierarchs who were friends of ministers. Once the power was lost, there went the comfort. In September 1983, someone in the powerful minister’s São Paulo office heard him talking on the phone: “Do you want the plane to go back to Rio? Tell him to take the bus.”
The person who wanted the Central Bank plane to return to his home in Rio was the economist Carlos Geraldo Langoni, who had just been removed from the presidency of the BC.
Delfim used his power like no one else. The BC jet may have retired. Real authority nowadays flies through the FAB. (The Supreme Court does not disclose the flights of its ministers, not even when a president of the court goes to Argentina for a meeting of judges from Paraná and the jet waits for him for days.)
Flying on Vorcaro’s wings, the ministers got rid of any public curiosity and ended up in the ditch of the banker’s connections. Bad deal. Friends’ jet junkies were exposed as freeloaders. Nines aside from comfort, what pushes them to the hangars is the horror of coexistence with ordinary citizens.
A curious person swears that in the last century he saw Judge Sandra Day O’Connor, of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the departure lounge of the Washington-New York air bridge. Something about a poor country, only the president of the court has an official car. The , with 11 ministers, has a fleet of 91 cars, 11 of them armored.
Brazil changed and times changed. In the last century, before the era of jets, the journalist Assis Chateaubriand, in a daze, showed his power by traveling a few hundred meters in a Rolls Royce on the Galeão runway, leaving the jet that was bringing him from Europe to board the twin-engine plane that would take him to São Paulo. In theory, at your expense.
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