Tag: Lula

How Quickly They Forget

The senator’s statements refer to a national referendum held in 2005, during Lula’s first presidential term, in which Brazilian citizens voted overwhelmingly against banning gun and ammunition sales… Reversing Bolsonaro’s flexibilization of firearm access for Brazilian citizens was one of Lula da Silva’s sterner campaign promises. [More]

Now to remind them what they’ve been missing…

[Via bondmen]

Brazil Returns to Gun Control of Old Under Socialist Dictator Lula

How the new disarmament edicts will play with Brazil’s established “gun culture” will be instructive. Defiant Bolsonaro backers should not be surprised to find themselves smeared as extremists and conflated with criminal insurrectionists by highly-placed government officials and the media, just like here in the U.S. [More]

The parallels between there and here are numerous and disturbing. As are the tactics and goals of totalitarians demanding a monopoly of violence.

Return I Will to Old Brazil

Brazil’s top elections court voted Friday to bar Jair Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years — a period that covers the next presidential election — for making what members of the panel said were claims he knew to be false about the integrity of the country’s voting systems. [More]

So “democracy” is just another word of political convenience…?

And if the people want guns…?

Return I Will to Old Brazil

Brazilian police raid ex-President Bolsonaro’s home, seize phone… On Wednesday, Valdemar Costa Neto, the leader of Bolsonaro’s political party, expressed support for the ex-president following the search. “We trust that all doubts the Judiciary has will be clarified and it will be proven that Bolsonaro didn’t do anything illegal,” Neto wrote on Twitter. Meanwhile, Bolsonaro also faces investigations into attacks on the legitimacy of Brazil’s electoral system and embezzlement of foreign gifts. [More]

By hook or by crook, Lula is going to destroy his political rival. It’s what communists do.

While taking the guns…

[Via Jess]

Return I Will to Old Brazil

In a news conference from Sao Paulo state, Lula accused Bolsonaro of encouraging the uprising by those he termed “fascist fanatics,” and he read a freshly signed decree for the federal government to take control of security in the federal district. “There is no precedent for what they did and these people need to be punished,” Lula said. [More]

Sure there is. It even looks like they’re using the J6 Playbook.

And not to say “I told you so,’ but:

This isn’t over. And we in the Land of the Second Amendment may learn a thing or two before it is… In an editorial comment-laced “news” story rife with loaded terms and leftist-sympathizing sentiment, The Washington Post tells us Jair Bolsonaro has flown to Florida. Don’t be surprised if that’s not enough for the Lula regime.

Tangentially related: It looks like the trade association rope-sellers can’t suck up hard enough and hit the ground running proposing new infringements. [More]

[Via Jess]

Totally Unsurprisingly, Brazil Begins Gun Bans Ahead of Lula Inauguration

In the meantime, returning to the leftist playbook, look for Brazilians who question the election and defy tyrannical disarmament to be attacked and marginalized as extremists, criminals, racists, and “deplorables,” just like here. And just like here, they’re picking a fight to the finish with people who are proud of their heritage, vested in freedom, and not likely to grovelingly surrender their birthrights to their moral inferiors. [More]

History repeats itself. And in more ways than one.

Brazil’s Leftists Set Sights on Renewed Citizen Disarmament

And Lula, of course, being an old socialist, is against guns, but Congress may stand in his way. No problem though, because we’re told he can put in place by decree “what Brazil had before.”

By diktat. Who does that? [More]

Prepare to repeat the past.

Return I Will to Old Brazil

Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva calls for ‘peace and unity’ after beating far-Right rival Jair Bolsonaro in knife-edge election that split the nation after millions cast their votes… but will the ‘Trump of the Tropics’ concede defeat? [More]

More to the point, will Brazilians who know better turn in their guns?

UPDATE

There may be more truth to that “Trump of the Tropics” reference than “progressives” care to admit.

[Via Michael G]

Return You Will to Old Brazil

‘The police come here to hunt’: Brazilian cops kill at 9 times the rate of U.S. law enforcement [More]

What does that really mean, who are they killing, and what kind of circumstances are we talking about here? And how does that compare with the “good old days”?

Seems kind of self-defeating that Brazilians are poised to oust the guy who wants them armed and bring in a corrupt Marxist who demands disarming them and bringing back an “Only Ones”-enforced monopoly of violence.

It figures the DSM would put out a timely hit piece to help make that happen, with The Los Angeles Times leading the pack.

[Via bondmen]

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