The Judiciary Made Corruption a Legal Activity in Brazil
By J R Guzzo
Gazeta do Povo, 03/06/2025
“The Supreme Court justices , the Superior Justice Tribunal and the other captaincies that govern the judicial Brazil apparatus, plus the believers in their divine nature, do not like to hear this, but the brutal fact, of course and above any doubt, is that the Brazilian Justice has suppressed the crime of corruption in the Penal Code that is in force in the country. No law has yet been approved putting this in letter form, but it is what happens for practical purposes in Brazil that “is back”. This is not an analysis. It is an increasingly “robust” jurisprudence, as it is fashionable to say today, formed by the sentences signed by the fat cats of the system.
It’s hard to say this, but it’s also the “factual” truth, then already using the jargon spoken by the ministers: the Supreme Court and its derivatives have made corruption a legal activity in Brazil. Of course, the guy has to be a rich corrupt to benefit from legal protection when he gets his hand in the Treasury. But since there are no poor corrupt anywhere in the world, it can be safely said that the automatic acquittals given by the Brazilian Justice in criminal proceedings for the practice of corruption serve all thieves of the National Treasury.
There are no exceptions. Are you a “friend of a friend” and prove that you stole, with spontaneous confessions made in the presence of your lawyers? So you are already acquitted, even before the case goes to trial. It’s not the media that says that, nor the “enemies” of our courts. Who says this, officially, are the sentences that come out of the high courts of Justice of this country – and serve more and more as an example for the middle, low courts and so on, even the most modest block inspector. It’s easy to solve any doubt about it. Can you mention the name of a single corrupt prisoner at the moment in Brazil, at least one that is?
You can’t, for an excellent reason: there is no corrupt prisoner right now in Brazil. Not even former governor Sérgio Cabral, who was sentenced to 400 years in prison for theft, confesses, and is as free as you are – but with a fortune that you, who paid taxes while he stole, will never have it in your pocket again. If this, and all cases of freed thieves, are not material proof of the legalization of corruption crimes decreed by the Brazilian Justice, what would it be?
The STF, STJ etc. etc. etc. are asking the population to believe in the following nonsense: Brazil is the country that has the most honest politicians and tycoons in the world. There’s no one arrested for corruption, right? So there are no corrupts, because if there were our Justice would surely end up catching some thieves, at least one – it is not possible, from a rational point of view, that it cannot punish any, never, or that all the corrupt people brought to it by the police are innocent, without exception.
The political theology now in force in Brazil establishes that the open prevarication of the Supreme Court and its inferiors in compliance with criminal law, with its systemic refusal to punish corruption, is a vital necessity of Brazilian society. The Supreme Court and “justices”, says this creed, of saved “democracy” in Brazil. They continue to save every day, with the fearless repression of “coup plotts”, “extreme rightists”, bolsonaristas and more of the same. Because of these activities, the “Judiciary” began to have, according to the official doctrine, immunity in the face of any criticism. It doesn’t matter if the Supreme Court is right, or is grotesquely wrong: criticizing any minister is considered an “attack” on the justice system, to weaken the fight against “fascism” and so on.
But is it necessary to swallow – and swallow thinking it’s great – each of the freaks that come out of the mixture of “superior courts” of Brasilia? The answer, for the current regime is: yes, you need to accept everything, because no delinquency that the supremes can commit is subject to any external appreciation, because they are the guardians of “democracy” and this must obviously be above details such as corruption, the abolition of individual rights and compliance with what is written in the law.
In his last fireworks display to celebrate the robbery, Minister João Noronha, on this occasion representing the STJ, decided to hand back to the judges of Maranhão accused of massive sale of sentences the jewelry, watches and cars seized with them – and under the suspicion of being the payment they received to sell their decisions. “It is no longer useful for the process,” Noronha decreed. It’s not an attack on the Judiciary: it’s what the minister did in front of everyone. It is part of the jurisprudence, mentioned above, which not only mechanically innocents thieves of public money, but also returns to them what they stole – from R$ 20 billion in compensation for J&F and Odebrecht, to yachts, beach houses and jets of drug traffickers.
To add another jewel to the crown, Minister Dias Toffoli was cited again as the great patron saint of corruption in Brazil by Transparency International and the OAS Human Rights Commission. His main doing is the aggressive dismantling of the entire anti-corruption system that existed in Brazil. Is it the fault of the opposition, the right or the “fake news” that the thing has become like this? Or are, among so many other feats of arms, your extraordinary decisions to annul the confessions of corruption by J&F and Odebrecht? Patience, because they are determined to make everything even worse.”
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