1.200 people were arrested at a Bolsonarista gathering in Brasilia. The police had to charter 40 buses to take all these people to the police station.
ETA
The Civil Police of the Federal District, aka Brasília, identified at least 15 different types of crimes that were committed by Bolsonarist terrorists during the invasion of buildings in the executive, judiciary and legislative branches of the Brazilian government. Bolsonarist terrorists are charged with coup d’état, theft, bodily harm and 12 other crimes
When even the Italian prime minister says that what happened in Brazil was wrong. With the help of the Google Translator.
What is happening in Brazil cannot leave us indifferent. The images of the irruption into institutional offices are unacceptable and incompatible with any form of democratic dissent. A return to normality is urgently needed and we express solidarity with the Brazilian institutions.
For sure, but these three seem to be the ones who have had a recent (or current) executive who has made significant concrete progress in undermining institutions and setting up the conditions for fascist authoritarian rule.
Before, during and after WWII, the US and Britain were pretty damn racist and Anti-Semitic and had their own far-right/fascist movements with government representation, but still ended up opposing the Axis, so I consider those other countries to be more up in the air when/if the chips actually fall…
Originally published at: Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil's National Congress | Boing Boing
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None did; they both look like idiotic fasscholes.
This is not fine.
Not fine at ALL; it’s incredibly fucked up.
Birds of a feather, etc.
So let’s speculate (and purely so) Bolsonaro was involved in plotting this ‘coup’ remotely while squatting in Florida. Let’s also imagine that our impressive telecommunications surveillance folk at the NSA (hi guys! try the lasagna in the cafeteria today) was closely monitoring Bolsonaro’s efforts in that regard. What reaction would that promote upon Bolsonaro’s future movements? Would he be extradited back to Brazil? Would Italy not allow him to return to his ‘heritage’ there to retire? …or, somehow much more likely, nothing at all apparent. (At least, let’s hope that the U.S. government is ‘helping’ the somewhat better new government there with information)
Ultra-nationalism and bigotry makes a fascist version of the old socialist international near impossible, but make no mistake: these right-wing populist scumbag are networked and are following the same playbook in their attacks on liberal democracy.
Pobably not.
Lets see what the Italian prime minister said:
What is happening in Brazil cannot leave us indifferent. The images of the irruption into institutional offices are unacceptable and incompatible with any form of democratic dissent. A return to normality is urgently needed and we express solidarity with the Brazilian institutions.
https://twitter.com/GiorgiaMeloni/status/1612222502008225792?cxt=HHwWgIC8sdv04d8sAAAA
maybe he was directing the whole thing with friends in the guest dining room at M-A-L.
And that’s coming from someone who was not just in the post-fascist National Alliance but actually praised Mussolini.
Valuable antiquities destroyed in riots
Daniel Gallas
BBC Brasil
A 17th Century clock given by the French Court to Brazil and a painting worth at least £1.2m are among the valuable works destroyed by rioters who invaded the presidential palace in Brasília on Sunday.
The clock by Balthazar Martinot - Louis XIV’s watchmaker - was a gift from France to King Dom Joao IV, who ruled Brazil and Portugal. According to the Brazilian government, there are only two pieces by Martinot like this in the world.
“The other is on display at the Palace of Versailles, but is half the size of the piece that was completely destroyed by the invaders”, says a statement.
An art specialist says the damage is beyond repair.
The painting, As Mulatas by renowned Brazilian painter Candido Portinari, was torn in seven different parts. The government says it is worth at least £1.2m, but could fetch possibly five times that amount if it went to auction.
Rogerio Carvalho, director of curation for presidential palaces in Brazil, told BBC Brasil’s Luis Barrucho he is currently assessing the damage.
“I still need time to assess what happened to all those items. A survey (conducted by the federal police) is currently ongoing. But the value of what was destroyed is incalculable because of the history it represents”, he said.
Trick question! It was Tom Hanks in Dragnet.
