Impeachment? – Brazil vs. U.S.
Impeached Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a Revolution; one makes the Revolution in order to establish the Dictatorship.
~ George Orwell
*N.B.: This essay is based on an April 16th article by Frances Martel published in Brietbart.com.
When I think about the recent removal from office of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, and the 6-month period from May 12th the Brazilian Senate will have to conduct her impeachment trial, I am forced to compare how this “Banana Republic” is more serious about the rule of law and the constitution than the U.S.—Rousseff has been stripped of all power and replaced by Vice President Michel Temer. Brazil will not be presiding over this year’s Summer Olympics, while President Barack Obama is taking a victory lap around the world bragging to a bewildered national leaders how great he thinks his 8 years as president has been despite the fact that this 44th president has wasted more money and driven up the deficit than all of his 43 predecessor combined!
And what about Democrat frontrunner for president Hillary Clinton and the growing investigations about her numerous crimes she has committed against U.S. including the Benghazi murders, Clinton foundation briberies and corruption and 40+ years as an enabler to her husband’s numerous sexual assaults and rapes against women as a predicate to her own Lady Macbeth political obsession? Aren’t those impeachable offenses?
The Republican majority in Congress has not even brought up the subject of impeachment against Obama though his numerous number of impeachable offenses which are growing almost daily. This brings me to a central question of this essay – Who is the real Banana Republic—Brazil or U.S.?
On May 12th, Rousseff strongly protested her surprised removal from office by the hands of the Senate that morning in a blistering stream of maledictions — “I did not commit a crime of responsibility, I do not have mystery [offshore] accounts, I never received bribes,” she contended. “I did not commit crimes. I am being tried unjustly.”
“There is no greater crime than to condemn an innocent,” she stated, yelling above echoing applause that she was “proud of being Brazil’s first female president” and of the socialist welfare programs her government enacted, like offering more student loans to raising the minimum wage. “By removing my government, they want to impede the execution of programs that were chosen by the majority of 54 million Brazilians,” she claimed.
To the bitter end Rousseff was defiant and antagonistic to the Senate during her passionate impeachment speech in which she condemned those guilty for removing her from office and placing Brazil in a “state of permanent instability” and “tak[ing] by force what they could not take at the polls.” As she left the parliament building shouts could be heard – “Dilma, Warrior, the Brazilian People” (“Dilma, Guerrera, La Patria Brasilera”) – a homage to her time as a Marxist-Socialist guerrilla in the late 1960s and ’70s – she announced that she would be removed from power and urged Brazilians to rise up against the “injustice” facing her.
After repeatedly condemning the legislators responsible for voting for her coup, Rousseff turned her attention to her supporters listening. “The biggest risk facing the country is to be directed by an unelected government, a government that will not have the mandate to implement solutions for the challenges facing Brazil; a government that can be tempted to repress those who protest against them,” she cautioned. “There are millions … in defense of democracy in our nation. I know, and many here know – overall our people know – that our story is full of struggle and it is always worth struggling for democracy.”
“Since I was elected, an unsatisfied part of the opposition began to conspire openly for my impeachment,” she told the audience, repeatedly calling the impeachment “fraudulent” and an “intense sabotage.” “I never thought it would be necessary to fight against a coup in my country again,” she bemoaned.
RAGE: Dilma Rousseff rants and rages about “fraudulent” impeachment trial and an “intense sabotage.”
Rousseff was informed of her impeding impeachment trial and removal from office by the Senate just prior to her speech where she decried, “I Am a Victim of a Judicial and Political Farce.” Her successor is Vice President Michel Temer, another Marxist-Socialist, who is now the President of state of Brazil for the next 180 days until the court finds Rousseff innocent or guilty of the fraud charges. If found guilty, Temer will complete Rousseff’s term or new elections will be immediately scheduled.
Rousseff is charged with numerous counts of banking fraud for taking out considerable loans to control and manipulate the Brazilian economy in order to make it appear more vigorous than it was in reality, to entice foreign financiers. (*N.B.: Obama has done this dozens of times by understating the jobless numbers not to include the 92 million citizens not working or the oft-stated $19 trillion defect that ignores the hundreds of trillions in “unfunded mandates” making the real deficit closer to $222 trillion, according to the exhaustive deficit analysis by Boston University Professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff).
Rousseff’s recurring allegations of not having any offshore accounts or taking bribes were directed attacks against her colleagues and senior ranking members of the House, including former Speaker Eduardo Cunha who was impeached for taking bribes from major companies in “Operation Car Wash” which was a major corruption investigation that dominated Brazilian politics for several years to this day. This massive corruption scheme also existed during the term of Rousseff’s predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and netted many politicians accused of using the state-run oil company Petrobras steal billions of dollars in bribes and laundered money.
While President Rousseff has yet to be formally indicted in the criminal investigation, “Operation Car Wash”, to most observers she seems to be greatly worried about an impending criminal indictment against her and seems to be covering her criminal colleagues like Lula whom soon after the pronouncement of an investigation into Lula, Rousseff appointed him her chief of staff, thus allowing him executive immunity from prosecution and to protect him from an investigation that uncovered that he had used unlawful money to purchase beachfront property. The public outrage to Rousseff’s naked corruption caused a peace protest attracting more than three million people. The only way to attract those kind of protest numbers here in America would be for Congress to end the FDR-LBJ-Obama Welfare State and mandate that all of the 92 million able-bodied people formerly on the public dole get to work immediately or that suitable work like picking up trash on the freeway or painting gang graffiti, will be mandated for them.
Why isn’t President Barack Obama Impeached?
English writer George Orwell once wrote — “Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a Revolution; one makes the Revolution in order to establish the Dictatorship.” This unimpeachable wisdom of the Ages reminds me of an article I read in Jan. 2016 by conservative firebrand, Alex Jones, who cited 75 impeachable offenses by President Obama. Why hasn’t an impeachment trial been launched against lawless Obama? Because the cowardly Conservatives holding a majority in both Houses of Congress are too scared to act to protect We the People and the Rule of Law.
Here are the first 12 impeachable offense Jones cited about Obama:
⦁ Illegally armed Mexican drug cartels and ISIS militants
⦁ Attempting to shut down gun stores outside of law
⦁ Spent tax dollars to re-settle illegals inside U.S.
⦁ Using executive action to restrict Second Amendment
⦁ Illegally targeted conservative groups via IRS
⦁ Secretly obtained phone records from Associated Press journalists
⦁ Carried out military interventionism in Libya without Congressional approval
⦁ Supports unconstitutional, warrantless wiretapping
⦁ Supported Bush’s unconstitutional Patriot Act
⦁ Agrees with Bush’s support of unconstitutional, indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without filing any charges
⦁ Had four U.S. citizens killed without judicial process
⦁ Ordered private company to fire 1,000 employees—After Boeing hired 1,000 new employees to work at its new factory in South Carolina in 2011, the Obama administration ordered the company to close it down because the factory was non-union
Questions regarding how Brazil will host the 2016 Summer Olympics (5-21 Aug.) with an impeached president, political corruption running amok, running sewage in the water system, and the Zika virus affecting annually 725,000 infants and people in Brazil and now growing throughout the world including here in America? – Only time will tell. Yet, I have to give credit to the Third World Banana Republic country of Brazil for having more respect for constitutional jurisprudence and the rule of law than the cowardly Conservatives here in America under Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who regularly allow a psychotic Marxist President Barack Obama to do anything he wants to deconstruct, pervert and destroy the Judeo-Christian traditions and institutions bequeathed to U.S. by the constitutional Framers while conservatives remain stuck in the Reagan vortex of 1981—Psychotically claiming an irrational fidelity to their irrelevant, impotent conservative ideas.
Reagan’ 1980s Conservativism is OVER! It’s now all about Trump’s ‘America First’ NATIONALISM for the twenty first century or TRUMPHALISM – Go Trump 2016!!
Category: Commentary
