{"id":177369,"date":"2019-10-07T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/07\/someone-who-knows-that-he-owns-his-persecutors\/"},"modified":"2019-10-07T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T23:54:00","slug":"someone-who-knows-that-he-owns-his-persecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/07\/someone-who-knows-that-he-owns-his-persecutors\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Who Knows that he Owns his Persecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva is refusing a release from prision<\/a>, and is instead demanding an investigation of the prosecutors who are now desperate to bury the corruption in their prosecution of him:<\/div>\n

The same Brazilian prosecutors who for years exhibited a single-minded fixation on jailing former President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva are now seeking his release from prison, requesting that a court allow him to serve the remainder of his 11-year sentence for corruption at home. But Lula \u2014 who believes the request is motivated by fear that prosecutorial and judicial improprieties in his case, which were revealed by<\/a> The Intercept<\/a>, will lead to the nullification of his conviction \u2014 is opposing these efforts, insisting that he will not leave prison until he receives full exoneration. <\/p>\n

In seeking his release, Lula\u2019s prosecutors are almost certainly not motivated by humanitarian concerns. Quite the contrary: Those prosecutors have often displayed a near-pathological hatred for the two-term former president. Last month, The Intercept, jointly with its reporting partner UOL, published previously secret<\/a> Telegram messages in which the Operation Car Wash prosecutors responsible for prosecuting Lula cruelly mocked the tragic death of his 7-year-old grandson from meningitis<\/a> earlier this year, as well as the 2017 death of his wife<\/a> of 43 years from a stroke at the age of 66. One of the prosecutors who participated publicly apologized<\/a>, but none of the others have. <\/p>\n

Far more likely is that the prosecutors are motivated by desperation to salvage their legacy after a series of defeats suffered by their once-untouchable, widely revered Car Wash investigation, ever since The Intercept, on June 9, began publishing reports<\/a> based on a massive archive of secret chats between the prosecutors and Sergio Moro, the judge who oversaw most of the convictions, including Lula\u2019s, and who now serves as President Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s Minister of Justice and Public Security.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The prosecution of Lula was always sketchy as hell, and Lula realizes that the whole case against him is unraveling, and the prosecutors are now threatening to physically throw him OUT<\/b> of prison in an attempt to prevent a thorough review of their behavior by Brazil’s supreme court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva is refusing a release from prision, and is instead demanding an investigation of the prosecutors who are now desperate to bury the corruption in their prosecution of him: The same Brazilian prosecutors who for years exhibited a single-minded fixation on jailing former President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,407,485,374],"class_list":["post-177369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-justice","tag-latin-america","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}