Article 142 is innocent – 02/28/2023 – Elio Gaspari

Government dignitary ministers want to change the text of article 142 of the Constitution to prevent new coup adventures. The intention may be good, the result will be null and the initiative will end up in ridicule.

The much talked about 142 reads as follows:

Article 142: The Armed Forces, made up of the Navy, the Army and the Air Force, are permanent and regular national institutions, organized on the basis of hierarchy and discipline, under the supreme authority of the President of the Republic, and are intended to defend the homeland , the guarantee of the Constitutional Powers and, at the initiative of any of them, of law and order.

Its intellectual author was General Leônidas Pires Gonçalves, Minister of the Army from March 1985 to March 1990. The fantasy has been created according to which this text paves the way for military coups, based on a malpractice of military mobilizations by the instrument of Guarantee of Law and Order.

During the government of Michel Temer, a homophobic use of the GLO was almost achieved, allowing the issuance of collective search and seizure warrants for the residents of a street, community or neighborhood. It was maybe.

Article 142 can be given any wording and even so the democratic regime could be threatened by military coups, but there will never be a coup without the participation and encouragement of civilian peasant women.

If there was no blow to the decline of Bolsonarism, it was because the vivandeiras were irrelevant and the legalist sentiment prevailed in the military leadership. It’s good to remember that former Minister Anderson Torres, in whose house there was a crazy coup project, is a countryman. The regime proved to be armored by the firm positions of the Judiciary and Congress.

The discussion of the text of article 142 shifts the axis of the question to the world of fantasy. Anderson Torres is in prison, and in prison are hundreds of people who vandalized Congress, the Planalto Palace and the Supreme Court.

There are 912 denounced. Minister Alexandre de Moraes is conducting the investigation into the January 8 coup d’état. In the hands of this magistrate is the accountability of the culprits, civil and military.

None of the 912 denounced or those who interfered with the 8th of January wanted to guarantee constitutional powers. On the contrary.

It is from a military man, Marshal Castello Branco, the best description of the vivandeiras: “I identify them all. And there are many of them, the same ones who, since 1930, like agitated vivandeiras, come to the bivouacs to joke with the grenadiers and provoke extravagances of the Military Power.”

In the year of the centenary of the death of Rui Barbosa, a champion of civilist campaigns, there is a reminder that the action of vivandeiras, prior to 1930, is not limited to the troglodytes of the vandalism of the 8th of January.

On November 9, 1889, Rui joined the grenadiers, insinuating that the government wanted to dilute the strength of the Army “which will be drained, battalion by battalion, until the last soldier disappears from the capital of the empire.”

On the morning of the 15th, the extravagance took place, and in the afternoon he was appointed Minister of Finance.

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