The car wash sphinx, chapter 1 – 07/19/2023 – Conrado Hübner Mendes

There are more similarities between Augusto Aras and Deltan Dallagnol, Gilmar Mendes and Sergio Moro, Dias Toffoli and Marcelo Bretas than our common philosophy supposes. Their ways of violating the law are equivalent to the customer. Only their enemies, their targets and the hierarchy they occupy are different. They are cousins ​​who attack each other in public. A family quarrel. A family with little attachment to the law.

What matters most is what unites them. We have allowed the superfluous, however, to predominate over the central. And this analysis error has affected the assessment of concrete damages inflicted on the Brazilian justice system.

We can use the term “car wash” as a dog whistle, an incantatory horn to unite a troop of sectarians. So some lawyers have done, and partner journalists have echoed without asking why. Dismissed from the argument, they go out pinning the car wash badge on any foe. Transformed into a semantic locomotive, car wash comes to mean anything. It revolves around the logic of friend and foe, not legal and illegal.

Or we can try to decipher what concepts this term carries and test its applicability to different actors. Lava-jatismo cannot just be the use of the right to persecute the PT and coalition parties under the messianic cry of fighting corruption. And if that’s not all, there’s a lot more car wash out there than lazy common sense and lobbying advocacy care to acknowledge.

This discovery is a condition for a mature legal debate. Lava-jatismo is only valid as a critical concept if it means the use of law to benefit allies or attack opponents. All this under the veil of legal rhetoric that alternates between esoteric terms and panic-inducing expressions to hide bias. Illusionist technique.

Thus, we will discover that Moro and Dallagnol are juveniles who took a ride in an ecumenical practice of the ecosystem of legal operators. Of little political sagacity, limited legal stuff and a lot of moral presumption, the duo tried to be more car wash than the kings of the magistocratic center. He delinquent on the wrong side. She lost and was expelled.

This underhanded and anti-legal game is spreading. But only one side receives the nickname of car wash. And based on this classificatory farce, Lula has allowed himself to be confused in the appointments to the most important legal positions in the country.

The Attorney General’s Office is essential to combat criminal threats to democracy and to lead the Federal Public Ministry, the most daring institution in Brazilian constitutionalism in protecting the rights of disadvantaged groups.

Augusto Aras, a key player in protecting Bolsonarist delinquency, campaigned for his reappointment. He claims that he would have disrupted “the foundations of the car wash while receiving a rain of tracer projectiles illuminated by a journalism fueled by atrocious and uncritical denunciation”.

To react to these “tracer projectiles”, he asked for the arrest of a professor for discrediting criticism of his delicate self-image. He also asked for the arrest of a journalist for words of disapproval of his performance. And with increased penalty for not being just any citizen, but PGR. It is not these tantrums, however, that irremediably compromise his biography.

In the light of the “decriminalization of politics” project, Augusto Aras helped to conflagrate and almost paralyze the Federal Public Ministry in the containment of Bolsonaro’s deadly tragedy. If the MPF accomplished something, it was in spite of Augusto Aras. But Aras now takes credit for what some prosecutors, under pressure and intimidation, still managed to do.

Luiz Carlos Cancellier, former rector of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, committed suicide due to the illegal investigation he was undergoing. He was “the victim” of the car wash, according to Elio Gaspari. We now need to count the Aras car wash victims. And we need to rescue the MPF from the car wash rage that wants to implode it and deinstitutionalize it. This series will be devoted to this in the coming weeks.

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