Illustrious Alexandre de Moraes:
We share, you and I, with the AI-5 (in 1968) and the Jaruzelski coup in Poland (in 1981), the anniversary date. As a gift, I offer you this text in defense of your honor. The disclosure of the contract between his wife’s law firm and Banco Master caused gratuitous suspicion to spread. I do not remain silent in the face of injustice.
People are suspicious. It’s frightening: acquaintances, even passers-by, approached me suggesting that the contract would indicate ethical deviations, even corruption. I tried to explain to them the absurdity contained in this suspicion. The contract, of unusual value, only reveals the unequaled competence of your wife, to whom I ask to convey my congratulations. The insinuation that, as a couple, you could fantasize about confidential private contracts and procedures within the STF is abominably perverse.
Vorcaro, it must be said, must be considered innocent until an improbable conviction. The former owner of Master has undeniable qualities. He has sponsored several expensive events, here and abroad, aimed at disseminating national legal thought, with the illustrious presence of politicians, businessmen and STF ministers (including his own). This is called cultural philanthropy. I digress, however: Vorcaro’s innocence or guilt is not at stake.
Years ago, PT members called you a “fascist,” remember? Now, it is the Bolsonaristas who insult you by calling you a “tyrant”. According to the New Yorker, you once calmed your security guards by assuring them that “the hero never dies at the beginning of the story.” Irony of course, but true: you are a hero of democracy.
Leaking the contract serves the Bolsonarists, enemies of democracy. Well, quickly, by jet!, Toffoli brought the Master affair to the STF forum and decreed maximum judicial secrecy. The allegation was opportunistic, we know, but justice must defend itself, even at the expense of the law. From now on, the PF will avoid new revelations and, with them, endless cycles of perfidious journalistic speculation. Democracy breathes better away from exaggerated scrutiny.
“Unhappy is the nation that needs heroes,” said playwright Bertolt Brecht. This was false in the case of Brazil. This is what is true: “happy is the nation which has the privilege of having a hero like Alexander de Moraes”. The corrected sentence must be sent to your colleague Fachin, who emerged – immediately! – with the strange proposal for a code of conduct for the STF. Naivety, I hope, because it seems that you are in collusion with the putschists: the proposal amounts to a slap in the face of you and that of your companion Toffoli.
Apply “militant democracy”, according to the expression popularized by Gilmar. How about the STF declaring the idea of a code of conduct unconstitutional? It is enough to invoke the neoconstitutionalist doctrine, which advocates the resignification of the letter of the law in light of the general principles of the Constitution. Democracy is a constitutional pillar. Under current circumstances, the mere suggestion of such a code serves as a flag for the enemies of democracy – and therefore violates the Great Law. Kill him in the cradle. In the chest. Heroically.
My birthday present arrived a week late. This is on purpose: I waited for possible new leaks to contest the entire coup d’état. Nothing happened, everything was under “constitutional control”. Happy birthday, hero.
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