Posted on 04/26/2025 7:29:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Rodrigues was arrested as part of a broader investigation into an alleged coup plot against the newly-elected President Lula da Silva.
The 39-year-old hairdresser apologised for writing "You lost, idiot" on the statue of Justice outside the Supreme Federal Court - an incident dubbed the "lipstick coup".
She maintains that she did not take part in any violence.
"I went to the protests and I didn't imagine that they would be so turbulent," said Rodrigues. "I have never done anything illegal in my life".
Rodrigues' lawyers said that she did not enter any buildings during the riots and acted impulsively in the "heat of the moment." She expressed regret over her actions.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
14 years to ponder “was it worth it”.
FAFO
That’s harsh.
Leftist governments may not enforce the laws against violence and theft of private property but they take ordinary peaceful political dissent very seriously- it can be a capital crime.
You’re supporting Marxism.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2377226/posts
THE GIANT NO ONE SEES: RED REVOLUTION COMES TO “GREEN GIANT” BRAZIL
INATODAY.com - INTERNATIONAL NEWS ANALYSIS TODAY ^ | November 3, 2009 | Toby Westerman
Posted on November 3, 2009 1:23:40 AM PST by Cindy
SNIPPET: “Lula and Chavez have established a “strategic relationship,” and recently agreed upon a joint Brazilian-Venezuelan oil venture worth billions of dollars. Lula and Chavez have joined with Daniel Ortega, the returned Nicaraguan Marxist dictator, to form an anti-U.S. Latin American military alliance - all with Russian assistance - funded by the region’s abundant oil reserves.
Brazil is engaged in its own arms build-up and Lula is determined that Brazil will become at least a first-rate regional power. Unfortunately, Lula is establishing Brazil as an anti-American military power by aligning with nations hostile or potentially hostile to the U.S. Lula has developed close ties with not only Chavez, but also with his political clones, Evo Morales in Bolivia, and Rafael Correa in Ecuador.
Lula supports the international pariah, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and defends the right of the Islamic Republic of Iran to develop a nuclear capability. Iran has expressed its willingness to share its atomic technology with Brazil - as well as with Venezuela.”
Lula is a commie.
And Lulu absolutely stole the election.
“That’s harsh.”
I would suggest that people who want to break the law in other countries should check out what the consequences of their actions are.
You think they have a law that says “14 years imprisonment if you write something we don’t like with lipstick on a statue”?
14 years for writing something on a statue - not doing any actual damage? This is the result of a corrupt establishment lashing out at people who were protesting their stolen election. These corrupt establishment A-holes were put in by the same corrupt US Deep State that did similar things here.
People do not undersand
Stopping traffic is violence
Graffiti is violence
Shoplifting is violence
Robbery is violence
It is all a violent taking.
Didn’t some U.S. college kid get caned in Singapore, for stealing a poster?
The problem is, there are few consequences in the U.S., for such acts, not that other countries punish criminals harshly.
“ You think they have a law that says “14 years imprisonment if you write something we don’t like with lipstick on a statue”?”
No but they probably have laws against vandalism.
Really? Excessive sentences were the hallmark of J6 as well.
So you support corrupt leftists imprisoning people for 14 years because they wrote a protest message with lipstick? You must have been thrilled with Democrat efforts to imprison J6 protesters.
You kind of missed the point. You don’t want to do anything that could cause you to be arrested, especially in a foreign country.
During our Annual Service Practice in Crete, we were given specific instructions on what NOT to wear, owing to the long standing tensions between the Greeks and the Turkish.
There's always one that seeks to test the limits, and that soldier was incarcerated for a couple of days.
My apologies to those who didn't like my FAFO comment, it was meant to be tongue in cheek. More of a comment on the lack of situational awareness and common sense that is in short supply nowadays.
I learned my lesson in Germany. I was stopped at the Aachen border stop, where my car was thoroughly investigated by the German Polizei. He just couldn't believe a 25 YO American could legally afford a new Volvo.
Here's something to keep you lying awake at night, since you are so disturbed at the thought of breaking the laws of the corrupt totalitarian elites:
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