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2006-05-15 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Fred 2006-05-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Sounds more like Mogadishu than Sao Paolo..."

I guess you've never been to Sao Paulo...

Posted by bonanzabucks 2006-05-15 00:30|| 2006-05-15 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 PAULA ABDUL's "...Trips to BRazil - prepare to...WHAT!". D*** IT, Paula and Madonna, etal. knew, didn't everybody???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-15 00:33|| 2006-05-15 00:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Latest reports say 52 dead, mostly police.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-05-15 05:24|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-05-15 05:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Didn't Brazil just join the nuclear club? Why yes, yes they did.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-05-15 07:24|| 2006-05-15 07:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Weren't the Brazilians advising 'trigger-happy' Scotland Yard over the Menezes death?? - Maybe they'd like some advice in return - How about go f*ck yourselves. Now, pass me the popcorn..

Posted by Howard UK 2006-05-15 07:37|| 2006-05-15 07:37|| Front Page Top

#6 In 2002, there were 5,719 homicides in São Paulo. 52 dead is less than the tally on a slow weekend.

Posted by ed 2006-05-15 07:51|| 2006-05-15 07:51|| Front Page Top

#7 "#6 In 2002, there were 5,719 homicides in São Paulo. 52 dead is less than the tally on a slow weekend."

Actually, that figure is low. I dated a Brazilian girl once and her cousin was a Sao Paulo cop. He told me that each year SP has about 10 000 people murdered. SP is about the same size as NYC, which has a little over 500 murders a year. And as bad as SP is, Rio is far worse and has way more murders and is only half the size. Even Paulistas are too scared to go to Rio...

Posted by bonanzabucks 2006-05-15 13:15|| 2006-05-15 13:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Isn't the maximum possible sentence in Brazil a term of 30 years imprisonment?

They now have imprisoned gang leaders openly challenging the authority of the state.

The Brazilian state has renounced its monopoly on killing and the gangs have filled the void.

But such open challenge to state authority may be beyond court remedies and the death penalty.
When you declare war against the state, the state must make war on you.

Let the President Lula issue a full pardon to the police and army for what they have to do. Unleash them on the gangs in the slums. Show no mercy. Slaughter them all.

Make the jailed gang leaders simply disappear.

Posted by john 2006-05-15 17:05|| 2006-05-15 17:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Fly low over the Amazon Basin and drop these criminals randomly wherever they choose. The cannibals will rejoice, and the number of criminals will decline rapidly.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-05-15 19:16|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-05-15 19:16|| Front Page Top

#10 I just saw a clip on TV from Sao Paulo.

These gangsters have shut down the largest city in South America. The authority of the state has been shattered. Thugs rule.

Posted by john 2006-05-15 19:27|| 2006-05-15 19:27|| Front Page Top

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