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  GeoffWard2

  Dear friends,
  Brasil’s Ficha Limpa is, once more, under threat –
  - the Supreme Court could rule it unconstitutional, letting hundreds of convicted politicians run for office.
  But President Dilma could save it by appointing a new anti-corruption justice.
  
  The Court is split, but this new justice will have the deciding vote.
  Corrupt politicians are pushing for a justice who would rule against the Ficha Limpa law.
  But we have overcome these dirty politicians before:
  The previous Avaaz petition encouraged Parliament to pass Ficha Limpa against their will.
  We can do it again this week if we petition Dilma to choose a strong candidate against corruption.
  
  President Dilma is showing committment to fighting corruption; she needs to see the support of the people.
  The petition will be delivered directly to Dilma’s key advisors.
  
  http://avaaz.org/po/ficha_limpa_under_threat_/?vl
  
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  Mais informações:
  
  Ficha Limpa corre o risco de perder a validade (A Gazeta)
  http://avaaz.org/po/ficha_limpa_under_threat_/?vl
  
  Supremo põe lei da Ficha Limpa na corda bamba (Estadão)
  http://avaaz.org/po/ficha_limpa_under_threat_/?vl
  
  Ficha Limpa poderá perder a validade (O Povo Online)
  http://avaaz.org/po/ficha_limpa_under_threat_/?vl
  
  Procurador-geral defende constitucionalidade da Ficha Limpa (Folha de S. Paulo)
  http://avaaz.org/po/ficha_limpa_under_threat_/?vl
  
  Movimento que coletou assinaturas para a Lei da Ficha Limpa lamenta absolvição de Jaqueline Roriz (O Globo)
  http://avaaz.org/po/ficha_limpa_under_threat_/?vl

  Sep 08th, 2011 - 02:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  xbarilox

  “Wearing face paint and clown noses” hahaha

  Sep 08th, 2011 - 09:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  Tim

  It is encouraging to see these anti-corruption demonstrations; one can only hope that this is the start of a contagion that will cross the borders into Argentina and the rest of Latin America.

  Sep 09th, 2011 - 02:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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  GeoffWard2

  Only when the people in the street see you and me, the people of the street, saying that corruption hits every one of us, in our pocket and in the warping of our social behaviour, will things change.
  
  Brasil's Ficha Limpa is arguably the first 'wake up call'
  *from the people themselves*.
  
  If this social meme were to spread across a critical mass of South American countries - say 10 countries - and, if the course of the groundswell of public disquiet were transmitted to the population of the whole world via the networked News programmes,
  only then would the rapacious political class of the Continent be threatened enough for them to desist or be removed.
  
  Because these people have massive land ownerships - frequently acquired illegally, and huge assets held at home and abroad held in many names and across many extended families, the removal of these assets must, perforce, hit many people both guilty and guilty by association.
  They must be hurt and must be SEEN to be hurt - for the duration of the lifetime of the corrupt.
  
  This necessary social correction is not Left, it's not Right, and it is not Centre.
  It's the application of social norms to suit the 21st Century here in the Developing World.
  Without these norms of behaviour, we, the people of South America, will remain the feral societies we have become.

  Sep 09th, 2011 - 12:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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