Watching Bolsonaro heading to prison

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Jailhouse shock: Brazil coup monger Bolsonaro finally faces life behind bars
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/20/jair-bolsonaro-prison-former-president-brazil

He fought the law and the law won.

Two months after receiving a 27-year sentence for trying to “annihilate” Brazil’s democratic institutions, former president Jair Bolsonaro finally looks jail-bound.

The convicted coup-monger – who has been living under house arrest in his mansion while a series of legal procedures and appeals play out – is widely expected to be incarcerated in the coming days, amid growing speculation that he will be sent to a notorious maximum security prison.

During Bolsonaro’s four-decade political career, the far-right former paratrooper showed little compassion for Brazil’s prison population.

“Why should we give those dirtbags a good life?” he once mused. “They should just get fucked, full-fucking-stop. That’s what I reckon.”

On another occasion, Bolsonaro proclaimed: “If you don’t want to end up there, all you have to do is not rape, kidnap or rob.”
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Watch and learn Supremes - coup plotters must be locked up

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1. "He fought the law and the law won."

What is this mysterious superpower, "law"? How can it be effective against an authoritarian Strong Leader? Is it only available in Brazil, or could we import it to the US?

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2. +1,000

Rec

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3. I say we should try, but.....

tRump probably put a tariff on it.

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4. Hope it doesn't take us that long. TickTock Donnie

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5. Latest

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/22/far-right-former-president-jair-bolsonaro-arrested-in-brazil


Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília​, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup.

In a brief statement, federal police confirmed officers had executed a preventive arrest warrant at the request of the supreme court. The 70-year-old politician was taken to a federal police base, 7 miles from the presidential palace he occupied from 2019 until 2022, when he lost the election and tried to launch a military coup.

The arrest of Bolsonaro, who had been living under house arrest since August, was ordered by the supreme court justice, Alexandre de Moraes, as a result of fears the former president might make a run for one of Brasília’s many diplomatic compounds to avoid punishment for the failed power grab.

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Have to wonder if he was going to be transported to a waiting warship.