Today is a sad day. It's the day students were treated like criminals and were arrested demanding their rights.
Right to free expression, or the right to do what many of those pointing out do hidden in their homes or in trendy nightclubs.
It all started when students were caught using marijuana inside USP. Everyone knows they weren't the first and they won't be the last. And if the police wanted to arrest drug users, they just had to go to several specific addresses, including Estada da Luz and Ceasa. Where dozens smoke crack in the open every day and they simply ignore it.
We also know about law 11.343/06, which does not provide for prison terms for drug users. There should also be a consensus that users do not deserve to be arrested, but treatment is in their own interest.
The students were also treated with huge prejudices, saying they were "stoner playboys". The facts of being well born and studying at USP, a dream of the majority of the population, weigh against them. Pure repression.
And as a protest for seeing students being taken in vehicles inside the campus, as has been done several times, they took over a rectory and wanted the PM to leave.
There is also a consensus that the PM is truculent and dishonest. The PM treated the case as personal, sending a huge contingent to show strength, power and vacate. Now everyone is arrested for "disobedience". Is this authoritarianism or not?
In this story I remember how peaceful it is to live in Copenhagen, and that this peace does not come from the police, because there are practically no police there. This peace comes from education. If there were greater investment in education, we would not be hostage to this type of brutality.
It is much more interesting for governments to invest in police than in education, why give people wings and intelligence if they can frighten and arrest those who do not follow their regimes?
Meanwhile, the Brazilian is alienated, he wastes all his time with football, religion and carnival. It's everything that governments want and encourage most.
