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2022-11-22 Caribbean-Latin America
Brazilians protesting election results have their bank accounts frozen
[NewsWars] Protesting President Jair Bolsonaro’s defeat are having their bank accounts frozen. The reports come days after the electoral court ordered the blocking of major social media accounts disputing the results.

Bolsonaro lost to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last month in a closely contested election by a 49.1% to 50.9% margin.

Following his defeat, thousands of truck drivers parked their vehicles on highways across the country, like what truckers in Canada did to protest Covid measures. The protesters were claiming that the election was stolen.

Some Brazilians protesting President Jair Bolsonaro’s defeat are having their bank accounts frozen. The reports come days after the electoral court ordered the blocking of major social media accounts disputing the results.

Bolsonaro lost to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last month in a closely contested election by a 49.1% to 50.9% margin.

Following his defeat, thousands of truck drivers parked their vehicles on highways across the country, like what truckers in Canada did to protest Covid measures. The protesters were claiming that the election was stolen.

"It is necessary, appropriate and urgent to block the bank accounts of those investigated, given the possibility of using resources to finance illicit and undemocratic acts, in order to stop the injury or threat to law," said De Moraes, saying that there have been "repeated abuse of the right to assemble."

De Moraes alleged the "several antidemocratic acts" began after protesting truck drivers "began to block traffic on several highways of the country."

Some Brazilians protesting President Jair Bolsonaro’s defeat are having their bank accounts frozen. The reports come days after the electoral court ordered the blocking of major social media accounts disputing the results.

Bolsonaro lost to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last month in a closely contested election by a 49.1% to 50.9% margin.

Following his defeat, thousands of truck drivers parked their vehicles on highways across the country, like what truckers in Canada did to protest Covid measures. The protesters were claiming that the election was stolen.

"It is necessary, appropriate and urgent to block the bank accounts of those investigated, given the possibility of using resources to finance illicit and undemocratic acts, in order to stop the injury or threat to law," said De Moraes, saying that there have been "repeated abuse of the right to assemble."

De Moraes alleged the "several antidemocratic acts" began after protesting truck drivers "began to block traffic on several highways of the country."

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes is cracking down on those doubting the election results.

"Those who by criminal means have been taking part in anti-democratic acts will be treated like criminals," he said after suspending several key Bolsonaro supporters from social media.

Several local news outlets have reported that Moraes has frozen the bank accounts of over 40 people and companies that have been linked with the protests.

While in New York last week, Moraes said that "democracy in Brazil was attacked, but it survived." He added that the trend of doubting election results was started in the US by the right and "spread to Eastern Europe and then to Brazil."

Moraes’s tactics are following the tactics Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used against civil liberties protesters of the Freedom Convoy — a move that Trudeau is still being investigated over.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-11-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Trudeau just hit the leadership team, but they set the precedent. Interesting that the out of office next administration is able to extend his template in another hemisphere. It is almost as if there is a totalitarian portion of many governments that coordinate their actions.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-11-22 06:51||   2022-11-22 06:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Yup. This is going to be standard from now on. Everything you cheered for when it was done to Russia, is going to be done to you. And you have nobody to blame but yourself.
Posted by Spike the Hairy6811 2022-11-22 07:21||   2022-11-22 07:21|| Front Page Top

#3  It is almost as if there is a totalitarian portion of many governments that coordinate their actions.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-11-22 07:28||   2022-11-22 07:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Demoncrats wet dream.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-11-22 08:41||   2022-11-22 08:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Can you say 'bank run' boys and girls.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-11-22 09:07||   2022-11-22 09:07|| Front Page Top

#6 The 2020 US putsch redefined the word 'Democracy' for the world.

Democracy (n)- a system of government where only votes cast for Democrats are valid and the electoral machine is a quadrennial pressure valve for the masses.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-22 10:54||   2022-11-22 10:54|| Front Page Top

#7 I wonder if the people "supervising" the Brazilian election are the same ones supervising ours.
Posted by SteveS 2022-11-22 11:07||   2022-11-22 11:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Yep, banks will no longer be trusted. And the more you put these people in a corner, the less reason they will have to refrain from nailing the leaders and their families to trees. Push people far enough back into the corner and you give them nothing left to lose.
Posted by Silentbrick 2022-11-22 11:33||   2022-11-22 11:33|| Front Page Top

#9 You reduce political opposition to monetary impotence, and have visibility into every aspect of a person's life and connections. Digital currency, the ultimate tool for control.

World-wide people have been lured in the past 20+ years by the chimera of "convenience" and "ease of transaction (consider your own experience at the grocery store watching the epic flailing for so many using credit cards to get the system to approve a purchase, and the ease of cash transactions). My WallyWorld experience these days is 75% of people use cards for all purchases in person, and in these hard times seeing multiple card use to pay for groceries, or cards and EBT/SNAP debit cards, is a tragic proof of the impact of the deepening recession.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-11-22 13:25||   2022-11-22 13:25|| Front Page Top

#10 AFL-CIA Dominion software can also do that? Amazing !
Posted by Besoeker 2022-11-22 13:49||   2022-11-22 13:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Doesn't matter much if the account is empty.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-22 14:12||   2022-11-22 14:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Commies gonna commie.
Posted by Regular joe 2022-11-22 14:33||   2022-11-22 14:33|| Front Page Top

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