"David" wrote in message
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> >
> > 1) This regulation was imposed by a Judge. Lula has absolutely nothing
to do
> > with it.
>
> I never said Lula passed this new Law. I can read and I know it was
> some Anti-American Federal Judge. If Lula wanted to, he could have
> squashed this new Federal regulation...
It's not up to him, specifically, because in the Brazilian system he cannot
just overrule the sentence of a federal judge. The branch of the executive
responsible for this is however currently studying the best way to appeal
against the decision before the supreme federal court. At any rate the final
decision will be in the hands of the judiciary branch and not the executive.
> > 2) They may be stupid and reactionary, but they are also being
reciprocal.
> > When Canada and Russia begins singling out Brazilians as potential
> > terrorists, Brazil will begin singling out Canadians and Russians, not
> > before. At any rate, by applying this to U.S. citizens, Brazil is
> > effectively targeting more than 80% of the tourists from countries that
> > require a visa from Brazilian citizens.
>
> The USA did not single out Brazilians as terrorists. They require ALL
> visitors needing tourist visas to go through the new procedure, not
> only Brazilians.
So, they single out *every* visitor (from outside Europe and friendly
states) as a potential terrorist, or so the lore tells us. It is ironic how
this new cell of terrorist threats are coming from the UK, no? On the other
hand, just think of the biggest perceived threat that a third-world country
citizen trying to enter the U S. poses to the average American to understand
why they are taking these measures. A terrorist group that is organized
enough will not even try to enter the U.S. with a third-world country
passport, and the department of homeland security knows that.
> > 4) Castro is a very, very OLD friend of Lula... The new friends are
Gaddhafi
> > and al Ashad. :-)
>
> Yes, all the Latin world communists stick together... Lula does not
> see that Brazil needs the USA a lot more than they need Cuba.
Lula isn't a communist anymore, as the way he's running Brazil's internal
economics can atest. I've actually came to doubt he ever was. If anything
his motivations about external policy are more in the line of a union
leader's than an actual chief of state. For him all there are reduce to
bosses (G-7) vs. employees (G-22 or whatever). And I will bet it will take
more time than his term to realise otherwise.
B.
P.S.: to the spammers out there: you made it. You killed my e-mail address.
Thank you very much.
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