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rotciv KOTHRT
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 Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:36 am Post subject: End of road for driver with $1.9 million in fines |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26907184/?GT1=43001
End of road for driver with $1.9 million in fines
Brazilian man ticketed nearly 1,000 times since 2001
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazilian police reportedly have caught up with a motorist who owes the equivalent of nearly $2 million in unpaid traffic fines.
  
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Son Goku
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Not sure what to say, tbh... On the one hand, if it was here; and someone got these tickets, it would be like "about time, wasn't he brought to court ages ago?" However, we're talking Brazil, which has it's own history of, there's no way to water this down, death squads and the like as common practice...
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:Y78tTD78ER0J:www.comebackalive.com/df/dplaces/brazil/dthing7.htm+Brazilian+death+squads&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us
| Quote: | | In Brazil, death squads are like bowling teams anywhere else. Besides murder gangs comprised of former and current police officers (see "The Players"), there are also death squads made up of congressmen and even, believe it or not, taxi drivers. In February 1999, an investigation into allegations that Congressman Hildebrando Pascoal is the chairman of the board of a death gang responsible for murdering at least 30 people since 1985 was initiated by the Supreme Federal Tribunal, the nation's top court. Death squads are active in at least 9 of Brazil's 27 states. In Acre, a death squad composed entirely of taxi drivers is thought to be roaming around whacking people after fender benders. The Acre taxi hit team has killed at least five people, usually folks involved in accidents with a cab. Steer clear of taxis in Acre, and if you've gotta take one, it'd be a good idea to leave a real good tip. |
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/10/world/main577542.shtml
| Quote: | (CBS/AP) Gunmen shot and killed a man who spoke to a U.N. investigator about police death squads, an attack that came a day after Brazil's president pledged to protect witnesses who come forward to testify about human rights abuses.
The killing of Gerson de Jesus Bispo on Thursday shocked human rights officials who have struggled to control rogue police accused of torture and summary executions in Latin America's largest country.
Bispo was the second person killed after speaking to Asma Jahangir, the United Nations official investigating extrajudicial and summary executions.
"It is a clear challenge to demonstrate that, despite the pledge of the president to protect people, they (the death squads) are untouchable," said Humans Rights Secretary Nilmario Miranda.
The United Nations deplored the slaying and said it was trying to get more information about the incident in Santo Antonio de Jesus in northern Brazil.
"We learned with great consternation this morning of the reported killing of a second person who had spoken to the special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions," said Jose Diaz, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.
The U.N. representative was in Brazil under an official invitation to investigate police involvement in arbitrary executions. She said she had discovered "a gruesome picture which is not worthy of a fit, democratic Brazil."
The gunmen apparently had already sent a signal of their discomfort with the mission of the U.N. official — another person Jahandir had interviewed, Flavio Manoel da Silva, was mysteriously killed on Sept. 27. |
When not only police; but legislators (ala the law makers) can be involved in death squads, it's hard to know if anything can be taken at face value. This said, there are a number of bad drivers out there; and many who have needed to be dealt with in legal systems far less questionable then Brazil's... |
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