Bolsonaro Explodes Over 'Humiliating' Lockdown Orders, Demands Populace be Armed Against Tyranny

"Character is what you do when no one is looking."

Jair Bolsonaro goes off about Governors and Mayors having citizens arrested and says the obvious: A well armed people can't be enslaved by tyrants.

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President Bolsonaro began by slamming the country's Supreme Court for refusing to enforce its own laws against handcuffing people who do not post an immediate threat, saying "Sir Minister of Justice, please. It was decided [by the Supreme Court] not long ago, that you couldn't handcuff almost anyone. Why are they putting handcuffs on a citizen or a woman in a public square. And the Justice doesn't say anything? You have to f**king speak!"

He went on, questioning why authorities are remaining silent.

"You're gonna be quiet? Until when? Or do I have to keep on exposing it myself? You have to speak, put it out there. Dish it out. You can't put handcuffs, a decision of the Supreme Court itself. And we're gonna be quiet? Until when," asked President Bolsonaro.

He went on to say that the country's mayors and governors "Keep on humiliating our people, and that's growing," before noting that voters keep looking to him, saying "‘I've voted for you for you to do something, I voted for you, so you make decisions.' And it is true. I couldn't care less with the reelection."

[...] President Bolsonaro then criticized those who are refusing to enact his policy agenda, telling them that they are in the wrong government if they do not support his agenda.

"Whoever doesn't accept my ideals, [Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights] Damares, family, God, Brazil, guns, freedom of speech, free market, who ever doesn't accept that, is in the wrong government. Wait until 2022, Sir Alvaro Dias, wait for Alckmin, wait for Haddad, or maybe Lula, right," said President Bolsonaro, referring to the disgraced former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who served 580 days in prison following a conviction for influence peddling.

"You can go and be happy with them. In my government you're wrong," said the president. "It's to blow wide the gun question here."

"I want everyone armed. Because an armed people will never be enslaved."