The thesis is not mine and I wont steal it from its author, the writer Ubaldo Ribeiro, from the Brazilian Academy of Letters, who defended it in his sunday
column of the journal “O Estado de São Paulo”. The idea is original and its development is based on Star Wars. From a far galaxy a group of aliens whose main characteristics is to steal and to lie comes to populate Brazil. Here they came with the mission of founding the First Replubic of Thieves. This project was being delayed because a part of the population has converted to Catolicism and was trying to follow one of God’s Commandment, that until then they didn’t know and that says “Thou shall not steal.” As time passed by they didnt believed in this God anymore and joined their portuguese leaders who always steal. They were centuries later very well described by the writer Oswald de Andrade who compreending that people’s inner self wrote this in “Manifesto Antropófago”: “I’m only interested in what’s not mine”. In the begining of the manifest he writes that only the anthropophagy unite us, this is, unite the brazilians. This means that they live eating each other, but the theft was more or less balanced between the different classes. It happens that in the 20th century and in the beginning of the 21th a class of these aliens, who have received the name of politicians, came out with the idea of stealing more than the other classes. They were elected by a part of the brazilians who are illiterate and elementary and now they own the government of that country that until now noone knows if it’s name correct grafia is Brazil with S or with Z. The current president, Mr. Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, has became a fireman and attends every week a new fire that threatens his palace. Ministers of his government have left under the charge of being thieves. In this month of may of 2007 even the president of the senate of the Republic is suspect of receiveing money fom a big building company. No one is is safe. To lower the tension in that country some politicians-thieves are thinking about founding the I Republic Of Thieves. They argue that thieves always existed in the other republics, but a republic that is commanded byt thieves is an original and new fact in the History of Earth. It is possible that a new plebiscite will be convoked for the population to decide if it should or shouldn’t be formed the Brazilian Republic Of Thieves.
