A noção de desobediência civil no contexto de guerra às drogas: o caso "Ras Geraldinho"

Abstract

The current political-economic context is marked by the great influence that private capital has on the figure of the State, which is responsible for protecting the citizen and provider of fundamental rights and guarantees. In this way, there is an increasing tendency to move away from state tutelage in the name of a greater saving of life and of human beings. Consequently, the citizen has his rights subjugated to a market logistics prepared to contain any kind of reaction that defies the dominant system. It is precisely in this fragile scenario that civil disobedience gains importance and appears as an alternative to abuses of power. The present work seeks to analyze the notion of civil disobedience in the context of the drug war, a locus in which the case of "Ras Geraldinho", a religious leader condemned by the system for making use of Cannabis saliva in his liturgies. Geraldo's arrest, however, shows how Brazilian law still uses prejudiced and obsolete discourses to deal with all those who fall under the Drug Law, whether as a user, a trafiicker or for religious use of the herb, the difference Of treatment is a mere formality restricted to doctrine, since the Brazilian judiciary tends to treat all hypotheses as a single modality of crime, which must be severely combated. Despite the unprepared form as the Law presents itself before his case, Ras Geraldinho remains faithful to his ideals in the Rastafarianisno, even knowing how complicated is his situation before the Brazilian penal system. The leader openly states that he is not committing a crime for smoking, planting and using Cannabis sativa as a spiritual catalyst in his religious events. Together with the regulars and members of his church - the First Niubingui Ethiopian Coptic of Zion of Brazil Church - Geraldo heads a nonviolent group action, which draws attention to his cause, the end of social prejudice and freedom to express Their belief in dignity. Thus, it is demonstrated that civil disobedience is a mechanism of social transformations, which should not be limited to making pressures in the political arena, but also to enable new possibilities of social experience in practice. In the case of Ras, disobedience follows the constitutionalist side, but even if it is legitimate it comes up against issues of great relevance, such as the fact that the Drug War is a great market move and generates profits for minority sectors of society, which holds the Dominance over private capital and, consequently, holds power over political and judicial decisions.