Comments for 1,200 Vigilantes Poised to Invade Brazil's City of God. It's Not a Movie at http://www.brazzilmag.com , comment 0 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.brazzilmag.com Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:51:19 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/7896/54/#pc_7172 If it were a movie, no one would pay to see it. Better get government financing on this screenplay. - Ric Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:37:58 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/7896/54/#pc_6976 it will only be a change from one power to another power, from one gang using illegal practices to another gang using illegal practices. From one brutal force to another brutal forcel, but both having the same objective : make as much money as possible wether legally or illegally...for their own benefit...at the expenses of all other citizen at whatever cost and brutal force is needed.. Quite similar to your politicians practices. Afterall Robocop was also elected as chief...by the members of his gang !!!!!!! - ch.c. Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:17:50 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/7896/54/#pc_6972 When you have eight-years killing people as hitmen from bicycles in places like Cidade de Deus, that points to a fundamental societal breakdown. Where are the parents of these kids in all this? In the short term, police vigilantes may be able to wipe out the drug traffickers that control Cidade de Deus now, but the only thing that will happen in the long run is that the police will take over and start dealing drugs, if they haven't already. What will probably happen is that the army will intervene again, just like it did in 1987. However, military intervention did nothing to address the problems of homelessness and poverty that are endemic in the favelas of Rio. Since most of these kids aren't in school now, they will likely have no future when they're older. Rather, they will have children who will be all but unemployable like they are now, and the whole thing starts at zero again. That is something that the whole world has to address, not just Brazil. - David Joanisse Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:09:26 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/7896/54/#pc_6971 Again the poor with no place to go and no money to get there are in the middle - Forrest Allen Brown Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:32:06 +0100