RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — History professor Wandercy Pugliesi first made headlines in 2014, when it was discovered that he had an enormous swastika tiled into his backyard pool in rural southern Brazil.
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Pugliesi, 58, named his son Adolf, and police seized a trove of Nazi-related materials from him in 1994.
Now he is back in the news after attempting to run for a seat on his local town council. The Liberal Party that he is affiliated with kicked him out last week, “for not ideologically agreeing with the affiliate.”
Fernando Lottenberg, the president of the country’s umbrella Jewish organization, the Brazilian Israelite Confederation, praised the removal. The local state Jewish federation’s president called Pugliesi “execrable and regrettable.”
“Brazil sent troops to fight Nazism and fascism. It is absurd that there are people who try to make this type of thing flourish,” Sergio Iokilevitc, president of the Associacao Israelita Catarinense, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Pugliesi lives in Brazil’s state of Santa Catarina, which is home to many German immigrants and their descendants and has been the stage for several neo-Nazi incidents.
Who cares if this guy has a swastika in his PRIVATE swimming pool or has other such paraphernalia in his PRIVATE home? A nutcase has the right to do whatever he wants on his own property as long as he is not a threat to others. Is it illegal to be an idiot? If it was, then all these Biden voters should be imprisoned. The Thought Police is completely out of control.