The federal deputy from Rio de Janeiro has garnered significant support among conservative Brazilians, unnerved by repeated corruption scandals and rising violent crime, with his calls for looser gun laws, impunity for police who kill criminals, chemical castration for rapists, attacks on the left and praise for Brazil's brutal 1964-85 military dictatorship.
When people break the law with impunity, it encourages further disobedience and breeds further disrespect for the rule of law.
It has played into the hands of the Israeli right as it demonstrated Israel could effectively defy international law with impunity.
A 1993 amnesty law guaranteed impunity for perpetrators, and enabled the criminal networks formed by business, military and political elites to remain intact.
"Chrysler has been violating the law with impunity for too long," said Joan Claybrook, a former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and a longtime consumer safety advocate.
Resale of football tickets was banned in 1994 to help security at grounds, though there are plenty of websites which appear to flout this law with impunity.
But the aim of her protest is clear: India must scrap a law giving impunity to soldiers who rape, abduct, murder or torture her fellow north-easterners.On March 4th Ms Sharmila was charged with attempted suicide.
The commission, part of the Organzation of American States, said courts were influenced by the government and armed gangs broke the law with impunity and likened the economic, health and social problems to serious rights violations.
As in the bad old days, some politicians seem able to break any law with impunity to enrich themselves in the continent's wealthiest state houses, where they often have bigger budgets at their disposal than many of Africa's smaller countries.
"It is striking that two fathers in search of justice for their dead sons have mobilized more outcry against lack of rule of law and impunity in BiH than any political party has managed to do," the European Union's special representative in Bosnia, Lars Gunnar-Wigemark, said in a statement that also condemned the police crackdown on Dec. 25.
