In Brazil, citizens are taking a stab at a new form of democracy.
A woman apparently incensed over a 91 per cent pay hike legislators granted themselves last week stabbed a prominent member of congress in the back Monday, police said.
Rita de Cassia Sampaio de Souza, 45, told police her anger over the pay hike drove her to stab Representative Antonio Carlos Magalhaes Neto - the scion of a powerful political family - as he left his office in the northeastern city of Salvador da Bahia...
Of course, this is a completely rational response. However police in Brazil see a little more to it.
According to Bahia state police inspector Wilson Ramos, the pay raise was one of things Souza mentioned in her rambling statement after she was arrested. But he added she also demonstrated a certain emotional imbalance.
So which "emotional imbalance" would that be?
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