Spooks, Spies, Paranoia and Eugene de Kock !!

The secrecy around the parole of Eugene de Kock and the subsequent events, which remain shaded and in the shadows, has got me thinking that we are in a state of communistic paranoia.

Inside a story, is another story, and inside that one, is another. There are circles within circles within ever diminishing circles until only one thing remains, Eugene de Kock. From the point of Eugene, the events and the circles move outward like the ripples that continuously make rings when you throw a stone into the middle of a large, but still pond.

I think I have read every non-fiction book and journal ever written on Communism; from the birth of Karl Marx to the life and times of Mao. My greed for knowledge of communism has stemmed from the part I played in the political history of our country, South Africa.

It is against the background of this knowledge that I have begun to unravel and understand the reasons behind the secrecy and lies, the spies and the double agents and the shadowy world in which people within a secret State Security Agency live.

What a person is told is very rarely the truth in a communist state where paranoia rules. Paranoia is only found in sane people who are able to lie and keep secrets, and in people who can divide their personality and essential self into separate compartments and play different roles convincingly. Secrets, lies and fear lie behind the hide-and-seek game being played out with Eugene de Kock. And it is not fair and it is not just.

From being the highest decorated police officer ever in South Africa, he became the scapegoat; the common criminal and prisoner of a society that had changed its mind. The terrorist in prison for treason became the President; the man who put his life at risk for his country became the criminal. What a terrible price to pay for a few men who changed their minds, and then a media who jumped on the band wagon to demonise a hero? A hero decorated for bravery thrown into prison and a terrorist applauded and praised!

Yes, I understand now. Eugene de Kock knows too much about too many important people and the mere mention or rumour spread about previous spies, askaris and double agents is enough to keep him away from society so that his silence can be enforced. Political careers are made and demolished by mere suggestions or rumours that someone was a collaborator with the Apartheid state. Is Eugene being ‘protected’ or ‘kept in custody’ by the SSA? Of course, the normal unthinking person will say “Oh! That is good that they are protecting him. Why are you worried?” Another completely ignorant person will say, “Oh! But I thought he was on parole?” And yet another will say to me, “Why don’t you just let it go now? Give the man some peace!” And the most stupid of them all are those who spread lies about me because I have become a threat to the egos of others.

The question that arises is this:

Is he being protected or is he still being held in custody by the State Security Agency (SSA) instead of the Department of Correctional Services (DCS)?

Did the Department of Justice and Correctional Services make a blunder when they denied his parole on the basis of not having consulted with the victims? After that denial for that particular reason, the request for parole could not later be denied after fulfilling the required reason when he was denied parole. In other words, once the Department of Justice and Correctional Services said, “You can’t get parole because you have not consulted with the victims”, when he applied again, there was no longer a reason to with-hold parole.

If the Department of Justice and Correctional Services made a blunder, the next best thing for the government to do would be to hand him over to another state agency to keep him away from society and to keep him silenced. This is actually what seems to have happened to Eugene. He was taken from his cell (without any of his belongings), three days before the Minister of Justice announced his parole to the media, by members of the South African Police Service. From there he was handed over to the State Security Agency. Thus, Correctional Services said they did not have him, the South African Police Service said they did not have him and the Minister of Justice continued to state that he was on parole.

Let us not forget that Eugene de Kock pleaded guilty and was sentenced as an ordinary criminal and not as a political prisoner. That being a fact, he should have been given the exact same rights of any parolee or common criminal, given the same sentence. It is another fact that this was not done and that his parole has become entwined in a political situation where the agenda is to keep him away from normal society. Since we now know that he is being held by the SSA, and he is being guarded by many vehicles and agents, and that even a single visit to his family entailed an enormous cloak and dagger state of affairs, should anything untoward happen to him, our fingers will be pointing exactly to those in whose custody he is. Vlakplaas was just such an entity. The weaving and ducking being done by the SSA is no different to the ducking and diving that was being done by the previous government’s secret agencies.

Imagine the enormous amount of money it is taking for this country to keep one man away from society? To do this, there has got to be an unending supply of money for one or other slush funds...slush funds similar to those funds that kept the previous governments various law and order agencies floating. How else were askaris and spies paid? How else where passports, documents and various things forged? How else were borders crossed and air tickets paid for? It took money, money that was allocated to a particular slush fund for a particular purpose. And that is what is happening now – Eugene has become an operation or a project. There needs to be authorisation from somewhere for such an operation or project to come into existence, so who authorised the “Operation Eugene de Kock” or the “Project Eugene de Kock”. Of course, the operation or project may have any name, such as “Project Honeybadger” or “Operation HKGK”.

The Communists are adept hands at this cloak and dagger stuff – the problem here though is that there are a lot of us who know that one and one does not make two. Communism is enshrouded in back-stabbing, intelligence and counter-intelligence, false flags and secrets within secrets. The politics of communism call into effect a society of whisperers, because no one knows who can be trusted and mothers are sold for less than twenty pieces of silver. The only way to stay at the top is to use fear to silence people. People are afraid to say anything about anything that is unpopular with the government or the ANC. And people are afraid to get involved or to speak of Eugene de Kock; even afraid to sign a petition asking that he be given the parole he was given on the 30 January 2015.

Being held by the SSA, whether for protection or for incarceration, allows Eugene a lot more quality of care than when he was in prison. He can put his own light on and off, he can eat when he wants, he can watch the sunrise and the sunset should he want, he can sleep when he wants, but he has extremely limited (worse than prison) contact with the outside world, including this family.

Years ago, I made an oath that I would do everything in my power to see Eugene de Kock freed, and having been extremely happy with the decision to grant him parole, I find the current situation totally unacceptable. If this is how I feel, someone who has never even met the man, I cannot even begin to try and get my head around how his loved ones must feel. The more I learn and the more pieces of the puzzle I put together via my different sources, the more despair I feel. Why are those in power so afraid of what Eugene de Kock knows? He is not a threat to society, he is not hero worshipped and he has no political aspirations. He is just an officer and a gentleman. Put down your paranoia please Mr Minister of Justice and Mr President. We really don’t care about what you did during the previous government. In fact, we don’t care about the past at all. We want to live today to make it better for tomorrow. NOW … FREE EUGENE DE KOCK !!