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 !!
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