Botswana fast becoming a police state before our eyes
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Do we see this development in Botswana since the creation of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services with Isaac Kgosi in charge? Heinrich Himmler the chicken farmer was SS head; Dr Josef Goebbels whose philosophy, was a lie repeated many times becomes the truth, headed the propaganda outfit! Who do we have here? Masisi the bootlicker? Himmler’s storm troopers’ strategy was intimidate, terrorise and beat Germans into submission! The DIS does no less.
Hitler's Germany was a police state controlled by the SS; the economy fell under state control; Krupp the car manufacturer was ordered to design and produce an affordable car for the German workers, the Volkswagen (people’s car). Jewish businesses were expropriated and handed over to the pure Germans. Indigenisation. It was a master-stroke to reconcile antagonistic capitalist and working class interests in the Third Reich. Deutschland ubber alles (Germany above everything else became the Reich’s slogan. The Third Reich terrorism spilled over the borders and plunged the world into World War II, which took millions of innocent lives and devastated the global economy.
Instead, it has sparked a storm of accusations, denials, and unresolved questions about the influence of De Beers on the nation’s politics. Former president Mokgweetsi Masisi’s claims that the diamond giants bankrolled his removal to dodge taxes – and that the new Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) government watered down a favourable diamond deal – are explosive matters. But without evidence, they risk becoming a toxic distraction from...