Botswana fast becoming a police state before our eyes

Adolf Hitler nicknamed the 'God of Germany' came to power and sustained his authority by intimidation of the masses through his Nazi party organs, the most prominent being the Schutzstaffel (SS) better known as the Blackshirts, the terrorist state security apparatus , driving them into submission while he rammed policies of 'the superior Aryan race' into their psyche.

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. 

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