Our young democracy is under threat! – News24
The office of the chief public prosecutor in Pretoria, advocate Matric Luphondo, was broken into on Thursday night, just two weeks after computers were stolen from the office of the National Director of Public Prosecutions.
Other similar incidences have been reported on in the past few months, all seemingly related to people investigating sensitive cases involving Gupta/Zuma related people or cases.
When sites that are supposed to be secure are broken into, all with very high levels of security, it strongly indicated that these are perpetrated by insiders. The one thing that is very valuable is always targeted, being sensitive information, or legal dockets, as in this latest incident.
Legally, if the docket disappears, the case disappears. A simple solution then!
This is an integral part of the reactions to pressure from certain people in positions of power, who worked very hard to populate the hawks and other related institutions with their own controllable people. So the wolf is in charge of the hen house. An independent judiciary is a threat to them!
Is there any evidence indicating this may be so? I think yes. How come, top level security is circumvented in each robbery, with no investigations evident, no arrests, and no sense of urgency from the Hawks, NPA or Police about these? In addition, what about the similarity between all these robberies?
Logic indicates that these were perpetrated by insiders, who clearly have insider information and are acting in an orchestrated manner. This is NOT petty crime, perpetrated by petty criminals.
The threat to our democracy is extremely broad based, as can be seen in the Gupta eMails. The state capture is far deeper than we realise, and I think we are still in for more shocking revelations as time goes on. However, the people driving these robberies are obviously in positions of power. How else can they organise insiders to raid the institutions and steal information, computers and dockets? If this is not so, then either our criminals are extremely good, or the security at these sensitive sites very weak.
These robberies, to my mind, indicates desperation and an obvious drive to maintain power and to try and control things. The entire system is under attack!
The fight is on, even if the public is unaware of this.
The press, in my opinion, is way to quite about this issue. This should be shouted from the highest places possible! More so than the Gupta eMails. Dont think that the ANC/Zuma/Gupta gang will go away quietly. They are like wounded animals. Now at their most dangerous!!
However, the Gupta eMails allow us to see behind the curtain. What was considered mere speculation previously, is now accepted as fact in many cases. This has given momentum to the resistance to these criminals. Their desperate reactions indicate that the pressure is being felt!
Keep up the good fight. We will and must take our country and our democracy back. We have done it before.
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