Trump, the Media, and the Cambridge Four

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Communists, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Media

The Cambridge Four.

— Starting in the 1930s, a club of (at least) four devout British Communists from Cambridge University (below) managed to worm themselves into MI6, the security woodwork of the United States, and even into the Royal family. From here they undermined the security of the West with impunity for decades. They leaked the plans of the US Nuclear effort to the Soviets. They were Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Anthony Blunt. Blunt was a third cousin of the British Queen Mother and took tea with her. Of the four, three eventually fled to the U.S.S.R. Burgess an Maclean fled in 1951; Philby in 1963.

Blunt (below) secretly confessed in 1964 in exchange for immunity. This was revealed more than a decade later by Maggie Thatcher. Philby later explained that they got away with it because they were “members of the British Elite”.

The Liberal Elite

First Question: Where have you recently heard the word “Elite”? could it be in conjunction with the word “Liberal” in the United States. Phliby, Burgess, Blunt, and Maclean were the “Liberals” of their day. They were “untouchable” by the British Law of the day because of being supposedly “Elite”. Why does that smell just like what I see in the United States today with the Clintons being apparently above the law?

Philby was given the Order of Lenin by the U.S.S.R.  That is rather poetic, because Lenin was a newspaperman, and it brings me to the Second Question:

The Media

If these British Communists could stay hidden and operational as Soviet spies for several decades wreaking so much havoc, by what failure of intellect are folks trying to convince me that the Western Media has not been similarly penetrated? I can think of no better way to damage the West today. Witness the Trump Derangement Syndrome that has befallen the Left and the Media in the United States. Who is actually calling the shots in this? And who is actually benefiting? I ask, because it is not the ordinary decent people of the United States.

Again the ordinary folks have to trudge up the treadmill of life while these elite types float effortlessly around the top and undermine the country. In Britain they tended to have their posh hot potato accents and clubs. In the United States they speak all the right words to enthrall the liberals of the two Coasts and little girlies who think that the greatest challenge in life is how to get free birth control pills.

Paranoia or Experience?

I make these points because, way back in the 1970s the South African Government used to harp on Soviet infiltration. We all thought they were a little paranoid and were seeking a Russian spy behind every Karoo bush. They were particularly intense about the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, which they maintained was a training operation for KGB agents.

I should point out that one of the key conspiracies in South Africa indeed involved a farm just west of Victoria West in the desert Karoo, but folks don’t seem to remember key facts from history. That would be like looking for a Soviet spy at a farm outside Caliente in desert Nevada (below- Yes, I took the picture in 1980 on a road trip from Salt Lake City to Yosemite).

Then, one day in the early 1990s, just before the Yeltsin government took over in Russia, we had a formal visitor who was a member of the Post-Soviet Russian parliament. I had to attend to him for the morning up to the lunch. He could speak not a word of English and came with the obligatory interpreter. All through the morning’s proceedings the interpreter and I focused on each other.

When we got close to the formal lunch, I thought it fit to announce diplomatically that I appreciated that Russia was going through a torrid time, but that I wished them every good fortune. I also said that I see the Russian people as one of the key nations of  Western Civilization, and that I believe they would get back on their feet. And then I added in Afrikaans, “After all… ‘n Boer maak ‘n plan” (Eng: A farmer makes a plan”). This is a well known Afrikaans proverb, suggesting “You’ll figure it out”.

My local colleague kicked me in the leg and told me under his breath to “say it in English!”. I did nothing of the sort. I just stared straight at the intepreter, who looked a little like a younger, pinker, and more blonde David Duchovny (The X-files TV series – below). He held his pose for three seconds more, and then folded spectacularly. He went blood red from the collar upward. Then he turned to his boss and translated. The boss burst out laughing and wagged his finger at me.

So I asked the young red-faced interpretor where he had learnt Afrikaans. Came the answer: “Patrice Lumumba University. I studied Dutch and majored in Afrikaans.” So the “paranoid” Old South Africa government had been right all along.

Paranoia? Really? Or is it just experience of the real world.

So, sure, no-no-no-no….not a single suspect in the US media. [End sarcasm]

Really? Are you kidding me? And they want to take on Donald Trump who has been working in the glare of the limelight all his life? This brings me to my thought for the day:

Always remember, Lenin was a newspaperman.

In AmaBhulu I describe more about American Communists and the roles of some of them with respect to South Africa. And the first issue of Lenin’s newspaper, Iskra, reportedly had two references to the struggle of the Afrikaners in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. The budding Communists were preoccupied with South Africa even back then.

— Harry Booyens

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Slagtersnek – Where men die twice

♦  Black and White South African allies –  A Series

—The impression has been created by the Media and various Governments of South Africa that White and Black have always been enemies unto death. In reality, Black and White have allied on numerous occasions in South African history. While this may surprise people outside the country, I venture to say it will also be a revelation to many South Africans. It is a truth that is as uncomfortable for the present government as it was for the previous.

The pre-1994 government of the country corralled its political base by convincing it of the Swart Gevaar (The Black Danger). It formed the basis of the Old Apartheid Laws. The present Black ANC government has ratcheted up this approach by orders of magnitude, inciting murder with its singing of “Kill the Whites”. This gets it votes from millions of the Uneducated, the Ignorant, and from racist Africanist Blacks. It forms the basis of the New Apartheid Laws. It appears not to realize that it is vindicating the old government. If it does, then it simply does not care, because the West has given it a free pass to do exactly what it pleases to the utterly powerless Whites.

I hope and trust that the examples provided here will show there was Black and White cooperation and alliance at many seminal events, and that the country does not have to be the divided nightmare that its various governments have made of it.

Click on the Title below to read the Part 5 of the Series and see the evidence. In this particular case, there was an attempt to renew an old alliance, and it was denied. However, this article clears up a question that has hung over South Africa for precisely 200 years. We owe it to the men who lost their lives to get the facts straight. Our main source is therefore the court transcripts of the case against the men who died twice.

♦ Part 5 – Slagtersnek – Where Men die Twice

Exactly 200 years ago, in late 1815, a White frontier farmer was shot and killed by His Royal Majesty’s Special Intimidatory Khoekhoe Army [See Part 3]. His brother swore revenge over his grave. This led to a “rebellion” in which not a single shot was fired. The vengeful brother fled, but he was also killed in a firefight between his family and the British Army. The two men were the author’s ancestral younger brothers.  At the end of this whole cycle of events, the British Crown demanded that five men be hanged for the rebellion that never was. What happened on the day of the execution would lead to a split between the Afrikaner and the British that would last 150 years. It would play a significant role as late as 1895 and would lead to the transport of a very unique artifact from history over a distance of some 450 miles to a small town at the foot of a mountain another 110 years later in 2005. This is the story of possibly the most seminal formative event in the history of the Afrikaner as a nation.

The unique relationship between the Frontier Afrikaners and the amaRhrahabe Xhosa [See Part 4] would again enter the story, as would Marthinus “Kasteel” Prinsloo. Two small parts of the country that were forever in the crosshairs of history, the Suurveld and the Koonap, would yet again be involved. Such is the nature of a frontier in Africa.

The event was so important, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle thought it wise to caution Britain against ever doing this again. And he did it in the middle of a war between Britain and the descendants of the men who died twice.

All of this is described in detail in AmaBhulu- The Birth and Death of the Second America.

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Until the Birds of Prey have Consumed them Away

Black and White South African allies – A Series

—The impression has been created by the Media and various Governments of South Africa that White and Black have always been enemies unto death. In reality, Black and White have allied on numerous occasions in South African history. While this may surprise people outside the country, I venture to say it will also be a revelation to many South Africans. It is a truth that is as uncomfortable for the present government as it was for the previous.

The pre-1994 government of the country corralled its political base by convincing it of the Swart Gevaar (The Black Danger). It formed the basis of the Old Apartheid Laws. The present Black ANC government has ratcheted up this approach by orders of magnitude, inciting murder with its singing of “Kill the Whites”. This gets it votes from millions of the Uneducated, the Ignorant, and from racist Africanist Blacks. It forms the basis of the New Apartheid Laws. It appears not to realize that it is vindicating the old government. If it does, then it simply does not care, because the West has given it a free pass to do exactly what it pleases to the utterly powerless Whites.

I hope and trust that the examples provided here will show there was Black and White cooperation and alliance at many seminal events, and that the country does not have to be the divided nightmare that its various governments have made of it.

Click on the Title or first image below to read the fourth article in the series and see the evidence.

• Part 4 in the series on Black and White South African Allies

♦ Frontier, Cape of Good Hope Colony, 17 January 1799

—When the much respected Adriaan van Jaarsveld appears at the Magistrate’s Office in Graaff-Reinet town on this day, he is promptly arrested based on problems relating to a mortgage payment. Magistrate Bresler dispatches Adriaan to Cape Town for trial, accompanied by a dragoon guard unit. They are intercepted by Marthinus Prinsloo and some other armed men. At the Cape, the British Governor sees this as rebellion and dispatches his special Khoekhoe Army of Intimidation under General Vandeleur. This is the event already described in Part 3 of this series.

Treachery and the Disaster it Begets

When the unhappy Frontiersmen duly present themselves peacefully as requested, Vandeleur promptly arrests them and ships them in the aptly named HMS Rattlesnake to Cape Town. The men include Marthinus Prinsloo and Adriaan van Jaarsveld and incarcerates them in the Cape Castle (below).

What follows is the complete disaster explained in Part 3, based on the truly shameful ignorance on the part of the British Military Government about matters on this distant frontier.

By the end of Third Frontier War, the men consigned to the Castle have languished there for more than a year. The group of Frontiersmen taken prisoner by Gen. Vandeleur are finally tried in June 1800. Adriaan van Jaarsveld and Marthinus Prinsloo are the first and second listed prisoners.  The State Prosecutor demands that the first eight prisoners,

…be punished with the halter at the Gallows until Death ensueth, Further the Corpses of the four first prisoners, being dragged to the Out Gallows, there to be hanged again, in order so to remain until the birds of prey shall have consumed them away,…

The men are found guilty and on 3 September the sentence is announced. In a “huge gush of leniency” towards these unfortunate men, the crown decides that their bodies may be buried under the gallows, rather than to have them consumed away by the birds of prey.

The Afrikaner-amaRharhabe Friendship

In the middle of 1800, Sir George Yonge sends the hated Magistrate Maynier and his understudy, Somerville, to the young amaRharhabe King Ngqika to discuss the matter of a possible peace treaty with the British. This happens during the period that Coenraad de Buys and our ancestor Coenraad Bezuidenhout are still with Ngqika. The two British representatives take every precaution to ensure that their messages go only to Ngqika and do not fall in the hands of the two Coenraads.

Ngqika refuses to receive them personally. Despite this, the response from Ngqika is insightful. We quote verbatim Ngqika’s response from the letter that the two British representatives write to the Governor on 14 August 1800:

…the Principal Grounds on which he would consent to make Peace must be the Release of the Prisoners confined in the Castle who he said were his Allies, & without this he could have no Faith in any Peace

This is the clearest evidence on record that the legitimate leader of the powerful amaRharhabe House of the amaXhosa nation sees the long-settled Afrikaners as his friends and allies.

The Treaty of Amiens

On 1 April 1801, Governor George Yonge is removed from office in the wake of charges of corruption. Major-General Francis Dundas is once again to take care as Governor. On 12 October 1801, Dundas receives instruction to refrain from hostilities against France and her allies. Dundas elects to continue the detention of the men in the castle, but he does not carry out their sentences, despite having been ordered to do so by Lord Hobart in Britain.

Dundas sees the Light

Based on testimony from Major Sherlock at Greaff-Reinet, Dundas at last realizes the full scope of his folly. Maynier is suspended from all his roles and his actions are investigated. Finally, fighting Boer and fighting Brit see eye to eye regarding facts on the ground.

During the next few months, Governor Dundas institutes a dramatic shift in policy:

1.  There shall be no punishment for the frontiersmen who have opposed Maynier, despite the fact that they have actually fired at the Magistrate’s office.

2.  On 12 December 1801 Dundas writes to Colonial Secretary Lord Hobart in London, pleading for clemency. In fact, he suggests a full remission of the sentences!:

… feelings of humanity, by reason of their long imprisonment, give the Prisoners a claim to some modification as to the Capital part of their punishment, if not a full remission of their sentence. [They] obeyed without hesitation the summons to deliver themselves up together with their arms and ammunition, having assembled at the place appointed for that purpose, conceiving (as I have reason to believe they did) that they should meet with forgiveness from Government […] all which considerations incline me to think that lenity ought, if possible, to be shewn to the Prisoners…

The complete story of the disastrous First British Occupation of the Cape of Good Hope and the associated above events may be read in AmaBhulu – The Birth and death of the Second America.

On 30 April 1802 Dundas is advised that Britain will return the Cape of Good Hope to the Dutch. The Afrikaner captives are all to be released; all except Adriaan van Jaarsveld. He has died in British hands.

Marthinus Prinsloo’ stay in the Cape Town Castle jail earns him the nickname “Kasteel” (Castle). However, the British Empire has a long memory, as we shall duly see in Part 5. And it shall lead to 150 years of intense resentment.

A more comprehensive version of this article, containing all the required references, may be read  HERE.

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