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He Always Had a Dark Side

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Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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>>"He was particularly protective of Le Roux’s birth mother, making me promise not to reveal her name. “Sad and interesting story,” he said. “His real mom’s mom is married to a U.S. Senator.” When I asked him who the Senator was, he said, “That I can’t say, mate. That’ll get me shot.”" This is probably a bigger story.

US Senators generally are not powerful enough to have people shot.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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post #6

>>"He was particularly protective of Le Roux’s birth mother, making me promise not to reveal her name. “Sad and interesting story,” he said. “His real mom’s mom is married to a U.S. Senator.” When I asked him who the Senator was, he said, “That I can’t say, mate. That’ll get me shot.”" This is probably a bigger story.

He was born in '72, it's reasonable to assume that his birth grandmother was born around 1930, and that either she was of Rhodesian citizenship or her daughter was a missionary.

If this is part is legitimate that is.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

#23
post #13

> Lulu told me that when Le Roux was 15 or 16, in the late 1980s, the local police raided the family home and arrested Paul for selling pornography online. This seems a bit odd to me, having lived in South Africa at that time. There's almost no way a guy at home would have had that kind of access in Apartheid South Africa to the internet back then. There was access, but it was through big companies or academia and on…

I also thought it was interesting to learn that South Africa did not introduce television until 1976 (assuming this article is correct).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_South_Africa

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

#24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This doesn't seem like it'd be incredibly hard to prove if true. Senator's wives are a pretty limited group of people to look into for a connection.

It'd be the daughter having the child in another country in the early 1970s. I guess there is a good chance that there is no paper trail and a very small number of people that know any details and are still alive (because it happened 40 years ago, not because of anything nefarious).

If one were actually interested, maybe one could just look at all Senator's wives' daughters who traveled internationally in that timeframe?

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

#25
post #13

> Lulu told me that when Le Roux was 15 or 16, in the late 1980s, the local police raided the family home and arrested Paul for selling pornography online. This seems a bit odd to me, having lived in South Africa at that time. There's almost no way a guy at home would have had that kind of access in Apartheid South Africa to the internet back then. There was access, but it was through big companies or academia and on…

To run a BBS you need nothing more than a C64, a 300 bps modem and a phone line. Also, I'm not sure if you know anything about phone phreaking but in the 80s it was pretty much the preferred method of connecting to BBSs internationally.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

#26
post #6

>>"He was particularly protective of Le Roux’s birth mother, making me promise not to reveal her name. “Sad and interesting story,” he said. “His real mom’s mom is married to a U.S. Senator.” When I asked him who the Senator was, he said, “That I can’t say, mate. That’ll get me shot.”" This is probably a bigger story.

US Senators generally are not powerful enough to have people shot.

They can do favors for such people.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It'd be the daughter having the child in another country in the early 1970s. I guess there is a good chance that there is no paper trail and a very small number of people that know any details and are still alive (because it happened 40 years ago, not because of anything nefarious).

If one were actually interested, maybe one could just look at all Senator's wives' daughters who traveled internationally in that timeframe?

Sure, I think that would be revealing. I think it would be a pretty large amount of work to make that list though, and it might not lead anywhere.

(like, did the daughter go there quietly for 4 months under an assumed name because the Senator was friends with a doctor...)

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

#28
post #6

>>"He was particularly protective of Le Roux’s birth mother, making me promise not to reveal her name. “Sad and interesting story,” he said. “His real mom’s mom is married to a U.S. Senator.” When I asked him who the Senator was, he said, “That I can’t say, mate. That’ll get me shot.”" This is probably a bigger story.

US Senators generally are not powerful enough to have people shot.

Not openly, but let's say some powerful people have powerful friends in government, who both have troublesome enemies. If those troublesome enemies were no longer a part of the picture, things would work out so well for everyone, don'tcha think?

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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post #19
post #13

> Lulu told me that when Le Roux was 15 or 16, in the late 1980s, the local police raided the family home and arrested Paul for selling pornography online. This seems a bit odd to me, having lived in South Africa at that time. There's almost no way a guy at home would have had that kind of access in Apartheid South Africa to the internet back then. There was access, but it was through big companies or academia and on…

"On-Line" might mean on a Bulletin Board System, some of which did do pornography.

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