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What the "War on Drugs" was really about...

What a (non) surprise...

Quote:

I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/

The HBO Documentary ( Nixon "In his own words")

Was a pretty eye opening look into Nixon, He was super paranoid among other things. He recorded all telephone call's in and out of the white house. He said some pretty shocking thing's. The documentary played those phone calls and went into depth about them.

Here is a link to the Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbWataLl9k8

Do you think anything is different today with the people in similar positions of power?

Nixon committed treason even before he was elected...

http://www.commondreams.org/views/20...ietnam-treason