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gapneyj

2025-12-17 13:32:00

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oh yeah, very much so. the war on drugs is just about increasing funding to cops and filling prisons, all the way down, from day one.
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. — John Ehrlichman, former Nixon aide, interview with Dan Baum

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