Ehrlichman quote in 1968

[Penelope]

“You want to know what this was really all about,” Ehrlichman, who died in 1999, said, referring to Nixon’s declaration of war on drugs.

“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.”

Top Adviser to Richard Nixon Admitted that 'War on Drugs' was Policy Tool to Go After Anti-War Protesters and 'Black People'

A decades old quote from President Nixon's administration is making front page news and being shared widely around the web. The quote from John Ehrlichman, who served as President Richard Nixon’s domestic policy chief gained new notoriety after appearing in a cover story in Harper’s Magazine by...

www.drugpolicy.org

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Tramp is trying to use Law and Order too, mainly against the Democratic mayors, while he was not concerned with Law and Order since he became Potus, its seems he is now only because its an election year.

Its basically the same as Nixons, the left (the democrats) and BLM (black life matters) = the hippies and the blacks.

 

[Lakhota]

“You want to know what this was really all about,” Ehrlichman, who died in 1999, said, referring to Nixon’s declaration of war on drugs.

“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.”

Top Adviser to Richard Nixon Admitted that 'War on Drugs' was Policy Tool to Go After Anti-War Protesters and 'Black People'

A decades old quote from President Nixon's administration is making front page news and being shared widely around the web. The quote from John Ehrlichman, who served as President Richard Nixon’s domestic policy chief gained new notoriety after appearing in a cover story in Harper’s Magazine by...

www.drugpolicy.org

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Tramp is trying to use Law and Order too, mainly against the Democratic mayors, while he was not concerned with Law and Order since he became Potus, its seems he is now only because its an election year.

Its basically the same as Nixons, the left (the democrats) and BLM (black life matters) = the hippies and the blacks.

Yep, I just watched that on MSNBC's Ari Melber. Trump is trying to create chaos and then trying to take credit for stopping it. It is hilariously hypocritical. Only the dumbest among us will buy that insane shit. BTW, law and order ended Nixon's presidency.

 

[Oddball]

And when have the democrats ever lifted one single finger to roll back that idiocy?

Never, that's when.

Check that plank in your own eye, Penny.

 

[kyzr]

1968?? Really? 52 years ago and that's supposed to be relevent now? Its not.

 

[Lakhota]

1968?? Really? 52 years ago and that's supposed to be relevent now? Its not.

Yep, when Trump is almost using it word for word. Do some reading...

 

[Nostra]

Sounds like Crazy Joe bragging about his 1994 Crime bill that locked up blacks in prison for decades for drug offenses.


Hmmmmm...........................

 

[Penelope]

And when have the democrats ever lifted one single finger to roll back that idiocy?

Never, that's when.

Check that plank in your own eye, Penny.

Democrats mayors have run major cities for decades, because republicans find it too hard in a
diverse population. They prefer tiny white ones away from cities, did I mention tiny.

 

[Lakhota]

Trump is desperately trying to "wag the dog" - like Nixon tried to do.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Good thing druggies have moved on to fentanyl and meth.

 

[Hellokitty]

GMAB. Democrats didn't have an issue with the feds raiding Stones house at 5 am, nor did they have an issue with the FBI illegally spying on Carter Page for over a year, or attempting to set up Papadopolus...

 

[Thinker101]

And when have the democrats ever lifted one single finger to roll back that idiocy?

Never, that's when.

Check that plank in your own eye, Penny.

Democrats mayors have run major cities for decades, because republicans find it too hard in a
diverse population. They prefer tiny white ones away from cities, did I mention tiny.

And you wonder why they're shitholes...go figure.

 

[Nostra]

GMAB. Democrats didn't have an issue with the feds raiding Stones house at 5 am, nor did they have an issue with the FBI illegally spying on Carter Page for over a year, or attempting to set up Papadopolus...

Good point about Stone. He made "false statements"......and instead of calling his attorney to say he needed to show up at court at such and such time.............they did this.

 

[occupied]

The war on drugs may be America's most expensive failure. Body counts in the millions, biggest prison population on earth and the rationality for the American police state itself. After all that waste Americans can still buy all the drugs they want. Damned right it was a racist attack on minorities. The differing penalties that once existed for crack and powder is all the proof anyone needs.

 

[Nostra]

The war on drugs may be America's most expensive failure. Body counts in the millions, biggest prison population on earth and the rationality for the American police state itself. After all that waste Americans can still buy all the drugs they want. Damned right it was a racist attack on minorities. The differing penalties that once existed for crack and powder is all the proof anyone needs.

Ranks up there with the "War on poverty".

Somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 TRILLION SPENT, poverty rate has remained basically the same.

 

[gipper]

And when have the democrats ever lifted one single finger to roll back that idiocy?

Never, that's when.

Check that plank in your own eye, Penny.

The Ds are part of the problem. They are just as bad and responsible as the Rs, but partisans of the two gangs can’t see it.

 

[Oddball]

And when have the democrats ever lifted one single finger to roll back that idiocy?

Never, that's when.

Check that plank in your own eye, Penny.

The Ds are part of the problem. They are just as bad and responsible as the Rs, but partisans of the two gangs can’t see it.

You know that I know that, but Penny is entirely oblivious.

 

[Oddball]

And when have the democrats ever lifted one single finger to roll back that idiocy?

Never, that's when.

Check that plank in your own eye, Penny.

Democrats mayors have run major cities for decades, because republicans find it too hard in a
diverse population. They prefer tiny white ones away from cities, did I mention tiny.

What, in the name of Sam Hill, does that have to do with what I said?

Nothing, that's what.

 

[occupied]

The war on drugs may be America's most expensive failure. Body counts in the millions, biggest prison population on earth and the rationality for the American police state itself. After all that waste Americans can still buy all the drugs they want. Damned right it was a racist attack on minorities. The differing penalties that once existed for crack and powder is all the proof anyone needs.

Ranks up there with the "War on poverty".

Somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 TRILLION SPENT, poverty rate has remained basically the same.

That's because big business hijacked the war on poverty and used it to subsidize stagnant wages for 50 years.

 

[Nostra]

The war on drugs may be America's most expensive failure. Body counts in the millions, biggest prison population on earth and the rationality for the American police state itself. After all that waste Americans can still buy all the drugs they want. Damned right it was a racist attack on minorities. The differing penalties that once existed for crack and powder is all the proof anyone needs.

Ranks up there with the "War on poverty".

Somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 TRILLION SPENT, poverty rate has remained basically the same.

That's because big business hijacked the war on poverty and used it to subsidize stagnant wages for 50 years.

Link?

 

[miketx]

Just look at all the lying vermin here. 24/7/365 non stop bullshit.