Quote from Nixon aide John Ehrlichman about the Drug War: “You want to know what this was really all about? 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? 1/3

Jun 12, 2022 · 3:19 AM UTC

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“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. 2/3
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“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.” 3/3
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Replying to @marwilliamson
ooops i forgot to poste my song heh.....theres virtually no way out of this living hell...have a nice day ---> youtube.com/watch?v=ZvFj-KPi…
Replying to @marwilliamson
FDR got the ball rolling in 1946 or whatever it was...but nobody kept it rolling and here we are in 2022 with zero prospects against the coming complete and total demise of the USA with 3% of the wealthiest owning 90 % of the shit ,mark my words and have a nice day -->
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Full disclosure: this is an anecdotal observation: it SEEMS pretty fucking obvious to me that at some point soon after the end of Jim Crowe, the powers that be decided there were enough minorities that were poor that laws could instead be enacted against poverty instead of race.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Sooo ... The "Drug War" was a stealth way of attacking Nixon's perceived enemies!
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Replying to @marwilliamson
in 2022 we have the prowar left running an entirely different kind of Drug War on all of us. it is a vicious war against all of humanity being championed by the american left.
Replying to @marwilliamson
total bullshit quote🤣
Replying to @marwilliamson
You realize the logical conclusion here…as the entire polity, both repub and dem.. has embraced division and run to the right over the past 50 yrs and collectively adopted ‘win’ regardless of the neg impact on people. This won’t change barring severe catastrophe. By then 2 late.
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