“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people,” former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper’s writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.
“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,” Ehrlichman said. “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.”
15 Comments
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 313d
Does that include alcoholics?
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 313d
Probably not. Is this someone we should recognize?
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 313d
It's the USA's very classy "Secretary of War", Pete Hegseth.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 313d
Oh fabulous. That guy sucks.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 313d
That's Dude Gunman, the dude with a gun, man.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 313d
Oh of course, silly me.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 313d
Say six hail Satans, masturbate 6 times, and do 6 lines of cocaine as penance, my child. Remember that Satan forgives, but he doesn't forget.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 313d
Done. Woo!
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 313d
Walk always in the darkness, and may the thunderous hoofbeats of Satan guide you to glory
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 313d
Hail Satan.
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 313d
They're gonna go after the guns. Because they have to.
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social · 7 pts · 313d
florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 313d
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 313d
Would actually be super sick if the ruled it unconstitutional. Would mean a lot more leftists could arm themselves.
selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 313d
Drug users =/= marijuana smokers
Just legalize that shit already.
motor_spirit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 313d