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donnay
03-23-2016, 09:04 AM
'War on drugs' was a sinister conspiracy to go after anti-war protesters and black people, according to president Nixon's domestic policy chief

By Dailymail.com Reporter

Published: 00:50 EST, 23 March 2016 |

One of the top White House advisers to president Richard Nixon admitted the 'War of Drugs' was meant to crush anti-war protesters and black people a decades-old interview has revealed.

John Ehrlichman, who served as President Richard Nixon's domestic policy chief, described the sinister use of Nixon's controversial policy in 1994.

Dan Baum, the journalist who originally interviewed Ehrlichman, revisited the admission in a new article for Harper's magazine.

'You want to know what this was really all about,' Ehrlichman said in the interview after Baum asked him about Nixon's harsh anti-drug policies.

'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,' Ehrlichman said in the interview.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3505492/War-drugs-sinister-conspiracy-anti-war-protesters-black-people-according-president-Nixon-s-domestic-policy-chief.html

phill4paul
03-23-2016, 10:05 AM
Was just going to post this article. Nothing earth shattering to most of us, but at least it's confirmation from the horses mouth ass.

presence
03-23-2016, 10:13 AM
snatch!

We can't make it illegal to be either AGAINST THE WAR or BLACK:
So we make the public associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin;
then criminalize both heavily, to DISRUPT THOSE COMMUNITIES! (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3505492)

ZENemy
03-23-2016, 10:13 AM
The war on drugs started the day prohibition was ended. They had a giant police force with nothing to do so they went after weed.

Dr.3D
03-23-2016, 10:15 AM
"Just say no!"

NorthCarolinaLiberty
03-23-2016, 10:50 AM
But people tell me conspiracies don't happen!!!!

donnay
03-23-2016, 06:00 PM
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Chomp
03-23-2016, 06:41 PM
War on drugs = never win war. Road to collapse.

pcosmar
03-23-2016, 07:42 PM
The war on drugs started the day prohibition was ended. They had a giant police force with nothing to do so they went after weed.

Marijuana was reclassified as a narcotic after the Supreme Court struck down The Marijuana Tax Act as unconstitutional.

That the "War on Drugs" was a targeted political attack is no surprise..

It really is a War on Us.

phill4paul
03-23-2016, 07:47 PM
But people tell me conspiracies don't happen!!!!

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