'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.
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