Nixon's drug war

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  • August 16, 2017 at 7:14 am #72624
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    “…as TFTP reported last year, a scathing report in Harper’s Magazine, written by Dan Baum set the record straight and relieved all doubt over the intentions of the drug war. John Daniel Ehrlichman, counsel and domestic policy chief to President Richard Nixon, came clean on the real reason behind the war on drugs — to criminalize blacks and hippies.

    According to Baum, he tracked down Ehrlichman in 1994 at his engineering firm in Atlanta, Georgia.
    “You want to know what this was really all about?” “Ehrlichman bluntly asked Baum of the 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.”
    Link:http://thefreethoughtproject.com/dear-america-want-stop-racism-tear-drug-war-not-statues/

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