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Date Posted: 12:18:48 03/22/16 Tue
Author: Now...tell us what a terrible racist LBJ was, Bubbles.
Subject: Nixon’s Chief Advisor Confesses– Real Reason for Drug War was to Criminalize Blacks and Hippies

John Daniel Ehrlichman was counsel and domestic policy chief to President Richard Nixon. He was a key figure in events leading to the Watergate first break-in and the ensuing Watergate scandal, for which he was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and served a year and a half in prison.

Aside from the conspiracy of Watergate, which when compared to today’s politicians seems like schoolyard pranks, Ehrlichman, while serving under Nixon, was part of a much larger, and far more detrimental conspiracy that is still playing out today — the war on drugs.

In a new report, in Harper’s Magazine, written by Dan Baum, Ehrlichman comes 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.”

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Republicans were scum then...and are STILL scum. (NT) -- Think of the amount of money we spent over the years (and are still spending now) on a program to oppose opposition and criminalize people because of their color and beliefs. And these fucking clowns talk about Cuba? Assholes...all of 'em., 12:22:39 03/22/16 Tue
- Scum acting like they have Jesus in their pocket. (NT) -- No name, 17:57:46 03/22/16 Tue
C'mon, pussyman (Bubbles)...tell us your thoughts on this. I thought the GOP was the party of Lincoln. (NT) -- Maybe he was talking about infamous slave owner, Beauregard Lincoln., 21:01:40 03/22/16 Tue
That's the thing about history, it eventually uncoveres ALL the bullshit and shows the horrid ugly reality behind what these greed and hate driven assholes in the GOP have been doing to America for the past 50 years. (NT) -- It was too too fucking long, but at least America can't ignore what horrid people Republicans are anymore. Only their fellow horrid people still support thier horrid ideas.
Their lies and bullshit have carried them to the end and will not carry them one inch farther., 04:53:43 03/23/16 Wed

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