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> because of all these problems caused by the cancerous lefties! "You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the
by orf 9y ago
> because of all these problems caused by the cancerous lefties!
"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."
Yeah. Cancerous lefties indeed.
- wholinator 9y agoDo you have a source for that quote? I'd be very interested in reading the rest of whatever that is.
- cholantesh 9y agoInterview conducted by Dan Baum for an article in Harper's from '94: https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/ https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/