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We all know that many politicians are wont to lie with little, if any, compunction. Too often, one of the lies and the other swears to it. We hear them utter their fabrications and know it's total BS. Indeed, on countless occasions, I've asked myself, "Are they really so dumb as to believe that crap? Or do they really think we're too stupid to tell they're lying to our faces?"
Back in 1968, the Nixon Admin conceived and implemented one of the most opprobrious lies ever.
“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.”
-- John Ehrlichman, 1994 Harper's
The social oppression of the poor -- no matter their race -- has been going on ever since, and it's funded by a $260B/year transfer of tax dollars to the prison system.
Back in 1968, the Nixon Admin conceived and implemented one of the most opprobrious lies ever.
“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.”
-- John Ehrlichman, 1994 Harper's
The social oppression of the poor -- no matter their race -- has been going on ever since, and it's funded by a $260B/year transfer of tax dollars to the prison system.