Ehrlichman: War on "Drugs" A Scam to Persecute Blacks and antiwar protesters

[Contumacious]

War on drugs' was a sinister conspiracy to go after anti-war protesters and black people, according to president Nixon's domestic policy chief

• A decades-old interview with John Ehrlichman, President Richard Nixon's domestic policy chief, reveals the 'War on Drugs' targeted black people
• The policy also targeted anti-war protesters in the Nixon years
• Harper's Magazine originally ran the interview in 1994, five years before Ehrlichman died in 1999
• Dan Baum, the journalist who originally interviewed Ehrlichman, recently revisited the interview in Harper's

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[defcon4]

Everything starts as a temporary action. That's how we got income tax also.

 

[Steven_R]

The truly sad thing is enough people who were on Capitol Hill at the time were around during Prohibition. I can't believe none of them didn't call Nixon and said "ummm, remember how well Prohibition was for the country? You really want to do it again?"

It doesn't matter how it started, it's here to stay. Government and prisons and cops simply have too much money flowing and power at stake to give up the War on Drugs. We've gutted the Fourth Amendment over it, expanded Federal and state power over it, and all the forfeiture laws just keep the cash coming in.

 

[Contumacious]

Everything starts as a temporary action. That's how we got income tax also.

Actually, everything starts as a racist action - many politicians were angered when white girls in California were found in Chinese opium dens.

The Harrison Act of 1914 was enacted in order to impose a tax on opiates but scumbag theocratic federal "judges" took it upon themselves to treat it as an act CRIMINALIZING the possession and distribution of opiates.

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[WildBillKelsoe]

The first anti-drug law was enacted in 1875. Criminalizing drug use has nothing to do with picking on black folks. That's stupid. It's been known for a few hundred years that unrestricted drug use is bad for society.

 

[WildBillKelsoe]

Everything starts as a temporary action. That's how we got income tax also.

Actually, everything starts as a racist action - many politicians were angered when white girls in California were found in Chinese opium dens.

The Harrison Act of 1914 was enacted in order to impose a tax on opiates but scumbag theocratic federal "judges" took it upon themselves to treat it as an act CRIMINALIZING the possession and distribution of opiates.

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Maybe those minorities should get off the dope. Whatcha think?

 

[Contumacious]

The first anti-drug law was enacted in 1875. Criminalizing drug use has nothing to do with picking on black folks. That's stupid. It's been known for a few hundred years that unrestricted drug use is bad for society.

Shut the fuck up.

How did they determine hat unrestricted drug use is bad for "society."?

Miserable piece of shit

 

[jillian]

War on drugs' was a sinister conspiracy to go after anti-war protesters and black people, according to president Nixon's domestic policy chief

• A decades-old interview with John Ehrlichman, President Richard Nixon's domestic policy chief, reveals the 'War on Drugs' targeted black people
• The policy also targeted anti-war protesters in the Nixon years
• Harper's Magazine originally ran the interview in 1994, five years before Ehrlichman died in 1999
• Dan Baum, the journalist who originally interviewed Ehrlichman, recently revisited the interview in Harper's

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true.... so we can agree that the war on drugs and the criminal justice system need to be overhauled?

 

[WildBillKelsoe]

The first anti-drug law was enacted in 1875. Criminalizing drug use has nothing to do with picking on black folks. That's stupid. It's been known for a few hundred years that unrestricted drug use is bad for society.

Shut the fuck up.

How did they determine hat unrestricted drug use is bad for "society."?

Miserable piece of shit

Because too many people were doped up.

 

[WildBillKelsoe]

War on drugs' was a sinister conspiracy to go after anti-war protesters and black people, according to president Nixon's domestic policy chief

• A decades-old interview with John Ehrlichman, President Richard Nixon's domestic policy chief, reveals the 'War on Drugs' targeted black people
• The policy also targeted anti-war protesters in the Nixon years
• Harper's Magazine originally ran the interview in 1994, five years before Ehrlichman died in 1999
• Dan Baum, the journalist who originally interviewed Ehrlichman, recently revisited the interview in Harper's

.

true.... so we can agree that the war on drugs and the criminal justice system need to be overhauled?

Overhauled how?

 

[jillian]

War on drugs' was a sinister conspiracy to go after anti-war protesters and black people, according to president Nixon's domestic policy chief

• A decades-old interview with John Ehrlichman, President Richard Nixon's domestic policy chief, reveals the 'War on Drugs' targeted black people
• The policy also targeted anti-war protesters in the Nixon years
• Harper's Magazine originally ran the interview in 1994, five years before Ehrlichman died in 1999
• Dan Baum, the journalist who originally interviewed Ehrlichman, recently revisited the interview in Harper's

.

true.... so we can agree that the war on drugs and the criminal justice system need to be overhauled?

Overhauled how?

how about we start with getting rid of mandatory minimums and decriminalizing drugs and unequal enforcement of drug laws?

 

[jillian]

The first anti-drug law was enacted in 1875. Criminalizing drug use has nothing to do with picking on black folks. That's stupid. It's been known for a few hundred years that unrestricted drug use is bad for society.

Shut the fuck up.

How did they determine hat unrestricted drug use is bad for "society."?

Miserable piece of shit

Because too many people were doped up.

did you not read the article he relied on?

white males sell drugs as much if not more than black males and don't get prosecuted in the same proportions. that's fact. not surmise. and you've seen the reasons why that is the case

 

[thereisnospoon]

War on drugs' was a sinister conspiracy to go after anti-war protesters and black people, according to president Nixon's domestic policy chief

• A decades-old interview with John Ehrlichman, President Richard Nixon's domestic policy chief, reveals the 'War on Drugs' targeted black people
• The policy also targeted anti-war protesters in the Nixon years
• Harper's Magazine originally ran the interview in 1994, five years before Ehrlichman died in 1999
• Dan Baum, the journalist who originally interviewed Ehrlichman, recently revisited the interview in Harper's

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The first anti-drug law was enacted in 1875. Criminalizing drug use has nothing to do with picking on black folks. That's stupid. It's been known for a few hundred years that unrestricted drug use is bad for society.

Shut the fuck up.

How did they determine hat unrestricted drug use is bad for "society."?

Miserable piece of shit

Just a minute.. The OP quotes a fact and you respond with "Shut the fuck up"?
Then you present a question that no one alive today could possibly answer.
In a court of law such a question would bring an objection because the question calls for speculation and any answer would be in violation of the hearsay rule.
I don't believe a convicted felon and political conspirator has an ounce of credibility here.
BTW, Nixon was not a conservative. Nixon was a California GOP liberal. Nixon was a believer in big government. He was also a control freak.

 

[Wyatt earp]

The first anti-drug law was enacted in 1875. Criminalizing drug use has nothing to do with picking on black folks. That's stupid. It's been known for a few hundred years that unrestricted drug use is bad for society.

Shut the fuck up.

How did they determine hat unrestricted drug use is bad for "society."?

Miserable piece of shit

For someone who knows the hstory of the opiate dens on the west coast

Seriously dude?


I will give you a clue, China and Great Britian.

 

[Wyatt earp]

The first anti-drug law was enacted in 1875. Criminalizing drug use has nothing to do with picking on black folks. That's stupid. It's been known for a few hundred years that unrestricted drug use is bad for society.

Shut the fuck up.

How did they determine hat unrestricted drug use is bad for "society."?

Miserable piece of shit

Because too many people were doped up.

did you not read the article he relied on?

white males sell drugs as much if not more than black males and don't get prosecuted in the same proportions. that's fact. not surmise. and you've seen the reasons why that is the case

It is mostly because black drug dealers are poor , no cars, live in hoods and stupid.....

Nothing to do with race.....

 

[jillian]

The first anti-drug law was enacted in 1875. Criminalizing drug use has nothing to do with picking on black folks. That's stupid. It's been known for a few hundred years that unrestricted drug use is bad for society.

Shut the fuck up.

How did they determine hat unrestricted drug use is bad for "society."?

Miserable piece of shit

Because too many people were doped up.

did you not read the article he relied on?

white males sell drugs as much if not more than black males and don't get prosecuted in the same proportions. that's fact. not surmise. and you've seen the reasons why that is the case

It is mostly because black drug dealers are poor , no cars, live in hoods and stupid.....

Nothing to do with race.....

that's false. it has nothing to do with being "stupid". it has to do with greater police activity directed against blacks and the ability of little suburban white boys' families to pay for expensive attorneys.

you're welcome.

 

[thereisnospoon]

War on drugs' was a sinister conspiracy to go after anti-war protesters and black people, according to president Nixon's domestic policy chief

• A decades-old interview with John Ehrlichman, President Richard Nixon's domestic policy chief, reveals the 'War on Drugs' targeted black people
• The policy also targeted anti-war protesters in the Nixon years
• Harper's Magazine originally ran the interview in 1994, five years before Ehrlichman died in 1999
• Dan Baum, the journalist who originally interviewed Ehrlichman, recently revisited the interview in Harper's

.

true.... so we can agree that the war on drugs and the criminal justice system need to be overhauled?

Yes the system needs to be adjusted to rid it of these idiotic laws that handcuff criminal investigations.
Such as the law in CA where a piece of evidence found in a trash can at the curb( in the city's right of way) is subject to exclusion based on some far fetched interpretation of the 4th amendment that essentially states that a trash can has a right to privacy. Or for example, when a driver is stopped for a traffic violation and drugs or other contraband is in plain sight( Cop is absolutely permitted to look into the interior of the vehicle without consent) which results in an arrest some courts of have excluded this evidence because in the opinion of the judge the "look" was a warrantless search.
In both instances this extreme tilting of the laws to favor the criminal have gone too far....
And yes, the system needs to be fixed when we have insufferably stupid rulings that instead of holding a mother responsible for killing her children we allowed he to go free because of a snack cake.....That's infuriating.

 

[thereisnospoon]

The first anti-drug law was enacted in 1875. Criminalizing drug use has nothing to do with picking on black folks. That's stupid. It's been known for a few hundred years that unrestricted drug use is bad for society.

Shut the fuck up.

How did they determine hat unrestricted drug use is bad for "society."?

Miserable piece of shit

Because too many people were doped up.

did you not read the article he relied on?

white males sell drugs as much if not more than black males and don't get prosecuted in the same proportions. that's fact. not surmise. and you've seen the reasons why that is the case

Umm, that may be true, but since there are differing circumstances, such as when drugs are dealt under the cover of darkness, in homes or apartments and not out on the streets. Catching those who deal out in the open is much easier.
I can tell you I knew of a drug dealer that lived in my condo complex. We complained to the sheriff's officers. They KNEW there were drugs being sold. The key is they needed EVIDENCE to obtain a warrant to search and make arrests. It was not until one of my neighbors began using a camcorder to shoot video of the constant coming and going of vehicles that the sheriff's office was able to obtain a warrant. Those dealers got the whole truckload tossed at them.
One reason minorities may get harsher sentencing is because the dealers destroy their own neighborhoods. With illegal drugs comes violence and murders. Drug dealers kill each other and threaten the people in the neighborhood to keep quiet.

 

[thereisnospoon]

The first anti-drug law was enacted in 1875. Criminalizing drug use has nothing to do with picking on black folks. That's stupid. It's been known for a few hundred years that unrestricted drug use is bad for society.

Shut the fuck up.

How did they determine hat unrestricted drug use is bad for "society."?

Miserable piece of shit

Because too many people were doped up.

did you not read the article he relied on?

white males sell drugs as much if not more than black males and don't get prosecuted in the same proportions. that's fact. not surmise. and you've seen the reasons why that is the case

It is mostly because black drug dealers are poor , no cars, live in hoods and stupid.....

Nothing to do with race.....

that's false. it has nothing to do with being "stupid". it has to do with greater police activity directed against blacks and the ability of little suburban white boys' families to pay for expensive attorneys.

you're welcome.

Thank you for regurgitating the whine.
Look, if the cops know there is drug activity in a certain location, they will target that area. Or should there be an arrest quota for arresting drug dealers?
Cops know one aspect of the difficulty of enforcing drug laws to the point of gathering sufficient evidence to present to the prosecution is that inner city people are loathe to talk to the police. Mostly out of fear..So they have to witness the activity themselves.

 

[Contumacious]

Everything starts as a temporary action. That's how we got income tax also.

Actually, everything starts as a racist action - many politicians were angered when white girls in California were found in Chinese opium dens.

The Harrison Act of 1914 was enacted in order to impose a tax on opiates but scumbag theocratic federal "judges" took it upon themselves to treat it as an act CRIMINALIZING the possession and distribution of opiates.

.

Maybe those minorities should get off the dope. Whatcha think?

Who the fuck are you to tell minorities or anyone else for that matter what to do.

I bet you don't even persuade your teenage children.

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