Nixon: The whole problem is really the blacks
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 2:41 pm
"[Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks" Haldeman, his Chief of Staff wrote, "The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to."
"Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue...that we couldn't resist it." - John Ehrlichman, White House counsel to President Nixon on the rationale of the War on Drugs.
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I'm passing the above around. I can't wait for Democrats to start using it on the Republicans. Actually it has already started. I'm so looking forward to 2016.
You know who the Republicans have who can beat the above? Rand Paul.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/sharpton ... m-turnout/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... ar-weapon/
"Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue...that we couldn't resist it." - John Ehrlichman, White House counsel to President Nixon on the rationale of the War on Drugs.
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I'm passing the above around. I can't wait for Democrats to start using it on the Republicans. Actually it has already started. I'm so looking forward to 2016.
You know who the Republicans have who can beat the above? Rand Paul.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/sharpton ... m-turnout/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... ar-weapon/