"Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

Mittwoch, 23.3.2016, 18:43 > daMax

i-do-not-do-drugs-starter-kitEin weiterer Punkt auf meiner immer länger werdenden Liste der Gründe, warum ich nix mehr mit Politik zu tun haben will: Wie der "Krieg gegen Drogen" tatsächlich los ging.

“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “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.”

Und heute glauben Hinz und Kunz dass "Drogen" scheiße sind, während Alkohol, Koffein und Nikotin als Entspannungs- bzw. Aufwachhelfer akzeptiert sind. Talking about hypocrisy.