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Fmr Presidential Adviser (Erlichman) Confesses: Nixon Invented Drug War to Decimate Hippies
Reason.org ^ | |Mar. 22, 2016 5:15 pm | Robby Soave

Posted on 03/22/2016 4:28:55 PM PDT by drewh

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1 posted on 03/22/2016 4:28:55 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Senility is painful to watch.


2 posted on 03/22/2016 4:29:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: drewh

Sounds like a plan to me!


3 posted on 03/22/2016 4:30:24 PM PDT by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead; traviskicks; bamahead

This does not surprise me. The War on Drugs is Big Government statism.


4 posted on 03/22/2016 4:30:56 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gaits)
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To: drewh

Yeah , well, IT DIDN’T WORK!!! :(


5 posted on 03/22/2016 4:31:49 PM PDT by ZULU (Trump is the answer. The Establishment is the problem.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If that was true, he failed miserably


6 posted on 03/22/2016 4:32:09 PM PDT by dp0622
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I think Reagan did a better job of decimating the hippies at Berkeley in 69’.


7 posted on 03/22/2016 4:32:27 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Lazamataz for President 2016)
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To: BobL
lol!
8 posted on 03/22/2016 4:32:30 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Decimate: To reduce by 10%...


9 posted on 03/22/2016 4:32:44 PM PDT by W. (Screw it. Send in the Marines!)
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the war on drugs isn’t being fought right but it MUST be fought.

if one doesn’t think so, they’ve never seen a heroin, crack, roxy, oxy, Xanax addict before.

I saw plenty and especially driving the cab.

the human and financial toll is devastating. not just to blacks, by a long shot.


10 posted on 03/22/2016 4:33:32 PM PDT by dp0622
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Removing only 10% was not a very ambitious goal.


11 posted on 03/22/2016 4:33:39 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Nah! I think the “War on Drugs” started because 16 year old kids were over dosing and even Nixon - who was thought of as heartless by the Left - hated to see kids die.

Drugs were pushed by Leftists, however. That can’t be denied.


12 posted on 03/22/2016 4:34:04 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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True that


13 posted on 03/22/2016 4:36:39 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Reagan and Nancy did great job on the war on drugs.

I remember growing up in the 80s when these folks were referred to as ‘pot heads’.

Now there are more drug over doses than traffic fatalities.


14 posted on 03/22/2016 4:37:19 PM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kin Jung mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: Clintonfatigued
The War on Drugs is Big Government statism.

No, keeping everybody stoned, stupid and dependent is.

15 posted on 03/22/2016 4:37:22 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Ohhh....Derka derka derka!)
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You really have to admire Nixon’s fundamental loathing of the Left.


16 posted on 03/22/2016 4:37:35 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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Ridiculous.

Oh, sure, he’s CONFESSING, uh-huh.

The thing about Scooby-style, “I wudda gottaway with it IF IT HADN”T BEEN FOR THESE MEDDLING KIDS..!”

It’s fiction.

Confessions like this —Cherry-topped chocolate sundaes— don’t actually happen, if they’re TRUE.


17 posted on 03/22/2016 4:37:52 PM PDT by gaijin
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[ Nah! I think the “War on Drugs” started because 16 year old kids were over dosing and even Nixon - who was thought of as heartless by the Left - hated to see kids die.

Drugs were pushed by Leftists, however. That can’t be denied. ]

The only way to “win” a war on drugs is to secretly intercept and deliberately poison the drugs with random poisons.

The fools that use, no longer will use, the demand will drop and people selling will no longer have demand...

Of course some people may think this is more heartless, but, so don’t do drugs because you may die.


18 posted on 03/22/2016 4:38:13 PM PDT by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: vladimir998

Drugs were pushed by Leftists, however. That can’t be denied.


They have always used anything to weaken and decimate America.


19 posted on 03/22/2016 4:38:52 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: W.

that was derived from the Romans killing one out of ten as punishment? of its own soldiers?

or am I way off?


20 posted on 03/22/2016 4:41:14 PM PDT by dp0622
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