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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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To: dp0622

you are correct.


21 posted on 03/22/2016 4:41:52 PM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kin Jung mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: GraceG; vladimir998

A much more efficacious way to win the war on drugs would be to role back the welfare state so that the consequences of one’s behavior fell upon the shoulders of the individual, not society.


22 posted on 03/22/2016 4:42:26 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: dp0622

one of ten defeated soldiers.

That way, the survivors spread the word.


23 posted on 03/22/2016 4:42:45 PM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kin Jung mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: Mr. Lucky

[ A much more efficacious way to win the war on drugs would be to role back the welfare state so that the consequences of one’s behavior fell upon the shoulders of the individual, not society. ]

Nailed it!


24 posted on 03/22/2016 4:42:58 PM PDT by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: fooman

it happens :)


25 posted on 03/22/2016 4:43:22 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: drewh

Too bad he wasn’t able to prosecute the war to a complete and unconditional victory.


26 posted on 03/22/2016 4:45:05 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Noah: 'When the animals began to pair up by specie and stand in line, I really took notice.')
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To: drewh

This is a load of crap and not even true.

Drugs are destroying the fabric of the black community. If you really wanted to harm them you’d let them run amok in narcotics.

The things that the Left does on a consistent basis makes the allegations they make against Nixon seem like mere trifles.


27 posted on 03/22/2016 4:46:40 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: drewh

BS . . the scourge of drugs is now in plain view. As we were all told in the Sixties, but we thought we were smarter than the WWI and II Generations


28 posted on 03/22/2016 4:46:56 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (This household proudly voted for TRUMP)
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To: drewh

Did Elvis contribute?


29 posted on 03/22/2016 4:47:59 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: dp0622

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_%28Roman_army%29

Has been used for both one’s own and one’s enemy’s troops.

More often One’s own....


30 posted on 03/22/2016 4:48:09 PM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kin Jung mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: fooman
I remember growing up in the 80s when these folks were referred to as ‘pot heads’.

Now they are referred to in other terms, such as professor, mayor, and Mr. President.


31 posted on 03/22/2016 4:48:22 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Noah: 'When the animals began to pair up by specie and stand in line, I really took notice.')
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To: drewh

“Reason” is a libertarian outlet. That’s why you can’t trust it regarding anything relating to drugs.


32 posted on 03/22/2016 4:48:33 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: dp0622
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.

And this is the plain truth.

33 posted on 03/22/2016 4:49:37 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

True that.


34 posted on 03/22/2016 4:49:52 PM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kin Jung mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: drewh

35 posted on 03/22/2016 4:50:39 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: fooman

thanks for the link.


36 posted on 03/22/2016 4:51:07 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: drewh

too bad it didn’t work


37 posted on 03/22/2016 4:51:38 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Shadow44

The Exploited - Dead Cities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEvh3BRvSRU


38 posted on 03/22/2016 4:51:51 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: EvilCapitalist

I was there , nobody got decimated , but many fled for the hills


39 posted on 03/22/2016 4:52:15 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: fooman

>>> Reagan and Nancy did great job on the war on drugs

Nancy was pilloried for her “Just say no!” campaign. Of course the left would do that, because “just say no!” is compatible with American liberties that says we are free to screw up, whereas the left wanted a Nanny-state solution that gives the appearance of fixing the problem but in fact just build an intergenerational dependence.


40 posted on 03/22/2016 4:52:40 PM PDT by XEHRpa
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