“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? 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.”
~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon
God no… not tobacco and caffeine! The terrorist twins come back to haunt us. BTW… Ted Kazinski, Son of Sam, and Hitler used caffeine too. Empiracle evidence boys and girls.
hariseldon59 almost 2 years ago
Interesting that Mr. Binkley refers to his son as ‘Binkley’.
Wilde Bill almost 2 years ago
When you’re out of beer, tough Schlitz!
Jacob Mattingly almost 2 years ago
One of my all time faviorites. Both for showing just how overblown the war on Drugs are.. and for the simple hilaroius concept.
wi3leong Premium Member almost 2 years ago
The father (Tom) calls his son (Michael) by the family name (Binkley). This is weird.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Can’t he sell the kid into white slavery or something?!
aerotica69 almost 2 years ago
Schlitz………….now there’s a brand I haven’t heard of since moving to the land of the Clydesdales.
mfrasca almost 2 years ago
“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? 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.”
~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon
https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
BeniHanna6 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Time to release all claims to that kid and let the state take him.
smsrt almost 2 years ago
God no… not tobacco and caffeine! The terrorist twins come back to haunt us. BTW… Ted Kazinski, Son of Sam, and Hitler used caffeine too. Empiracle evidence boys and girls.
Sisyphos almost 2 years ago
Really Bad Dad would off that brat kid!