USA. “Disrupt and Vilify” - The War on Immigrants Inside the US War on Drugs
USA. “Disrupt and Vilify” - The War on Immigrants Inside the US War on Drugs
Nixon … had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people … 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 … [V]ilify them night after night on the evening news.
(John Ehrlichman, former White House counsel and assistant to the president for domestic affairs under President Richard Nixon, speaking to journalist Dan Baum about the origins of the “war on drugs,” 1994.)
(Drug Policy Alliance/Human Rights Watch, USA, Juli 2024)
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