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Kid Berwyn

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3. Thank you, robertpaulsen!
Sat Dec 25, 2021, 10:22 AM
Dec 2021

“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, Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs

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Dear Good People of America, alterfurz Dec 2021 #1
A republic, Madam.... The Unmitigated Gall Dec 2021 #2
Thank you, robertpaulsen! Kid Berwyn Dec 2021 #3
You're welcome, Kid Berwyn! robertpaulsen Jan 2022 #4
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