"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,” Ehrlichman said. “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 [former Nixon domestic policy chief]

Consider our exercise in military strength, our devaluation of the global reserve currency, our imperialism across unestablished nations, our terrorism, our spying, and our privatized slavery to be marks of success.

This is what they wanted.