Das britische "Partygate", das US-amerikanische "Nipplegate" und das deutsche "Dieselgate" - sie alle verdanken ihre Namen einem politisch motivierten Einbruch in einen Gebäudekomplex in Washington D.C. vor 50 Jahren.#Watergate #RichardNixon
Watergate: Ein Skandal mit Folgen - auch für die Sprache | DW | 17.06.2022
Nixon advisor and Watergate co-conspirator John Ehrlichman on why that administration escalated the War on (Some) Drugs:
“You want to know what this was really all about?” [John Ehrlichman] asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “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.”
-- Dan Baum, "Legalize It All", Harper's Magazine, April 2016.
https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
#JohnEhrlichman #RichardNixon #WarOnDrugs #Racism #AntiWarMovement #Politics #BLM
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcpJujzOEjQ
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/06/22/revealing-the-pentagon-papers-in-congress-2-getting-the-papers/
( #Gravel and #Ellsberg discuss #Assange, #Manning, and #Snowden on the #video.)
#pentagonpapers #congress #danielellsberg #mikegravel #raymcgovern #joelauria #topsecret #classified #documents #vietnam #war #laos #richardnixon #history #antiwar #journalism #justice #truth #truthtellers #julianassange #chelseamanning #edwardsnowden #censorship #espionage #act #media #times #post #foreign #policy #militarism #secrecy #freeassange #dropthecharges #weareallassange
same goes for the bushes, reagan, nixon...
#annulment #donaldtrump #ronaldreagan #richardnixon #georgewbush
