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starroute

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3. Nixon also created the DEA to serve as a kind of domestic CIA
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 11:36 PM
Aug 2014

Yeah, that's the Drug Enforcement Agency. It was created by combining the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and one or two similar agencies. Its staff included a large number of CIA people and it was run out of the White House. It was only Watergate that prevented the whole plan from going into effect--and it's not entirely clear what that was to have been, but the outlines are pretty obvious.

One conclusion to draw from this is that the War on Drugs was intended from the start as a form of domestic repression.

Another is that the objectives that Nixon couldn't achieve 40 years ago have since been accomplished by way of the War on Terror, the militarization of the police, and the fusion centers and other means of domestic surveillance.

The song remains the same.

Re: Tap-dancing [View all] H2O Man Aug 2014 OP
Recommended, and thank you. NYC_SKP Aug 2014 #1
Thank you. H2O Man Aug 2014 #6
Thank you very much for the Carter reference. I'll remember that. NYC_SKP Aug 2014 #9
K&R JEB Aug 2014 #2
Thank you. H2O Man Aug 2014 #7
Nixon also created the DEA to serve as a kind of domestic CIA starroute Aug 2014 #3
Right. H2O Man Aug 2014 #8
very good points about local organizing bigtree Aug 2014 #4
You political peeps got me started on the ground. littlemissmartypants Aug 2014 #5
K&R! G_j Aug 2014 #10
That's just your opinion. Scuba Aug 2014 #11
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