John Ehrlichman, l’homme qui incarne le novlangue
▻https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/?single=1
Legalize It All, by Dan Baum | Harper’s Magazine
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In 1994, John Ehrlichman, the Watergate co-conspirator, unlocked for me one of the great mysteries of modern American history: How did the United States entangle itself in a policy of drug prohibition that has yielded so much misery and so few good results?
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“You want to know what this was really all about?” he 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.”
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Quel chef-d’oeuvre démagogique ! C’est l’application de la propagande par le fait retournée. On ne nomme pas son ennemi véritable, on le définit à travers des néologismes et des métaphores mensongéres, en même temps on crée une nouvelle réalité matérielle qui semble confirmer ses propres allégations initiales.
John Ehrlichman
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman
John Daniel Ehrlichman (March 20, 1925 – February 14, 1999) was counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon. He was a key figure in events leading to the Watergate first break-in and the ensuing Watergate scandal, for which he was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and served a year and a half in prison.
Quant à la propagande par le fait
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« Et, comme – invinciblement – la sympathie des foules s’en va aux ennemis des sociétés qui les tiennent courbées sous le joug insupportable de la Richesse, les travailleurs, en désarroi de leur détresse, se sentaient attirés vers les anarchistes, dans l’indifférence complète des doctrines et des théories, créant, en une communion d’amertume, de misère, de sombre désespérance, un anarchisme aussi terrible pour les classes dirigeantes que la propagande par le fait des militants : l’anarchisme de sentiment. »
(Henry Leyret, 1895)
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