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"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." -- John Ehrlichman (b. 1925-03-20, d. 1999-02-14), interviewed by Dan Baum, collected in The Moment: Wild, Poignant, Life-changing Stories (Harper Perennial, 2012, ed. Larry Smith) [found here after being quoted on a local-to-my-ISP newsgroup]
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A ficton concept I'd like to discuss with you
This has to result in short stories that can be written *now*, and later morph into a venue to discuss how That Other World would feel about and handle what we're going through here and now. I have ideas on how to manage that, but in the past I've gotten myself bogged down in doing enormous amounts of legwork creating the backstory and never getting the actual *stories* written.
This would occur mostly via email, with some phone conversation (I'm still at 541-777-0099 if you'd rather continue the conversation in that venue). Minimum commitment on your part would be a weekly half-hour phone call; you could put as much more into it as you liked, or possibly use IM or email instead of phone, though that might mean a bit more time.
Is this something in which you'd be interested?
best,
Joel. Who thinks he may have finally figured out how to make a conservative a good guy for a change.