Behind The White Line | Ep 5 | The war with no end
6/17/202625 min
In episode five of Behind the White Line, as governments wage an endless war on drugs, we meet a group of forty-something friends who are occasional coke users. While many are unaware of the risks with taking cocaine, our real-life users are equally shocked to learn about the brutal underbelly of the drug trade directly from a man who’s lived in the cartel’s shadow.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Richard Nixon· Soundbite0:09
Going to join me here. Won't you be seated please, ladies and gentlemen? Come on, Dr. Jaffe and Mr. Krog, Mr. Earline.
Speaker 3· Soundbite0:15
Sir, yes sir.
Richard Nixon· Soundbite0:16
Fine. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to summarize for you the meeting that I have just had with the bipartisan leaders, which began at 8:00 and was completed two hours later.
Richard Baker· Host0:26
In 1971, US President Richard Nixon called a press conference that changed the course of the world.
Richard Nixon· Soundbite0:34
I began the meeting by making this statement, which I think needs to be made to the nation. America's public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new all-out offensive. I've asked the Congress to provide the legislative authority and the funds to fuel this kind of an offensive. This will be a worldwide offensive dealing with the problems of sources of supply, as well as Americans who may be stationed abroad, wherever they are in the world.
Richard Baker· Host1:11
Nixon's war on drugs gave birth to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA, and enabled the US government to conduct overt and covert operations in just about any nation it chooses. 55 years on, the war on drugs is still raging.