With a few of his colleagues, John was invited to tour the United States to explain how this policy could save American lives. Everywhere they went, at the end of the meeting, they were told the same thing—that the Republican congressman Jesse Helms had been pressuring the organizers to shut them down and shut them up. Helms didn’t want anybody to interfere with the war on drugs. A few years later, on a CNN phone-in show, a caller thanked him for “everything you’ve done to help keep down the niggers,” and he replied by saluting the camera and saying: “Well, thank you, I think.”
