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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 8 Num. 33
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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THE FIRST OPIUM WAR
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(Source for the following is *Dope, Inc.* by the Editors of
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Executive Intelligence Review. I neither necessarily agree nor
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disagree with all or portions of the following.)
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1601 -- Original Jesuit mission is established at Beijing, China.
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The Jesuits, having achieved positions of "unquestioned
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authority" at the Chinese royal court, hold the key to the opium
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trade. They are later followed by the Portuguese and then the
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Dutch.
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1659 -- The Dutch now control the ancient dope trade routes. In
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exchange for taxes paid to the Mogul court, Dutch traders are
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allowed to force Indian peasants to produce dope for them.
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1715 -- The British East India Company opens an office in Canton,
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China.
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1750 -- By now the Dutch are shipping more than 100 tons of opium
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per year to Indonesia. Besides business advantages, the Dutch
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have discovered that opium is "a useful means for breaking the
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moral resistance of Indonesians who opposed the introduction of
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their semi-servile but increasingly profitable plantation system.
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They deliberately spread the drug habits from the ports... to the
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countryside."
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(How were the drug habits "deliberately spread"? The book,
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*Dope, Inc.*, does not exactly say. Nowadays, certain
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"rebellious" rock and roll songs serve as advertising jingles
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which help lure in potential consumers. Censorship, however, is
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not the answer. But be aware when you hear lyrics such as
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"Ritalin is in. Ritalin is in," that "somebody" might be trying
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to sell you something.)
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1757 -- Military victories make Bengal a British colony.
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1783 -- Lord Shelburne, who concluded peace negotiations with
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America after our Revolutionary War, is the power behind William
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Pitt the Younger, British Prime Minister. Shelburne is allied
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with the Jesuits, the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and the
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East India Company.
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Both the British Empire and the East India Company are
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bankrupt. Lord Shelburne and associates take over the East India
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Company, and makes it "the central instrument of loot for the
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maintenance of the British Empire." Shelburne proposes to use
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"free trade" as a cover for both subverting the United States and
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expanding the opium trade into the Far East.
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Lord Shelburne is allied also with Francis Baring, an
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Anglo-Dutch banker.
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1787 -- British Secretary of State Dundas has proposed that
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Britain force itself more into China so as to help augment the
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opium market there. The East India Company, acting in a manner
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reminiscent of our own American Central Intelligence Agency
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(CIA), establishes "cut outs" -- intermediaries -- to handle the
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export of opium from India to China.
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1830 -- Number of chests filled with opium being brought into
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China has increased fourfold since late 1700s: 18,956 chests.
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1836 -- Number of chests filled with opium being brought into
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China: greater than 30,000 chests.
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1839 -- China launches its own version of a "War on Drugs". Lin
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Tse-hsu is appointed drug czar. He cracks down on the "Society
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of Heaven and Earth," also known as The Triad Society, which had
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been recruited by the East India Company into the opium business
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in the early 1800s.
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But Lin goes too far. He tries to arrest a British national
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connected to the dope trade. British warships intervene. Lin
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responds by holding British tea for ransom, until and unless
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merchants turn over their opium stockpiles. Britain's Lord
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Palmerston, backed by the powerful British Navy, demands (1) full
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legalization of opium trade into China; (2) compensation for
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opium stockpiles confiscated by Lin; and (3) British sovereignty
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over several offshore islands.
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June 1840 -- The British fleet arrives in force and lays siege.
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Chinese forces are relatively weak, due partly to drug addiction
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within their Imperial Army. The Chinese Emperor asks for a peace
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treaty.
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1842 -- The Treaty of Nanking, among other things, gives Hong
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Kong to the British. To this day Hong Kong is said to be the
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capital of British drug-running.
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