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To: aruanan
Queen of England was behind an international drug-running operation.

Hmm Goes along with my theory the Washington DC doesn't want the Mexican boarder closed because it has one of the higher uses of illegal drugs in the nation. Wouldn't want to stop their flow of blow now would we?

65 posted on 11/12/2010 4:58:56 AM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: hoosiermama
Hmm Goes along with my theory the Washington DC doesn't want the Mexican boarder closed because it has one of the higher uses of illegal drugs in the nation. Wouldn't want to stop their flow of blow now would we?

Lyndon Larouche is a dirigist of the first order.
66 posted on 11/12/2010 5:06:10 AM PST by aruanan
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To: hoosiermama
Queen of England was behind an international drug-running operation

Well there was this little dustup known as the Opium Wars. We learned about it in high-school history class. Pretty much the entire British Empire, of which the Queen (different Queen at the time) is the head, was used to push opium use in China, and resist Chinese efforts to make it illegal. (Drug legalization fans should study this episode.)

I don't know if that is what LaRouche is talking about. But I would have to strongly agree with the statement "The Queen of England was behind an international drug running operation".

>Here is the Wikipedia entry on the Opium Wars:

The Opium Wars (simplified Chinese: 鸦片战争; traditional Chinese: 鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Yāpiàn Zhànzhēng), also known as the Anglo-Chinese Wars, were the climax of trade disputes and diplomatic difficulties between China under the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire after China sought to restrict illegal British opium trafficking. It consisted of the First Opium War from 1839 to 1842[1] and the Second Opium War from 1856 to 1860.[2]

Opium was smuggled by merchants from British India into China in defiance of Chinese prohibition laws. Open warfare between Britain and China broke out in 1839. Further disputes over the treatment of British merchants in Chinese ports resulted in the Second Opium War.

China was defeated in both wars leaving its government having to tolerate the opium trade. Britain forced the Chinese government into signing the Treaty of Nanking and the Treaty of Tianjin, also known as the Unequal Treaties, which included provisions for the opening of additional ports to unrestricted foreign trade, for fixed tariffs; for the recognition of both countries as equal in correspondence; and for the cession of Hong Kong to Britain. The British also gained extraterritorial rights. Several countries followed Britain and sought similar agreements with China. Many Chinese found these agreements humiliating and these sentiments contributed to the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864), the Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901), and the downfall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912, putting an end to dynastic China.

The Queen who ruled England at the time was Victoria, who ruled from Victoria 1837 to 1901.
79 posted on 11/12/2010 10:15:31 AM PST by Jack Black ( Whatever is left of American patriotism is now identical with counter-revolution.)
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