FROM OPIUM TO OPIATE: THE EVOLUTION OF A PLACEBO SCAM
RE: THE JIHAD WITHIN: THE LATTER DAZE OPIATE WAR
OR HOW WESTERN SELFISH GREED DESTROYS LIFE
OR HOW OUR MUTUAL SEPARATION CREATES A NATION OF TRAITORS

"After conquering many lands, the prophet Mohammed told his shocked
followers that the real (Sufi) Jihad had not as yet begun." - Ibrahim
Al Nijeidi

"The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place of metes and bounds: It is
within you." - Jesus

"Religion (without Salvation) is the opiate of the people." - Karl
Marx

"If dey ain't preachin duh True Gospel of Real Salvation, ah knows
dey sho nuff be pushin dat opium." - comments of an American slave
about the collaboration between British missionaries and British
opium merchants.

The more superior the product, the stronger the capitalist enmity
against it, Global Salvation from Suffering being their most hated
enemy. Traitors against God, country, and life itself now control the
nation with a total plurality. The anti-survivalists all want to
commit a mass murder-suicide, and they will punish anyone who tries
to stop them.

The Union of Separation long ago declared war against the True
Patriots for the God of Real Salvation, who strive for global
survival. It is the end of the nations of traitors, and their "dog
eat dog - every dog for himself", "cheat or be cheated" system. They
are doomed by their own madness to destroy all Life-bringers and
Peace-makers, thus condemning themselves to be "hung by their own
rope", falling into the same trap they laid for others.

Despite our efforts to help the unrighteous, they are still intent on
destroying us. Being unwilling to give, they become unable to
receive. Gloating about how much damage and pain they have inflicted
on the Righteous, they are blinded as to how the unrighteous, at the
same time, have destroyed themselves, and their own families and
nations - a psychopathic enemy now "at the gates". Jai Om. - Sw.
Tantrasangha

THE ANGLO-CHINESE OPIUM WARS

The Opium War, also called the Anglo-Chinese War, was the most
humiliating defeat China ever suffered. In European history, it is
perhaps the most sordid, base, and vicious event in European history,
possibly, just possibly, overshadowed by the excesses of the Third
Reich in the twentieth century.

By the 1830's, the English had become the major drug-trafficking
criminal organization in the world; very few drug cartels of the
twentieth century can even touch the England of the early nineteenth
century in sheer size of criminality. Growing opium in India, the
East India Company shipped tons of opium into Canton which it traded
for Chinese manufactured goods and for tea. This trade had produced,
quite literally, a country filled with drug addicts, as opium parlors
proliferated all throughout China in the early part of the nineteenth
century. This trafficing, it should be stressed, was a criminal
activity after 1836, but the British traders generously bribed Canton
officials in order to keep the opium traffic flowing. The effects on
Chinese society were devestating. In fact, there are few periods in
Chinese history that approach the early nineteenth century in terms
of pure human misery and tragedy. In an effort to stem the tragedy,
the imperial government made opium illegal in 1836 and began to
aggressively close down the opium dens.

Lin Tse-hsü
The key player in the prelude to war was a brilliant and highly
moral official named Lin Tse-hsü. Deeply concerned about the opium
menace, he maneuverd himself into being appointed Imperial
Commissioner at Canton. His express purpose was to cut off the opium
trade at its source by rooting out corrupt officials and cracking
down on British trade in the drug.

He took over in March of 1839 and within two months, absolutely
invulnerable to bribery and corruption, he had taken action against
Chinese merchants and Western traders and shut down all the traffic
in opium. He destroyed all the existing stores of opium and,
victorious in his war against opium, he composed a letter to Queen
Victoria of England requesting that the British cease all opium
trade. His letter included the argument that, since Britain had made
opium trade and consumption illegal in England because of its harmful
effects, it should not export that harm to other countries. Trade,
according to Lin, should only be in beneficial objects.

To be fair to England, if the only issue on the table were opium,
the English probably (just probably) would have acceded to Lin's
request. The British, however, had been nursing several grievances
against China, and Lin's take-no-prisoners enforcement of Chinese
laws combined to outrage the British against his decapitation of the
opium trade. The most serious bone of contention involved treaty
relations; because the British refused to submit to the emperor,
there were no formal treaty relations between the two countries. The
most serious problem precipitated by this lack of treaty relations
involved the relationship between foreigners and Chinese law. The
British, on principle, refused to hand over British citizens to a
Chinese legal system that they felt was vicious and barbaric. The
Chinese, equally principled, demanded that all foreigners who were
accused of committing crimes on Chinese soil were to be dealt with
solely by Chinese officials. In many ways, this was the real issue of
the Opium War. In addition to enforcing the opium laws, Lin
aggressively pursued foreign nationals accused of crimes.

The English, despite Lin's eloquent letter, refused to back down
from the opium trade. In response, Lin threatened to cut off all
trade with England and expel all English from China. Thus began the
Opium War.

The War
War broke out when Chinese junks attempted to turn back English
merchant vessels in November of 1839; although this was a low-level
conflict, it inspired the English to send warships in June of 1840.
The Chinese, with old-style weapons and artillery, were no match for
the British gunships, which ranged up and down the coast shooting at
forts and fighting on land. The Chinese were equally unprepared for
the technological superiority of the British land armies, and
suffered continual defeats. Finally, in 1842, the Chinese were forced
to agree to an ignomious peace under the Treaty of Nanking.

The treaty imposed on the Chinese was weighted entirely to the
British side. Its first and fundamental demand was for
British "extraterritoriality"; all British citizens would be
subjected to British, not Chinese, law if they committed any crime on
Chinese soil. The British would no longer have to pay tribute to the
imperial administration in order to trade with China, and they gained
five open ports for British trade: Canton, Shanghai, Foochow, Ningpo,
and Amoy. No restrictions were placed on British trade, and, as a
consequence, opium trade more than doubled in the three decades
following the Treaty of Nanking. The treaty also established England
as the "most favored nation" trading with China; this clause granted
to Britain any trading rights granted to other countries. Two years
later, China, against its will, signed similar treaties with France
and the United States.

Lin Tse-hsü was officially disgraced for his actions in Canton and
was sent to a remote appointment in Turkestan. Of all the imperial
officials, however, Lin was the first to realize the momentuous
lesson of the Opium War. In a series of letters he began to agitate
the imperial government to adopt Western technology, arms, and
methods of warfare. He was first to see that the war was about
technological superiority; his influence, however, had dwindled to
nothing, so his admonitions fell on deaf ears.

It wasn't until a second conflict with England that Chinese
officials began to take seriously the adoption of Western
technologies. Even with the Treaty of Nanking, trade in Canton and
other ports remained fairly restricted; the British were incensed by
what they felt was clear treaty violations. The Chinese, for their
part, were angered at the wholescale export of Chinese nationals to
America and the Caribbean to work at what was no better than slave
labor. These conflicts came to a head in 1856 in a series of
skirmishes that ended in 1860. A second set of treaties further
humiliated and weakened the imperial government. The most ignominious
of the provisions in these treaties was the complete legalization of
opium and the humiliating provision that allowed for the free and
unrestricted propagation of Christianity in all regions of China.

The Illustrated Gazatteer of Maritime Countries
China's defeat at the hands of England led to the publication of
the Illustrated Gazatteer of Maritime Countries by Wei Yüan (1794-
1856). The Gazatteer marks the first landmark event in the
modernization of China. Wei Yüan, a distinguished but minor official,
argued in the Gazatteer that the Europeans had developed technologies
and methods of warfare in their ceaseless and barbaric quest for
power, profit, and material wealth. Civilization, represented by
China, was in danger of falling to the technological superiority of
the Western powers. Because China is a peaceful and civilized nation,
it can overcome the West only if it learns and matches the technology
and techniques of the West. The purpose of the Gazatteer was to
disseminate knowledge about the Europeans, their technologies, their
methods of warfare, and their selfish anarchy to learned officials.
It is a landmark event in Chinese history, for it was the first
systematic attempt to educate the Chinese in Western technologies and
culture. This drive for modernization, begun by Lin Tse-hsü and
perpetuated by Wei Yüan would gain momentum and emerge as the basis
for the "Self-Strengthening" from 1874 to 1895.