Tuesday, January 18, 2011

OPIUM EMPIRES




















The next time you hear War On Drugs jargon about “evil drug kingpins” and even the tired classic “narco-terrorism” cast your mind to this snippet from our pals at Delancey Place.

"Franklin's grandfather Warren Delano had for years skulked around [China's] Pearl River Delta dealing drugs. Delano had run offices in Canton and Hong Kong. During business hours, Chinese criminals would pay him cash and receive an opium chit. At night, Scrambling Crabs - long, sleek, heavily armed crafts - rowed out into the Pearl River Delta to Delano's floating warehouses, where they received their Jesus opium under the cover of darkness. The profits were enormous, and at his death Delano left his daughter Sara a fortune that she lavished on her only son.
The Delanos were not alone. Many of New England's great families made their fortunes dealing drugs in China. The Cabot family of Boston endowed Harvard with opium money, while Yale's famous Skull and Bones society was funded by the biggest American opium dealers of them all - the Russell family. The most famous landmark on the Columbia University campus is the Low Memorial Library, which honors Abiel Low, a New York boy who made it big in the Pearl River Delta and bankrolled the first cable across the Atlantic. Princeton University's first big benefactor, John Green, sold opium in the Pearl River Delta with Warren Delano.
The list goes on and on: Boston's John Murray Forbes's opium profits financed the career of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson and bankrolled the Bell Telephone Company. Thomas Perkins founded America's first commercial railroad and funded the Boston Athenaeum. These wealthy and powerful drug-dealing families combined to create dynasties." James Bradley – The Imperial Cruise (Back Bay)

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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:44 PM

    DUDE! WTF! There was totally a post above this one a minute ago, right?

    I know I saw one, but I navigated the web while intoxicated & upon my return it's missing!

    SOMETHING HAS GONE AWRY HERE!

    I keep feeling like something is going on behind me, that's strange too. There's nothing going on over there either. I know because I keep looking, & yup, nothing going on over there. Just some electronics doing their thing, no creatures stirring...

    OMG! ELECTRONICS ARE SO AWESOME! I mean... I know that analog is better than digital, at least when it comes to the opposite sex, ya know, but liek, internet is serious business! Super amazing, it seems as if I'm maximizing my potential while my attention span is devided into next to nothing... speaking of that, I need to end this post / ramble & talk to that woman instead.

    <_<
    >_>
    x_S

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  2. Not me! My family made it big on the tea trade and slave (coolie) labor.

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  3. "CIA Drug Running"
    Former narcotics investigator Mike Ruppert was forced out of the LAPD in 1977 when he exposed evidence of drug trafficking by the CIA. This is one of his first appearances caught on Video in 1997 at the Granada Forum in Tarzana, CA. Topic is "CIA Drug Running
    (1:45)
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7009998324250484369#

    CIA Drug Ops Conspiracy ( censored documentary 1:46 ) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4664530914793827668#

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