In the news today, June 22, 2003, a story from London's Independent newspaper reports that Afghanistan has regained its title as the world's biggest heroin dealer. It says:

"Afghanistan is still the source of almost all of the heroin sold in London, even though Britain has poured millions [of taxpayers dollars] into [supposedly] trying to stamp out the war-wrecked country's resurgent drugs production business."

"Opium poppies are springing up from the plains to the mountains of Afghanistan in far higher quantities than in the final year of the Taliban, which the USA and Britain overthrew, while vowing to end the region's narcotics trade. Opium - from which heroin is extracted - is produced on farms only a few dozen miles from the capital city of Kabul, headquarters to the international effort to end the heroin trade and rebuild the country."

"...The cultivation of opium reached its peak in 1999, when 225,000 acres - 350 square miles - of poppies were sown... The following year the Taliban banned poppy cultivation, declaring it to be "un-Islamic" - a move which cut production by 94 per cent... By 2001 only 30 square miles of land were in use for growing opium poppies. A year later, after American and British troops had removed the Taliban and installed the interim government, the land under cultivation leapt back to 285 square miles, with Afghanistan supplanting Burma to become the world's largest opium producer once more."

I think it should be obvious to all thinking people at this point that the governments of Britain and the United States are profiting from heroin and have turned Afghanistan into one big Killing Field, the products of which will help destroy the Western World, just as they at one time destroyed China's civilization.

Orwell says in "1984" that "an evil sect named the Brotherhood" controlled all the governments of the world and that its goal was to "destroy the societies in which they lived" and that one of the ways they did this was "by distributing habit forming drugs".

Orwell had personal knowledge of the evil that governments do in this regard in that he himself was born on a poppy plantation in Motihari, northern India. His father, Richard Blair, worked for the Foreign Service as an "assistant sub-deputy opium agent, 1st grade." That's a fancy name for "drug dealer for the Crown". It was his job to make sure the British Government's poppies got to factories in Calcutta, where they were processed into opium that was then exported to China. In 1880, when Orwell's father started work in India, there were 15 million confirmed opium addicts in China. The Chinese Empire collapsed, from within, in 1912.

Orwell was one year old in 1904 when he left India with his mother and sister, and he only saw his father every five years or so when he came home on leave. He probably didn't find out about the nature of his father's work until many years later but knowing Orwell it had a profound effect on him. No doubt his five years spent in Burma from the ages of 19 to 23 also opened his eyes to Britain's role in the heroin trade there. It may be part of the reason he seemed to do penance with his life - suffering with the poorest of the poor and fighting against the powerful forces the only way he could - through his writing.

As the old adage goes: "Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it". It seems the Western World is in the process of a major attack on its civilization through heroin, cocaine and dangerous chemical and pharmaceutical substances. It's a force to be reckoned with. Too bad for us that the force is generated from within our own governments. It makes it tougher to beat. ~ Jackie Jura

Britain on top of heroin league (all of it comes from Afghanistan). Sunday Times, Feb 27, 2005

Opium trade booms in "basket case" Afghanistan. Independent, Jul 28, 2004
The opium harvest in Afghanistan this year will be one of the biggest on record, the Foreign Office said yesterday, and it has triggered a flood of heroin on Britain's streets. The revelation will prove highly embarrassing for Tony Blair, who cited cutting the supply of heroin as one of the main reasons for the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001...the consequences of the rise were already evident: cheaper, better quality heroin was arriving in Britain, luring thousands more youngsters into addiction than ever before..."The rise in cultivation and production of opium poppies in Afghanistan has horrendous portents for us in the UK bearing in mind the PM's statement that 90 per cent of heroin sold on British streets comes from Afghanistan".

Heroin poppy threatens Afghanistan (thriving under UN control). BBC, Mar 22, 2004. Go to 6.Super-States

UK may ban smoking in public (chief med advisor warns of 'passive smoking for children'). ThisIsLondon, Jul 3, 2003. Go to 22.Doublethink & 2.Big Brother & DRUG WAR & PEACE

3,000 troops to Afghanistan (to fight non-existent enemy). National Post, Jun 28, 2003. Go to 12.Ministry of Peace (War) & ARMY TO AFGHANISTAN & BOSNIA?

Afghanistan world's biggest heroin dealer (poppies springing up everywhere in midst of Western armies). Independent, Jun 22, 2003. Go to 35.The Brotherhood & 23.The Proles

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