<b>4. Systematically introducing substance abuse and addiction (precisely what christianism did to the native populations of the Americas and Australia and colonised China)</b>
<i>Will Durant, The Case for India (1930), Chapter 1:</i>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Instead of encouraging education, the Government encouraged drink.</b> When the British came, India was a sober nation. "The temperance of the people," said Warren Hastings, "is demonstrated in the simplicity of their food and their total abstinence from spirituous liquors and other substances of intoxication.120 With the first tradingposts established by the British, saloons were opened for the sale of rum, and the East India Company made handsome profits from the trade.121 When the Crown took over India it depended on the saloons for a large part of its revenue; the license system was so arranged as to stimulate drinking and sales. The Government revenue from such licenses has increased seven-fold in the last forty years; in 1922 it stood at $60,000,000 annually- three times the appropriation for schools and universities.
"Miss Mayo tells us that Hindu mothers feed opium to their children; and she concludes that India is not fit for Home Rule. What she says is true; what she does not say makes what she says worse than a straightforward lie. She does not tell us (though she must have known) that women drug their children because the mothers must abandon them every day to go to work in the factories. She does not tell us that the opium is grown only by the Government, and is sold exclusively by the Government; that its sale, like the sale of drink through saloons, is carried on despite the protests of the Nationalist Congress, the Industrial and Social Conferences, the Provincial Conferences, the Brahmo-Somaj, the Arya-Somaj, the Mohammedans and the Christians; that there are seven thousand opium shops in India, operated by the British Government, in the most conspicuous places in every town;122 that the Central Legislature in 1921 passed a bill prohibiting the growth or sale of opium in India, and that the Government refused to act upon it;123 that from two to four hundred thousand acres of India's soil, sorely needed for the raising of food, are given over to the growing of opium124 and that the sale of the drug brings to the Government one-ninth of its total revenue every year.125 She does not tell us that Burma excluded opium by law until the British came, and is now overrun with it; that the British distributed it free in Burma to create a demand for it;126 that whereas the traffic has been stopped in the Philippines, England has refused,at one World Opium Conference after another, to abandon it in India; that though she has agreed to, reduce the export of opium by 10% yearly, she has refused to reduce its sale in India; that the Report of the Government Retrenchment Commission of 1925 emphasized "the importance of safeguarding opium sales as an important source of revenue," and recommended "no further reduction";127 that when Gandhi by a peaceful antiopium campaign in Assam had reduced the consumption of the drug there by one-half, the Government put a stop to his labors and jailed forty-four of his aides.128 She does not tell us that the health, courage and character of the Hindu people have been undermined through this ruthless drugging of a nation by men pretending to be Christians."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Christian Britain inflicted opium on the Chinese too:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3181326
The visible page summarises the general historical view of Opiated China.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Unearthing Popular Attitudes toward the Opium Trade and Opium Suppression in Late Qing and Early Republican Fujian</b>
Joyce Madancy
Union College
It has long been axiomatic among historians of late imperial and early Republican China that <b>opium was a plague on the Chinese people--sapping their willpower and stamina, weakening the military, draining the Qing treasury while padding the coffers of the colonial Indian government,</b> and reinforcing China's international image as an empire in decline. The settlements with Great Britain following the Opium War of 1839-1842 and the Arrow War of 1858-1860 ultimately compelled China to drop its own long-standing legal restrictions against the importation of foreign opium and sparked the <b>growth of a lucrative domestic opium economy that eventually extended throughout the Qing empire. By the turn of the twenthieth century, opium was perceived as having caused widespread social dysfunction, and the drug served as a powerful metaphor for China's political somnambulism in the age of Western imperialism. In short, China had developed a serious opium problem</b>--and along with it, a public...<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<i><b>4.1 The modern political movement to take India back to the drunken illiterate stupour imposed by the erstwhile christian empire</b></i>
The christian principle of "Instead of encouraging education, the Government encouraged drink", which the christian British introduced in India, is now being repeated by the inheritors of christian miseducation, such as the pseudo-secular Renuka Choudhary with her Pub Bharo, and the associated rise of the Pink Chaddi Campaign (initiated by christian Hindu-bashing writer for Tehelka, Nisha Susan, who started her "consortium of pub-going, loose and forward women" for such political purposes) and the increased pseudo-secular christian drive to push the non-culture of Valentine's Day more:
http://vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayAr...spx?id=399
<i>Pursuing Sex: should we scrap the Sharda Act?</i>
Sandhya Jain
22 Feb 2009
<i>Will Durant, The Case for India (1930), Chapter 1:</i>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Instead of encouraging education, the Government encouraged drink.</b> When the British came, India was a sober nation. "The temperance of the people," said Warren Hastings, "is demonstrated in the simplicity of their food and their total abstinence from spirituous liquors and other substances of intoxication.120 With the first tradingposts established by the British, saloons were opened for the sale of rum, and the East India Company made handsome profits from the trade.121 When the Crown took over India it depended on the saloons for a large part of its revenue; the license system was so arranged as to stimulate drinking and sales. The Government revenue from such licenses has increased seven-fold in the last forty years; in 1922 it stood at $60,000,000 annually- three times the appropriation for schools and universities.
"Miss Mayo tells us that Hindu mothers feed opium to their children; and she concludes that India is not fit for Home Rule. What she says is true; what she does not say makes what she says worse than a straightforward lie. She does not tell us (though she must have known) that women drug their children because the mothers must abandon them every day to go to work in the factories. She does not tell us that the opium is grown only by the Government, and is sold exclusively by the Government; that its sale, like the sale of drink through saloons, is carried on despite the protests of the Nationalist Congress, the Industrial and Social Conferences, the Provincial Conferences, the Brahmo-Somaj, the Arya-Somaj, the Mohammedans and the Christians; that there are seven thousand opium shops in India, operated by the British Government, in the most conspicuous places in every town;122 that the Central Legislature in 1921 passed a bill prohibiting the growth or sale of opium in India, and that the Government refused to act upon it;123 that from two to four hundred thousand acres of India's soil, sorely needed for the raising of food, are given over to the growing of opium124 and that the sale of the drug brings to the Government one-ninth of its total revenue every year.125 She does not tell us that Burma excluded opium by law until the British came, and is now overrun with it; that the British distributed it free in Burma to create a demand for it;126 that whereas the traffic has been stopped in the Philippines, England has refused,at one World Opium Conference after another, to abandon it in India; that though she has agreed to, reduce the export of opium by 10% yearly, she has refused to reduce its sale in India; that the Report of the Government Retrenchment Commission of 1925 emphasized "the importance of safeguarding opium sales as an important source of revenue," and recommended "no further reduction";127 that when Gandhi by a peaceful antiopium campaign in Assam had reduced the consumption of the drug there by one-half, the Government put a stop to his labors and jailed forty-four of his aides.128 She does not tell us that the health, courage and character of the Hindu people have been undermined through this ruthless drugging of a nation by men pretending to be Christians."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Christian Britain inflicted opium on the Chinese too:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3181326
The visible page summarises the general historical view of Opiated China.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Unearthing Popular Attitudes toward the Opium Trade and Opium Suppression in Late Qing and Early Republican Fujian</b>
Joyce Madancy
Union College
It has long been axiomatic among historians of late imperial and early Republican China that <b>opium was a plague on the Chinese people--sapping their willpower and stamina, weakening the military, draining the Qing treasury while padding the coffers of the colonial Indian government,</b> and reinforcing China's international image as an empire in decline. The settlements with Great Britain following the Opium War of 1839-1842 and the Arrow War of 1858-1860 ultimately compelled China to drop its own long-standing legal restrictions against the importation of foreign opium and sparked the <b>growth of a lucrative domestic opium economy that eventually extended throughout the Qing empire. By the turn of the twenthieth century, opium was perceived as having caused widespread social dysfunction, and the drug served as a powerful metaphor for China's political somnambulism in the age of Western imperialism. In short, China had developed a serious opium problem</b>--and along with it, a public...<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<i><b>4.1 The modern political movement to take India back to the drunken illiterate stupour imposed by the erstwhile christian empire</b></i>
The christian principle of "Instead of encouraging education, the Government encouraged drink", which the christian British introduced in India, is now being repeated by the inheritors of christian miseducation, such as the pseudo-secular Renuka Choudhary with her Pub Bharo, and the associated rise of the Pink Chaddi Campaign (initiated by christian Hindu-bashing writer for Tehelka, Nisha Susan, who started her "consortium of pub-going, loose and forward women" for such political purposes) and the increased pseudo-secular christian drive to push the non-culture of Valentine's Day more:
http://vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayAr...spx?id=399
<i>Pursuing Sex: should we scrap the Sharda Act?</i>
Sandhya Jain
22 Feb 2009