Charles Ezra Daniel Quotes
We are never going to lick this problem of the drug traffic until we get the addicts off the streets of this country. They have got to be taken off the streets
Charles Ezra Daniel, 1895-1964, U. S. Senator (Democrat, SC), Senate Hearings, September 1955
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This remarkable observation turned out to be true even to this day where study after study demonstrates that the average teenager believes that drug use is much more prevalent that it really is.
Not only were there many opium users in the Philippines, but many of our occupying soldiers were introduced to opium and some became addicted. In that sense, it was like the Vietnam War.
It is not clear that Wright actually used these words of the first title or the editors created it. The substance is his and the second line is definitely his. At the time, the average American mistakenly thought that China had a much higher consumption rate.
He was the first Chinese official to make opium illegal. However, British many merchants were involved in a complicated trade scheme whereby they brought opium to Canton. They paid not attention to the new laws against opium the same as their Chinese customers. Lin Zexu, perceiving Queen Victoria to have powers equivalent to the Chinese Emperor who could do anything in China, He assumed that the Queen could and would control the merchant’s behavior, and before punishing the British merchants, he was putting the Queen on notice. There is no record of what Victoria did, if anything. When Lin Zexu tried to enforce his ban on opium, the British Merchants resisted and the First Opium War broke out between China and Britainin which the Chinese were humiliated and resent to this day. A bronze statue of Lin Zexu was erected in his honor in Chatham Square (Kimlau Square) of New York City's Chinatown.
With this type of rhetoric (see Quotation 643709) for another example), he gave the green light to local law enforcement agencies and vigilante groups, who in the first few weeks of his term of office, murdered without trial or any due process 1500 assumed drug dealers and drug users. In some cases feuds and scores were settled by the false accusation of a rival or enemy, and since there was no trial or way for the accused to even try and prove he was not a drug addict of dealer, a number of totally innocent people were victims of extra judicial killings encouraged by the President of the Country.
Charles Ezra Daniel was a United States Senator from South Carolina and founder of Daniel International Corporation.
