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Tobacco and the State: A Brief History
By Gary Leupp
Created Nov 16 2007 - 9:34am
My son who just turned 18 announced, "Hey, now I can buy cigarettes." I'm
sure he was just joking. But since he can, in fact, now legally do this in
Massachusetts, it set me to thinking about the history of this problem of
tobacco smoking. (My own experience is largely confined to imbibing a few
pilfered cigarettes in the eighth grade, in later years the occasional
congratulatory cigar or tobacco mixed with other material in exotic venues
like Cairo. It's never been my thing. It occurs to me that were I to take it
up at my age, it probably wouldn't do me in, but why would I want to
contribute to the tobacco companies' profits? I'd want to grow my own and
leave them out of it.)
Where did this habit start? Seems that people in the western
hemisphere-probably in the Tabasco district of Mexico-started to smoke the
leaves of the tobacco plant about 2000 years ago. It had been growing there
for some 4000 years, doing nobody any harm. The people enjoyed the taste and
effects, and gradually the habit spread across the Caribbean to the
Antilles, northwards up the Mississippi River Valley, and southwards towards
Brazil.
Pipe-smoking is depicted on Guatemalan pottery dating as early as the
seventh century. The Maya believed that the spirit of their sky-god Manitou
was present in the ascending plume of smoke. In 1492 Christopher Columbus'
men having invaded the island of San Salvador were offered "certain dried
leaves" by the native Arawaks. Not knowing what to do with them, they
discarded these although a certain Rodrigo de Jerez soon adopted the smoking
habit. He's the first European known to have done so. Columbus scolded his
crewmen for sharing the "savage" practice, but observed perceptively "it was
not within their power to refrain." By 1531 the Spanish colonists were
cultivating tobacco in Santo Domingo, and in 1548 the Portuguese in Brazil
were growing the plant for export.
During the second half of the sixteenth century, the whole world discovered
the magical American herb: it pervaded France, the Netherlands, Portugal,
Spain, Britain, Italy, Germany and the Ottoman Empire, while spreading among
Englishmen in Virginia and other American colonies. The Portuguese brought
it to India around 1570 and to Japan by the 1580s. It arrived in China and
Korea soon thereafter. In short order millions were hooked. Queen Elizabeth
I, at the urging of Sir Walter Raleigh, smoked in 1600.
Medical doctors, in particular, advocated the practice. The personal
physician of King Philip II introduced tobacco to the Spanish court in 1559.
Jean Nicot de Villemain, the French ambassador to Portugal, praised
tobacco's curative effects. (We honor this wise man with our word
"nicotine.") At the University of Seville, the physician Nicolo Monardes
recommended it as a treatment for asthma, while the British doctor John
Frampton astutely prescribed it for cancer in the 1570s. In 1609 an imperial
prince in Japan described tobacco as "a medicine not listed" in classical
Chinese pharmacological works, adding, "It is said that if a sick man tastes
this smoke he is restored to glowing health" and many years are added to his
life. The world was enamored of the "India weed," some of its best
scientific minds inclined for a time to encourage this love affair.
The general enthusiasm soon waned, however. Political authorities, beginning
to notice what seemed its deleterious health effects, took measures to curb
the new habit. In 1590 Pope Urban VII banned the use of tobacco "in the
porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing or smoking." In
1603 the Japanese shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu banned tobacco. The next year James
I, king of England and Scotland, issued his Counterblaste to Tobacco. He
described smoking as a "custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose,
harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking
fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that
is bottomelesse."
In 1612, the Wan-li emperor in China banned tobacco cultivation and smoking;
so did the emperor Jahangir in Mughal India five years later, noting that
smoking causes "disturbance in most temperaments." Under the sultan Murad IV
(r. 1623-40), tobacco cultivation was banned in the Ottoman Empire; he
ordered that smokers have their hands cut off. Massachusetts officials
banned smoking in public in 1632, New Amsterdam followed suit in 1639. Two
years later, the Russian czar Alexis imposed stiff penalties for
smoking-death for a second offense.
But all these stern measures and admirable intentions, accompanied by a
growing medical literature critical of the weed, collapsed before its
seductive appeal and profit potential. In 1614, King Philip III of Spain
established Seville as a center for the production of cigars. Philip (also
the king of Portugal) was the most powerful monarch in Europe, nominal ruler
of the rebellious Netherlands, and ally of tobacco foe James I. Enhanced
commercial ties between England and Spain after the Treaty of London, signed
in the same year (1604) as James' Counterblast assured that leaf from the
Spanish New World colonies would reach ever more British consumers. When the
king banned the cultivation of the plant in England, and ended imports from
Spain in 1621, English colonists in Virginia and Maryland monopolized supply
through London merchants licensed and taxed by the Crown. New Amsterdam and
Dutch colonies in the Caribbean similarly provisioned smokers in the
Netherlands.
In France, in 1629 Cardinal Richelieu, always seeking new revenues for the
crown, imposed a tobacco tax. Venice established a state monopoly over the
production and sale of tobacco products thirty years later, and Louis XIV of
France emulated this policy in 1674. Early modern states were becoming
deeply invested in tobacco addiction, and many states abolished the bans
they had imposed. In 1647 the Ottoman emperor lifted the ban on smoking, as
did the new Russian czar Feodor in 1676. The newly-established Qing dynasty
in China overturned the ban on tobacco enforced under the Ming.
Elsewhere bans were newly applied: the town council in Berne, Switzerland
established special Chambres de Tabac to punish smokers in 1675, and tobacco
smoking was banned in Korea in 1692. But tolerance or even encouragement
were the broader trends. In 1710 Peter the Great of Russia advocated tobacco
smoking as part of his broad campaign to promote European customs in his
backward empire. In 1724 Pietro Francesco Orsini was elected Pope Benedict
XIII. At age 75, he had argued that due to his age and frailty he ought not
to receive the post, but he shouldered it with humility-and the same year
took up smoking. (He lived six more years.)
So from 1492 to ca. 1590 (Pope Urban's limited ban) there was a remarkable
century of nascent tobacco addiction, encouraged by the finest minds in
ruling classes everywhere. Then from 1590 to around 1640 a brief era of
reconsideration. Rulers in China, India, Japan, Britain, Russia, the Ottoman
Empire, and the North American colonies determined that tobacco consumption
was just a very bad idea. This period, at the height of the Scientific
Revolution, might have ended with serious measures to end the problem.
Instead it was followed most places by a total capitulation to the power of
the purse by the political authorities exposed to, but inclined to ignore,
evolving science and medical judgment. It wasn't all King Philip III's
fault, of course but there isn't anyone more responsible for what happened.
The Spanish crown's promotion of cigar production, in the middle of that
period of reconsideration, was tobacco's "tipping point." The state
intervened decisively to enhance supply, ensure quality through inspections,
and encourage demand in order to expand income from taxes. Soon France,
emerging as Europe's most powerful kingdom under the "Sun King" Louis XIV
(r. 1643-1715), promoted tobacco for the health of the state. The state
wasn't ignorant of the human health facts. Indeed, in 1689 the Medical
School of Paris produced the first scientific study concluding that smoking
produces "ulcerations of the lungs," "pains in the heart," coughing, and
asthma. It took 277 years for U.S. cigarette packs to bear the message:
"Caution: Cigarette Smoking May be Hazardous to Your Health." In the interim
the state positively abetted tobacco commerce, as it still does today in
various ways.
In 1881 James Bonsack, a fine young student in Virginia, patented a
cigarette-rolling machine than could produce 12,000 cigarettes an hour.
Before this, a cigarette workshop employee was averaging some 240 per hour.
This product of American ingenuity revolutionized the tobacco market, and
sharply cut smoking costs. Cigarettes were issued to U.S. soldiers in World
War I and World II, and photos of them smoking and sharing helped glamorize
the habit. Many came home from war addicted, thanks to patriotic donations
from the cigarette companies distributed through the U.S. Army.
The state promoted tobacco addiction in other ways. Up to 1994 the
Department of Agriculture funded tobacco export programs; so did the
Department of Commerce and the Office of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to
1998. The latter continue to campaign for greater U.S. tobacco exports in
the name of fighting "foreign discriminatory trade practices." With official
blessing, U.S. leaf tobacco exports to Chinese cigarette manufacturers leapt
from 195 tons in 2005 to 9,622 tons in 2006. China is the world's largest
cigarette producer and market, and about 320 million Chinese (including many
children) smoke. Last December, Altria (formerly Philip Morris) and the
state-owned China National Tobacco Corporation (which has about one-third of
global market share) announced a joint venture to produce Marlboro
cigarettes in China.
On the one hand, the Chinese state has decided (in September) to start
printing skulls on cigarette packs to alert consumers to the danger as of
January 2009. On the other, it's working with American capitalists assisted
by U.S. Commerce Department officials to addict a new generation to a deadly
habit. The Wan-li emperor would be appalled. So would Mao Zedong, perhaps.
Not because he objected to smoking (he was a chain smoker himself, and
during the Yenan period in the 1930s and early 1940s cultivated his own
tobacco patch) but because of the clear contradiction here between theory
and practice, and between the interests of the (American and Chinese)
capitalists who profit from death and those of the 1.2 million Chinese who,
according to the who World Health Organization, die every year from smoking.
He would likely argue that the future of tobacco be decided by public debate
("line struggle"), while those addicted be allowed to purchase what they
need and also offered help from the state to quit. But I don't think he'd be
pleased that his successors in what has become a thoroughly capitalist China
collude with foreign capitalists to addict tens of millions more of Chinese
youth in an era when science has clearly concluded that smoking kills.
The multinational tobacco corporations occupy a respected niche in the
American system, contribute to political campaign coffers, and expand their
global reach even while affecting an air of social responsibility by
outwardly (as a result of legal verdicts) discouraging the consumption of
their product. In doing so, of course, they advertise it, lending it to the
young audience in particular added appeal of danger and self-destructive
rebellion. Sales to the U.S. youth market grew from $ 737 million in 1997 to
1.2 billion in 2002. Some attribute this to R. J. Reynolds Nabisco's "Joe
Camel" ad campaign; in 1991 more six year olds in the U.S. recognized the
cuddly smoker character than recognized Mickey Mouse. They jump on the
"globalization" bandwagon, working with the International Monetary Fund to
move into markets once dominated by state-owned tobacco companies (as in
Turkey in 2002, or Morocco in 2003).
Philip III and Richelieu wedded the state to tobacco profits. The "People's
Republic" of China has embraced Joe Camel, the lovable beast incorporated
into the avant garde art of Zhou Tiehai. "It was not within their power to
refrain," wrote Columbus, of the first European tobacco addicts. Five
centuries later, it's not in the power of the tobacco companies and their
state allies to stop seducing and addicting our youth. They have to do what
they do; it's the logic of the system.
"I can buy cigarettes now." From the young adult's point of view, the smoke
might smell like freedom, maturity, sophistication-even a desultory tempting
of death that lends gravity to awkward years when affectations of reckless
suaveness can somewhat alleviate feelings of uncool insecurity. But if the
smoke of Manitou was once cool, the product of ancient cultures who held it
sacred, it has since the rosy dawn of the capitalist era stopped rising up
to heaven and has rather been spiriting its addicts down to hell.
Those "dried leaves" that greeted Columbus soon embodied the spirit of
profit, and lost all religious significance. The peace pipe of Native
Americans, brought out on special occasions, became the soldier's cigarette,
a defense against battle fatigue and stress. The unifying herbal experience
of the Cree or Ojibway sweat lodge became the stuff of fierce international
trade competition.
It is in fact a "savage practice," but not in the sense that Columbus used
the phrase. It is merely the practice of profit, high on itself and unable
to quit.
_______
About author Gary Leupp is a Professor of History, and Adjunct Professor of
Comparative Religion, at Tufts University and author of numerous works on
Japanese history. He can be reached at: gleupp@granite.tufts.edu [1].
--
NOTICE: This post contains copyrighted material the use of which has not
always been authorized by the copyright owner. I am making such material
available to advance understanding of
political, human rights, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues. I
believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of such copyrighted material as
provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright
Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107
"A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their
spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore their
government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are
suffering deeply in spirit,
and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public
debt. But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have
patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning
back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at
stake."
-Thomas Jefferson
By Gary Leupp
Created Nov 16 2007 - 9:34am
My son who just turned 18 announced, "Hey, now I can buy cigarettes." I'm
sure he was just joking. But since he can, in fact, now legally do this in
Massachusetts, it set me to thinking about the history of this problem of
tobacco smoking. (My own experience is largely confined to imbibing a few
pilfered cigarettes in the eighth grade, in later years the occasional
congratulatory cigar or tobacco mixed with other material in exotic venues
like Cairo. It's never been my thing. It occurs to me that were I to take it
up at my age, it probably wouldn't do me in, but why would I want to
contribute to the tobacco companies' profits? I'd want to grow my own and
leave them out of it.)
Where did this habit start? Seems that people in the western
hemisphere-probably in the Tabasco district of Mexico-started to smoke the
leaves of the tobacco plant about 2000 years ago. It had been growing there
for some 4000 years, doing nobody any harm. The people enjoyed the taste and
effects, and gradually the habit spread across the Caribbean to the
Antilles, northwards up the Mississippi River Valley, and southwards towards
Brazil.
Pipe-smoking is depicted on Guatemalan pottery dating as early as the
seventh century. The Maya believed that the spirit of their sky-god Manitou
was present in the ascending plume of smoke. In 1492 Christopher Columbus'
men having invaded the island of San Salvador were offered "certain dried
leaves" by the native Arawaks. Not knowing what to do with them, they
discarded these although a certain Rodrigo de Jerez soon adopted the smoking
habit. He's the first European known to have done so. Columbus scolded his
crewmen for sharing the "savage" practice, but observed perceptively "it was
not within their power to refrain." By 1531 the Spanish colonists were
cultivating tobacco in Santo Domingo, and in 1548 the Portuguese in Brazil
were growing the plant for export.
During the second half of the sixteenth century, the whole world discovered
the magical American herb: it pervaded France, the Netherlands, Portugal,
Spain, Britain, Italy, Germany and the Ottoman Empire, while spreading among
Englishmen in Virginia and other American colonies. The Portuguese brought
it to India around 1570 and to Japan by the 1580s. It arrived in China and
Korea soon thereafter. In short order millions were hooked. Queen Elizabeth
I, at the urging of Sir Walter Raleigh, smoked in 1600.
Medical doctors, in particular, advocated the practice. The personal
physician of King Philip II introduced tobacco to the Spanish court in 1559.
Jean Nicot de Villemain, the French ambassador to Portugal, praised
tobacco's curative effects. (We honor this wise man with our word
"nicotine.") At the University of Seville, the physician Nicolo Monardes
recommended it as a treatment for asthma, while the British doctor John
Frampton astutely prescribed it for cancer in the 1570s. In 1609 an imperial
prince in Japan described tobacco as "a medicine not listed" in classical
Chinese pharmacological works, adding, "It is said that if a sick man tastes
this smoke he is restored to glowing health" and many years are added to his
life. The world was enamored of the "India weed," some of its best
scientific minds inclined for a time to encourage this love affair.
The general enthusiasm soon waned, however. Political authorities, beginning
to notice what seemed its deleterious health effects, took measures to curb
the new habit. In 1590 Pope Urban VII banned the use of tobacco "in the
porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing or smoking." In
1603 the Japanese shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu banned tobacco. The next year James
I, king of England and Scotland, issued his Counterblaste to Tobacco. He
described smoking as a "custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose,
harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking
fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that
is bottomelesse."
In 1612, the Wan-li emperor in China banned tobacco cultivation and smoking;
so did the emperor Jahangir in Mughal India five years later, noting that
smoking causes "disturbance in most temperaments." Under the sultan Murad IV
(r. 1623-40), tobacco cultivation was banned in the Ottoman Empire; he
ordered that smokers have their hands cut off. Massachusetts officials
banned smoking in public in 1632, New Amsterdam followed suit in 1639. Two
years later, the Russian czar Alexis imposed stiff penalties for
smoking-death for a second offense.
But all these stern measures and admirable intentions, accompanied by a
growing medical literature critical of the weed, collapsed before its
seductive appeal and profit potential. In 1614, King Philip III of Spain
established Seville as a center for the production of cigars. Philip (also
the king of Portugal) was the most powerful monarch in Europe, nominal ruler
of the rebellious Netherlands, and ally of tobacco foe James I. Enhanced
commercial ties between England and Spain after the Treaty of London, signed
in the same year (1604) as James' Counterblast assured that leaf from the
Spanish New World colonies would reach ever more British consumers. When the
king banned the cultivation of the plant in England, and ended imports from
Spain in 1621, English colonists in Virginia and Maryland monopolized supply
through London merchants licensed and taxed by the Crown. New Amsterdam and
Dutch colonies in the Caribbean similarly provisioned smokers in the
Netherlands.
In France, in 1629 Cardinal Richelieu, always seeking new revenues for the
crown, imposed a tobacco tax. Venice established a state monopoly over the
production and sale of tobacco products thirty years later, and Louis XIV of
France emulated this policy in 1674. Early modern states were becoming
deeply invested in tobacco addiction, and many states abolished the bans
they had imposed. In 1647 the Ottoman emperor lifted the ban on smoking, as
did the new Russian czar Feodor in 1676. The newly-established Qing dynasty
in China overturned the ban on tobacco enforced under the Ming.
Elsewhere bans were newly applied: the town council in Berne, Switzerland
established special Chambres de Tabac to punish smokers in 1675, and tobacco
smoking was banned in Korea in 1692. But tolerance or even encouragement
were the broader trends. In 1710 Peter the Great of Russia advocated tobacco
smoking as part of his broad campaign to promote European customs in his
backward empire. In 1724 Pietro Francesco Orsini was elected Pope Benedict
XIII. At age 75, he had argued that due to his age and frailty he ought not
to receive the post, but he shouldered it with humility-and the same year
took up smoking. (He lived six more years.)
So from 1492 to ca. 1590 (Pope Urban's limited ban) there was a remarkable
century of nascent tobacco addiction, encouraged by the finest minds in
ruling classes everywhere. Then from 1590 to around 1640 a brief era of
reconsideration. Rulers in China, India, Japan, Britain, Russia, the Ottoman
Empire, and the North American colonies determined that tobacco consumption
was just a very bad idea. This period, at the height of the Scientific
Revolution, might have ended with serious measures to end the problem.
Instead it was followed most places by a total capitulation to the power of
the purse by the political authorities exposed to, but inclined to ignore,
evolving science and medical judgment. It wasn't all King Philip III's
fault, of course but there isn't anyone more responsible for what happened.
The Spanish crown's promotion of cigar production, in the middle of that
period of reconsideration, was tobacco's "tipping point." The state
intervened decisively to enhance supply, ensure quality through inspections,
and encourage demand in order to expand income from taxes. Soon France,
emerging as Europe's most powerful kingdom under the "Sun King" Louis XIV
(r. 1643-1715), promoted tobacco for the health of the state. The state
wasn't ignorant of the human health facts. Indeed, in 1689 the Medical
School of Paris produced the first scientific study concluding that smoking
produces "ulcerations of the lungs," "pains in the heart," coughing, and
asthma. It took 277 years for U.S. cigarette packs to bear the message:
"Caution: Cigarette Smoking May be Hazardous to Your Health." In the interim
the state positively abetted tobacco commerce, as it still does today in
various ways.
In 1881 James Bonsack, a fine young student in Virginia, patented a
cigarette-rolling machine than could produce 12,000 cigarettes an hour.
Before this, a cigarette workshop employee was averaging some 240 per hour.
This product of American ingenuity revolutionized the tobacco market, and
sharply cut smoking costs. Cigarettes were issued to U.S. soldiers in World
War I and World II, and photos of them smoking and sharing helped glamorize
the habit. Many came home from war addicted, thanks to patriotic donations
from the cigarette companies distributed through the U.S. Army.
The state promoted tobacco addiction in other ways. Up to 1994 the
Department of Agriculture funded tobacco export programs; so did the
Department of Commerce and the Office of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to
1998. The latter continue to campaign for greater U.S. tobacco exports in
the name of fighting "foreign discriminatory trade practices." With official
blessing, U.S. leaf tobacco exports to Chinese cigarette manufacturers leapt
from 195 tons in 2005 to 9,622 tons in 2006. China is the world's largest
cigarette producer and market, and about 320 million Chinese (including many
children) smoke. Last December, Altria (formerly Philip Morris) and the
state-owned China National Tobacco Corporation (which has about one-third of
global market share) announced a joint venture to produce Marlboro
cigarettes in China.
On the one hand, the Chinese state has decided (in September) to start
printing skulls on cigarette packs to alert consumers to the danger as of
January 2009. On the other, it's working with American capitalists assisted
by U.S. Commerce Department officials to addict a new generation to a deadly
habit. The Wan-li emperor would be appalled. So would Mao Zedong, perhaps.
Not because he objected to smoking (he was a chain smoker himself, and
during the Yenan period in the 1930s and early 1940s cultivated his own
tobacco patch) but because of the clear contradiction here between theory
and practice, and between the interests of the (American and Chinese)
capitalists who profit from death and those of the 1.2 million Chinese who,
according to the who World Health Organization, die every year from smoking.
He would likely argue that the future of tobacco be decided by public debate
("line struggle"), while those addicted be allowed to purchase what they
need and also offered help from the state to quit. But I don't think he'd be
pleased that his successors in what has become a thoroughly capitalist China
collude with foreign capitalists to addict tens of millions more of Chinese
youth in an era when science has clearly concluded that smoking kills.
The multinational tobacco corporations occupy a respected niche in the
American system, contribute to political campaign coffers, and expand their
global reach even while affecting an air of social responsibility by
outwardly (as a result of legal verdicts) discouraging the consumption of
their product. In doing so, of course, they advertise it, lending it to the
young audience in particular added appeal of danger and self-destructive
rebellion. Sales to the U.S. youth market grew from $ 737 million in 1997 to
1.2 billion in 2002. Some attribute this to R. J. Reynolds Nabisco's "Joe
Camel" ad campaign; in 1991 more six year olds in the U.S. recognized the
cuddly smoker character than recognized Mickey Mouse. They jump on the
"globalization" bandwagon, working with the International Monetary Fund to
move into markets once dominated by state-owned tobacco companies (as in
Turkey in 2002, or Morocco in 2003).
Philip III and Richelieu wedded the state to tobacco profits. The "People's
Republic" of China has embraced Joe Camel, the lovable beast incorporated
into the avant garde art of Zhou Tiehai. "It was not within their power to
refrain," wrote Columbus, of the first European tobacco addicts. Five
centuries later, it's not in the power of the tobacco companies and their
state allies to stop seducing and addicting our youth. They have to do what
they do; it's the logic of the system.
"I can buy cigarettes now." From the young adult's point of view, the smoke
might smell like freedom, maturity, sophistication-even a desultory tempting
of death that lends gravity to awkward years when affectations of reckless
suaveness can somewhat alleviate feelings of uncool insecurity. But if the
smoke of Manitou was once cool, the product of ancient cultures who held it
sacred, it has since the rosy dawn of the capitalist era stopped rising up
to heaven and has rather been spiriting its addicts down to hell.
Those "dried leaves" that greeted Columbus soon embodied the spirit of
profit, and lost all religious significance. The peace pipe of Native
Americans, brought out on special occasions, became the soldier's cigarette,
a defense against battle fatigue and stress. The unifying herbal experience
of the Cree or Ojibway sweat lodge became the stuff of fierce international
trade competition.
It is in fact a "savage practice," but not in the sense that Columbus used
the phrase. It is merely the practice of profit, high on itself and unable
to quit.
_______
About author Gary Leupp is a Professor of History, and Adjunct Professor of
Comparative Religion, at Tufts University and author of numerous works on
Japanese history. He can be reached at: gleupp@granite.tufts.edu [1].
--
NOTICE: This post contains copyrighted material the use of which has not
always been authorized by the copyright owner. I am making such material
available to advance understanding of
political, human rights, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues. I
believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of such copyrighted material as
provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright
Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107
"A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their
spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore their
government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are
suffering deeply in spirit,
and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public
debt. But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have
patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning
back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at
stake."
-Thomas Jefferson
