I just read an interesting article on Michael Savage's web page. regarding Kerry's family history, the article is detailed about his family history dealing in the drug trade with China.
http://www.paulreveresociety.com
Here is a much more detailed history of Kerry's Family
http://hundredpercenter.blogspot.com/2004/10/john-kerrys-hidden-family-history.html
Given that ole Joe Kennedy made his money in bootlegging and Botox Ketchupman aligns himself with the Kennedys straight up and down, I'm not surprised that his ancesters participated in illegal drugs.
Savage was talking about that last night -- thanks for reminding me to go read....
"Forbes also made a considerable fortune smuggling opium during the Opium Wars. The British wanted to keep a monopoly on supplying the Chinese with opium grown in India. Several of the Forbes family cashed out of their dealings in China after the Opium War, and reinvested in Europe and the United States. Many Forbes family members purchased estates in France and Massachusetts, and generally remain influential there, in local or national politics. John Forbes Kerry is a U.S. Senator and currently a candidate for President of the U.S. Though he is a beneficiary of several Forbes family trusts (c. 2002), Kerry has not worked in the private sector for Forbes family business interests and has devoted his life to a career in public service. Kerry's first cousin and friend, Brice Lalonde, an environmentalist activist, is a French Green party politician who was a candidate for President of France in 1981 and currently mayor of Saint-Briac-sur-Mer near the Forbes family estate. --- In a tiny footnote to history, Ruth Forbes Paine Young's son, Michael R. Paine, and his wife Ruth Paine, allowed Maria Oswald, the wife of Lee Harvey Oswald, to live in their house as a family friend, and Oswald's rifle was stored for a time in the Paine's family garage."