Via DrugWar rant comes this news about yet another victim in the War on Drugs. Sadly, Cheryl joins this list and this list of Drug War victims. I think one of the best articles I ever read about Drug War victims came from Vin Suprynowicz, writing about the deaths of Veronica and Charity Bowers. For those who do not know, the Bowers were missionaries in Peru. Veronica was 35 years old and was traveling in a small plane with her 7 month old daughter, Charity, when the CIA identified their plane as part of a drug smuggling operation. The Peruvian Air Force, on the orders of the CIA, shot down the Bowers plane, leaving Veronica and her infant daughter to die in the jungle.
In his inimitable style, Vin wrote: "Unless you're in favor of legalizing all drugs, right now, then watching Roni Bowers and her baby choke and scream and bleed and drown in some distant muddy jungle river is exactly what you asked for, what you pay your taxes for, and what you ought to have to watch on videotape every night before you go to sleep." (Quoted in The Ballad of Carl Drega, pg. 567 (Mountain Media, 2002)). I know I could not have said it better. So think of Cheryl, of Donald Scott, of Roni and Charity Bowers the next time you hear somebody talking about how the Drug War is making our society safer.
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