Katie Collman: Another Victim Of The War On Drugs

By Author: Paul Zimmerman
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Katie Collman, a ten year old Crothersville, IN girl was murdered because she allegedly witnessed drug activity (http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=2908865&nav=9TahW2m6). If not for the continuing War on Drugs, Katie Collman
would be alive today.

While the killer of Katie Collman must bear
responsibility for his monstrous actions, when will
those who continue the War on Drugs accept any
responsiblity for the consequences of their actions?

During Prohibition if someone stumbled upon a still or
a bootlegger's warehouse, they'd be lucky to escape
with their lives. Out of desperation some people
drank wood alcohol and went blind or died. Organized
crime received a shot in the arm from the revenues
made possible by Prohibition. All the deaths and
mayhem, crime and corruption during Prohibition were
predictable and preventable, and in fact ended with
Prohibition. Why is that concept so difficult to
understand when the drug in question is not alcohol,
but some other substance?

The danger of volatile meth labs run by people ...
... with
little or no lab skills and jerry-rigged apparatus
would disappear with the re-legalization of drugs.
Just as still explosions and contaminated booze became
a thing of the past with the end of Prohibition, so to
would meth labs, killings to hide drug use or to
protect illicit drug dealings.

The best outcome of this tragedy would be for the
killer(s) of Katie Collman to pay for this heinous act
and end the War on Drugs that made this horrible act
possible.

About the Author Paul was the Libertarian candidate for Congress, 2nd District of Indiana, in 1996.