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Title: Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do : The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country by Peter McWilliams ISBN: 0-931580-58-7 Publisher: Mary Book / Prelude Pr Pub. Date: June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.74 (74 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I Mostly Disagree, But - SPLENDID JOB!
Comment: This is one of the most informative and engaging books I have read in a long, long time. Every page has a quote, some of which are exceptionally enlightening besides being very entertaining. For instance George Washington in 1796: "The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." Hello Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson!
Personally I take a bit more pause over some issues, examples like the harmlessness of random jay-walking and not wearing motorcycle helmets. I think that many of these laws save lives, much of the public being too stupid to look out for themselves. But that's the whole point of this book and what makes it such a kick in the pants! Push come to shove, I'd probably take McWilliams' side any day. Be prepared to get mighty angry when the hypocrisy of many of our laws is pointed out.
Oh, by the way - at nearly 700 pages, the book's dirt cheap.
Rating: 5
Summary: An American Martyr
Comment: Peter McWilliams died in the summer of 2000 because he was denied medical marijuana to suppress nausea caused by his medication for HIV/AIDS. His home state of California legalized medical marijuana, and the Federal Government found it necessary to raid his home there (and that of his medically-challenged friend Todd McCormick, now doing five years in a Federal penitentiary), and arrest and convict him. Subject to random urine tests, Peter died choking on his own vomit. It is not a stretch for me to claim that he was murdered by this heartless government. Peter was brilliant and multi-talented, and a reading of this astonishing book will confirm that. I defy anyone to read this book and not become fundamentally enraged at the audacity with which the government has continued to encroach on the precious liberties which the Founding Fathers penned in the hopes of their eventual historical fruition. In one of his activist emailings (Peter worked until the week he died), he noted that "...four DEA agents told me they found ['Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do...'] on the shelf of every drug bust they had gone on, making me ideological enemy #1 in their eyes..." Be one of the over one million NON-drug dealers with this excellent work on your shelf.
Rating: 5
Summary: Changed my entire outlook on politics
Comment: This is one of the best books I've ever read and easily ranks as one of my favorites. It's a shame that Mcwilliams is no longer with us. This book shows what a great author he was. He makes his point so well and provides an endless amount of evidence for why he feels the way he does. The way he died is especially tragic.
McWilliams makes his point very effectively and will probably leave many of his readers agreeing with him on the issue of consensual crime by the time they've finished. This book is interesting and very well researched, but without being boring as many books regarding law/politics tend to be. It's full of information about how and why victimless crimes became illegal and why laws against them ultimately do a lot more harm than you might think. McWilliams points out how drug/gambling/prostitution laws are far from effective, very expensive to uphold, and most of all, unamerican, and I for one was left in complete opposition to these laws by the time I had finished this book.
As you might've noticed, this book is extremely long (about 700 pages I think) and is organized very well. The index makes it very easy to find what you're looking for and it's very helpfull to be able to look up people's names to find if any of their quotes made it into the book. The book contains a quote from someone on every page in the upper corner. All sorts of people are included from George Carlin to Thomas Jefferson. This is one of my favorite features of this book.
One of the best things about "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do" is that it can appeal to all sortof people. Prior to reading it, I hadn't given mush thought to the topic of consensual crimes, but since I read it, it's become a major concern of mine. I think that even those who completely agree with consensual crime laws will find this book interesting. It's written in a manner that adresses the issue in a calm fashion rather than waving accusations around, and I think that those who may not agree with McWilliams will appreciate this.
This book can appeal to people on either side of the issue and does a great job and maintaining the reader's interest. It never drags or gets boring and always has interesting, little known facts to keep you reading. I encourage everyone out there to read this book.
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Title: Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned About Life in School--But Didn't by Peter McWilliams ISBN: 0931580781 Publisher: Consolino & Woodward Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought (The Life 101 Series) by Peter McWilliams ISBN: 0931580242 Publisher: Mary Book / Prelude Pr Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Do It! Let's Get Off Our But's (The Life 101 Series) by Peter McWilliams ISBN: 093158079X Publisher: Mary Book / Prelude Pr Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Lost Rights : The Destruction of American Liberty by James Bovard ISBN: 0312123337 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Ending the War on Drugs by Dirk Chase Eldredge ISBN: 1882593383 Publisher: Bridge Works Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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