Book Review: Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do

In Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do, Peter McWilliams asserts that the government has no authority and no right to enact or enforce legislation against "consensual crimes". In the course of his argument, he points out that

• The prisons are overflowing with these "criminals";
• The courts are overflowing with these "criminals";
• The police are overworked apprehending these "criminals";
• The governmental budgets are overdrawn pursuing these "criminals".

And, in fact, he argues, there is a distinct lack of agreement over whether some of these "crimes" are crimes at all. For example, during World War II, U.S. farmers were ENCOURAGED to grow hemp, to the extent that hemp farmers and their sons (!) were EXEMPT from the draft.

McWilliams takes a distinctly libertarian position: If what I do hurts someone else, it should be illegal. If it hurts only me, then it "ain't nobody's business if I do!"

This book, along with ALL of Peter McWilliams' books, is available at his website, http://www.mcwilliams.com.