Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do

Contents:

• Front
  
  
• AUTHOR'S NOTES
  
  
• PART I - THE BASIC PREMISE
• An Overview
• What Are Consensual Crimes?
• Separation of Society and State
• Personal Morality Versus Governmental Morality
• Relationship
  
  
• PART II - WHY LAWS AGAINST CONSENSUAL ACTIVITIES ARE NOT A GOOD IDEA
• It's Un-American
• Laws against Consensual Activities Are Unconstitutional
• Laws against Consensual Activities Violate the Separation of Church and State, Threatening the Freedom of and from Religion
• Laws against Consensual Activities Are Opposed to the Principles of Private Property, Free Enterprise, Capitalism, and the Open Market
• Enforcing Laws against Consensual Activities is Very Expensive
• Enforcing Laws against Consensual Activities Destroys People's Lives
• Intermission to Part II
• Consensual Crimes Encourage Real Crimes
• Consensual Crimes Corrupt Law Enforcement
• The Cops Can't Catch 'Em; the Courts Can't Handle 'Em; the Prisons Can't Hold 'Em
• Consensual Crimes Promote Organized Crime
• Consensual Crimes Corrupt the Freedom of the Press
• Laws against Consensual Activities Teach Irresponsibility
• Laws against Consensual Activities Are Too Randomly Enforced to Be Either a Deterrent or Fair
• Laws against Consensual Activities Discriminate against the Poor, Minorities, and Women
• Problems Sometimes Associated with Consensual Activities Cannot Be Solved While They Are Crimes
• Laws against Consensual Activities Create a Society of Fear, Hatred, Bigotry, Oppression, and Conformity; a Culture Opposed to Personal Expression, Diversity, Freedom, Choice and Growth
  
  
• PART III - A CLOSER LOOK AT THE CONSENSUAL CRIMES
• A Closer Look at the Consensual Crimes
• Gambling
• Drugs
• How and Why Drugs Became Illegal
• Opiates
• Cocaine, Crack, Amphetamines
• Psychedelics
• Marijuana
• Religious and Psychologically Therapeutic Use of Drugs
• Regenerative Use of Drugs and Other Unorthodox Medical Practices
• Prostitution
• Pornography, Obscenity, Etc.
• The Problem with Pornography
• The Problem with Violence
• The Problem with Censorship
• The F-WORD
• Violations of Marriage; Adultry, Fornication Cohabitation, Bigamy, and Polygamy
• Homosexuality
• Unconventional Religious Practices
• Unpopular Religious Practices
• Suicide and Assisted Suicide
• The Titanic Laws: Public Drunkenness, Loitering, Vagrancy, Seat Belts, Motorcycle Helmets, Public Nudity, Transvestism
  
  
• PART IV - SIX CHAPTERS IN SEARCH OF A SHORTER BOOK
• The Enlightenment or We Wer So Much Older Then; We're Younger Than That Now
• Prohibition: A Lesson in the Futility (and Danger) of Prohibiting
• What Jesus and the Bible Really Said about Consensual Crimes
• Old Testament Admonitions
• Jesus of Nazareth and Consensual Crime
• Jesus on Sex and Marriage
• Jesus and the Separation of Church and State
• His Master's Voice?
• Jerry & Pat
• Traditional Family Values
• Putting the "Problem" in Perspective
• Hypocrites
  
  
• PART V - WHAT TO DO?
• Education, Not Legislation
• A Call to My Media Brethren
• Protective Technology
• Hemp for Victory
• A State-By-State Look at Consensual Crime
• We Must All Hang Together
• The Politics of Change
  
  
• About the Author
  
  
• Acknowledgments

Copyright © 1996 Peter McWilliams & Prelude Press