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McWilliams became a strong supporter of medical marijuana and published Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do as a critic of victimless crime or consensual crime laws ( to wit, as the premise of the book states, " any act which is a crime, which does not physically harm the person or property of another "; a stance shared by historical political philosopher John Stuart Mill ), including the laws against marijuana.
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McWilliams and became
With that change and Paulette McWilliams leaving to pursue her solo career, the group simply became Rufus with its main focus on Stockert, while Khan became its official second lead vocalist.
In 2008, McWilliams became an avid outdoorsman, hooking sharks and tarpon, while hunting deer and elk by rifle, shotgun, and crossbow.
McWilliams and medical
McWilliams spoke before the Libertarian Party National Convention in 1998 where he came out as a gay man who was diagnosed with both cancer and AIDS and thus had a personal stake in the California law legalizing marijuana for medical reasons.
Along with the book Ain't, McWilliams was a vocal activist for medical marijuana and was helping Todd McCormick ( who suffered from cancer since childhood ) write a book titled How To Grow Medical Marijuana.
At his trial, the judge ruled that McWilliams was not allowed to mention in court that he was terminally ill, that using medical marijuana was ( in his opinion ) keeping him alive, or that his usage of medical marijuana was legal under California state law.
McWilliams and marijuana
McWilliams claimed he was specifically targeted for arrest and prosecution because he was such an articulate and effective opponent of drug prohibition, as both Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies and DEA agents told him they frequently found copies of Ain't Nobody's Business ... in the homes of those they arrested for marijuana possession.
McWilliams and McCormick were arrested and charged with violating federal drug laws concerning marijuana.
McWilliams and published
He also published the early work of Ralph Nader, Howard Zinn, Theodore Roszak, and Hunter S. Thompson, who credited McWilliams with the idea for his first bestselling book, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga ( 1966 ).
McWilliams was a budding photographer and a collection of his own photographs were published in October 1992.
In 2011, two edited collections of his essays were published, co-edited by Patrick J. Deneen and his daughter, Susan J. McWilliams.
McWilliams and Ain't
* Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do ( ISBN 0-931580-58-7 ) is a book by Peter McWilliams criticizing the existence of laws against consensual crimes.
Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country ( ISBN 0-931580-58-7 ) is a book by Peter McWilliams in which he presents the history of legislation against what he feels are victimless crimes, or crimes that are committed consensually, as well as arguments for their legalization.
McWilliams and Business
In 2010, David McWilliams, writing in the Sunday Business Post of Dublin, Ireland, referred to the irresponsible fiscal policies that lead to the world-wide late-2000s recession as " Moonie economics.
McWilliams and You
With Don McGlashan and Edmund McWilliams, he co-produced Don McGlashan's 2006 album Warm Hand and wrote I Will Not Let You Down which is on the album.
McWilliams and victimless
McWilliams presents a variety of arguments against the criminalization of victimless crimes.
McWilliams and book
As Carey McWilliams described in his book Southern California Country:
According to John McWilliams ' 1990 book The Protectors, Anslinger's daughter-in-law Bea at that time still lived in Anslinger's home in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.
The text of this book ( as well as McWilliams ' other books ) is available for free in its entirety on the web.
It was presented by David McWilliams and based on his book, The Pope's Children.
McWilliams ' subsequent book The Generation Game was launched in mid-September 2007.
His 1991 book Metis Lands in Manitoba, which won the 1992 Margaret McDonald / McWilliams Medal, awarded by the Historical Society of Manitoba for the best book of the year on Manitoba history.
In this book, McWilliams argued that there was an " alternative tradition " to the dominant liberal tradition in America, which he variously traced through the thought of the Puritans, the Anti-federalists, and various major and minor literary figures such as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain and Ellison.
A major influence on McWilliams's thought was the book Democracy in America by the French theorist Alexis de Tocqueville, and like Tocqueville, McWilliams commended to modern liberal democracy the arts of association and a chastening form of religious faith.
" He ranked it " one of the three most important treatments of that subject ever written, joining " Four Ecologies " and Carey McWilliams ' 1946 book " Southern California: An Island on the Land.
McWilliams and any
In the 1996 Forum elections McWilliams, Sagar and eight other Coalition candidates secured 7, 731 votes ( 1. 03 % of the total ) and did not win any constituency seats, but under a ' top-up ' mechanism to ensure the representation of minor parties they were awarded two seats as Members of the Northern Ireland Forum, taken by McWilliams and Sagar.
In any case, McWilliams realised that the lightweight Buick V8 would be ideal for smaller British cars ( indeed, it weighed less than many straight-4 engines it would replace.
McWilliams and act
McWilliams left his government post in 1942, when incoming governor Earl Warren promised campaign audiences that his first official act would be to fire McWilliams.
McWilliams and which
* Caroline McWilliams — Sally — Burt's secretary who attempts to seduce Burt, then lies to Mary about sleeping with him, all of which was due to blackmail pressure from Ingrid Svenson.
Another memorable piece was her performance of Jim McWilliams ' Sky Kiss in many locations including New York and Sydney, Australia, which involved her hanging suspended from helium-filled weather balloons or the brightly colored inflatable sculptures of Otto Piene.
* Wilson Carey McWilliams – political scientist, author of The Idea of Fraternity in America ( 1973, University of California Press ), for which he won the National Historical Society prize in 1974
It was founded in 1996 by Catholic academic Monica McWilliams and Protestant social worker Pearl Sagar to contest the elections to the Northern Ireland Forum, the body for all-party talks which led to the Belfast Agreement.
McWilliams attended the University of Southern California, from which he obtained a law degree in 1927.
Witch Hunt ( 1950 ) was an early attempt to combat McCarthyism, which McWilliams considered a grave threat to civil liberties and healthy politics.
McWilliams later repudiated the movement, claiming to be the sole author of the books, which clearly are written in his style.
) McWilliams and William Martin-Hurst began an aggressive campaign to convince GM to sell the tooling, which they finally agreed to do in January 1965.
In 1970, vocalists Paulette McWilliams and James Stella were added and the group's name changed again to Ask Rufus after which Willie Weeks would replace Vern Pilder.
McWilliams has also hosted Leviathan: Political Cabaret, a live discussion and satire event which has featured at the Electric Picnic festival in 2006 and 2007.
In an interview with Irish broadcaster Marian Finucane, on RTÉ ( 17 January 2009 ) and reported in the international press, McWilliams argues: What I am saying is, that in Europe, if Ireland continues hurtling down this road, which is close to default, the whole of Europe will be badly affected, the credibility of the euro will be badly affected.
McWilliams served in the 11th Airborne Division of the United States Army from 1955 – 1961, after which he took his Masters and Ph. D. degrees at the University of California, Berkeley.
Recordings are available of his last class, American Political Thought since the Civil War, which was continued after his death by his daughter, Susan Jane McWilliams, a Ph. D. candidate in the department of politics at Princeton University at the time and currently a professor of politics at Pomona College.
McWilliams was author of The Idea of Fraternity in America ( 1973, University of California Press ), for which he won the National Historical Society prize in 1974.
Col. David McWilliams, the chief spokesman for the United States Southern Command in Miami, which runs the prison operation, said that the authorities were fairly confident of their estimates.
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