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Taste of Germany
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II allies Germany and Italy are
back together again, only this
time they're enemies fighting for
patrons on Alder Street. The
Taste of Germany, a Bavarian
restaurant and Iwr nestled txihind
Guido's, opened last week.
You may ask, "Isn't German
food a little specialized for stu
dents raised on burgers and I
Can't Believe It's Not Butter" Yes.
but that is exactly what owner
Karen Snyder wants. She is
aware that some people would
rather eat yak meat than endure
sauerkraut and garlit wurst. but
her establishment fills a niche it
is the only German restaurant in
Eugene.
Snyder, 50. who hails from
Springfield hut lived in Germany
for four years, has long dreamed
of owning a restaurant A nurse
for 1H years, she saved enough
money to purchase the Chinese
restaurant Bamboo Pavilion ear
lier this year (You remember it
the dimly lit. filthy place that you
hated yourself for loving!) She
renovated the building, turned
up the lights, painted n German
flag on the wall, and voila'
The Taste of Germany has tasty
food at decent prices. Although,
the dinner menu may lie a streti Ji
for budget-hound students
(entrees range from SH.50 to
$15.75). the worst menu is very
accessible. Items such as knack
Turn to GERMANY. Page 11
Consensual crime in free society, nobody’s business
Dupending on your point of view, you
can look at Ain't Nobody's Business If
You Do. the latest book by Peter
McWilliams, in three ways.
If you tend to be morally conservative, a
Christian fundamentalist, or a fan of Pat
Robertson, you may find this book offensive,
or at least a challenge to your values.
If you favor the legalization of such things
as marijuana use, public nudity, gambling,
prostitution or bigamy, this book could lie
the ultimate argument in favor of your cause.
But if you consider yourself a casual
observer of the various squabbles of our soci
ety, you will find this book an entertaining,
well-researched, and humorous comment on
how silly our legal system has become as a
result of imposed morality.
McWilliams, a co-author of the popular,
three-volume "Life 101" series, in the course
of roughly 800 pages, challenges what he
calls in the book’s subtitle "The Absurdity
of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society." lie
does it bluntly, convincingly, and in an enter
taining fashion.
As an adult member of our society.
McWilliams argues, you should be allowed
to do with your person and property what
ever you choose, as long a you don't harm
the person or property of another.
Some of his statistics: 350,000 people cur
rently in prison and another 1.5 million on
probation or parole for consensual crimes; 4
million will be arrested this year for com
mitting one of these crimes. $50 billion will
!>e spent this year on prosecution and pun
ishment for those crimes with an addition
al $150 billion in lost tax revenue
"Why cain’t we just live and lot live?" he
asks in his view this would
• Reduce personal income taxi’s by one
third
• Create 8 million tax-paying jobs
• Free up law enforcement resources by
A‘int Nobody’s
Business If You Do
★★★★
AUTHOR Peter McWilliams
PUBLISHER Prelude Press
COST: S22 95
allowing them to pursue the real criminals,
such as murderers, robbers and rapists
• Unburden the clogged legal system
• Double the amount of available prison
space.
One could ramble on for pages about some
of the things that can l>e learned in the course
of reading this txxik Did you know, for exam
ple, that marijuana is only now referred to
by that name because William Randolph
Hears! used it to differentiate it from hemp,
which was commonly used for many things
until the 1930s? One product of hemp is
paper, and Hears! owned several forests to
maintain the paper supply for his publish
ing empire Around the same time, cost-efftx
live methods to make paper from hemp fifxir
were developed, that could have made tra
ditional wood-pulp paper obsolete.
McWilliams says that Hears! newspapers
began calling hemp by its Mexican name,
marijuana, and reported "news” items like
"Marijuana Makes Fiends of Boys in 30
Days ” No this doesn't mean that McWilliams
actually encourages the reader to start smok
ing pot. but he does make a logical argument
for decriminalization It should be a matter
of personal choice, he says.
One will f>e no more likely to start smok
ing [jot after reading tins Ixxik. but the his
tory of how several drugs became illegal to
be a fascinating comment on what influences
our legal system Here's a hint It isn’t the
voters
Another chapter compares TV evangelists
Pul Robertson and Jerry Fa I well to the Phar
isees of the Bible: "They knew how to pos
ture. thus appearing more righteous and,
therefore, more deserving of leadership than
others They took advantage of every photo
opportunity. They were in the right place
at the right time doing the piously right thing.
Being political, the Pharisees cared more
about how they appeared than what they did.
They fasted twice a week, and thr no rid
knew it 'Oh. those Pharisees they fust twice
a week, what holy men!"
Whether or not you agree fully, in part,
or not at all with McWilliams and his argu
ments. you will find this book informative,
entertaining and a challenge to the way you
view the lows of our society. The upper cor
ner of each page highlights an unending bar
rage of eloquent, humorous and relevant
quotations taken from many sources Mere
are some of my personal favorites
• "Why doesn't everybody leave every
body else the hull alone?"— Jimmy Durante
• Ye shall now the truth, and the truth
shall make you mad." — Aldous Huxely
• "We don't seem to lie able to check crime,
so why not legalize it and then tax it out of
business?" — Will Rogers
• "As a heterosexual ballet dancer you
develop a thick skin " — Ronald Reagan Jr
Very little will change us a result of this
book The war on drugs will continue, con
servative Christian groups will still lobby the
government to turn Dec k to (aid, and you will
still get arrested for playing nude volley
ball on a public beach. But I think it's a mis
take to overlook the points made in this liook
Our legal system is badly broken, and we
need to look at new ways to try and repair
the damage done to it in the name of "moral
ity."
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