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SC law requires terrorists and anti-government groups to file with state
Mon, 02/08/2010 - 12:21pm | posted by Jason Pye
Planning to overthrow the government in South Carolina? You’ll have to pay a $5 registration fee to the South Carolina Secretary of State or face a fine and jail time:
Terrorists who want to overthrow the United States government must now register with South Carolina’s Secretary of State and declare their intentions — or face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison.
The state’s “Subversive Activities Registration Act,” passed last year and now officially on the books, states that “every member of a subversive organization, or an organization subject to foreign control, every foreign agent and every person who advocates, teaches, advises or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States … shall register with the Secretary of State.”
There’s even a $5 filing fee.
By “subversive organization,” the law means “every corporation, society, association, camp, group, bund, political party, assembly, body or organization, composed of two or more persons, which directly or indirectly advocates, advises, teaches or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States [or] of this State.”
Seriously? Add this to the “dumb law” file.
I don’t know if this is a “dumb” law as much as it as a BAD law. I think it’s clear that the intent is not to force registration of anti-government groups but as a way to put an end to them. You know, the same attempt the U.S. put on marijuana. In order to possess marijuana legally, you had to buy stamps. The problem was, the government wasn’t going to print or sell any stamps. Thus, making the possession of marijuana illegal. I think that’s how this law works. This way, they can fine or imprison members of these groups without these members having to commit any crime. They only have to have the INTENT to overthrow the government, and then they’re in direct violation of this law if they don’t register.
So I can shout off what I like if I’m on my own? That’s good enough for me. I’m a foreign agent working for liberty and I’m going to start a new faction called the individualist party. Only one member to each group!
How dare you see how evil a government can be. Killing people all over the word for the ‘greater good’. Mate, they don’t reach the lesser of two evils.
The word ‘terrorist’ has an expansive meaning. It can mean the bully in the playground technically. It can be twisted in many ways, but in all honesty, most people’s depiction of a terrorist is an evil looking person with an AK47 in his hand. In truth, the most dangerous terrorists are usually the ones hidden in plain sight. Those who control propaganda.
I guess sooner or later what we’re writing will be deemed insurrectionist, but then, by that time I’ll be more than willing to get nicked just to tell them where to go!
Well this goes to show what state is not going to be on the people’s side when all hell brakes loose. Is it just me or is this yet another right being stripped away from me/us? Hell if one were to say “US gov’t has no idea what it’s doing” your a terrorist. Hell you even disagree with something your a threat to the good ol’ us of a. Where is our freedom to speak what we want and act how we want?
Makes me wanna move to japan or something all this makes me along with many many others sick.
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