Subversive Organizations Must Now Register in SC

Hugh Pickens writes: "The Raw Story reports that 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 "Subversive Activities Registration Act" passed last year in South Carolina 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." While the intention of the law is apparently aimed at Islamic terrorists, it's unclear in the law's wording whether it can be applied to militias, some of whom have in the past called for the overthrow of the US government. "In the long and storied history of utterly retarded legislation in South Carolina, we may have finally found the legal statute that takes the cake for sheer stupidity, which we think you’ll agree is saying something," one unsigned blog posting scathingly commented."

Scary...

[BrokenHalo]

The scary thing here is that I found myself checking the date to make sure it wasn't April 1st...

Brilliant

[egcagrac0]

So anyone who votes, and thereby acts to control the government, has to register.

This sort of makes sense... really

[querist]

This appears to be one of those "secondary offense" laws that appear to be designed more to give the prosecution leverage. They can use it to add charges/fines/prison time or then can use it so they can drop other charges and still fine/imprison someone, sort of like "resisting arrest". Granted, resisting arrest can result in injury to law enforcement personnel, but think about it - most violent offenders are going to resist arrest. Most bank robbers are going to resist arrest (which is as simple as running

Foxnews is in trouble

[citab]

They need to register with them now.

Are they subversive? or just a little more mavericky lately?

How the Mighty have Fallen

[John Guilt]

In 1861, the government of the State of South Carolina was a subversive organisation dedicated to the overthrow of the lawful authority of the Big Evil Federal Gummint on its territory, and then other states'.

You have to understand SC

[elrous0]

SC is a state where that decides it elections by determining the most batshit crazy, evil, racist, corrupt, hypocritical politician in the state--then elevating him to the highest office possible. The Governor's race in SC usually goes something like this: Candidate A calls for a reasonable, moderate, intelligent approach to government. Candidate B calls candidate A a communist and hints that he has a black mistress. Candidate C calls Candidate B soft on communism for even talking to candidate A, then calls