Subversive Activities Registration Act

[Walt]

Why should those who believe the power is inherant in the people have to register as "subversives"? Thoughts?

Think Government Is Corrupt? You May Face 10 Years In Jail

Subversives who think government is corrupt and should be controlled by the people face 10 years in prison and a $25,000 dollar fine if they fail to register with authorities in South Carolina, in another chilling example of how free speech and dissent is being criminalized in America.
The state's Subversive Activities Registration Act is now officially on the books and mandates 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."
Of course, the right to overthrow a government that has become corrupt, abusive and completely unrepresentative of its electorate is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence – that's how America came to be a Republic in the first place – advocating or teaching that the people should "control" the government via their elected representatives is a basic function of a democratic society, but this law effectively makes it a terrorist offense.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness," states the Declaration of Independence.

Link to the bill.
Http://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t23c029.htm

 

[California Girl]

*Scratches SC off the list of places to live.*

Hmmmm. That's more than just a little scary.

 

[Charles Stucker]

Every registered voter in SC should pony up a stamp and send a letter to their secretary of State with a photocopy of their Voter ID and tell him they are intent on Voting, and hence controlling the government, at the next election.

 

[William Joyce]

Organization subject to foreign control" means every corporation, society, association, camp, group, bund, political party, assembly, body or other organization, composed of two or more persons, which comes within either of the following:

Does this go back to WW2?