$5 reg. fee for persons planning to overthrow US government

[John Jr.]

http://rawstory.com/2010/02/south-carol ... act-force/

No joke: South Carolina now requires ’subversives’ to register

Five-dollar registration fee for persons planning to overthrow US government

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."

A PDF of the registration form can be found here, courtesy of FitsNews.

The law also gives subversive organizations "subject to foreign control" 30 days to register with the state after setting up shop in South Carolina.

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 right-wing militias, some of whom have reputedly called for the overthrow of the US government. The law states that "fraternal" and "patriotic" groups are exempt from the law, but only if they don't "contemplate the overthrow of the government."

While the law is clearly redundant -- there are plenty of statutes at the state and federal level through which terrorists can be prosecuted -- it reflects a not-uncommon pattern in some states of "doubling down" against particular crimes.

For instance, South Carolina is among those states which require drug dealers to declare their illegal income, or face additional criminal penalties on top of the already established penalties for buying, possessing and selling drugs.

The South Carolina blog FitsNews describes the new law as "bureaucracy for terrorists."

"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," the unsigned blog posting scathingly commented.

[Zerohero]

Teabaggar fundraiser?

[John Jr.]

Teabaggar fundraiser?

except that they are on the list of people who have to register.....

[John Jr.]

i find calling them teabaggers to be some sort of unintentional backhanded compliment "haha, you put your nuts on my face when i wasn't paying attention"

[Zerohero]

i want to become a teabaggar organizer, and convince all to due a million teabaggar march to washington, using feet and walking only on dirt, avoiding those socialism big guvernment tax paid highways an roads... fuck that shit!

fuck big guvernment.

and we will bring water to drink stored in gunny sacks, fuck those municipal socialist commie pinko water supplies

lets do it!!

palin 4 evrar!!!

[VueeeuVueeeeuV]

It was only 300 dollars just to see skymarshal palin. 600 for the conference as a whole. 600 dollars for six hundred imbeciles out to wreck the country and return us to the heyday of bush rule. I am starting to thing the teaparty thing is just a big scam for americas intelligence challenged.

[VueeeuVueeeeuV]

The new optimal government structure

I think the twentyfive less populous states should only get one senator, does that count as "overthrowing" the government? I also think that population density should be weighted per voting value. If a slaveis 3/5ths of a person then a hick should be half that.

[Degree Absolute]

[smellmyfinger]

I just bet the terrorist won't even bother to register, they have no respect for the rules.

[Zerohero]

I just bet the terrorist won't even bother to register, they have no respect for the rules.

you gotta do stand up again, cuz your new material would be ace

[Burpcore the GRIM]

Well, what a great plan! Why don't they ask crackheads to fill out surveys listing which houses they plan on robbing, what items they plan on taking and what time/dates they plan on doing the burglaries!

[VueeeuVueeeeuV]

This is like a takeoff on the marijuana and machine gun stamps, except that its basedon the moronic consipiricst thinking that like five guys can go in and take over the whole country without anyone noticing(i guess they could if everyone is wasting their times working out their favorite little stories about how the world REALLY works that only they and not teh sheeple can see.) TEH SHEEPLE

[smellmyfinger]

I just bet the terrorist won't even bother to register, they have no respect for the rules.

you gotta do stand up again, cuz your new material would be ace

That was just a phase, besides I'm really only best at amusing myself.

[Zerohero]

I just bet the terrorist won't even bother to register, they have no respect for the rules.

you gotta do stand up again, cuz your new material would be ace

That was just a phase, besides I'm really only best at amusing myself.

all great artistestes amuse themselves first. and fuck the audience anywaiz...

DO IT MANS

maybe make a thread and let the board write up a monolog...

[ThE GodDamN BattletweeteR]

...... is it still legal to annoy the government ?

[Green Chamber]

i guess they could if everyone is wasting their times working out their favorite little stories about how the world REALLY works that only they and not teh sheeple can see.) TEH SHEEPLE

This is what you do. You're doing it now.