Recently passed legislation in South Carolina now requires all groups seeking to overthrow the government to register with the State and pay a $5 registration fee. I shit you not. The new law reads:
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
If you’re wondering:
The terms of this chapter do not apply to any labor union or religious, fraternal or patriotic organization, society or association, or their members, whose objectives and aims do not contemplate the overthrow of the government of the United States…
The full law can be found here and, if you need, the registration form is available here.
With all due seriousness, I’m thinking that the Vermont Legislature, Douglas, or one of our fine Democratic gubernatorial candidates might want to consider something like this as a means of revenue-boosting in these lean times: Everyone knows VT is a hotbed of socialism, revolution, and radicalism.
This is one nutty country! Thanks for sharing!
but this law (as written) would require Exxon-Mobil, Monsanto, Bank of America, GE, and the rest of the Fortune 500 to register because they seek to (and are pretty good at) “controlling…the government of the United States”
doesnt list secession as a subversive activity.
Of those wannabe terrorists down in Florida (or was it Michigan?) who were trying to raise money to buy uniforms (terrorist uniforms, I guess) to wear while they were doing their terrorist thing.