Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Sunday, February 07, 2010

Those who want to overthrow the US government must now register with South Carolina's Secretary of State and declare their intentions -- or face a $25K fine and up to 10 years in prison. The state's "Subversive Activities Registration Act," passed last year and now officially law, 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." The law states that fraternal and patriotic groups are exempt from the law, only if they don't "contemplate the overthrow of the government."

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It would appear to be at least partially to supercede patriotic populist movements like in Vermont.

Useless law but similar in intent as the tax evasion laws on marijuana. The dumb part is that they made it so expensive, heck 1 buck will get you evading the law or whatever this is suposed to invoke.

Ironically, the "Subversive Activities Registration Act" language is a direct attack on 9th and 10th amendments that were designed to protect States' rights over an out of control federal government.

Further, the right to overthrow a government that has become corrupt, abusive and non-representative of its electorate is the heart of the Declaration of Independence:

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

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