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."
