For Your Consideration: “Yes, They Are Serious” Category

(9 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

I’m not sure what is in the water coolers in the South Carolina Legislature but one must give them credit for “creativity”

South Carolina now requires groups and persons who intend to overthrow the United States government to register with the Secretary of State. They must file a form and pay a $5 registration fee

Warning: Please do not eat or drink while reading.

1) “Subversive organization” 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, of this State or of any political subdivision thereof by force or violence or other unlawful means;

(2) “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:

(a) it solicits or accepts financial contributions, loans or support of any kind directly or indirectly from, or is affiliated directly or indirectly with, a foreign government or a political subdivision thereof, an agent, agency or instrumentality of a foreign government or political subdivision thereof, a political party in a foreign country or an international political organization or

(b) its policies, or any of them, are determined by or at the suggestion of, or in collaboration with, a foreign government or political subdivision thereof, an agent, agency or instrumentality of a foreign government or a political subdivision thereof, a political party in a foreign country or an international political organization;

(3) “Foreign agent” means any person whose actions, or any of them, are determined by or at the suggestion of, or in collaboration with, a foreign government or political subdivision thereof, an instrumentality or agency of a foreign government or political subdivision thereof, a political party in a foreign country or an international political organization;

This gets better

SECTION 23-29-50 Registration by subversive and foreign-controlled organizations

Every subversive organization and organization subject to foreign control shall register with the Secretary of State on forms prescribed by him within thirty days after coming into existence in this State.

And the cherry on the icing

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, of this State or of any political subdivision thereof by force or violence or other unlawful means, who resides, transacts any business or attempts to influence political action in this State, shall register with the Secretary of State on the forms and at the times prescribed by him.

Oh, and God forbid you fail to register before you start planning your revolution, because that’s punishable by a $25,000 fine and/ or up to ten years imprisonment.

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

SC, along with Alabama, that also requires drug dealers to declare their illegal income or face further penalties on top of the criminal penalties for buying, possessing and selling drugs.

Ingenious? Why wasn’t this included in the Patriot Act? 😉

h/t watertiger @ FDL