South Carolina charges for the right to be a Subversive...

[brooklynite]

from CBS News:

Fee to Overthrow the Government: Five Dollars

Since 1951, South Carolina has had a law on its books requiring anyone looking to overthrow the government to, well, register with the government.

...snip...

The form to register as a "subversive agent" in South Carolina can be found here. Interested parties list the "name of subversive organization" as well as the name and address of its "chief agent."

They are then asked to check a box for "yes" or "no" following this question: "Do you or your organization directly or indirectly advocate, advise, teach or practice the duty or necessity of controlling, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States, the state of South Carolina or any political division thereof?"

If the answer is yes, the person is asked to outline their fundamental beliefs. When he or she completes the form, they are asked to submit it to the South Carolina Secretary of State's Office -- along with a $5 filing fee.

[villager]

1. shouldn't we be sending those forms to Teabaggers?

:shrug:

[Jack Rabbit]

2. How about the re-elect DeMint committee?

[joeybee12]

3. And the RNC...n/t

[old mark]

4. I lived for a short time in South Carolina, and learned this quote by

James L. Petegru, Charleston lawyer, 1861: "South Carolina - Too small to be a republic, too big to be an asylum."

So I assume things have not changed much.....

mark

[HillbillyBob]

5. So true..and living in NC makes me a bit nervous those

asylum inmates will find their way over here! snark
My mom lived for about 10 years there.. I wonder sometimes if she needed to be deprogrammed, she voted for (*) both times.there was some bad feelings about that. My stepfather was from there, but they were fun crazy except one of his brothers was a big wheel in NRA..I did not think he was fun just batshit.
I would pass up family events (not that I lived close enough to attend many)that he would be attending.

[old mark]

6. North Carolina was no day at the fucking beach, either.....First time

I was ever threatened with a shotgun in a gas station was in North Carolina.
Sometimes, they a little "funny" down there......

All the best.
mark