All Subversive Organizations Now Must Register in South Carolina

February 9th, 2010 admin

This appears not to be a joke: The state’s “Subversive Activities Registration Act,” passed last year and now officially on the books, 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…


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