Subversives In South Carolina Mostly Safe

sabt-pestnu sends in an update on our story about South Carolina and subversives. "According to Eugene Volokh, the Raw Story article has got it backwards. Westlaw says that the cited statute dates back to 1951, when a lot of anti-Communist statutes were being enacted nationwide. What brought Raw Story's attention to it may be that South Carolina is once again trying to repeal the archaic law. And in any event, a half-century-old case (Yates vs. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957)) took most of the teeth out of such laws."

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Personally, I'd been wondering

[billstewart]

Did the Republican and Democratic Parties ever register? If not, should we help them out by submitting forms for them? The filing fee's only $5; that was real money back in 1951, but these days it's less than the price of a movie ticket.

And no, those guys had no interest in overthrowing the US government; if they did that then who'd be around to pay them billions and billions of taxpayer dollars? The ones they need to bust are anybody from the Bush Administration, though many of those folks are still around because Obama didn't clean house when he took over.