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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Re:subversion

[JDmetro]

The brand of Christianity practiced in most of the western world is generally benign You mean like Chatholics and all their off shoots? Did you know that pope Joseph Ratzinger was a member of Hitler's Youth Party. But then again why did the Chatholic Church tell the German to vote for Hitler?

Re:problem is not that they were communists or not

[Lehk228]

regulations can always be weakened or ignored by future (republican) administrations. A full single-payer system that scraps the entire health insurance industry would make that far less likely to happen, since there wouldn't be any health insurance companies to lobby for rules changes in their favor.