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KAI, THEY'RE ON TO YOU!

Started by Kurt Christ, February 08, 2010, 06:12:13 AM

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Kurt Christ

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This seems incredibly dangerous actually... the definition is loose enough that almost any political group would qualify.  so if somebody political pisses the DA off, he can not only arrest them with this law, but also all of their friends.
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Cain

Unless they register!

"Hello, yes, I would like to register the Al-Qaeda in South Carolina Group for Jihad and Preaching.  Can I pay in opium?"

Elder Iptuous

interestingly, the law makes exception for 'patriotic organization...whose objectives and aims do not contemplate the overthrow of the government of the United States, of this State or of any political subdivision thereof by force or violence or other unlawful means.'

of course, as a 'patriotic organization', you would think they are obligated to contemplate such founding principles as the fact that sometimes 'in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them'

Doktor Howl

Quote from: Iptuous on February 08, 2010, 02:03:43 PM
interestingly, the law makes exception for 'patriotic organization...

Interestingly enough, this would not have covered Patrick Henry or Samuel Adams.
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Doktor Howl

Interesting comment there:

Quote from: Michael BiblerThe real question here--and this is where I'd like to see the legal test case--is whether a member of "an organization subject to foreign control," like SHELL or TEXACO or ANY MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION, should have to register, too. If those corporations donate money to any political campaign, as the Supreme Court now says they can, aren't they interested in "controlling" the United States?
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isn't the US govt interested in controlling the US?
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Wow.  Luckily due to the "sticking apart" clause in our Super-Official Religious Texts, this doesn't apply to Discordians.

Iason Ouabache

Call me crazy but doesn't this go against the first amendment right of free speech and the right to assemble peaceably (and maybe the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances)? It smells like political theater to make the state government look like they are tough on terrorism. It's a stupid and pointless law that will probably never need to be enforced. Besides, who would want to take over South Carolina these days?
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Doktor Howl

Quote from: Iason Ouabache on February 08, 2010, 09:16:21 PM
Call me crazy but doesn't this go against the first amendment right of free speech and the right to assemble peaceably (and maybe the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances)? It smells like political theater to make the state government look like they are tough on crime. It's a stupid and pointless law that will probably never need to be enforced.

Optimist.  It will be enforced plenty, on people with the wrong values.

And that constitution thing only works if The People believe in it.

They don't.
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Iason Ouabache

Ok, correction: It will be used like "and causing a nuisance" laws to add 20 years on the end of a 170 year sentence OR they will be used like current tax/RICO/Patriot Act laws to lock up people when they can't get any other charges to stick. It still sounds unconstitutional to me.  But I hope that some smartass DA uses it on the local Tea Party.  :lulz:
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