No joke: South Carolina now requires ’subversives’ to register
By Daniel Tencer
Friday, February 5th, 2010 -- 11:49 am
Five-dollar registration fee for persons planning to overthrow US government
計劃推翻美國政府的人註冊費是五美元
Terrorists who want to overthrow the United States government must now register with South Carolina's Secretary of State and declare their intentions -- or face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison.
恐怖分子想要推翻美國政府，現在必須向南卡羅來納州的州務卿登記，並宣布他們的意圖 - 否則將面臨罰款 25,000美元及監禁高達 10年。
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 the government of the United States ... shall register with the Secretary of State."
該州的“顛覆活動登記法”在去年通過，現在正式白紙黑字，列明“顛覆組織或受外國控制的組織的每個成員，每一個外國代理和每一個人和每個人鼓吹、教授、建議或實踐責任、需要或禮儀控制、帶領，奪取或推翻美國的政府 ...將須向州務卿登記。“
There's even a $5 filing fee.
甚至還有 5美元的申請費。
By "subversive organization," the law means "every corporation, society, association, camp, group, bund, political party, assembly, body or organization, composed of two or more persons, which directly or indirectly advocates, advises, teaches or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States [or] of this State."
所謂“顛覆組織，”法律的意思是“每一個企業、社會、協會、營地、小組、同盟，政黨、議會、團體或組織，由兩個或以上的人組成，直接或間接地鼓吹、建議、教授或實踐責任、需要或禮儀控制、帶領，奪取或推翻美國的政府 [或]這個國家。“
A PDF of the registration form can be found here, courtesy of FitsNews.The law also gives subversive organizations "subject to foreign control" 30 days to register with the state after setting up shop in South Carolina.
該法律亦給予“受外國控制”的顛覆組織，在南卡羅來納州開設鋪位後，30天時間向州登記。
While the intention of the law is apparently aimed at Islamic terrorists, it's unclear in the law's wording whether it can be applied to right-wing militias, some of whom have reputedly called for the overthrow of the US government. The law states that "fraternal" and "patriotic" groups are exempt from the law, but only if they don't "contemplate the overthrow of the government."
While the law is clearly redundant -- there are plenty of statutes at the state and federal level through which terrorists can be prosecuted -- it reflects a not-uncommon pattern in some states of "doubling down" against particular crimes.
For instance, South Carolina is among those states which require drug dealers to declare their illegal income, or face additional criminal penalties on top of the already established penalties for buying, possessing and selling drugs.
The South Carolina blog FitsNews describes the new law as "bureaucracy for terrorists."
南卡羅來納州網誌FitsNews，形容新的法律為“給予恐怖分子的官僚。”
"In the long and storied history of utterly retarded legislation in South Carolina, we may have finally found the legal statute that takes the cake for sheer stupidity, which we think you’ll agree is saying something," the unsigned blog posting scathingly commented.
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/south-carolinas-subversive-activities-registration-act-force/
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