Subversives who think government is corrupt and should be controlled by the people face 10 years in prison and a $25,000 dollar fine if they fail to register with authorities in
South Carolina, in another chilling example of how free speech and
dissent is being criminalized in America.

The state’s “Subversive Activities Registration Act” is now officially on the books and mandates 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.”

Of course, the right to overthrow a government that has become corrupt, abusive and completely unrepresentative of its electorate is enshrined in the Declaration
of Independence – that’s how America came to be a Republic in the
first place – advocating or teaching that the people should “control”
the government via their elected representatives is a basic function of a
democratic society, but this law effectively makes it a terrorist
offense.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of
these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and
to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness,” states the Declaration of
Independence.

Under the sweeping terms of the law, members of tax protest organizations, the Tea Party movement and the States’ Rights movement based in South Carolina are all domestic terrorists if they fail to
register their dissent with the authorities.

It is important to stress that the notion this law somehow only applies to “Islamic terrorists” is completely at odds with the fact that federal and state authorities now consider the main terror threat
to be from informed American citizens exercising their constitutional
rights in opposition to the big government agenda they are being
subjected to.

As we saw with the MIAC report and a plethora of similar training manuals which were leaked over the last decade, police are being trained
that libertarians, gun owners, Ron Paul supporters and anyone who is
mildly political is a domestic extremist and a potential terrorist –
these people are the real target of the subversives list in South
Carolina.

The infamous Phoenix Federal Bureau of Investigation manual (page one, page
two) produced in association with the Joint Terrorism Task Force
listed “defenders of the U.S. constitution” and “lone individuals” as
terrorists. Will anyone in South Carolina who defends the Constitution,
the very bedrock of what America stands for, have to register with the
authorities unless they want to be locked up for a decade?

Of course, since nobody is going to register as a “subversive” with South Carolina authorities, their failure to “comply” with the regulation will later be used against them as a means of
eliciting criminal charges, in what represents a clear end run around
the First Amendment.

The government isn’t going to just come out all guns blazing and ban free speech, they are simply going to make anyone who refuses to register for permission a criminal for failing to adhere to a
separate mandate.

Just like people in places such as New York and Chicago were told that they had to get a license to purchase a gun – at first the process was a mere inconvenience but now the licensing process means
they have to jump through 200 flaming hoops and the second amendment
has effectively been outlawed in these cities.

They won’t hesitate to pull the same tricks with the First Amendment, and it’s already happeningwith calls to license Internet users and force them to get governme... to run a website.