Subversives In South Carolina Mostly Safe 200
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."
In other words ... (Score:2, Funny)
Mostly harmless.
Doh! (Score:5, Funny)
How do I withdraw my application?
Now what am I going to do? (Score:5, Funny)
What's the point of being subversive if it's not forbidden?
Re:Now what am I going to do? (Score:5, Funny)
Well if it makes you feel better, and you aren't too picky, I forbid you from being subversive.
Re:I'm not a Commie! Cross My Heart! (Score:5, Funny)
(The oath requires the signer to "support and defend" the California and U.S,. constitutions; not wanting to violate her religious principles, she'd inserted the word "nonviolently".) She was eventually rehired after the usual legal squabble, which ended with the state AG ruling that the unamended oath did not obligated the signer to do military service!
Aw. I was hoping the issue was resolved when they balanced the score by hiring someone who amended the oath by inserting "exclusively through violence".
In a related development... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Now what am I going to do? (Score:3, Funny)
Please, Sir, forbid me as well, please.
Re:Now what am I going to do? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes! He'll forbid all of us!
How? Why? Who? What? Where? (Score:1, Funny)
Why do you want to know?
Why do you care?
Are you working for the Government?
If said mod points were revoked, how would you know that they were? Is there a way of checking?
Do you know of a way to track said people? Script? tracking MAC addresses on ethernet cards? How?
Forgive the typos and the untimely response, but the anonymizer running off of the proxy off of the anonymous proxy bouncing through an out of business Icelandic banks web server through the FDIC monitoring and the CIA's NSA connection that goes directly to the Vatican communicating with the Dali Lamma's servers in India hosted through the Mongolian underground via a Russian oligarch's oil company into the California's school system and then being hosted by the anonymizer in Canada and then down to where I live is having a problem with timing out. It may have to do with being by Sam's Internet cafe in downtown Cleveland on the corner of Pine St. and Andrews.
What I do to hide my identity and location.
Re:Maryland had something called the "Ober law" (Score:3, Funny)
Mod parent down! We don't allow reality here!!!!
Re:I'm not a Commie! Cross My Heart! (Score:5, Funny)
They did. He's called the Governator.
Re:In other words ... (Score:5, Funny)
Please reference section 42 of your Slashdot User Agreement, and you will find it necessary to submit yourself to 30 lashes with a wet noodle, and turn in your geek card. You should hurry before your late.
Sorry about that. Ford only wrote "Mostly Harmless", not "Completely apathetic". You should have been aware of the rules. They were clearly posted.
In the cellar...
In the disused lavatory...
Clearly marked with the sign "Beware Of The Leopard"...
In the bottom of the locked file cabinet...
Under a mostly dead parrot.
Like I said, clearly posted.
Re:subversion (Score:5, Funny)
Re:problem is not that they were communists or not (Score:5, Funny)
It's the irrational fear that somebody somewhere is getting something that they didn't earn or deserve.
No, we weren't talking about gitmo ...
Re:Now what am I going to do? (Score:3, Funny)