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LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 10:47 PM Jan 2017

So the latest scare tactic is this:

**I copied all of the text because it is a US Code, owned by We The People. If it's improper, I will change. Thanks.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2385

U.S. Code › Title 18 › Part I › Chapter 115 › § 2385

18 U.S. Code § 2385 - Advocating overthrow of Government

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Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or

Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or

Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

As used in this section, the terms “organizes” and “organize”, with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, § 2, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 87–486, June 19, 1962, 76 Stat. 103; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)

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So the latest scare tactic is this: (Original Post) LaydeeBug Jan 2017 OP
So can we nail Bannon under this one? n/t TygrBright Jan 2017 #1
You would think...but they will try to use it on us LaydeeBug Jan 2017 #2
I have my copy of the Constitution! Vinnie From Indy Jan 2017 #3
In time of McCarthyism, they used this to hunt communists. HassleCat Jan 2017 #4
I'm not advocating overthrowing or destroying the gvt at all. I'm protesting unconstitutional uppityperson Jan 2017 #5
exactly. That's why this is ass. LaydeeBug Jan 2017 #6
 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
4. In time of McCarthyism, they used this to hunt communists.
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 11:04 PM
Jan 2017

The theary was the communists advocated overthrowing the government, so all members of the party were guilty of treason. Kind of the same way they drone anybody who belongs to al Qaida nowadays.

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
5. I'm not advocating overthrowing or destroying the gvt at all. I'm protesting unconstitutional
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 11:26 PM
Jan 2017

executive order and similar.

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