Posted on 04/29/2025 5:29:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It’s an obvious fact that we have individuals living amongst us (citizens and non-citizens) fomenting violence, undertaking seditious acts, breaking our laws, and knowingly furthering false narratives intended to harm us. They are led by people employed by foreign governments or groups whose actions intend to overthrow our way of life, sow discord, alter our essential narratives, and disrupt our economic and political systems. In effect, they are levying what amounts to war against us.
We’ve been here before. Before WWII, there were other anti-American groups and malicious narratives similar to what we are experiencing today. Then, as now, America faced an uncertain future with war warnings and economic calamity omnipresent. Americans in the 1930s were worried about Bolshevism, anarchists, unlawful immigration, and a rising fear of “fifth columnists“ perceived to be almost everywhere.
Communists and fascists commanded the national airwaves, trumpeting the evils of American-style democracy and its failed economic system that still hadn’t recovered from the Great Depression. Americans were looking for answers in all the wrong places. Unfortunately, then as now, there was no shortage of malcontents and bomb throwers who were ready to join in the mayhem.
Succumbing to this pressure, Congress passed the Alien Registration Act (aka the Smith Act) on June 28, 1940, which created
Criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government by force or violence and requiring all non-citizen adult residents to register with the federal government
Although over 200 people have been tried under the Act, it’s been used with less frequency because it often ran afoul of the First Amendment. The question, always, is how we retain our liberties without allowing our enemies to use those same liberties against us?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Glad you and your coworkers had the courage to make a stand against that filthy communist piece of garbage. 👍
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