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This is the exact statute they are breaking when they post that site.


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-CITE-

18 USC Sec. 2385 01/22/02

-EXPCITE-

TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

PART I - CRIMES

CHAPTER 115 - TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES

-HEAD-

Sec. 2385. Advocating overthrow of Government

-STATUTE-

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.

-SOURCE-

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, Sec.

2, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 87-486, June 19, 1962, 76 Stat. 103; Pub.

L. 103-322, title XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108

Stat. 2148.)


3,807 posted on 07/24/2004 2:20:40 PM PDT by judicial meanz (I'm sick of wimpy liberal girlymen with documents stuffed in their pants trying to pass as real men)
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To: Labyrinthos

ping!


3,816 posted on 07/24/2004 2:27:44 PM PDT by JustPiper (Something happened- Nothing's Working- Everything's a lie)
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