California (State) senator wants to drop Cold War communist laws (AP on Bakersfield Californian | 3/30/08 | Steve Lawrence - ap)
Sen. Alan Lowenthal thinks it's about time that California removes some of the last vestiges of the Cold War from its laws.The Long Beach Democrat has introduced a bill that would scrap statutes allowing teachers and other public employees to be fired for being members of the Communist Party.
The measure, scheduled to be considered Wednesday by the Senate Education Committee, also would drop a requirement that representatives of organizations seeking to use school facilities sign a form stating they do not have communist affiliations.
I doubt this is merely a "symbolic" gesture. Someone must've been denied a job indoctrinating America's young at some point.
Which suggests that, rather than eliminating those laws, they should be updated to include the current suspects...