In South Carolina, anyone engaged in “subversive activities” must now register with the Secretary of State. Failure to comply with the Subversive Activities Registration Act passed last year and now in full and glorious effect [see below] subjects the non-registering subversive to penalties up to and including a $25,000 fine and/or ten years of imprisonment.

Actually, I take that back. You don’t actually have to be engaged in subversive activities. You only have to be a member of some group in which at least one other person is at least thinking about subversive activities.

So, let’s say you are a member of the Libertarian Party, and so is this guy, who showed up at an Obama rally with a gun and a sign saying it’s time to “water the tree of liberty [with the blood of tyrants]. Have there been any Libertarian Party policy statements or other comments that could conceivably be read to support this doofus? Are you sure? Because if so, libertarians in South Carolina apparently have to register, and provide the Secretary of State “all information which he may request, on the forms and at the times he may prescribe.” S.C. Code sec. 23-29-70. Failing to do so — not actually trying to overthrow the government, but failing to fill out the form — could get you ten years in jail. (Same for you, Republicans.)