{"id":2665,"date":"2010-03-04T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2010-03-04T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T06:00:12","slug":"subversive-agents-south-carolina-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/03\/04\/subversive-agents-south-carolina-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Subversive Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Carolina is a very entertaining state … if you’re into oddball politicians and very strange laws.<\/p>\n

For instance, South Carolina has a little known (until now) law requiring subversive agents to register with the state and pay a five dollar fee. <\/p>\n

No, I’m not kidding. If you’d like to overthrow the government, you’re required to register<\/strong> with the government.<\/a><\/p>\n

Naturally, Tea Party members think this law was passed purposely to target their group. If so, that would make South Carolina pols highly precognitive — the law dates way back to 1951.<\/p>\n

But if any subversives do feel the urge to register<\/a>, they’d better do it soon. Why? Because State Sen. Larry Martin, a Republican, is pushing to repeal it:<\/p>\n

“I readily recognize when it had been passed and what the purpose of it was back in the 1950s,” he said. “But I don’t think Osama bin Laden is going to register. It’s outlived its usefulness.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This cries out for a limerick, don’t you think?<\/p>\n

Subversive Limerick
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

You’re subversive and live in SC?
\nThere’s no problem — just pay a small fee.
\nFile a form with a fiver.
\nIt’s cheap, you conniver.
\nYou’d best file if you party with tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Carolina is a very entertaining state … if you’re into oddball politicians and very strange laws. For instance, South Carolina has a little known (until now) law requiring subversive agents to register with the state and pay a five dollar fee. No, I’m not kidding. If you’d like to overthrow the government, you’re required […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,168,11,6,7,3,1172,1119],"tags":[1174,2748,1093,476,1178,779,1176,1175,1177,1173],"class_list":["post-2665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-legal-limericks","category-legislation","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-south-carolina-humor","category-tea-parties","tag-larry-martin","tag-law","tag-legal-verse","tag-legislation-humor","tag-overthrowing-government","tag-south-carolina","tag-state-registration","tag-subversive-agents","tag-tea-party-members","tag-weird-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}