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Burning Question: What's the fee to overthrow the government?
- March 4, 2010
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The law has been on the books since 1951, a time when rooting out Communists was something of a national obsession. Now State Sen. Larry Martin, a Republican, thinks it's outlived its usefulness -- assuming of course, that it ever had any.
Indeed, the law hadn't attracted much attention until it became publicized recently. That brought some would-be subversives out of the woodwork, some with less-than-serious intentions. "I think we had Donald Duck in there," Martin told the Hotsheet.
Fee to Overthrow the Government: Five Dollars
(CBS News Political Hotsheet. Hat tip: The Daily Dish.)
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