Every such organization shall register by filing with the Attorney General, on such forms and in such detail as the Attorney General may by rules and regulations prescribe, a registration statement containing the information and documents prescribed in subsection B 3 and shall within thirty days after the expiration of each period of six months succeeding the filing of such registration statement, file with the Attorney General, on such forms and in such detail as the Attorney General may by rules and regulations prescribe, a supplemental statement containing such information and documents as may be necessary to make the information and documents previously filed under this section accurate and current with respect to such preceding six months' period.
Every statement required to be filed by this section shall be subscribed, under oath, by all of the officers of the organization.
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All statements filed under this section shall be public records and open to public examination and inspection at all reasonable hours under such rules and regulations as the Attorney General may prescribe. C The Attorney General is authorized at any time to make, amend, and rescind such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out this section, including rules and regulations governing the statements required to be filed.
D Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Whoever in a statement filed pursuant to this section willfully makes any false statement or willfully omits to state any fact which is required to be stated, or which is necessary to make the statements made not misleading, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Section consolidates sections 14—17 of title 18 , U. Words "upon conviction" which preceded "be subject" were omitted as surplusage, as punishment cannot otherwise be imposed.
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten 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. Section consolidates sections 9, 11, and 13 of title 18 , U. The revised section extends the provisions so as to include the Coast Guard Reserve in its coverage.
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Words "upon conviction thereof" were omitted as unnecessary, as punishment cannot be imposed until conviction is secured. Reference to conspiracy to commit any of the prohibited acts was omitted as covered by the general law incorporated in section of this title.
This section [section 46] inserts the words, "Air Force," in subsection b of section of title 18 , U. Act May 24, , made section applicable to the Air Force. For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections b , d , d , and of Title 6 , Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, , as modified, set out as a note under section of Title 6.
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Coast Guard transferred to Department of Transportation and functions, powers, and duties, relating to Coast Guard, of Secretary of the Treasury and of other offices and officers of Department of the Treasury transferred to Secretary of Transportation by Pub. See section of Title 49 , Transportation. Functions of all officers of Department of the Treasury and functions of all agencies and employees of such Department transferred, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Treasury, with power vested in him to authorize their performance or performance of any of his functions, by any of such officers, agencies, and employees, by Reorg.
July 31, , 15 F. Such plan excepted from transfer functions of Coast Guard and Commandant thereof when Coast Guard is operating as a part of the Navy under section 1 and 3 of Title 14 , Coast Guard. Whoever, when the United States is at war, willfully causes or attempts to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or willfully obstructs the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, to the injury of the service or the United States, or attempts to do so—.
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. According to Andres Torres and Jose E. Velazquez, the accusation of seditious conspiracy is of political nature and was used almost exclusively against Puerto Rican independentistas in the twentieth century. Since World War I , the federal government has won numerous seditious conspiracy cases against Puerto Rican independentistas , communists and others.
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An intention to show that His Majesty has been misled or mistaken in his measures, or to point out errors or defects in the government or constitution as by law established, with a view to their reformation, or to excite His Majesty's subjects to attempt by lawful means the alteration of any matter in Church or State by law established, or to point out, in order to secure their removal, matters which are producing, or have a tendency to produce, feelings of hatred and ill-will between classes of His Majesty's subjects, is not a seditious intention. Stephen in his "History of the Criminal Law of England" accepted the view that a seditious libel was nothing short of a direct incitement to disorder and violence.
He stated that the modern view of the law was plainly and fully set out by Littledale J. In that case the jury were instructed that they could convict of seditious libel only if they were satisfied that the defendant "meant that the people should make use of physical force as their own resource to obtain justice, and meant to excite the people to take the power in to their own hands, and meant to excite them to tumult and disorder.
The last prosecution for sedition in the United Kingdom was in , when three people were charged with seditious conspiracy and uttering seditious words for attempting to recruit people to travel to Northern Ireland to fight in support of Republicans.
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The seditious conspiracy charge was dropped, but the men received suspended sentences for uttering seditious words and for offences against the Public Order Act. In , a Law Commission working paper recommended that the common law offence of sedition in England and Wales be abolished.
They said that they thought that this offence was redundant and that it was not necessary to have any offence of sedition. In Scotland, section 51 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing Scotland Act abolished the common law offences of sedition and leasing-making [42] with effect from 28 March In , President John Adams signed into law the Alien and Sedition Acts , the fourth of which, the Sedition Act or "An Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes against the United States" set out punishments of up to two years of imprisonment for "opposing or resisting any law of the United States" or writing or publishing "false, scandalous, and malicious writing" about the President or the U.
Congress though not the office of the Vice-President , then occupied by Adams' political opponent Thomas Jefferson. This Act of Congress was allowed to expire in after Jefferson's election to the Presidency. This Act of Congress was amended by the Sedition Act of , which expanded the scope of the Espionage Act to any statement criticizing the Government of the United States. These Acts were upheld in in the case of Schenck v.
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United States , but they were largely repealed in , leaving laws forbidding foreign espionage in the United States and allowing military censorship of sensitive material. In , the Alien Registration Act, or " Smith Act ", was passed, which made it a federal crime to advocate or to teach the desirability of overthrowing the United States Government , or to be a member of any organization which does the same. It was often used against Communist Party organizations. This Act was invoked in three major cases, one of which against the Socialist Worker's Party in Minneapolis in , resulting in 23 convictions, and again in what became known as the Great Sedition Trial of in which a number of pro- Nazi figures were indicted but released when the prosecution ended in a mistrial.
Also, a series of trials of leaders of the Communist Party USA also relied upon the terms of the "Smith Act"—beginning in —and lasting until United States , that same Court reversed itself in in the case of Yates v. United States , by ruling that teaching an ideal, no matter how harmful it may seem, does not equal advocating or planning its implementation.
Although unused since at least , the "Smith Act" remains a Federal law. There was, however, a brief attempt to use the sedition laws against protesters of the Vietnam War. On 17 October , two demonstrators, including then Marin County resident Al Wasserman, while engaged in a "sit-in" at the Army Induction Center in Oakland, California , were arrested and charged with sedition by deputy US.
Attorney Cecil Poole changed the charge to trespassing. Poole said, "three guys according to Mr. Wasserman there were only 2 reaching up and touching the leg of an inductee, and that's conspiracy to commit sedition?
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Attorney Poole later added, "We'll decide what to prosecute, not marshals. He was among the 16 Puerto Rican nationalists offered conditional clemency by U. President Bill Clinton in , but he rejected the offer. In , fourteen white supremacists were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges filed by the U.
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Department of Justice against a seditious conspiracy between July and March Some alleged conspirators were serving time for overt acts, such as the crimes committed by The Order. Others such as Louis Beam and Richard Butler were charged for their speech seen as spurring on the overt acts by the others. In April , a federal jury in Arkansas acquitted all the accused of charges of seditious conspiracy. On 1 October , Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of seditious conspiracy. Laura Berg, a nurse at a U. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in New Mexico was investigated for sedition in September [51] after writing a letter [52] [53] to the editor of a local newspaper, accusing several national leaders of criminal negligence.
Though their action was later deemed unwarranted by the director of Veteran Affairs, local human resources personnel took it upon themselves to request an FBI investigation. Berg was represented by the ACLU. On 28 March , nine members of the Hutaree militia were arrested and charged with crimes including seditious conspiracy. Volksverhetzung "incitement of the people" is a legal concept in Germany and some Nordic countries. It is sometimes loosely translated as sedition, [58] although the law bans the incitement of hatred against a segment of the population such as a particular race or religion.
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