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Zukchiva wrote:

lol noob
Yes.

One IRL example was communism in the US (I'm taking US history rn hehe). At one point, the US outlawed association with any un-registered communist or socialist organization as being criminal, as communism and socialism was a "national security threat" when it's obvious to us now that merely being socialist shouldn't mark someone as a threat.

I hope the example shows TEP's views of the resolution well.

And I only stomped it because I like voting early in the WA. XD

Yeah, hi, author here.

TL;dr, Communist Control Act of 1954 was literally never applied in the US-largely because it is believed that using it would be *highly* unconstitutional. The two test cases which I used on this were Communist Party v. Catherwood, in which SCOTUS ruled that NY could not *lawfully* discriminate against the communist party in its adherents using the state’s unemployment insurance (thus allowing a freedom of association with communism and still receive the benefits inherent in the state) and Blawis v. Bolin in which a federal district court held that federal anti-communist statutes (such as the CCA!) could not keep a communist candidate off a federal ballot.

The only compelling limit, and what the limit in the act is inspired by, is Section 84 and 86 of the German Criminal Code which explicitly allows the German Government to outlaw a party for the explicit exceptions allowed for in the act.

TL;dr: your real life objections to this are rendered moot because the only countries which have actually managed to abuse that provision were going to abuse it anyways. We have to assume good faith.