Conspiracy to Overthrow the Government Is Illegal

Communism is against the law in the United States.

In theory, that has been true since its inception, and well before its first introduction to people in this country—because our law is the Constitution, to which communism is antithetical. The implementation of communism requires replacement of any existing political system. To translate, that means the overthrow of the United States government and our Constitution.

But, as we know, making something illegal doesn’t mean it no longer exists.

What I’m going to go through here today is a thought exercise only. But these are thoughts I believe we should be going through prior to any next election. There is a threat to our constitutional republic. And it is a real threat, a “clear and present danger” to our God-given rights by authoritarian tyrants.

Back in the 1950s, there was what was referred to as the Red Scare, when the Cold War was underway, and the enemy was a communist regime looking to expand its power and control around the world.

The threat was real. This enemy, the Soviet Union mainly, had nuclear weapons. The Chinese Communist Party was also a threat, although they didn’t succeed in getting nuclear weapons until 1964. But also during this time communist North Korea invaded South Korea, involving the US in the Korean War.

The ideologies of communism had been spreading in America, and indeed had infiltrated higher echelons of government. McCarthy was right about that.

So it was in response to this real threat (whether exaggerated in numbers at the time or not) that the Communist Control Act of 1954 was written—and passed unanimously in the Senate, then amended in the House to clarify definitions.

We’ll look at the law itself, and then talk about why it was (almost) never invoked, and why we maybe ought to be thinking about it today.

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