Started a new job at UGA today. Nothing special happened, mostly administrative stuff. I did enter the twilight zone at one point, however. Check out this mandatory loyalty oath. Here's an excerpt:
3. Are you now or have you been within the last ten (10) years a member of any organization which to your knowledge at the time of membership advocates or has as one of its objectives, the overthrow of the government of the United States or the government of the State of Georgia by force or violence? Yes____ No____
Then it gets better-- if by some chance you do advocate the violent overthrow of the State of Georgia (and who doesn't?) you're not only supposed to be dumb enough to admit it, you're also supposed to be dumb enough to list the name of the organization, current membership status, and any offices held in it.
All of this is thanks to the "Sedition and Subversive Activities Act of 1953." Just think, if they'd had that act 100 years earlier we might have been able to avoid that whole Civil War thing. Better late than never, I guess.
Confederates...communists...terrorists...whatever.
Posted by Jason at November 3, 2003 07:24 PM