# My life is now complete. aka "Anti-Communist Legislation still on the books" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034 "2005-08-07T22:41:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/1 "2005-08-07T22:41:36Z")
Of the most mundane points I could possibly raise, [this one is cool.](http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode50/usc_sup_01_50_10_23_20_IV.html) Apparently, there’s still Anti-Communist laws on the books in the US Code. Why is my life now complete? Because I now have a legal justification to keep the good fight against the Soviets still going. 🆒 Tripler Child of the Cold War ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/2 "2005-08-07T23:59:47Z")
Uh-oh! :eek: :: quickly hides his card-carrying Communist card :: ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/3 "2005-08-08T00:13:08Z")
Fighting commies is still acceptable, you say? Does wrestling count? 😃 In that case, I call dibs on the girls of [Uncle Joe’s Commie Strip](http://www.cuteybunny.com/Comix/UJCS-Int.html) (Warning: Link contains cheesecake. What’s worse, (Worse than those damn prefer-to-distribute-goods in a manner than us commies? Is that possible?) it is elf cheesecake. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/4 "2005-08-08T00:33:10Z")
When I registered to vote, I was seriously tempted to register as a communist. NOT because I am a communist-I’m not, but just to see if I’d have the government come knocking on my door. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/5 "2005-08-08T00:45:41Z")
> [@Scott Plaid](#): > > Fighting commies is still acceptable, you say? Does wrestling count? 😃 > > In that case, I call dibs on the girls of [Uncle Joe’s Commie Strip](http://www.cuteybunny.com/Comix/UJCS-Int.html) (Warning: Link contains cheesecake. What’s worse, (Worse than those damn prefer-to-distribute-goods in a manner than us commies? Is that possible?) it is elf cheesecake. Dude, I couldn’t agree with you more. Those Commie Elves are hot!! But they are Communists. They deserve the A-Bomb. Tripler Those damned Commie pinkos. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/6 "2005-08-08T00:50:33Z")
> [@Scott Plaid](#): > > Fighting commies is still acceptable, you say? Does wrestling count? 😃 > > In that case, I call dibs on the girls of [Uncle Joe’s Commie Strip](http://www.cuteybunny.com/Comix/UJCS-Int.html) (Warning: Link contains cheesecake. What’s worse, (Worse than those damn prefer-to-distribute-goods in a manner than us commies? Is that possible?) it is elf cheesecake. Got a copy you wanna sell? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/7 "2005-08-08T03:12:18Z")
You elf-lovers are gonna be the first ones up against the wall when the blacklist comes back. I just want you to know that. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/8 "2005-08-08T03:38:13Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > Apparently, there’s still Anti-Communist laws on the books in the US Code. Why is my life now complete? Because I now have a legal justification to keep the good fight against the Soviets still going. 🆒 Count me in. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. Stranger Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/9 "2005-08-08T03:41:01Z")
> [@Scott Plaid](#): > > Fighting commies is still acceptable, you say? Does wrestling count? 😃 Only if it’s wrestling in pudding. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/10 "2005-08-08T04:06:12Z")
Folks wrestle in _pudding_ these days? In my day we used Jell-O, or KY. I feel so old… ☹ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/11 "2005-08-08T04:13:32Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > Folks wrestle in _pudding_ these days? In my day we used Jell-O, or KY. I feel so old… ☹ 😃 You had Jell-O? We had to use quicksand! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/12 "2005-08-08T04:44:57Z")
> [@Good Egg](#): > > You had Jell-O? We had to use quicksand! You had quicksand? Lucky bastards! We were out there in the slush, freezing our asses off! “Commies”. How …_quaint_. Now, “vicious totalitarian police-state bastards”, that’s a concept as up-to-date as today–unfortunately–but… why limit yourself to “commies”? “Commies”. Heh. “Commies”. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/13 "2005-08-08T05:30:02Z")
Yes. The preferred wrestling medium is tapioca. Pass it on. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/14 "2005-08-08T11:33:21Z")
In my state, when getting a government job, you have to sign that you don’t belong to any of a small list of “subversive” groups. In addition to the Communist Party, it also includes the SLA. Obviously comparable threats! ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/15 "2005-08-08T13:56:10Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Got a copy you wanna sell? In all seriousness, no. I do have a few issues of [Rip-Off Press comix](http://www.waterholes.com/CuteyBunny/page1.htm) , and the Cutey Bunny issue (Army Surplus Komix No.5 ) with the X-men parody vs. WWII-era Invaders parody, but it is too good to sell. It stared Chris Claremont as himself. However, the creator _has_ put much of his new work on the internet, including monthly calendars, since about 1998. Best [the Quagmire](http://www.cuteybunny.com/) I ever saw! Oh, and it seems [Sir 0tter](http://sir0tter.com/comix/publishers/eclipse.html) has a few issues. At second thought, got any issues of [Captain Jack](http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=list&title=01556735804&snumber=1) ? I would be willing to trade you every issue of Captain Jack ever made, in exchange for my one issue of Army Surplus Komix > [@Harimad-sol](#): > > Yes. The preferred wrestling medium is tapioca. Pass it on. Holy Crap! It is a commie infiltrator! Someone get Chuck Norris! Silly rabbit, everyone know the true medium of wrestling is chocolate pudding. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/16 "2005-08-08T13:57:50Z")
:smack: That remark about selling my issue of Cutey Bunny in echange for every issue of “The Adventures of Captain Jack” was meant to have a 🙂 after it. D’oh. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/17 "2005-08-08T14:00:16Z")
I lived in China for two years. Most of my good friends are Communist. Should I leave the country now? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/18 "2005-08-08T15:00:10Z")
Twas scary being asked by my (only five years!) younger cousin “Why is everyone against communism?” Bahweee?! ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/19 "2005-08-08T19:23:48Z")
> [@Scott Plaid](#): > > Holy Crap! It is a commie infiltrator! Someone get Chuck Norris! Silly rabbit, everyone know the true medium of wrestling is chocolate pudding. No, all correct-thinking folk know that chocolate pudding is only for eating. If you choose to lick it off your wrestling partner as part of the victory ritual, I promise not to tell anyone, though. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034/20 "2005-08-08T20:29:40Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > In my state, when getting a government job, you have to sign that you don’t belong to any of a small list of “subversive” groups. In addition to the Communist Party, it also includes the SLA. Obviously comparable threats! The [Special Libraries Association](http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/index.cfm)? Well, that puts me and a whole lotta librarians on the black list! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-is-now-complete-aka-anti-communist-legislation-still-on-the-books/316034.md?page=2)