sabotage, sedition or treason upon public school grounds prohibited - Penalties.
A.The Legislature recognizes that special circumstances exist as regards college campuses and public school facilities, including the fact that a large number of people are confined to a small area, and certain acts committed in such places would have a more detrimental effect as regards the health and safety of those involved than if the same act were committed at some other place, and, in keeping with these facts, any person on the campuses or school grounds of any public state-supported institutions of higher learning or public school facilities who, by word of mouth or writings, advocates, affirmatively suggests or teaches the duty, necessity, propriety or expediency of crime, criminal syndicalism, or sab
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sabotage, sedition or treason upon public school grounds prohibited - Penalties. A. The Legislature recognizes that special circumstances exist as regards college campuses and public school facilities, including the fact that a large number of people are confined to a small area, and certain acts committed in such places would have a more detrimental effect as regards the health and safety of those involved than if the same act were committed at some other place, and, in keeping with these facts, any person on the campuses or school grounds of any public state-supported institutions of higher learning or public school facilities who, by word of mouth or writings, advocates, affirmatively suggests or teaches the duty, necessity, propriety or expediency of crime, criminal syndicalism, or sabotage, or who shall advocate, affirmatively suggest or teach the duty, necessity, propriety or expediency of doing any act of violence, the destruction of or damage to any property, the bodily injury to any person or persons, or the commission of any crime or unlawful act as a means of accomplishing or effecting any industrial or political ends, change, or revolution, or for profit; or who prints, publishes, edits, issues, or knowingly circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any books, pamphlets, paper, handbill, poster, document, or written or printed matter in any form whatsoever, containing matter advocating, advising, affirmatively suggesting, or teaching crime, criminal syndicalism, sabotage, the doing of any act of physical violence, the destruction of or damage to any property, the injury to any person, or the commission of any crime or unlawful act as a means of accomplishing, effecting or bringing about any industrial or political ends, or change, or as a means of accomplishing, effecting or bringing about any industrial or political revolution, or for profit; or who shall openly or at all attempt to justify by word of mouth or writing the commission or the attempt to commit sabotage, any act of physical violence, the destruction of or damage to any property, the injury to any person or the commission of any crime or unlawful act, with the intent to exemplify, spread or teach or affirmatively suggest criminal syndicalism, or who organizes, or helps to organize or becomes a member of or voluntarily assembles with any society or assemblage of persons which teaches, advocates, or affirmatively suggests the doctrine of criminal syndicalism, sabotage, or the necessity, propriety or expediency of doing any act of physical violence or the commission of any crime or unlawful act as a means of accomplishing or effecting any industrial or political ends, change or revolution, or for profit; shall be guilty of a Class C2 felony offense, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section 20M of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or by a fine of not less than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), nor more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment. Provided, that none of the provisions of this section shall be construed to modify or affect Section 166 of Title 40 of the Oklahoma Statutes. B. Any person on the campuses or school grounds of any public state-supported institutions of higher learning or public school facilities above the age of eighteen (18) years who advocates revolution, teaches or justifies a program of sabotage, force and violation, sedition or treason against the government of the United States or of this state, or who directly or indirectly advocates or teaches by any means the overthrow of the government of the United States or of this state by force or any unlawful means shall be guilty of a Class A3 felony offense, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary from ten (10) years to life.