Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-1327

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Advocating of unlawfulness, criminal syndicalism,

Official statutory text

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,

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 21. Crimes and Punishments Page 670

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
olution, 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.

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