West Virginia Code § 61-1-5

Unlawful speeches, publications and communications
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It shall be unlawful for any person to speak, print, publish or communicate, by language,
sign, picture or otherwise, any teachings, doctrines or counsels in sympathy with or in favor
of ideals, institutions or forms of government hostile, inimical or antagonistic to those now or
hereafter existing under the Constitution and laws of this state or of the United States, or in
sympathy with or in favor of the propriety, duty and necessity of crime, violeence or other
unlawful methods of terrorism, as a means of accomplishing economic or political reform, or
in sympathy with or in favor of the overthrow of organized society, the runlawful destruction
of property or the violation of law.

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