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UPDATED: August 5, 2025
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The task of Free Florida First is to educate folks to the illegitimacy of the governing powers in Washington, DC and in Tallahassee, Florida.
This education was the purpose of the letter I wrote to the editors of several local newspapers back in 2015.
That letter was published in the two largest area newspapers, The Ocala Star Banner and The Gainesville Sun. As I recall, it also appeared in some of our local weeklies as well.
This education was the purpose of the letter I wrote to the editors of several local newspapers back in 2015.
That letter was published in the two largest area newspapers, The Ocala Star Banner and The Gainesville Sun. As I recall, it also appeared in some of our local weeklies as well.
As the letter is now difficult to find online, I reproduce it below. I initially wrote it to address several charges that were being made against the Levy County School Board by an organization based in Wisconsin. That organization took umbrage to any recognition of the Christian faith within the schools in Levy County, FLORIDA (Opening school board meetings with prayer; promoting baccalaureate services for graduating seniors; and much more):
‘We will not comply’
The people of Levy County have an absolute right to our own culture, values and practices.
Hopefully the School Board of Levy County will have the gumption to tell the Freedom from Religion Foundation to go pound sand. It is time to let the tyrannical forces of political correctness know that we simply WILL NOT COMPLY! It is really of no consequence whether those voices emanate from the Freedom from Religion Foundation, based in far-off Madison, Wisconsin, or from the federal courts.
We don’t care how the people in Madison, Wisconsin, live, we don’t care how they run their schools, we don’t care how they raise their children. We have no intention of allowing them to tell us how we ought to live either.
And to those who have come to us from the north, or from any other foreign land: If you don’t like the way we live in Levy County, “Delta’s ready when you are.”
Greg Wilson
Chairman
Free Florida First
Archer (Levy County), Florida
The men who fought in the First War for American Independence intended to establish free and sovereign states that would not be subject to the domination of foreign powers, be they in London, Philadelphia, New York or what would eventually become Washington, DC.
It was these free and sovereign states that created the American Confederation, first through the Articles of Confederation and then through the US Constitution. The Constitution was hardly an improvement upon the Articles and formed anything but a “more perfect union” (but that we must save for another day).
Neither of these documents intended that the Federal government would exercise ultimate authority. Rather the authority of the consolidated government was to be very limited and carefully defined and the states and the people were to maintain all other powers and to be the ultimate arbiters of any Federal power.
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.” – James Madison
Federal laws passed contrary of the Constitution could simply be nullified (or ignored) by the sovereign states as they determined. Should this nullification prove ineffective to curb the Federal lust for power, the States reserved their freedom to separate themselves from the Federal union and to take up their complete independence once again (secession).
With Lincoln’s immoral, illegal and unconstitutional invasion and ultimate crushing of several sovereign states that attempted to exert their inherent right to secede, the principles of nullification and secession were no longer looked upon as valid. The Federal government, primarily through its courts, was seen as the only arbiter of its own power. And from that time forward we were no longer a free people, rather we became the slaves of an increasingly despotic central government.
If we are to restore freedom within our own communities and states, we must once again assert the rights of nullification and secession. Without this we will continue on under the present Federal tyranny.
It is time to stand up to the tyranny and say: “NO! We will NOT comply!”
This sort of thinking is what my letter to the editor was seeking to cultivate and that is what Free Florida First is all about.
We are free men with a right of self-determination.
With Lincoln’s immoral, illegal and unconstitutional invasion and ultimate crushing of several sovereign states that attempted to exert their inherent right to secede, the principles of nullification and secession were no longer looked upon as valid. The Federal government, primarily through its courts, was seen as the only arbiter of its own power. And from that time forward we were no longer a free people, rather we became the slaves of an increasingly despotic central government.
If we are to restore freedom within our own communities and states, we must once again assert the rights of nullification and secession. Without this we will continue on under the present Federal tyranny.
It is time to stand up to the tyranny and say: “NO! We will NOT comply!”
This sort of thinking is what my letter to the editor was seeking to cultivate and that is what Free Florida First is all about.
We are free men with a right of self-determination.
In Conclusion: I hope that you understand that regardless of how supposedly "good" the government schools are in your area, they ARE NOT good enough for you own children. Education is NOT a legitimate function of government, and all government schools should be eliminated.
STAY IN THE FIGHT!
Free Florida First advocates for a Free, Independent, Godly, Prosperous, and Traditionally Southern Florida.
Deo Vindice!
TRUST GOD!
STAY IN THE FIGHT!
NEVER GIVE UP!
NEVER QUIT!
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