Invitation to Confederate Memorial Day 2026 at Landmark Baptist Church

 

Remembering Those Who Fought Against the Immoral Invading Hordes from the north.

On April 25th and 26th, Landmark Baptist Church and Free Florida First will jointly mark Confederate Memorial Day 2026.

This commemoration is by Confederates to the memory of Confederates. There will be no recognition of the evil yankee empire, nor of it striped rag. That villainous flag is dripping with the blood of our ancestors and with the blood of many other innocent victims since that time. Even now, that toll is being added to daily by the current warmonger in chief occupying the yankee White House in the District of Corruption.

You will find an online invitation and details of our events here:
www.libcfl.org/invite/

According to Florida Statutes, Confederate Memorial Day is a recognized legal holiday.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0600-0699/0683/Sections/0683.01.html 

In today’s political climate, it’s not surprising that attempts are made virtually every year to eliminate the Confederate Memorial Day holiday, but fortunately it has been avoided to date. But regardless of what carpetbagger and scalawag politicians may do, our celebration will continue on, by the Grace of God. We can’t control Tallahassee or DC, but we can control ourselves. 

In 1900 a red St. Andrew’s cross was added to our Florida’s State Flag as a remembrance of our Confederate ancestors and defenders.

The Confederate soldier is most worthy of remembrance and recognition. Those soldiers fought in defense of their homes, their families, their way of life, and their state. In spite of the manifest lie that the modern day storm troopers of the amerikan empire are fighting for our freedom, the truth is that the Confederate soldier was the LAST veteran to fight in defense of our God-given rights.

The amerikan empire is certainly no less tyrannical today. So, more than a mere remembrance, we have dedicated ourselves to taking up the banners and the sacred Cause of our Confederate forebears. We seek a truly Free, Independent, Godly, Prosperous, and Traditionally Southern Florida. 

You will find a large display of historical flags at our observance, even some early US flags. You’ll see the Betsy Ross flag (designed by the Southerner, George Washington). You’ll see the 15 striped “Star-spangled Banner” of which Southerner Francis Scott Key wrote his memorable poem. Ironically, the tyrant Ape Lincoln imprisoned Key’s grandson within the walls of Fort McHenry for his opposition to the yankee cause from within the pages of his newspaper. And you’ll see many other flags of our Southern Nation (over 70 are displayed in total).

You’ll see the Florida secession flag of Colonel William Chase, who removed the multiple stars of the failed union from the blue field of the US flag and replaced them with the single-star of a Sovereign and Independent Florida.

 

What you will NOT see are any modern US flags (since we sought to go our separate way in 1860). We DO NOT honor the flag of the invaders of our country, not on this day – not on any other day. Nor will we ever pledge allegiance to the tyrannical union by reciting the blasphemous “Pledge of Allegiance” written by a South hating, socialist yankee.

 

Above is a replica of the Battle Flag of Florida’s Marion Light Artillery, in which my G-G-Grandpa, Sergeant John Cauthen Strickland, served. As the banner declares, he and his compatriots fought for “God and Our Rights” as free Southern men. By the Grace of God, we hope to continue that struggle against the increasingly evil and thoroughly perverse amerikan empire.

The following link contains descriptions of all the flags displayed during Confederate Memorial Day:

https://libcfl.org/articles/flags4.pdf

Quite simply, when it comes to the striped rag of the amerikan empire: “Ain’t my flag; Ain’t my country.” It has not been so since 1861. It appears to me that the time is approaching when true Southerners will be called upon to fight against that banner once again.

 

In the words of Major Innes Randolph, C.S.A. (taken from his poem, “I’m a Good Ole’ Rebel”): “I hates the glorious Union – ‘Tis dripping with our blood - I hates their striped banner, I fought it all I could . . . I'm glad I fit against it, I only wish we'd won, and I don't want no pardon for anything I done.”

From time to time, some folks will admonish us that the war is over and that we should simply forget and move on. We have no intention of doing so. We happen to agree with Pastor R. L. Dabney, who served as Chief of Staff for Lt. General T. J. “Stonewall” Jackson:

“What, forgive those people who invaded our country, burned our cities, destroyed our homes, slain our young men, and spread desolation and ruin over our land? No, I do not forgive them.”

R. L. Dabney

Furthermore, it’s not over yet -- not by a long shot. It’s not over as long as there are any of us who remember. It is not over as long as there are any of us still committed to picking up the banner and the Cause of our fathers and to continuing their struggle for independence and self-determination. That is why they hate our banners, our monuments, our remembrances, and above everything else – why they hate us.

We pray along with our great chieftain, Robert E. Lee, that God may be pleased to “give us a name and a place among the nations of the earth.”

If you are likewise inclined, come out and mark this day with us. On Saturday there will be a special memorial service at our flag pole, followed by placing flags on Confederate soldiers’ graves in a local cemetery.

Placing Flags in the Archer Cemetery 

Sunday there will be a special Confederate Memorial Day church service, in which Pastor Wilson will take on the character of Confederate Chaplain J. William Jones and preach a sermon based upon his 1907 article, "The Christian Character of Robert E. Lee."

Pastor Wilson Confederate Chaplain J. William Jones

We do not mark this day simply because some of our ancestors served in the Confederate Army or Navy or Marine Corps. Many who will celebrate with us have no Confederate ancestors. We mark this day because those who fought against the northern invasion were right in their actions and pure in their motives and we seek to stand with them. 

We do not seek simply to remember those who struggled against the yankee invaders, but as our ancestors noted in the Declaration of Independence in the First War for Independence, “we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor” in the struggle against Leviathan in the 21st Century. 

 

Come out and encourage yourself and others as you fellowship with like-minded Southern patriots. 

Online invitation and details of our events are here:
www.libcfl.org/invite/

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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We MUST Find a Way to Separate

I am convinced that we Christian Confederates MUST find a way to separate ourselves from the evil amerikan empire, or we shall surely perish with it.

Consider the words of three of the early American leaders. They understood that people can only live together in peace when they share common values, morals, and faith.

John Adams said: “Our Constitution was made for only a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

The U.S. Constitution is now a dead letter, and has been so since at least 1860. It was never intended to govern the sort of confused culture in which we now exist. It cannot be made to accommodate such a thing, for that is not what it was designed to do. We MUST go our separate way. We MUST find our own path.

Patrick Henry said: “Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.”

Can any deny that the yankee nation is composed of “bad men.” Can yankees, carpetbaggers, and even Southern scalawags make “good citizens”? They cannot. We MUST separate from them to survive.

 George Washington noted that: “It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without the Bible.”

These yankee infidels and reprobates do not acknowledge the Bible, nor the God of that Bible. They will not submit their untoward lusts and inclinations to God’s Holy Will. Our only recourse is to separate ourselves from them.

I don’t have all the answers for how we will finally bring about this ultimate separation, but I do know how it must start:

1. Stop flying the yankee striped rag.

2. Stop reciting their blasphemous and South-hating pledge.

3. Stop serving the evil yankee empire in its military and police forces.

4. Stop sending your children to their government’s schools.

5. Stop participating in their rigged and meaningless elections.

5. Seek encouragement and fellowship with like-minded Southern patriots.

6. Secede – RIGHT NOW – in your own heart and mind.

We do not share values, morals, and faith with the yankee nation. We cannot continue in any sort of political union with them.

 God Bless the Southern States and the Southern people.

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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A Remnant Still -- By the Grace of God

Free Florida First has booths at several local festivals through out the year. We are able to interact with scores of folks, and for those who sign up for our flag raffle, we are able to share a sample of our weekly mailing.

Giving out hand held flags to the youth that visit with us is always a tremendous blessing, and who knows what the Lord may bring forth from those seeds that are planted.

Free Florida First is a group of five or six “regulars.” Most of us are in our 70s. Our one “youth” is still in his 60s.

More often than not, our meetings consist of only our regulars, though from time to time we may have some visitors. We do, however, share audio and handouts from our meetings with over 400 folks on our email list.

I’ve said these things that I might make a few of points:

1. The Lord is working through a remnant. If you search the Scriptures you will find that He has always done so. Don’t waste your time and energy attempting to gather a majority. That’s not going to happen and that's why voting will NEVER be a solution. But the remnant ought to seek to be as vocal and visible as possible, and perhaps the Lord will be pleased to add unto it. Don’t fret over “results.” Seek to be faithful!

1 Samuel 14:6
Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.

2. Seek to gather with your remnant and encourage one another and reach out to others. Numerous folks expressed how encouraged they were to see us out at the Peanut Festival or the Watermelon Festival, and many express their agreement and support for our stand. Perhaps some will eventually be motivated to stand with us, but regardless, WE MUST CONTINUE TO STAND!

3. Don’t worry about fixing everything – it’s not going to be fixed until the Lord returns. Just take care of yourself and do right. Continue to march -- and above all else TRUST GOD!! Separate from the evil empire and SECEDE in your own heart and mind. That's the first and the most important step.

4. A final thought, if you are not on our email list, you might consider signing up for it now. I’m not sure how much longer we will be able to be on a platform like Facebook. I suppose they may eventually eliminate our email, but it will take them a bit longer to get around to that. For now, I send my blog and the paper I compile from numerous sources out every week. Consider requesting to be added to our list:

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God Bless, y’all! -- AND -- God Bless Dixie!

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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Do I have the dreaded TDS?

More and more frequently I have folks tell me that I have “TDS”. It sounds like some dreaded disease.

Come to find out it means “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

Truth is, I find very little to like about Donald J. Trump. Some assert is that he is superior to Kamala, or Biden, or Obama, etc. Well, that’s hardly a recommendation. And I’m not convinced that when it all shakes out, but that Trump will not prove to be a greater threat and harm than all those extreme leftists combined.

The greatest threat, however, is not posed by Trump himself, but rather by those self-professed “Christians” and “Southerners” who blindly and unthinkingly follow him and applaud his every action. He is a liberal New York yankee cast in the mold of his tyrannical hero Abraham Lincoln.

I don’t hate my fellow Southerners and Christians who have been deceived and have fallen under his sway; rather I pray for their awakening.

2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2 Timothy 3:1
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

Matthew 24:23-24
Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

I’m not denying that “TDS” is a genuine danger, but it’s not “Trump Derangement Syndrome”; it is rather “Trump Deification Syndrome.”

I cannot come anywhere near to wrapping my head around the position of many other Christian and Southerners who continue to support Trump. Their devotion borders on worship. I have genuine concern for them. There is nothing that he can do that they will not make excuse for.

The man is a dangerous, immature psychopath, but it is his appeal to decent people (Christians and Southerners) that poses a far greater threat than all the blatant Communists and atheists of the left.

Galatians 4:16 
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

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Deo Vindice!

TRUST GOD!

STAY IN THE FIGHT!

NEVER GIVE UP!

NEVER QUIT!

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Christian, Southerner, How Do You Justify Your Continue Support of DJT and the amerikan Empire?

I have never really understood how any Christian or any Southerner could support someone like the lying liberal New York yankee and megalomaniac, Donald J. Trump. The events of recent days have baffled me; as such folks continue their unbridled support for and defense of this psychopathic bully and warmonger.

There was a time when amerika respected the concept of self-determination. Now she invades a sovereign country, kidnaps its elected leader, and maintains her right to govern that country. This is little different from the invasion and ultimate occupation of the South by the imperial yankee government of Ape Lincoln.

America has become something that our early leaders most feared.

Our first President, George Washington, admonished us in his Farewell Address that we should “steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.”

On the other hand, Emperor Trump invades a foreign country, kidnaps its leader, steals its oil, and asserts his intentions to rule that country. Trump envisions himself as Emperor of the World. He exhibits the character and deeds of the one that the Scriptures refer to as the “Anti-Christ”. I ain’t sayin’ he is; and I ain’t sayin’ he ain’t.

In his inaugural address, our second President, Thomas Jefferson, stated that American foreign policy was: “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none.” For Trump the only “peace” is that which results from the conquering and subjugation of others, again paralleling the policy of the Lincoln administration towards our Confederate ancestors.

In his July 4, 1821 speech to the U.S. House of Representatives, Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams, who would himself become an American President, set forth America’s foreign policy under the Monroe Administration:

“She [America] has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings . . . Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. . . . She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence; she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication . . . The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. . . . . She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit. . . . [America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty.”

In 1823, President James Monroe could state that: “In the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken part, nor does it comport with our policy, so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded, or seriously menaced that we resent injuries, or make preparations for our defense.”

amerika once knew how to mind its own business. Not so any longer. amerika now pursues a foreign policy that is precisely the opposite of what was described by these early Presidents. We are now entangled in the affairs of virtually every nation upon the face of the earth. We have indeed become the Dictatress of the World, but we are no longer the ruler of our own spirit.

Several years ago, Ron Paul noted that America has military personnel in 130 nations and some 900 bases overseas. Things have only worsened in recent years. Now, under Trump, we are invading, occupying and running foreign lands.

How did this come about? Ultimately it is but another rotten fruit of the immoral and un-Constitutional war that was made against the Southern States, a war that resulted in one consolidated Nation-State, as opposed to the voluntary union of free and independent states that had been envisioned by America’s founders.

General Robert E. Lee recognized this result of the war and in an 1866 letter to Great Britain’s Lord Acton, when he wrote:

“I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, [is] not only essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. . . . Whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.”

Elevating an overtly self-worshipping, narcissistic, psychopath like Trump to the presidency has only exasperated our predicament. The only sane course is to separate and to go our own way. Perhaps God will see fit to show us the path to make this a reality. In the meantime we ought to simply withdraw our consent. Don’t fly that imperial striped rag. Don’t pledge to it. Don’t serve in its armed forces. Don’t participate in its sham national elections.

How Christians and Southerners continue to be an active part of all of this is just unfathomable to me.

As General Lee wrote in an 1863 order to his troops, when acknowledging President Davis’ call for a day of fasting and prayer:

“Let us humble ourselves before Him. Let us confess our many sins, and beseech Him to give us a higher courage, a purer patriotism, and more determined will; that He will hasten the time when war, with its sorrows and sufferings, shall cease, and that He will give us a name and place among the nations of the earth.”

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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