Thursday, February 1, 2024

Shame Upon the Southern Man Who Wears the Coat of Blue

There are several excellent renditions of the old post-war song “Wearing of the Gray.”

The song is based upon the old Irish tune “Wearing of the Green.” Which contains the lyrics:

Oh, Paddy dear, did you hear the news that's going 'round?

The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground

Saint Patrick's Day no more to keep, his color can't be seen

For there's a bloody law again' the Wearing of the Green. . . .

She's the most distressful country that ever yet was seen

For they're hanging men and women there for Wearing of the Green.

It should be no surprise that one of my favorite renditions of “Wearing of the Gray” was recorded by the Irish Patriot Derek Warfield.

You can find his lyrics here (with some added comments in parenthesis):
https://www.songlyrics.com/derek-warfield/the-wearing-of-the-gray-lyrics/ 

Some of  his most moving and convicting lyrics are these:

Now honor to the soldier

Who still is firm and true,

And shame upon the Southern man

Who wears the coat of Blue!

I say “convicting”, for I in fact wore a coat of Blue, as I served the evil empire, as an officer of US Marines for eight years. I would never do it again. If I had understood then what I do now, I would never have done it then. I warn all young Christians and all young Southerners against joining the empire’s military.

  • Do you want to be employed against your fellow Southerners when they stand against the oppression of the empire (consider Texas attempting to protect its own borders)? Or consider the coming secession that looms on the horizon?

  • Do you want, as we would sometimes joke, to “travel to distant lands, meet exotic people, and kill them” [or perhaps be justifiably killed by them]?

  • Do you want to be billeted with or led by sodomites and mentally ill self-mutilators (trans-sexuals)?

  • Do you want to be commanded by those who hate your heritage, hate your ancestors, and hate your faith?

I pray that I may be forgiven for having donned that dishonorable coat of blue. Lord knows I did it in ignorance and in misplaced “patriotism.”

I’m 73 years old, but the only uniform I intend to ever wear again will be one of gray!!!

You may listen to Mr. Warfield sing “Wearing of the Gray” at this  link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2GUCZxKAYk

God Bless Dixie! God Bless All Faithful Southern Patriots!

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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Thursday, October 5, 2023

Free Florida First to Be at 34th Annual Peanut Festival

Lord willing, Free Florida First will have a booth at the 34th Annual Central Florida Peanut Festival on Saturday, October 7, 2023. The festival will be held from 9am to 3pm at the Heritage Park in Williston, Florida.


We have had a booth at the Peanut Festival since 2011. It is an opportunity to get ourselves before the public and let folks know that some of us still strive to stand in the old ways and ask for the old paths. We proudly display the banners of our fathers and encourage our fellow Southerners to work with us for a Free, Independent, Godly, Prosperous, and Traditionally Southern Florida. Essentially, we just want to be free from the tyrannical government in DC (the District of Corruption) and be left alone to live our lives as we see fit. [It really makes no difference at all who may happen to be in the yankee "White House".]

Jeremiah 6:16a
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. . . .


Our presence at the festival has not always met with universal approval. Here's my blog from 2019 about an ignorant and biased letter that was written to the local communist rag (The Gainesville Sun) about our participation:


So come on out to the Peanut Festival, visit with us, buy some flags, and then go home and fly them, to show your own commitment to liberty and truth.

Here’s a sample of the 3’ X 5’ flags we offer for sale at the festival for $10 each or three (3) for $25.


It is important for us all to stand up, show our colors and FIGHT FOR 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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Thursday, September 21, 2023

(Mo)Ron, There Ain’t No “Free State of Florida”

Wherever he roams, Ron DeSantis brings greetings from what he calls: “The Free State of Florida.”

 

Please give me a break, Ronnie!!! The government of Florida does not acknowledge God-given rights. Just try to open carry a firearm in Orlando and see what happens. And those Red Flag laws imposed by Florida’s last carpetbagger governor, Rick Scott, are still on the books, without any opposition from Ronnie boy. Yeah, there is no “due process” in Florida.

 

Make no mistake about it; Ron DeSantis is a dyed-in-the-wool unrepentant CARPETBAGGER.

 

According to Wikipedia: “All of DeSantis's great-grandparents immigrated from Southern Italy during the first Italian diaspora [approximately 1880-1920]. His parents and all of his grandparents were born and grew up in Western Pennsylvania and Northeast Ohio.

 

Yes, Ron happened to be born in Jacksonville, Florida, but there is absolutely no evidence that he has any appreciation for Florida’s Southern culture and history. He was educated at Yale and Harvard, and it shows.

 

Admittedly, people may grow, and learn, and change, but Ronnie has NOT – and he’s demonstrated that!

 


Consider now the suppression of free speech and expression in Florida.

 

In May of this year Ronnie signed into law HB 269 and you can rest assured that it will eventually be used to prevent you from displaying the flags of your fathers.

 

In accordance with Ronnie’s new law, a man was arrested for “hanging swastikas and other antisemitic banners along the Daryl Carter Parkway Bridge in Orlando.” [From the FDLE Press Release]:

https://www.fdle.state.fl.us/News/2023/FDLE-Announces-the-Arrest-of-Orlando-neo-Nazi-Demo

 

Understand that I brook no sympathy for the Nazis. They are, after all, SOCIALISTS AND NATIONALISTS!! I advocate for true LIBERTY for everyone. That includes FREE SPEECH!

 

Free Florida First was once associated with a larger “Southern Nationalist” organization which we left “for cause” in 2013, due in large part to their affinity for Nazism and some particular Nazis. If you’re interested you can read more about that here:

https://truthcrushedtoearth.blogspot.com/2017/07/they-held-such-promise-some-thoughts-on.html

 

Nor am I anti-Semite and I’ve written about some of the more perverse ideas of some within our Southern movement on more than one occasion:

https://truthcrushedtoearth.blogspot.com/2017/08/who-is-enemy.html

https://truthcrushedtoearth.blogspot.com/2016/04/grow-up-and-stop-blaming-others.html

 

 

But Ronnie’s new law makes it a crime to display a flag on so-called “PUBLIC PROPERTY”, should the governor happen to disagree with it. Do you think Ronnie reveres our Confederate banners? Can’t you see where this is going?

 

There are already laws against trespass. There are already laws against damaging the property of others. But Mr. DeSantis’ new law will be enforced against specific people, and specific banners on roads, thoroughfares, bridges, etc.. Now don’t hold your breath waiting for this law to be enforced against the LGBTQ sodomites. Don’t hold your breath waiting for this law to be enforced against the racists of BLM. That ain’t gonna’ happen! But you can rest assured that it will soon be enforced against Confederates like you and me.

 

I expect that soon we will be told that it’s a violation of the law to display Confederate flags on your vehicle, at your own home, or upon your own person. After all, someone may not like it. The governor may not like it.

 

For instance, NASCAR is already there:


 

You’ll note that there’s no mention of BLM or LGBTQ flags or imagery.  In fact, they are usually invited and embraced.

 

Note that these people consider the symbols of our culture and our history to be “obscene.”

 

Do not do business with them!!

 

Do not vote for them!

 

RESIST!!!


Live as free Southern Christians!!


Secede in your own heart and mind!


Abjure the Realm!!!


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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Thursday, September 7, 2023

Continue to Educate Yourself and Others While It Is Still Possible

This week’s blog is an update of one I originally posted in 2016.

I felt the need for an update in light of some of my most recent dealings with Fascist Book.

Over the past couple of days I've received several warnings offering me the opportunity to alter my behavior before they ban me -- this seems to be a new thing.  An example appears below:

I guess that I’m not doing very well at Fascist Book reeducation camp, and I always select “Post anyway.”

Then I get another subsequent warning something like this:

I've declined each offer to submit to their tyranny and always selected “Ignore”.

At the very least, it looks like their AI “fact checkers” cannot understand sarcasm!

FYI: Here is my main Facebook account:
https://www.facebook.com/gregscv

In any case, I suppose I will soon be gone. I know not for how long. Perhaps forever. In the interim, you might check out my very close friend, Justin Case. Until they cancel him as well.

 And here is the account for my “very close friend” Justin Case:
https://www.facebook.com/JustinCasegregscv

If I am eventually eradicated from Fascist Book, I will continue my email mailings, though they too are often marked as spam or junk mail.

You will read more about that below in my original post from 2016.

**************************************** ORIGINAL POST FROM 2016 *************************

Mark Twain has been credited with saying: “If you don’t read the newspapers, you are uninformed. If you do read them you are misinformed.”



Until relatively recent times, there were few alternatives to the corporation newspapers, and their successors, the corporation broadcasters.

With the advent of the internet, a plethora of news sources opened up, many of them solid and reliable; and some perhaps not so much. One can, however, become a well-informed and rational thinker by carefully searching through the reliable information that is available on the internet today. I seek to do this daily as I visit a multitude of web sites including, Lew Rockwell, The Ron Paul Institute, World Net Daily, Newsmax, The Rutherford Institute, American Thinker, Breitbart, The New American and many others – and adding in for good measure some reliable and intelligent bloggers, like The Captain’s Journal (Herschel Smith).

I would encourage everyone who reads this to make every effort to educate themselves as well. If you don’t believe that you have the time to visit these sites every day, I would encourage you to at least browse through our weekly paper, Just for Your Consideration. I compile it from information that I consider to be of interest and value gleaned from a multitude of sources.

Some of you already receive the paper as a PDF attachment to my weekly email blog. If you are not subscribed, you can request to be added to our mailings on the Free Florida First web site: 
https://freefloridafirst.org/list.htm 

There is also a direct link to the most recent edition of the paper at the bottom of my weekly blog entries:
https://truthcrushedtoearth.blogspot.com/

These alternative and reliable sources of information are increasingly coming under attack. Virtually all of those mentioned above are being designated as “fake news sites” by the government bureaucracy, the corporate media and those who control the gateways to the internet such as Google and Facebook.

Those who desire to control us are none too pleased that you have sources of information other than their agreed upon and vetted propaganda.

Moves are underway to restrict the free flow of information on the internet by any means possible. The past is being rewritten and the present is being obscured in order to usher in a future that our controllers have planned for us mundanes. It is a future envisioned by George Orwell as a boot stamping on a human face.


Further Orwell noted: “He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.”


You can rest assured that our enemies are doing all they can to control the present . . . and thereby the past and the future.

RESIST . . . EDUCATE YOURSELF . . . EDUCATE OTHERS.

Be the Resistance!

Deo Vindice!

TRUST GOD!

STAY IN THE FIGHT!

NEVER GIVE UP!

NEVER QUIT!


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Thursday, June 1, 2023

Advance the Colors!

Whenever I go out – and I mean anywhere – I’m wearing Confederate attire. I have scores of Confederate T-shirts, about a dozen Confederate ball caps, and a like number of Confederate belt buckles. I’m almost always wearing all three.  Above is an example of a T-shirt that I wore this past week. I also have at least a dozen Confederate neckties and bolos that I wear on Sundays in the pulpit.

Now I realize that this may not be for everyone. Generally I receive positive feedback, and when anyone does make a positive comment, I take the opportunity to share with them a card from Free Florida First, and promote the idea of a Free, Independent, Godly, Prosperous, and Traditionally Southern Florida! (See card below)

[Front of our card]

[Back of our card]

I’m not saying that the response is always positive. Recently, after spending over $600 on a used computer, and then having to bring it back on more than one occasion for some minor fixes, I had a young computer tech (dare I say “punk”) tell me to “get my racist a** out of his store.” Well, it wasn’t really his store, and he refused to refund my money, so I stood there until he made things right. He eventually apologized, but Florida is being filled with all manner of northern carpetbaggers and illegal aliens. I don’t think it’s a great deal different anywhere in the South. In any case, my Florida roots go back to before the American Revolution, and I ain’t goin’ anywhere. The blasted yankees can leave anytime they wish!

Some good folks think they have to “stay off the skyline” for whatever reason. That’s their decision, but I can say this, I worked at the University of Florida for over 20 years, and my office looked like a mini-Confederate museum, and my vehicles look like rolling Confederate billboards. I always fly a Confederate window flag on my truck.

Free Florida First frequently has a booth at local festivals. We promote freedom and we also sell various Confederate flags to cover our booth fees and to encourage folks to fly the colors. We don’t sell any “striped rags”, though folks often ask if we have any “American flags.” I always tell them that all of our flags are “American flags” – after all, it was the Confederate States of America; not the Confederate States of Argentina!

In any case, we recently had a booth at the Newberry Watermelon Festival, an event we have been attending since 2012.


This is the first year we had a perceivable negative response. Several folks walked by muttering and shaking their heads, some taking pictures, obviously unhappy with our presence. One lady came up to the booth and pointed at each of our folks and shouted “loser, loser, loser.” I told her “thank you”, and that only infuriated her more. I expect that we may have some complaints lodged against our presence at the event, but hopefully, given our long tenure, we will be allowed back next year. Here’s what I think, if Dixie’s flags offend you, you should probably stay out of Dixie! 

Still most of the responses we received were positive, as is usually the case. Many folks tell us how glad they are to see us displaying the colors, but few are ever willing to stand with us. 

This last week, I encountered a young man retrieving carts at a local supermarket and he commented on my flags and remarked how they are increasingly under attack. I shared a card with him and as we parted he said: “Be careful.” I remarked: “They better be careful.” [And that’s all I have to say about that!] 

I just want to encourage y’all to do what you can to keep the memory of our forebears alive and to advance their Cause. As our Vice President, Alexander Stephens noted: “The Cause of the South is the Cause of us all.” – Now more than ever. 

I don’t think that this the time for staying off the skyline. Now is the time for rallying others to the Cause and standing for the Truth. 

Press on, press on, men!!

God Bless y’all. God Bless the Sovereign State of Florida. God Bless the occupied Confederate States of America.

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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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Free Florida First will have a booth at the Newberry Watermelon Festival on Saturday, May 20, 2023

This will be the eleventh anniversary of our first participation in the Newberry Watermelon Festival. In the past we have always had a pleasant and productive day. 

Nevertheless, we remain alert to potential conflict in light of the current political atmosphere, particularly given Newberry’s proximity to the socialist enclave of Gainesville (home of the Marxist University of Florida). But thus far we have experienced very little negative feedback. Still, we never know when BLM or Antifa or some other group of communist agitators may discover us -- regardless, we shall soldier on by the Grace of God.  His will be done!

We always sell a significant number of our flags and meet many like-minded folk.

The event is scheduled to be held from 9am-3:30pm at the Country Way Town Square in Newberry, Florida. Why don’t you come out and introduce yourself to us! (NOTE: Admission is free, but there is a parking fee of $5 per vehicle.)

Newberry Watermelon Festival Web Page
(includes interactive map at the bottom of the homepage):
   https://newberrywatermelonfestival.com/

Newberry Watermelon Festival Facebook Page:
   https://www.facebook.com/newberrywatermelonfestival

Every year we set up booths at several area festivals. It is an opportunity to get ourselves before the public and let folks know that some of us still strive to stand in the old ways and ask for the old paths. We proudly display the banners of our fathers and encourage folks to work for a Free, Independent, Godly, Prosperous, and Traditionally Southern Florida.

Jeremiah 6:16a
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. . . .

We believe that it is increasingly important for us to show our devotion to the principles that undergirded the Confederate States of America and to make our presence known in our local community.  We strongly advocate for individual liberty and a minuscule government that is truly by the consent of the governed. Won’t you consider joining with us?

Here’s what our booth will look like (we shouldn't be hard to find):

And here are some of our compatriots who have manned the booth with us:

So, come out to the Watermelon Festival, visit with us, and buy some flags to help support our efforts, and then go home and fly them, to show your own commitment to liberty and truth.

Here’s a sample of the 3’ X 5’ flags we offer for sale at the festival for $10 each or three (3) for $25.

The proceeds from our sales help us to continue our work for liberty and truth.

Stand up and show your colors and STAND AND FIGHT FOR SOUTHERN RIGHTS!

By the Grace of God we will continue to do so!

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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