I support The Dream Defenders but the FDLE ( Florida Dept of Law Enforcement ) commissioner want to make them criminals if they approach the statehouse again.
http://www.tallahassee.com/...
Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey has recommended changes to security at the Florida Capitol that would prohibit future protests like the 31-day occupation of the building earlier this summer.
Among the changes being proposed are ending overnight stays for any reason, limiting the number of people who can enter the Capitol with an authorized employee at authorized access points and prohibiting the preparation or storage of food or drink in the hallways without permits from the Department of Management Services.
“Most of our suggested changes are specific to those who possess Capitol building cards and visitors to the Capitol,” according to emails from Bailey obtained by the Democrat through a public-information request.
We know what this is about don't we? It is really about control and the Tea Party losing that control for a short while.. 31 days to be precise. It is also about registering voters in Florida and I feel the Dream Defenders can rise to the challenge.
The Commisioner Bailey, no character resemblence at all to old George from "It's a Wonderul Life" was appointed to this position by Jeb Bush. It is ridiculous what this man wants and this is a heads up to progressive Floridians to stop him from this ridiculous notion of not allowing people to enter the People of Florida's house unless escorted and then that pretty much stops if this proposal becomes law.
Most of our suggested changes are specific to those who possess Capitol building cards and visitors to the Capitol,” according to emails from Bailey obtained by the Democrat through a public-information request.
Under proposed changes, only four people are allowed to enter with any single authorized employee and must remain with that person. It’s an issue that has not been previously addressed by security procedures, said FDLE Communications Director Gretl Plessinger.
Plessinger added that the proposals are not aimed at specific individuals. Instead, it’s part of a review that began when the protest ended.
Rep. Alan Williams, D-Tallahassee, aided protesters by providing food, sometimes after hours, actions that were allowed under current policy.
Just another old white dude trying to manipulate freedoms. If it had anything to do with safety, we wouldn't have a Governor who plead the 5th 75 times and bought and paid for tea party legislators. I agree we need to keep criminals away... Let's start with those who are in charge and occupying seats in the state capital... Throw em out !!
This is not going to end well. It says volumes about racism and just how hard the law wanted to protect Zimmerman.
http://www.tallahassee.com/...
http://taxteaparty.com/
Where were these laws when in 2009 thousands went and talked Revolution inside and outside the Florida State Capital? There is a lot to be said when Stephen Foster's Way down upon the Suwanee River is the state song....Charlie Crist would not allow the song at his inauguration.
From Wikepedia.. how many Floridians knew this?
Florida got enlightened in 1978; we substituted "brothers" for "darkies." There were subsequent revisions. At Jeb Bush's second inauguration as governor in 2003, a young black woman gave a moving, nondialect rendition of "Old Folks at Home," except "still longing for the old plantation" came out "still longing for my old connection." Perhaps someone confused Stephen Foster's lyrics with a cell phone commercial. [8]
In his 2007 inauguration ceremony, Charlie Crist decided to not include the state song, but rather to use in its place, "The Florida Song,"[9] a composition written by a black Floridian jazz musician, Charles Atkins. Crist then encouraged state Senator Tony Hill, who was the leader of the legislature's Black Caucus, to find a new song.[10] Hill joined forces with state Representative Ed Homan and the Florida Music Educators Association to sponsor a contest for a new state song;[11] on January 11, 2008, the song "Florida (Where the Sawgrass Meets the Sky)" was selected as the winner. The Florida legislature considered the issue and ultimately adopted it as the state anthem while retaining "Old Folks at Home" as the state song, replacing its original lyrics with a bowdlerized version[12] approved by scholars at the Stephen Foster Memorial at the University of Pittsburgh.[13] Governor Crist stated that he was not pleased by the "two songs" decision, but signed the bill, creating a new state anthem and establishing the reworded version of the State Song by state statute,[2] rather than by resolution, like the 1935 decision.
The Tea Party may be unraveling in many parts of the country but in Florida it is still here. Big meetup at an unnamed mega church... Just ridiculous.. by the way the lyrics to The Suwanee River is below.
Lyrics from Wikepedia.....
The Suwannee River in Florida
"Historic Suwannee River" sign with the first line of sheet music from "Old Folks at Home" at Interstate 75's crossing of the Suwannee
"Old Folks at Home", by Stephen Foster,
Way down upon de Swanee Ribber,
Far, far away,
Dere's wha my heart is turning ebber,
Dere's wha de old folks stay.
All up and down de whole creation
Sadly I roam,
Still longing for de old plantation,
And for de old folks at home.
Chorus
All de world am sad and dreary,
Eb-rywhere I roam;
Oh, darkeys, how my heart grows weary,
Far from de old folks at home!
2nd verse
All round de little farm I wandered
When I was young,
Den many happy days I squandered,
Many de songs I sung.
When I was playing wid my brudder
Happy was I;
Oh, take me to my kind old mudder!
Dere let me live and die.
3rd Verse
One little hut among de bushes,
One dat I love
Still sadly to my memory rushes,
No matter where I rove.
When will I see de bees a-humming
All round de comb?
When will I hear de banjo strumming,
Down in my good old home?
I had never really paid attention to the words much to my shame now, but I did work on the Suwanee River in the eighties as a River Boat waitress. The river itself is black. Swamp black. They do memoralize the song in Dixie, Levy Gilchrist counties and the upper northern part of the state., where sundown towns reigned supreme during Jim Crow. Maybe they still do. I am checking on that.
Maybe if I had pulled out a banjo, dressed in black face and sung a few bars of Down upon the Suwanee River I would have gotten better tips from that all white crowd touring the river. Lord knows the white crowd that went on those river cruises hung on to a nickle till the buffalo yelled.
Please support the Dream Defenders and we need to stop this idea of pick and choose who can enter the capital.
The other nonsense is a mega church in Tampa hosted the Tea partyactivists .
I wish we knew which church....It happened a year ago and I would love to go to that so called church and testify now that the president won re election.
We also got news that Scott Brown.. yes that Scott Brown is heading up a Security firm here in Florida. I feel so much safer !!!!!!
Thanks Sara and all for the quilt project for me and I love you guys so much.