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Sheriff's & Oath Keepers at Next Meeting

Are you concerned about the proposed gun control legislation? Have you wondered what your sheriff’s stand will be if laws should ever be passed “requiring” gun confiscation? Join us at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 14th when our guest speakers will be Mike Austell, the Florida State Chapter Leader for Oath Keepers, along with the sheriffs from Columbia, Lafayette and Suwannee Counties. Sheriffs are one of our last lines of defense; it is imperative that we elect men or women who are ready and willing to uphold the oath they took to support and defend the U.S. Constitution. We will have a forum-type event with a question and answer session at the end. Oath Keepers will have a table at our meeting with more information about their organization. You can also learn more about the Oath Keepers organization at http://oathkeepers.org/oath/ . Invite your family and friends to this important meeting!

Gun Raffle - Fundraiser

As our main fund raiser this year, we are going to have another gun raffle. The gun will be a Smith & Wesson M & P 9mm ($600 value) Tickets will be available at the upcoming meeting. They will be $5 each, with the drawing being held at the Branford River Reunion on July 4, 2013. Please plan on taking tickets and selling them to your friends and neighbors. We have several projects we are working on and obviously need money to accomplish them!

American Patriot Newspaper Ready to Distribute!

We are able to print and distribute the American Patriot Newspaper! We will have the most recent edition available at the March 14th meeting. This issue includes articles on sequestration, "gun makers boycott governments", gag order on drones, and other very interesting information. We also have a local insert which includes local articles and information on upcoming meetings.

We need to find stores, restaurants and other places that will let us put the newspaper in their establishments. If you can help with the distribution of this newspaper, please contact Sharon at shiggins@windstream.net; if you would like to submit an article and/or event for the local section, please email it to FlPatriot@gnx.com. We would like to get copies out in Lake City, Branford and eventually Live Oak. This is a great way to reach and inform people in a new way; one of our goals is to educate not only ourselves but others in all of the issues facing us today.

Florida Legislature Begins Session

The Florida Legislature began the 2013 session on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. There are many areas that need to be watched; probably the main one is the Medicaid Expansion/Health Care issue. We just received the below information; please follow through and do what you can to let the Legislators know how you feel about this subject:

From the Tea Party Network:

Action Alert - Medicaid Expansion

If you are keeping up with other issues, please email me with the information so that I can include it in the newsletter!

KrisAnne Hall has new Radio Show

KrisAnne Hall has started a new radio show that broadcasts each weekday morning at 6:00 a.m. It is from Tallahassee but we can access it online at the following link: KrisAnne

What Can You Do?

As you can see from this newsletter, there are so many issues that need our attention and action. What can you do to help get the information out?

1) Attend our meetings; pick up materials on the issues and pass them out to your friends and neighbors. Someone recently told me that he didn't attend meetings to "be entertained"; he attended to see what he could do to help! (thanks Mike). What a great idea! Everyone can do something, please come out and find out what you can do!

2) Keep up with the issues going on in Tallahassee and pass the information on so that our members can act accordingly.

3) Help with the American Patriot Newspaper - with several people helping with this, we will be able to get it out to a good number of people twice a month!

4)Sell tickets for the gun raffle. This will help us be able to work on new projects as well as fund the projects that we are already doing.

5) Attend the local County Commission meetings. This is probably the best way to realize quickly that you can make a difference! The Suwannee County Commission is going to vote on moving their meetings to the evenings in the near future. This will make it easier for "working" people to attend and get involved. Please try to attend these meetings and let them know you are interested in what is going on in local government!

In this issue

Sheriff's & Oath Keepers at Next Meeting
Gun Raffle - Fundraiser
American Patriot Newspaper Ready to Distribute!
Florida Legislature Begins Session
KrisAnne Hall has new Radio Show
What Can You Do?

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What Is The North Central Florida Tea Party?

The North Central Florida Tea Party is a group of citizens who are concerned about where our nation is heading. We are a grassroots, nonpartisan group opposed to wasteful deficit spending and infringement of our natural rights. We do have a well-defined and uniform slate of principles on which we center our advocacy and support for political candidates. These principles include, first and foremost, advocating for Essential Liberty, the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and the promotion of free-enterprise, national defense, and traditional American values. Our goals are to educate ourselves on the issues facing us today, act on what we learn, and motivate other like-minded people to become involved. Find a way to become part of the solution instead of just complaining about the problems! For more information go to: NCF Tea Party; check the website out for information about our group, information on the issues, and contact information. Visit the blog - read the articles and leave your comments. We need your input to make our website a better place to visit! Click below on "Become a Friend" to receive Facebook updates. If you find something in this newsletter that you think should be shared, please pass it on to your friends and relatives. Invite someone to come to the meeting with you! Working together we can bring this country back to its Constitutional roots.

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"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States" (Noah Webster in `An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution', 1787, a pamphlet aimed at swaying Pennsylvania toward ratification, in Paul Ford, ed., Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, at 56(New York, 1888)

"...but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights..." (Alexander Hamilton speaking of standing armies in Federalist 29.)

"Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people" (Tench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788)

"The Constitution shall never be construed....to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms" (Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87)

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike especially when young, how to use them." (Richard Henry Lee, 1788, Initiator of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the first Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights, Walter Bennett, ed., Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican, at 21,22,124 (Univ. of Alabama Press,1975)..)