F is for Florida; F is for freedom

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AND F IS FOR FUCK FAUCI FASCISM

Alachua County, which required people to wear masks at businesses such as grocery stores and restaurants, was one of numerous local governments across Florida to approve mask mandates.

Plaintiff Justin Green, who operates a nursery business, took a lawsuit to the Tallahassee-based appeals court after Alachua County Circuit Judge Donna Keim refused to grant a temporary injunction in May 2020.

"The trial court simply looked at the right asserted by Green too narrowly, relying on the wrong privacy jurisprudence," said the 13-page majority opinion, written by Judge Adam Tanenbaum and joined by Judge Robert Long.

"The right to be let alone by government does exist in Florida, as part of a right of privacy that our Supreme Court has declared to be fundamental. The Supreme Court has construed this fundamental right to be so broad as to include the complete freedom of a person to control his own body. Under this construction, a person reasonably can expect not to be forced by the government to put something on his own face against his will. Florida’s constitutional right to privacy, then, necessarily is implicated by the nature of the county’s mask mandate."

"Because of the nature of the various emergency orders that we have seen and the county’s continued commitment to public mask wearing, we are not convinced that this is the last that we will see of this issue," Tanenbaum wrote in a footnote.

"We remand for a new proceeding that presumes the unconstitutionality of the mask mandate, in the event there still is some mask mandate that remains to be litigated," the opinion said.

"We will follow (and expect trial courts to do the same) what the Supreme Court made quite clear, repeatedly, in that case: The right of privacy is a ‘fundamental’ one, expressly protected by the Florida Constitution, and any law that implicates it ‘is presumptively unconstitutional,’ such that it must be subject to strict scrutiny and justified as the least restrictive means to serve a compelling governmental interest," Tanenbaum wrote.



https://www.fox13news.com/news/appeals-court-sends-alachua-mask-mandate-back-to-lower-court-to-reconsider

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The Florida Department of Revenue has set up a web page for the state’s first “Freedom Week” sales-tax holiday from July 1 through July 7.

The page -- Floridarevenue.com/freedomweek -- is designed to help businesses carry out the tax holiday, which will allow people to avoid paying sales taxes on tickets purchased for such things as live music, athletic contests, in-theater movies, cultural events and entrance to museums and state parks.

Tickets can be purchased during the week for events that occur later in the year, including annual passes.

The holiday will also provide sales-tax exemptions for such outdoor equipment as tents, grills, bicycles, kayaks and fishing gear.

“This sales-tax holiday helps consumers save money while enjoying some well-deserved recreation, whether it’s a trip to the beach, attending a concert or festival, or just spending an afternoon fishing,” Jim Zingale, executive director of the Florida Department of Revenue, said in a prepared statement.

State economists project the holiday period will reduce state and local revenue by $54.7 million.

The discount period is part of a $196.3 million tax package (HB 7061) approved by lawmakers in April and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis on May 21.


floridarevenue.com/freedomweek/Pages/default.aspx

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Florida has become the latest state to ban critical race theory.

The Florida State Board of Education unanimously approved the amendment banning critical race theory.

In a statement posted to Twitter, Governor DeSantis said the amendment protects students from being "indoctrinated to think a certain way," mirroring language used by other states and locales that have made similar moves.
"Critical Race Theory teaches kids to hate our country and to hate each other. It is state-sanctioned racism and has no place in Florida schools," he wrote.


https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/10/us/critical-race-theory-florida-ban-trnd/index.html

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The specific finding of the Florida Supreme Court is as follows: In re: Amendment to Rule Regulating The Florida Bar 6-10, Case No. SC21-284 prohibits The Florida Bar from approving continuing legal education programs that use “quotas based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation in the selection of course faculty or participants.”

To support its position the Florida Supreme Court cited two seminal affirmative action cases; Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003) (5-4 decision) and Regents of University of Cal. v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978) (plurality opinion).

Both of these cases held, among other things, that race-conscious university admissions programs cannot use quota systems. “Quotas based on characteristics like the ones in this policy are antithetical to basic American principles of nondiscrimination,” the Court said.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alangassman/2021/06/11/florida-supreme-court-tells-the-american-bar-association-what-to-do/

[artichoke]

Been genuinely conflicted about whether to retire in Florida or Poland. Both are aggressively pro-freedom. Florida is a tropical paradise, but on a sinking ship (America). Poland is cold as absolute Hell, but has an amazingly defiant, independent, liberty-centered history, fascinating culture, amazing food, drinks, art...and isn't on a sinking ship. It has a daunting language barrier, but no meth heads. That is where I am at in my calculations right now.

[artichoke]

If I end up in the States, it will be in Florida, with a lot of weapons and readiness for dying on the hill that is Florida as the final free place in a country being burned down and violently seized by communist tyrants, traitors, and lunatics.

[Legion]

If I end up in the States, it will be in Florida, with a lot of weapons and readiness for dying on the hill that is Florida as the final free place in a country being burned down and violently seized by communist tyrants, traitors, and lunatics.

You'd be welcomed, I expect.

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Florida has posted a weekly count of new unemployment claims on par with the period just before the coronavirus pandemic caused widespread economic damage.

The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday estimated 5,800 initial jobless claims were filed in Florida during the week that ended June 5, down from a revised count of 8,257 during the week that ended May 29. The department had initially estimated 7,291 claims were filed during the week that ended May 29. Nationally, 376,000 new claims were filed last week, down 9,000 from the prior week.

Florida’s count was its lowest since the week ending March 14, 2020, when the number was 6,463. The state Department of Economic Opportunity marks March 15, 2020 as the start of the pandemic in compiling unemployment claims. The week ending March 21, 2020, saw 74,313 new claims come in.

Before March 15, 2020, the state had been averaging 5,506 new claims a week since the start of 2020. The state’s weekly totals peaked with 506,670 during the week that ended April 18, 2020.






https://news.wfsu.org/state-news/2021-06-11/florida-jobless-claims-fall-to-pre-pandemic-level

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Some states are already doing better economically than they were before Covid, according to the Back-to-Normal Index created by CNN and Moody's Analytics.

Florida is thriving, operating above where their economy was in early March 2020.

Florida's economy is at 101% of its pre-pandemic strength, according to the index.




https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/08/economy/back-to-normal-index-florida-south-dakota/index.html

[Stone]

Been genuinely conflicted about whether to retire in Florida or Poland. Both are aggressively pro-freedom. Florida is a tropical paradise, but on a sinking ship (America). Poland is cold as absolute Hell, but has an amazingly defiant, independent, liberty-centered history, fascinating culture, amazing food, drinks, art...and isn't on a sinking ship. It has a daunting language barrier, but no meth heads. That is where I am at in my calculations right now.

Were thinking of moving our timeline ahead some and then moving there almost fulltime as early as next year. Stay down there 8 months a year and spend the summer up here in the North.

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Were thinking of moving our timeline ahead some and then moving there almost fulltime as early as next year. Stay down there 8 months a year and spend the summer up here in the North.

Will you be allowed to cross the state line by the DEMOCRATS who control the federal government?

[Stone]

Will you be allowed to cross the state line by the DEMOCRATS who control the federal government?

Fuckum.....

[Legion]

Fuckum.....

You must obey.