© Zach D Roberts / Global Look PressRichard Spencer
Spencer - who takes credit for coining the term 'alt-right' - is due to appear at the university in Gainesville on Thursday. Scott signed an executive order because he believes that the "threat of a potential emergency is imminent."
"We live in a country where everyone has the right to voice their opinion," Scott said in a statement accompanying the seven page executive order. "However, we have zero tolerance for violence and public safety is always our number one priority."
The order notes that prior speeches by Spencer in several US states "have sparked protests and counter-protests resulting in episodes of violence, civil unrest and multiple arrests." It gives state agencies the power to suspend rules and regulations, including preventing purchases, travel and certain personnel actions.
Scott said he has been in "constant contact" with Alachua County Sheriff, Sadie Darnell, who requested the executive order to "ensure that county and local law enforcement have every needed resource. We have zero tolerance for violence and public safety is always our number one priority," the governor added.
Spencer has slammed the order on Twitter, retweeting numerous people criticizing it and saying that it could be used to suppress free speech.
Spencer and a group of torch-wielding white nationalists returned to Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month less than eight weeks after the infamous 'Unite the Right' rally that ended in one person being killed after a car rammed into a crowd of counter-protesters.
The National Policy Institute, the right-wing think tank headed by Spencer, tried to organize an event at the University of Florida on September 12, one month after Charlottesville, however, the request was denied on the basis that it could threaten public safety in Gainesville.
On 9/7/2001, Jeb Bush inexplicably and without public pronouncement issued TWO executive orders - one, (the less threatening and more innocuous "01-261" (9/7/2001 activating National Guard units) is still available in the public laws of Florida. However, the more blatant "01-262" (as I recall) Executive Order 01-262 which effectively declared martial law in Florida and as I recall, was posted
- before anything had happened on that date or
- too soon/too quickly, or similarly -
( it's hard to keep track of all of the 9/11/01 lies , you know and I'll defer to those who've kept timelines, etc.)
Both 9/7/01's get ready for Martial Law and 01-262 (which may have been dated 9/10/01, I forget - was still there last I checked, and could be easily found at this official site. [Link] (Stripped down the address is: edocs. dlis. state. fl. us /fldocs /governor /orders/.) There, you will now see that Florida has somehow deleted that . However, the original location, which it remained at for years now shows a blank where that E.O. should be at the above link; i.e., it jumps from 01-261 to 1-263). (Last time I looked at it - seven? years ago - it was still there, but now it's gone!)
It appears to have gone off to the Bush*t Controlled Memory Hole.
Discussions of it can be found at... [Link] and other places, and I bet a few 9/11 books have preserved it, but this overt rewriting of fact is about as blatant an Orwellian/Nineteen Eighty-Four-esque move that I've yet seen.)
(Note: I am operating to a higher than normal degree of memory, as my online searches re this seem to have been largely memory holed, or maybe not. Thus, I'm not more than 79% certain of this being accurate. I will certainly defer to those better in the know about this, and I'm sure that some 9/11 books must have dealt with this fact back then.)
Scary times for truth and freedom, my friends.
R.C.