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“We’re tired of the U.S. government picking on little Key West.” He vowed to negotiate only with Pres. 1982 CONCH REPUBLIC/KEY WEST, FLORIDA ONE CONCH DOLLAR COMMEMORATIVE ONE OUNCE .999 SILVER ROUND PROOF-LIKE IN A PROTECTIVE AIR-TITE HOLDER "In Good Times and Bad" "We Seceded Where Others Failed" This beautiful silver round commemorates the April 23, 1982 secession of Key West, Florida from the United States. KASSO KEY WEST 1982 VINYL 12" DELIRIUM 916 ELECTRO DISCO FUNK. $5,000. - Key West Conch Republic tee and hoodie. “Since the federal government decided in its infinite wisdom that the old Seven Mile Bridge is not territory of the United States, the Conch Republic is very interested,” he told reporters.The federal government “chose not to defend” the bridge from the Conch invasion. The Border Patrol had unwittingly sown the seeds of rebellion.Wardlow consulted with his city council, business leaders and tourism boosters to discuss the federal agency’s “attack on Key West’s sovereignty.” They decided to seek an injunction from the federal district court in Miami to get the roadblock removed.On April 22, a small group of Conchs — including Wardlow and local attorney and pilot David Paul Horan — flew to Miami. The closure of the fort cost the Keys an estimated $30,000 a day in tourism revenue.After learning that the fort cost only $1,600 a day to operate, city officials and business leaders offered to raise the money to run the park. He declared to news reporters that Key West would secede from the union the next day, April 23rd, 1982. Many of these people were simply escaping the civil wars and economic woes in their own home countries. Wardlow, the newly appointed government and a throng of supporters and media gathered at Clinton Square at noon the next day to officially announce the Keys’ secession.They lowered the Stars and Stripes from the flagpole, and raised the blue and yellow flag of the new Conch Republic. The Army didn’t notify Key West officials about the operation, and the latter took that failure as an assault on their sovereign nation.Island officials contacted Pres. Inexpensive Meals ground troops attempting to enter the island by bridge met a similar fate, when a force of 200 locals blocked their path and refused to let them pass until they formally requested permission.The standoff ended peacefully, and the Army sent a letter later that day stating the exercises “in no way meant to challenge or impugn the sovereignty of the Conch Republic.”Only a few months later, tensions simmered again as a partial shutdown of the federal government led to the closure of Fort Jefferson at Dry Tortugas National Park. She is also equipped with a Perkins engine. The micro-nation had won.The idea of the “Conch Republic” became both a source of local pride and a major means of promoting tourism in the Keys. Check out this Used 1982 Bertram BERTRAM for sale in Key west , FL. Dufour is a long-established boat brand in the marine industry, manufacturing boats that vary in size from 31 feet to 55 feet. He and his associates headed home to prepare.“The first act of rebellion occurred before they had even returned to Key West,” Kerstein wrote.
When Miami’s U.S. District Judge C. Clyde Atkins failed to issue the injunction, he left the citizens of the Keys with little recourse.“Tomorrow at noon the Florida Keys will secede from the Union!” Wardlow announced to reporters gathered on the courthouse steps on his way out of the building. The event boosted tourism in the Key West area, and in Florida as a whole.