FLORIDA: Sarasota County Sheriff’s Deputy Considers “8647” as Free Speech. Really!

8647 is political slang meaning to “get rid of” Donald Trump, the 47th President of the United States.

It breaks down into two common components:

• “86”: American slang originating from the restaurant industry, meaning to discard, cancel, eject, or refuse service to someone or something.

• “47”: Refers to Donald Trump, the 47th U.S. president.

A Sarasota County resident recently noticed the below white Ford pickup parked in a local strip mall.

This concerned citizen immediately called 911. Two Sarasota Couty deputies soon after the call appeared.

The concerned citizen showed them the vehicle that has an Antifa like logo, two 8647 stickers and a sticker reading “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum” which translates as “Do not let the bastards grind you down.”

Here is an Antifa logo with a fist.

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum” gained widespread modern recognition through Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale, where it serves as a secret message of silent resistance and survival carved into a closet wall by a previous handmaid. It is commonly used as a rallying cry or advice when someone is facing persistent hardship, hostility, or unfair treatment from authority figures or critics, reminding them to stay resilient and keep fighting.

The concerned citizen pointed out the truck with its stickers and indicated to one of the deputies that this could be a national security issue in that any 8647 sticker is a direct threat to the President of the United States.

The citizen was told by the Deputy Sheriff that the stickers were merely free speech and that there is nothing that he could do.

Obviously, this concerned citizen became more concerned that a law enforcement officer would just ignore a potential terrorist threat in Sarasota County.

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The citizen asked the Deputy Sheriff to wait until the owner of the truck came out and then speak with him. The Deputy Sheriff said that he would.

The concerned citizen came back out 10 minutes later and the Deputy Sheriff was gone but the white truck was still there.

The concerned citizen then called the local Sarasota FBI office and filed a national security threat complaint. The complaint included the location of the truck, and the license plate number.

The concerned citizen is awaiting a call back from the FBI, if they need more information.

The Bottom Line

Sarasota County Sherrif’s Deputy considers “8647” as simply Free Speech. It also appears that the Sarasota County Sheriff Kurt A. Hoffman has given his Deputies guidance to ignore national security threats to the president of the United States.

Under Brandenburg v. Ohio speech can only be restricted or penalized if it is intended to incite, and likely to cause, “imminent lawless action”.

On July 1, 2026 Governor Ron DeSantis announced the State of Florida’s intent to implement its new statutory authority to identify, designate, and combat terrorist organizations operating in Florida, marking the first use of powers established by HB 1471.

Governor DeSantis stated:

“Last December, I signed an Executive Order to eliminate the influence of radical terrorist ideologies and the organizations that promote them in Florida. This year, I signed legislation to strengthen those protections and give Florida permanent statutory tools to combat terrorism while defending the Constitutional rights of our citizens,” said Governor DeSantis. “Today, we are officially designating terrorist organizations under Florida law. In addition to CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood, we are adding Antifa to the list—along with more than 90 Foreign Terrorist Organizations, including cartels.”

It appears that Sarasota County Sheriff Kurt A. Hoffman, and his deputies, didn’t get the Governor’s Executive Order nor the Executive order from President Donald J. Trump designating Antifa and many others as a “terrorist organizations.”

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