Pennsylvania police chief gets termination notice after anti-liberal rants, firing weapons on video

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(CNN) -- Mark Kessler, the small-town Pennsylvania police chief who posted videos of himself firing automatic weapons while cursing about gun control, has been given a termination notice.

The borough council of Gilberton, population 750, voted 6-1 to fire him at a meeting Thursday night, said council chairman Daniel J. Malloy.

Kessler was suspended July 31 at a council meeting that drew thousands of his supporters, including some openly armed, to the small town in Schuylkill County in eastern Pennsylvania
Police chief's pro-gun video goes viral

He will remain on suspension for 10 days to give him time to appeal, Malloy said. He would not comment further.

"We knew it was coming," Kessler said after the vote, CNN affiliate WFMZ-TV reported.

Kessler's attorney, Joseph Nahas, said he will request a public hearing next week, the affiliate reported.

The council accused Kessler of misusing borough property, neglecting his duties and failing to turn over weapons to the borough, his lawyer said.

But Kessler said the firing is "because of my videos."

In the videos, he rails against liberals for attempting to curb gun rights and Secretary of State John Kerry for supporting an arms treaty. At one point in a video, he dares Kerry to come and take his guns.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/20/us/pennsylvania-police-chief-fired/

He had made videos (published elsewhere here on DU) that said "Fuck all you libtards" and wore a shirt saying "Liberals take it in the ass". This guy should not be owning a gun, much less running a police department.

[Tigress DEM]

1. Ma-ray-tard. nt

Rethuglican Martyr = Ma-ray-tard.

[MichaelKelley]

4. Goog

I think the people from police department should behave in a well-mannered way and this is the right step taken by the higher authorities.

[Tigress DEM]

5. Good point.

His behavior was awful, but he got a real consequence.

[AgingAmerican]

2. About time they fired this weirdo

nt

[Divernan]

3. Chief heads paramilitary group: "The Constitution Security Force"

A town of 750 cannot afford a police force. Pennsylvania has thousands of small towns who rely upon the Pennsylvania state police in lieu of funding equipment and personnel of a police dept. This yahoo police chief actually arrested and strip searched a town councilman. He and a group of his paramilitary followers have been terrorizing the citizens for years. Details in this article:

The Town Of Gilberton, PA Has Been Taken Over By Miltia

With a media blackout no one has heard about this.

If I told you there was this small town where citizens who do not agree with the war lord and his armed, non-government military force live in fear. they are denied the right to go to public meetings to air their complaints and are threatened when they speak out. Most of the town's resident feel threatened, intimidated and terrorized. So is this a small town in Pakistan taken over by the Taliban? No, it's Gilberton, PA a small coal mining town about 45 miles NE of Harrisburg and 35 miles NW of Allentown.

In an article By Eric Dolan, Randy Morris and David Warner of Political Blind Spot .org they write:

Welcome to Gilberton, Pennsylvania, where men with loaded guns, propping up a suspended police chief accuse all other citizens of being “tyrants”. It is a place where men with Swastika tattoos claim the “other people” are the Nazis. What, didn't you hear about this on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, or really anywhere else? Isn't NPR even interested in this story? For whatever the reason, no one is touching this. Perhaps the Federal government fears a stand off and doesn't want this to snowball, or inspire other towns with similar demographics to go the same route. Whatever the reason, this is a true case of media blackout.

Gilberton, Pennsylvania is a small borough which is currently living under the constant threat of terroristic violence. Armed men block the entrance to public meetings. Public officials openly threaten every member of society who holds a different political view than they do, and councilmen are strip searched and arrested without cause if they don’t fall in line with prevailing opinions.

Anyone who tries to fire the Police Chief is be forced to live in fear of retaliation from a militia of armed terrorists. Pennsylvania police chief Mark Kessler is the head of a political organization which refers to itself as “The Constitution Security Force.“ Kessler was recently given a thirty day suspension, for using police property as props in a video where he threatens and insults “libtards,” otherwise known as people who hold political views which differ from his own.

According to the Huffington Post, members of the group ”angrily confronted Michael Morrill of Keystone Progress, who delivered petition signatures from 20,000 Americans who want Kessler fired.” In an email Morrill explained, “I have been organizing for four decades. I have faced Klansmen in Kentucky, Ustase in Bosnia and police indiscriminately beating demonstrators in Italy. [Wednesday] night in Gilberton was more frightening than any of those situations.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/06/1229194/-The-Town-Of-Gilberton-PA-Has-Been-Taken-Over-By-Miltia

[Frankie the Bird]

10. I hope the council called the National Guard to protect him from the unregulated militia

and ban them from ever owning guns again.

They can beat each other with bats for all I care. No guns. Ever again.

[Lee-Lee]

6. Go ahead and purge the whole department

Anybody he hired can't be trusted either.

[gopiscrap]

7. Like I said earlier: for one a fucking cop was held accountable.

[Go Vols]

8. Dude is a fucking nut

[Erose999]

9. Its crazy that he gets so many opportunities to appeal etc. If I were the mayor I'd have shitcanned

his ass ASAP in as public and embarrassing a manner as possible. I'd post it right to his god damn twitter "Hey Chief Dipshit, you're fired effective immediately. Go fuck yourself". None of this passing go or collecting $200 bull shit.

[Ken Burch]

11. And yet another conservative obsessed with talking about "taking it up the ass".

Why are these guys so fixated with anal sex imagery?