Foul-mouthed pro-gun Pennsylvania police chief loses his job

[bbernardini]

Source: NBC News

The Pennsylvania police chief who shot off his mouth and a machine gun in profanity-laced pro-gun videos lost his job Thursday night.

The Gilberton Borough Council voted to fire Mark Kessler, who'd already been suspended for posting over-the-top videos in which he ranted about the Second Amendment and liberals while spraying machine gun fire with borough-owned weapons.

Kessler told reporters outside the closed disciplinary hearing Thursday night that "I feel in my heart I'm doing the right thing," NBC Philadelphia reported.

"Yeah, I made some videos with some choice language, but that's my right," he said. "That's my freedom."


Read more: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/19/20579416-foul-mouthed-pro-gun-pennsylvania-police-chief-loses-his-job

[Laurian]

1. Probably not the last we'll hear of this jackass. n/t

[rdharma]

8. That's the first thing I was thinking too. n/t

[la la]

35. he's aiming for bigger and better things!....

he's running as a write in candidate for Schuylkill County sheriff...no, really, he is...check out his fb page...if you can get through all the rwnjs and crazies.... it's chief mark Kessler....and there are too many crazies. he or his 'admin' have been deleting posts they don't like, but it's gotten a little ahead of them tonight! heh heh

[Enthusiast]

37. He might go postal at any moment.

Probably take out a lot of good folks when he does.

[Link Speed]

2. Great. This should prove interesting.

I wonder what his idiot followers will do, now that they have been gelded.

[Scurrilous]

20. What they always do...

...stroke their precious guns while attempting to look menacing.

[Link Speed]

21. Oh, damn, that's hilarious

I think they are standing on the piss-pad of a dog park.

[Enthusiast]

38. That little fucker imagines himself to be a genuine badass.

He's afraid of his shadow.

[sendero]

41. If ever a picture was worth a thousand words..

... that one is. What a creep.

[rug]

3. It looked like the gungeon outside.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/09/the_gun_rights_carnival_surrou.html

[bbernardini]

7. Is that Scott Ian second from the left?

[rug]

9. Lol, according to teitter the real one is in SF for a benefit.

https://twitter.com/Scott_Ian

[Ed Suspicious]

13. NOT!

:anthrax:

[Iliyah]

4. He has a few options

Fake news, Beck, Alex Jones, even Hucklebee (sp) can hire him. There are plently RW outlets that consider them a true trooper.

[bbernardini]

5. I'm always amazed at how well they know the 2nd Amendment, and how poorly they know the others.

Without exception, these fools never realize that freedom of speech does NOT mean freedom from consequences.

[lastlib]

45. except they can't locate the commas in it...........

[Snake Plissken]

6. Yeah, and the taxpayers who pay for your sorry ass, decided to fire you

that's their right,That's their freedom

[sendero]

42. Exactly..

... he is employed at will more than likely and that means "don't give us a reason to fire you". Well, he went and did.

[Lancero]

10. Anyone want to bet that...

He's going to order his militia forces to hold the town until he gets his job back... um, I mean, have a peaceful protest through town, while armed, demanding his reinstatement?

[Jack Rabbit]

14. Well, I was going to post something like that

I suppose he thinks that's his right, too.

No one elected that bastard police chief. He was made police chief by a vote of the borough council, and a vote of the borough council was sufficient to remove him from office.

In the twenties, Mussolini's Black Shirts would maraud their way through Italy, going to city council meetings and demanding that things be done their way and that some elected council members be removed and replaced with someone more to their liking, and presumably Mussolini's liking as well. Is that what Kessler and his armed militia of right wing reprobates have in mind for Gilberton?

[lunasun]

30. I would guess so-same sort of tactics.as facists.. but to serve and protect?

That is a big fat NO when you single out certain groups with intimidating violent videos while pursuing a career of public service
Bye Bye Mark Kessler,

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

11. Randi Rhodes has been ranting about him for months now. I am so glad his ass is fired!

[appleannie1]

12. I hope they bomb proof their homes and make their entire families wear bullet proof vests.

That nut is a ticking time bomb.

[gopiscrap]

15. Excellent for once a fucking cop was called to account!

[Cha]

16. Good grief.. he got fired! This should have been

predictable .. but, you never know! YAY!

Freedumb this, Mark Kessler. Pink Slip!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. "That's my freedom."

You are free to go.

[Recursion]

18. So, just to be clear, the town was neither under siege nor held hostage, right?

I wish DU had a "retractions" forum...

[Hassin Bin Sober]

32. Oh take a pill.

[Ikonoklast]

50. I suppose of you were a liberal, and lived in that town, you just might be living in fear knowing

that the chief of police of your town wanted to shoot you, wanted liberals dead because he disagreed with them politically.


Gun strokers are always the victims, no one else has any rights but them.

[Warpy]

19. Took them long enough

I guess anger management classes were out of the question.

We haven't heard the last from this clown. He's a ticking time bomb.

[xfundy]

22. 3, 2, 1:

What's he gonna shoot up next? "Lie-berrys," union halls, WIC offices, EBT recipients, NAACP offices, Democratic election offices, synagogues, mosques, the list is nearly endless.

This asshole will be on the front pages before too long.

[Marie Marie]

23. My wish: Ex-chief Kessler and George Zimmerman walk off into the sunset,

hand in hand, never to be heard from again. But that is not likely. They will both be back in the news and I pray that the story does not include some innocent victim of a gun "incident" by either.

[WillyT]

24. GOOD !!! - K & R !!!

[BeyondGeography]

25. He was a barrel of laughs with his carbine on

Kept 'em hopping till his ammunition was gone...

[Snotcicles]

26. This quote confirms The Gilberton Borough Council absolutely did the correct thing.

"I feel in my heart I'm doing the right thing,"

[markpkessinger]

28. "It's my right . . ."

"Yeah, I made some videos with some choice language, but that's my right," he said. "That's my freedom."

Yes, it is indeed his right. Just as it is the right of the Gilberton Borough Council to terminate his employment. Why do conservatives never seem to get that?

[OldRedneck]

29. No problem

He'll start his gig on Fox next week.

[adieu]

31. He's first in line

to be a tea party candidate for some congressional seat.

[krispos42]

33. Thank god

This guy was about as professional as a screaming monkey.

[frylock]

34. enjoy your freedom, dumbass

[King_Klonopin]

36. Yup; it's his right to act like an asshole

and Gilberton has a right to fire his crazy ass.

Police are supposed to uphold the law, "protect and serve", yada yada.
They aren't supposed to use their position to intimidate or target people.
His whole act was a way of expressing that he wishes to shoot liberals
because he fears the liberals want to castrate him (i.e. take away his assault penis)

Adios MF.

[JohnnyRingo]

39. I didn't know the taxpayers owned those guns.

So even the local liberals were paying the tab for this guy to intimidate them.

And this dumbass thinks that's his "right".

K&R
Thanx for posting.

[NickB79]

53. And with dept-purchased ammo exceeding $1/shot in some calibers

That fucker was pissing away thousands of dollars of taxpayer money making those videos.

[Tx4obama]

40. He announced Sept 12th that he's running as write-in candidate as Schuylkill County Sheriff

Gilberton police chief, Mark Kessler, running for Schuylkill County sheriff

http://www.wfmz.com/news/Regional-Poconos-Coal/foulmouthed-gilberton-police-chief-mark-kessler-running-for-schuylkill-county-sheriff/-/149546/21903864/-/se0okpz/-/index.html

[LibertyLover]

43. Yes, he certainly does have the right to speak out,

maybe not use town property while doing so, but absent that, ok. However, he does not have the untrammeled right to be free of consequences for speaking out. Sure, you can yell "FIRE!" in a crowded movie theater when there is none, but don't be surprised if you get arrested because 2 little, old ladies, a toddler and a pregnant woman were trampled underfoot because of your actions. And yes, I agree with a poster up-chain: we will be hearing from this jackass (apologies to donkeys and mules everywhere) again. Probably when he decides to run for the state legislature or Congress on the More Guns ticket.

[snooper2]

44. I'll be back, time to post some comments on his YouTube channel

[JohnnyRingo]

54. Link?

I'm registered at YouTube, and wouldn't mind sharing some thoughts.

[snooper2]

55. search for Chief Kessler on youtube

easy peasy

[IronLionZion]

46. Government employee firing government-owned guns and wasting the taxpayers' ammunition

for no reason at all.

Tell his antigovernment supporters that. He didn't own those guns or bullets, the taxpayers did. I doubt he picked up the spent shells either so that's littering which is a $300 fine in PA. He can have freedom from government employment.

[Arkana]

47. Can't wait till he inevitably runs for Governor or some shit.

[Downtown Hound]

48. You didn't get fired because of your "choice language" idiot

You got fired because you're an unstable psychopath who, for all your bullshit overcompensating-for-tiny-penis videos of you bravely shooting at trees, can't handle a gun for shit. If you could, you wouldn't have shot yourself.

Yes, that's right. It seems Mr. tough guy here once shot himself with his own gun while attempting to break up a bar fight. Why he needed a gun to break up a bar fight is, well, I'm not even going to wonder. I already know the answer. But apparently he can't even break up a bar fight, with a gun, without shooting himself.

http://republicanherald.com/news/gilberton-police-chief-wounded-by-own-gun-during-bar-incident-1.1195323

[Tom Ripley]

49. Yes! This song is for you, Mark Kessler...

[olddad56]

51. Fuck that fucking fucker.

[MrNJ]

52. Good riddance

As they say - you have the right to the freedom of speech
But you don't have a right to a public job.