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Following a public meeting in the Borough of Gilberton, Pennsylvania, in which armed supporters of the infamous Police Chief Mark Kessler blocked members of the community from entering the building, citizens have created a We The People Petition at Whitehouse.gov calling for federal intervention in the town. The petition asks for the National Guard to disarm the suspended police chief and his followers, who call themselves the Constitution Security Force.
Tensions began in the Borough of Gilberton after the local Chief of Police posted online videos of himself firing automatic weapons while calling for violence against Democrats and making veiled threats toward Secretary of State John Kerry. After it was determined that the weapons used in the videos were the property of the Gilbertson Police Force, the Borough Council called a meeting to discuss disciplinary actions for the videos. Kessler posted another video, in which he called on members of the Constitutional Security Force, a band of private militia of which Kessler is the head, to attend the council meeting. Kessler claimed in the video that council members were conspiring to fire him. Brandishing automatic weapons, more than a hundred members of the militia arrived at the meeting, creating a situation that Michael Morril of Keystone Progress described as one of the most frightening he has ever experienced. Morril attended the meeting in order to deliver signatures gathered by more than 20,000 U.S. citizens, calling for Kessler to be fired by the Council. He told the Huffington Post in a follow-up e-mail:
Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/05/we-the-people-petition-calls-for-the-national-guard-to-disarm-pennsylvania-police-chief-kessler/#ixzz2bC0Bx6BM
I don't know about you, but I find this terrifying. This asshat has just taken over, is suppressing dissent, and he's still not being fired. Proof, I suppose, that intimidation works.
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)Tea Party wet dream.........
n2doc
(47,953 posts)and there will be a siege, followed by death. I feel sorry for the good citizens of that town, it must be awful to be taken over by lunatics.
Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)The military will have to get involved eventually. This is serious madness. This guy is dangerously deranged. And he will eventually start the fight himself if he can't provoke the government into doing it.
tom_kelly
(959 posts)IMO he will be cowardly and have his militia do his biddings.
Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)And that's what I meant, - that his end will throw the first punch. I don't think he will actually get out front and lead the charge.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Don't create a media spectacle. Don't make nuts into martyrs.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)meow2u3
(24,761 posts)Philadelphia FBI office:
FBI Philadelphia
8th. Floor
William J. Green Jr. FOB
600 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
http://www.fbi.gov/philadelphia/
(215) 418-4000
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)Noun
The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.
Throw a hood over this guys head and ship him to Gitmo... he isn't any different than any of the other detainees there (except he's actually guilty of terrorism).
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)This threat and his armed followers should be charged and tried under the existing judicial system, and if found guilty, sentenced to serve time in a state prison. The Constitution and its enactment by the people should be exercised in this case. It would aid in reestablishing the rule of law over the extra-judicial concept of Gitmo. Power to the People!
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)While we're at it, we ought to get the cops back on the street with maybe .38 revolvers and take away their combat toys.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)What is that term? Scoastic violence?
Someone help me out here.
Bossy Monkey
(15,863 posts)meow2u3
(24,761 posts)This is terrorism. Period.
world wide wally
(21,742 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Must be quite an interesting town, interesting times.
kracer20
(199 posts)Nice Confederate flag there... If I were a black person that was arrested and charged by this guy and his group, I'd have my lawyer looking into this.
masmdu
(2,536 posts)I feel sorry for this town and any liberal/moderate citizens of the town. They must feel terrorized. This guy and his minions need to be removed NOW!!
tom_kelly
(959 posts)He couldn't have awoke one day and decided to act like this. I mean, he has to have a history that could/should have been looked into. I'm stymied...
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,454 posts)Never thought I would ever see that.
Paladin
(28,256 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Blecht
(3,803 posts)If there was ever a militia that needed to be well regulated, this is it.
meow2u3
(24,761 posts)It's time to bring in the National Guard--our real well-regulated militia mentioned in the 2nd Amendment--to suppress a real terrorist and insurrectionist threat.
Then prosecute Kessler to the fullest extent of the law, so he'll never see the outside of a prison wall as long as he lives.
Kees
(14 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)meow2u3
(24,761 posts)90-percent
(6,829 posts)Only 99,200 more sigs to go!
-90% Jimmy
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Sign, people, sign! It may just help.
need a lot more, c'mon people lets get this nutjob behind bars where he belongs.
popsdenver
(14 posts)Forget about Orswell's 1984.
Read Orswell's primer to 1984 titled ANIMAL FARM.
I read ANIMAL FARM almost fifty years ago (and 1984) as assigned reading in Junior High School. To us, it was sort of a goofy science fiction kind of thing back then. After living and observing these past fifty years, and especially since 2000, I don't think it so funny anymore as you see everything in Animal Farm and a lot of 1984 come true, one step after another. You have to remember that Orswell wrote them in the late 1940's I think!!!!!
If anyone thinks we can dig ourselves out of this mess that has been, and is still being created in the U.S., you are dreaming. I sadly and truly feel that this time the "powers to be" have taken it too far.......
I still hope I am wrong about all this...........
mikeysnot
(4,756 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)mikeysnot
(4,756 posts)what possibly could go wrong?
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)This sounds like something out of a terrifying movie. Only it's all too real.
vduhr
(603 posts)Why is this not being reported on the major networks?
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Why isn't this getting the publicity it needs?
blackspade
(10,056 posts)you are not part of a 'Constitution Security Force'.
You are a pack of armed thugs that should be arrested.
pinto
(106,886 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)It will become the excuse for a shooting war here at home.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)And surgically attach leather mittens over their hands.
"Remove" the trigger-finger, remove the problem.
Mr. David
(535 posts)The Feds could have the armed militia (and highly UNREGULATED thus the reason for the strict interpretation of mine regarding the 2nd Amendment) pissing in their pants within minutes of being surrounded in all areas.
Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)to give those who wish to leave full value for their assets and let the town alone.
bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)They are the sponsors of the Terrorists & Enemies of America Party.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Let us hope nobody gets killed over these crazy gun humpers.
53tammy
(93 posts)Gilberton police chief wounded by own gun during bar incident
Published: August 30, 2011 http://republicanherald.com/news/gilberton-police-chief-wounded-by-own-gun-during-bar-incident-1.1195323
mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)is doing the same thing. Just with a pencil. It is fucked up being under the ignorance of idiots. That is why it won't be long before someone gets seriously hurt. Its only a matter of time.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)before this spreads, and it will unless it is stopped now. I would back the National Guard to come in and defend the citizens of this town against these extremists--they ARE an actual domestic threat. Wow how frightening for these people!!
Triana
(22,666 posts)If the Teabaggers/John Birchers/American Taliban get their way. And they ARE getting their way in state after state.