Town council members in Gilberton, Pa., voted 6-1 to terminate borough police chief Mark Kessler following a closed-door disciplinary hearing, reported The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News.
Kessler drew national attention and thousands of online viewers after posting pro-gun videos, in which he suggested “libtards” and Secretary of State John Kerry commit a variety of vulgar acts with themselves.
The embattled police chief, who also serves on the North Schuylkill school board, said outside the disciplinary hearing that he had nothing to apologize for, although he admitted that the council’s decision to terminate him wasn’t surprising.
His attorney said council members based their decision to fire Kessler on trumped-up and unrelated allegations, which he said were used to conceal their intention to fire him over the videos.
Kessler, who has been suspended without pay since July 31 after the videos were publicized, has a right to a public hearing on his termination, and he and his attorney said they intended to exercise that.
Gilberton officials declined to comment on the decision to fire Kessler, saying it was a personnel matter, but his attorney dismissed, point-by-point, a list of issues the town had cited as reasons to suspend the police chief.
Kessler was technically suspended over misuse of public property, after the borough claimed he refused to turn over attachments he’d donated to make his weapons fully automatic.
He was also accused of making derogatory statements about borough officials, although his attorney insisted those were in reference to online postings allegedly made by Kessler, and not a video in which the police chief fired his gun at two clown targets he called by two council members’ first names.
I don't think I have ever imagined the term "loose cannon" being more appropriate than it is in this case.
Even if I did not work in the mental health field I could smell this guy's illness from a mile away. I mean identifying his targets as two council members he dislikes and then shooting them full of holes is only ONE of the numerous red flags this guy is waving.
I think the town council had no choice but to kick this rabid animal loose and hopefully he will leave their town and pick a fight in a place where kicking lunatic ass is how they build up hunger for breakfast. I would LOVE to see this little bastard get his ass handed to him.
In my opinion this guy is a ticking time bomb and it is only a matter to time before he goes off and injures, or kills, somebody.
Another potential enraged, unbalanced, male gun-nut ready to be the next serial shooter.
ReplyDeleteHere's an eloquently written piece by the Wasilla wacko addressing the recent mass killings:-
Deletehttp://www.nationalreview.com/article/359114/freedom-destroys-itself-sarah-palin
Gilberton is over a 100 miles from Philadelphia.
ReplyDeletePlease change the headline. Charles Ramsey in Philadelphia could not be more unlike this dangerous clown.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57597710/phila-police-chief-asks-doj-to-probe-officers-use-of-force/
Oops sorry Alisa. I don't know why I typed that.
DeleteIt happens to all of us from time to time. :)
DeleteThis guy “loves" me. No, really. Well maybe not love.Hates me. He Hate Me.
ReplyDeleteIn the Most Epic GOP Smack Down of his Presidency Obama Obliterates House Republicans
ReplyDeletePresident Obama isn’t fighting with House Republicans on the debt ceiling. He is wiping the floor with them. Today in Missouri, the president said, ‘They want to threaten default just to make sure that tens of millions of Americans continue not to have health care.’
Video:
Republicans don’t get it. This isn’t 2009-2010 anymore. People can see the benefits that they are getting from Obamacare. Republicans can’t get away with only telling lies anymore. The president’s whole speech is worth watching because Obama broke down all of the issues in easy to understand terms. The president was able to boil his point down to one important sentence. When Obama said, “They want to threaten default just to make sure that tens of millions of Americans continue not to have health care,” he shifted the discussion away from Obamacare and towards the morality of denying people access to healthcare.
...President Obama is taking the Republicans apart piece by piece on the debt ceiling. Republicans are going to regret ever tying the debt ceiling to defunding Obamacare. Unlike the last debt ceiling fight, this won’t be about debt and numbers. The president can use the ACA to make the argument on human terms. The debate isn’t about debt anymore. It’s about preexisting conditions, kids staying on their parents’ health insurance, and access to healthcare for tens of millions of Americans.
Obama is dominating over both the fiscally responsible argument, and the moral argument. Republicans have nothing to stand on, except their usual Obamacare tantrums. President Obama is routing the Republicans on both the debt ceiling and Obamacare.
The early signs are that this is not going to end well for the Republican Party.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/20/biggest-beat-presidency-obama-humiliates-obliterates-gop.html
Gryphen - Please don't let your tease about "a whole lot more craziness coming our way" on Wednesday about the Palin family. That was posted under the sad picture of the Planned Parenthood facility closing in Anchorage.
ReplyDeleteI'm a huge fan but as time passes I worry that this is one of your well documented teases that flash and fizzle out.
Please put up Man. If not now when?
What in the hell are you talking about?
DeleteThat phrase was used under a picture of come Alaska mountains, and had NOTHING to do with the Palins.
I was referring to a number of crazy stories coming out about the conservatives and GOP and I posted them the next day.
Oh, boy--fasten your seatbelt before you go into the funhouse that passes for Palin's brain:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nationalreview.com/article/359114/freedom-destroys-itself-sarah-palin
She's basically saying that until we restrict expression of the First Amendment, both in terms of speech and religion, we shouldn't think of doing anything to limit anything covered by the Second.
My personal favorite line:
"Guns certainly aren’t any more pervasive now than they were back when the Minutemen were stockpiling weapons at Lexington and Concord."
Not according to this:
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10881&page=57
Here's a sample, Sarah...looks like firearms are only about 3 times more pervasive
In 1950, there were 381.3 firearms (93.5 handguns) per 1000 people in the US. 50 years later, 925.8 firearms (336 handguns)per 1000 people.
Or he will just sit in his jammies and post nasty comments on Yahoo. I agree, he is one scary puppy.
ReplyDeleteI live in Philly, and this came on as "breaking news" along the crawler on the bottom of the screen, then they cut to the story with the you tube video pixellated and bleeped out. The lawyer is almost as creepy looking as the nutcase. A few of his buddies showed up armed "for moral support", of course.
ReplyDeleteIt's a smallish police force, I hope they "borrowed" cops to protect the town's politicians, because we all know the next step is to "Show them" why he needs his gun rights.