"On one side you have Pittsburgh. On the other side Philadelphia. In the middle, you have Alabama."

No, this is not a deleted scene from "Full Metal Jacket".

This is Mark Kessler, police chief of Gilberton PA and poster-child for micropenis.

Needless to say, the people of Gilberton are generally concerned that their police chief makes a point to publicly flaunt the fact that he thinks with his unfortunately proportioned genitalia in a series of near-incoherent, hostile temper tantrums on YouTube.

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Kessler is the head of a private militia called the Constitution Security Force (CSF) whose members swear an oath to "respond to the call if... needed to resist tyranny that seeks to destroy our republic." Kessler recruits CSF members at his website ChiefKessler.com, combining his personal and professional identities in one neat little package.

Oh boy and his bowling buddies are also far-right thugs. I have no idea how this could go horribly wrong...

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On Wednesday, during a meeting of the Gilberton Borough Council to consider disciplinary actions against Kessler, his supporters answered his call. While a State Police helicopter circle overhead, more than 100 people gathered outside the borough hall, many of them armed. CSF members patrolled the area with AR-15 assault rifles, telling one reporter they were there to provide "security." As John Luciew described it, "When it came time to open the small borough building for the public meeting, these armed men blocked the doors and prevented people from going inside."

They also angrily confronted Michael Morrill of Keystone Progress, who delivered petition signatures from 20,000 Americans who want Kessler fired. In an email Morrill told me, "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."

..... oh.

The irony of a guy living off the governments dollar screaming about how his freedom is being taken away and the evil tyranny of the government while his buddies are bullying everyone around him out of their freedom is pretty beautiful. Seriously, this guy must be great at parties. And by that I mean he's that one uncle at family reunions that just kind of glowers silently at everyone until he gets loosened up with a couple cans of PBR at which point no one can get him to shut up about "cadillac-driving welfare queens" and how his whore of a third wife divorced him and took the kids.

But surely since him and his friends have gone so totally out of their way to demonstrate he gives no fucks about professionalism or the dignity of his position he got canned, right?

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Ultimately, however, the council saw it differently. They decided to only suspend Kessler for 30 days without pay. Immediately after the meeting, Gilberton Mayor Mary Lou Hannon told the media, "I hope he comes back to work for us. I hope it does not leave a bad taste in his mouth."

sauce

This guy's spent way too much time listening to Ann Coulter.

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They also angrily confronted Michael Morrill of Keystone Progress, who delivered petition signatures from 20,000 Americans who want Kessler fired.

Who gives a shit if they're Americans? He's a local police chief, the signatures should only matter if they've come from people living in the area of his jurisdiction.

It's like Yahoo! petitioning McDonald's to fire their CEO.