America, where being a jerk is the highest form of patriotism
by digby
He is a scary cop with a big mouth, but I will fight to the death for his right to be one. And that’s obviously the ending he prefers:
A police chief in a small town in Pennsylvania is attracting controversy this week after posting a series of YouTube videos attacking people that disagree with his views on gun rights.
Mark Kessler, police chief of Gilberton Burough and a member of the North Schuylkill school board, caught the attention of viewers earlier this month with profanity-laced videos blasting “libtards” and Secretary of State John Kerry for supposedly wanting to take away his guns.
“Fuck all you libtards out there … yous take it in the ass,” he says in the video, posted in mid-July. “I don’t give a fuck what you say, so you can all go fuck yourselves. Period.”
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The initial round of videos apparently made enough of a stir for Kessler to make an apology video, in which he offers a tongue-in-cheek “sorry” for “hurting feelings,” before shooting off a bunch of rounds from an automatic assault rifle:
The videos are just a few in a series that express Kessler’s outspoken and extreme brand of gun rights activism. According to the Morning Call, Kessler has also organized a volunteer group called the Constitutional Security Force. While the group doesn’t consider itself to be a militia, it does vow to take up arms to protect against tyranny
He has a right to say what he wants. But the people of his town also have a right not to have their police chief be a psycho. From the rest of the story it doesn’t appear they’ll get their wish. Because the constitution.
So it’s yet another place where intelligent people, especially those with innocent kids, won’t be spending their time or money. Too bad. It looks like a beautiful area.
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