07.24.13
Pennsyltucky Insurrectionist & Heevahava
Confederate flag patch wearin’, swearin’, sub-machine gun firin’ Gilberton, Schuylkill County, police chief Mark Kessler, gone famous for the next 48 hours for his major-lapse-in-judgment video.
Gilberton is about half an hour from where I grew up, part of the North Schuylkill school district, where Kessler is a member of the local board.
Kessler uses his police permit to fire restricted sub-machine guns on private property as a personal statement. I’m reasonably sure this will draw attention from the feds, particularly since his personal website, chiefkessler.com, boldly proclaims:
Thus, ALL laws made by Congress, ALL regulations made by the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco (BAFT), are unconstitutional as outside the scope of the powers granted to Congress and to the Executive Branch by our Constitution. Regulation of arms and ammunition is NOT one of the “enumerated powers??? delegated to Congress or the Executive Branch.
Furthermore, all pretended regulations made by the BAFT are also unconstitutional as in violation of Art. I, Sec. 1, U.S. Constitution, which vests ALL legislative powers granted by the Constitution in CONGRESS. Executive agencies have no lawful authority whatsoever to make rules or regulations of general application to The People!
The website appears to be an attempt to recruit for a militia-styled group, the Constitutional Security Force. Ladies, Chief Mark is also looking for models for a “girls of the CSF” calender. Go, dear readers, before it all comes down.
Kessler is also a fan of the Holocaust-denier rock band, Poker Face, out of Allentown. (You can read about Poker Face on this blog, from the archives. I particularly liked the old post — Amusing Fuhrers.)
Chief Kessler is a gift from WhiteManistan, someone custom made for my definition, heevahava, one like many many others, but still an embarrassment of riches for those who follow the American demographic of insurrectionist neo-Confederates bent on patriotically saving the country and Constitution (with a capital “C’) from tyranny.
The white power right horn-of-plenty is all there on his website. Today he’s a star, the burgermeister of Gilberton and the North Schuylkill school board director still not quite grasping what national publicity has done. And the big public relations problem that’s about to fall on them.
From the Morning Call newspaper:
Despite the ensuing media stir and calls to Borough Hall the video generated Tuesday, Mayor Mary Lou Hannon said she saw no reason to discipline Kessler, who said he made the video to draw attention to gun rights. Hannon noted he did it on his own time and violated no laws.
“Each member of council, each employee and each citizen is not only entitled to their own political opinions, but also the right to express them,” she said in a prepared statement. “We will not take action to quash free speech, whether or not each member of council or any member of council agrees with it.”
Charles Hepler, school board president in the North Schuylkill School District, said he had not seen the video. He declined to comment because the board has not had time to review or discuss it.
So, using your photo in police chief’s uniform to recruit members of a Constitutional Security Force while declaring the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, a federal law enforcement agency, unconstitutional is just “drawing attention to gun rights” Mayor Hannon?
[Horselaugh.]
Yes, and the North Schuylkill board of education endorses Civil War 2.
Gone, eventually, even deep inna hart of Pennsyltucky.
And now for a musical interlude, entirely appropriate, given the circumstances.
It took about a week for Kessler’s video to get noticed. Surf out and you’ll see he’s already disabled comments although he has taken time to monetize it with overlay advertising. So hurry, it may not be long until he’s granted exactly what he wants, a visit from the tyrannical government to inquire about the sub-machine guns.
Anon said,
July 25, 2013 at 6:08 pm
Damn.
I never thought I’d see someone use the word “heevahava” on web page.
For those not in the know, I believe “heevahava” is the Pennsylvania Dutch (really, hillbilly German) term for the (un)lucky soul who gets to hold the bull’s scrotum during a castration.
George Smith said,
July 26, 2013 at 8:48 am
Heevahava Overture:
http://www.dickdestiny.com/heevahavaoverture.mp3