Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Republicans tried out what would be called “Cross-check” in Coatesville PA’s 5th Ward on Election Day Nov. 2004. An elderly black woman came out of the polling place saying, “They won’t let me vote.”
The Chester County Republican Committee was a powerhouse in Republican Party politics back in 2004. In 2020 the CCRC is a QAnon/Christofascism group possibly backed by a handful of multimillionaires. I believe most of Chester County’s old Main Line money is now going to Democrats.
I believe the system of using common Black surnames and linking that name to a voter registered by the same name in a different precinct to be named “Cross-Check” was under development.
"CCRC Chair Skip Brion was part of a Commonwealth wide effort to disrupt mostly Democratic voting precincts.
“Early on the General Election Day of 2004 several Republican attorneys from Spring City showed up outside of Coatesville's Fifth Ward (precinct 120). When the polls opened they went inside and I saw an elderly black women coming out of the polls saying, "They won't let me vote."
When the Democratic attorney was inside the polling place everything was peaceful.
When the Democratic attorney took a break, again people were walking out saying they won't let me vote.
The effect of all that Republican muscle in Coatesville's Fifth Ward was stopping long time voters from voting.
I can't understand why they brought in lawyers from Spring City and why CCRC Chairman Skippy Brion was screaming at a Democratic poll watcher inside the polling place in front of voters but I don't have the mind of a Republican.
But I do think that if the Republicans persisted in stopping long time voters from voting there would have been violent incidents at the Fifth Ward."
"In 2004, hundreds of University of Pittsburgh students waited for hours to vote in the presidential election. The local Democratic Party, alarmed at the bottleneck, handed out pizza and water to encourage the students to stay. Pittsburgh Steelers Hall-of-Famer Franco Harris worked the line, armed with a giant bag of Dunkin Donuts, and Liz Berlin of the Pittsburgh band Rusted Root performed on guitar.The stalled line wasn’t because of the high turnout. It was what was happening at the check-in desk.'The attorneys for the Republican Party were challenging the credentials of pretty much every young voter who showed up,' recalls Pat Clark, a Pittsburgh activist and registered Democrat who was working for an election-protection group that day.The GOP attorneys were acting as poll watchers. A common practice in many states, partisan poll watching helps parties get out the vote and keep an eye out for irregularities. But in Pennsylvania, laws governing how observers can challenge voters are unusually broad, and that makes them susceptible to abuse…'Instead of seeing orderly poll watching,' says Wendy Weiser, director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Democracy Program, 'we might see a lot of individuals trying to take on the role of election officials or law enforcement, and crossing the line into intimidation, discrimination and polling place disruption.”MORE AT:
POLITICO
How Hostile Poll-Watchers Could Hand Pennsylvania to Trump
The state’s unique rules make it vulnerable to Election Day mischief. In a tight race, that could help Donald Trump.
By ERICK TRICKEY October 02, 2016
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Friday, October 14, 2016
“How low can they go?” he asked. “I mean, how can they do that?”
I put his question to Robert Fitrakis, a voting-rights attorney who examined our Crosscheck data. I showed him Donald Webster’s listing – and page after page of Ohio voters. Fitrakis says that the Ohio secretary of state’s enthusiasm for Crosscheck fits a pattern: “He doesn’t want to match middle names, because he doesn’t want real matches. They’re targeting people with clearly defined ethnic names that typically vote for the Democratic Party. He wants to win Ohio the only way he knows how – by taking away the rights of citizens to vote.”
Kobach refused to speak for this story. So I went to Newton, Kansas, where he was headlining an ice-cream-social fundraiser in a public park. I approached Kobach with the Crosscheck list he had refused me, and asked, “Why are these lists so secret?”
“They aren’t,” Kobach answered, contradicting what his attorney had told me.
I pointed to a random match on the Crosscheck list and asked him why it identified James Evans Johnson as the same voter as James P. Johnson.
Kobach denied the name could be on the list. “Our system would not yield this match,” he said. (And according to the rules of his program, it shouldn’t have.)
“This is the list you gave [Virginia], and they knocked off 41,000 voters,” I said.
“That is false!” he said, as he hurried away. “You know why? Federal law prohibits that.”
Kobach is correct that federal regulation typically would complicate such a sweeping purge, but somehow tens of thousands of voters in Virginia got knocked off the rolls anyway.
Kobach’s Crosscheck purge machinery was in operation well before Trump arrived on the political scene – and will continue for elections to come. Low voter turnout of any kind traditionally favors the GOP, and this is the party’s long game to keep the rolls free of young people, minorities and the poor. Santiago Juarez of New Mexico, an attorney who has done work for the League of United Latin American Citizens, has spent years signing up Hispanic voters in the face of systemic efforts to suppress their vote. He scoffed at the idea of a massive conspiracy among Latinos to vote in two states. “Hell,” he said, “you can’t get people to vote once, let alone twice.”
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August 24, 2016
The GOP’s Stealth War Against Voters
Will an anti-voter-fraud program designed by one of Trump’s advisers deny tens of thousands their right to vote in November?
Saturday, September 26, 2020
Constitutional Sheriff's & Peace Officer Association Sheriff Carolyn "Bunny" Welsh is gone from Chester County. I think the extremist deputy sheriffs went with her.
It gets much worse. Some of those "50,000 Republican volunteers" could be armed former police and sheriffs:
In 1981, New Jersey Republicans hired county deputy sheriffs and local police outfitted with revolvers, two-way radios and armbands reading, “National Ballot Security Task Force” to patrol majority Black and Latinx precincts in the state. A New Jersey voter who was turned away from a polling place by a task force member sued, resulting in a 1982 consent decree barring the party from intimidating voters of color and deputizing off-duty police as poll watchers.
The 2020 presidential election will be the first in nearly 40 years when the Republican National Committee (RNC) won’t be bound by the terms of the 1982 decree. The RNC already is spending millions on a renewed voter suppression scheme involving thousands of poll observers targeting predominantly Black precincts in Philadelphia, for instance, where the Trump campaign is legally challenging not only the state’s mail-in ballot procedures but also a state statute that places limits on who may serve as a poll watcher.
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Trump’s Federal Police Surge Could Provoke an Election Day Constitutional Crisis
We don't need to worry much about anti-government extremist sheriffs in Chester County Pa now that Sheriff Carolyn "Bunny" Welsh is gone.
"The Oath Keepers, which claims tens of thousands of present and former law enforcement officials and military veterans as members, is one of the largest radical antigovernment groups in the U.S. today. While it claims only to be defending the Constitution, the entire organization is based on a set of baseless conspiracy theories about the federal government working to destroy the liberties of Americans."
OATH KEEPER LIBERTY RIDER MICHAEL MARESCO WITH CHESTER COUNTY SHERIFF CAROLYN WELSH:
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER HATEWATCH VIDEO:
Friday, September 25, 2020
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Chester County PA Voter Services was overwhelmed by applications for poll workers. “Steve Bannon Urges Republicans To Sign Up As Election Officials And Contest Every Mail-In Ballot”
And, must Chester County election workers live in Chester County PA or can they be from anywhere? From what I can tell the answer is anywhere.
From Chester County Voter Services:
"Former White House chief strategist and accused fraudster Steve Bannon told attendees during a Wednesday night livestream held by the Metropolitan Republican Club that they should sign up as election officials to contest every mail-in ballot in November, as he alleged a think tank called the Transition Integrity Project will “steal” the election from President Trump.
Bannon, who faces federal charges of conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering in connection with a campaign to raise private money to build Trump’s long-promised border wall, said that 60 million to 80 million voters will cast mail-in ballots in the presidential election, which means “we need to sit there and contest every ballot,” presumably referring to Republicans."
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Forbes
Steve Bannon Urges Republicans To Sign Up As Election Officials And Contest Every Mail-In Ballot
Lisette Voytko 07:55pm EDT
19,574 views|Sep 23, 2020,
Updated Sep 23, 2020, 08:31pm EDT
FROM Washington Post:
It gets much worse. Some of those "50,000 Republican volunteers" could be armed former police and sheriffs:
In 1981, New Jersey Republicans hired county deputy sheriffs and local police outfitted with revolvers, two-way radios and armbands reading, “National Ballot Security Task Force” to patrol majority Black and Latinx precincts in the state. A New Jersey voter who was turned away from a polling place by a task force member sued, resulting in a 1982 consent decree barring the party from intimidating voters of color and deputizing off-duty police as poll watchers.
The 2020 presidential election will be the first in nearly 40 years when the Republican National Committee (RNC) won’t be bound by the terms of the 1982 decree. The RNC already is spending millions on a renewed voter suppression scheme involving thousands of poll observers targeting predominantly Black precincts in Philadelphia, for instance, where the Trump campaign is legally challenging not only the state’s mail-in ballot procedures but also a state statute that places limits on who may serve as a poll watcher.
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Trump’s Federal Police Surge Could Provoke an Election Day Constitutional Crisis
Putin’s goal is ending democracy. Since Putin is directing Trump & Republicans I was wondering if Russia has the same no-mask policy as the Republican Party. Turns out they do. Once Trump declares himself winner will the masks go back on in Russia?
"As Russian children returned to school this week after a six-month break, there was little sign of masks or physical distancing but plenty of evidence of other measures to try to keep COVID-19 out of the country's classrooms.
"We're so glad that they are back to school in a more traditional format and not how it was in March and April," parent Sergei Yerofeev told CBC News as he waited proudly with his five-year-old son Sasha at the school in Balashikha, a bedroom community about 30 kilometres outside Moscow.
Like many other countries, Russia stopped classroom learning in March as coronavirus cases increased, leaving kids to take their classes long-distance.
CBC News asked to visit the school to survey the COVID-19 precautions brought in by Russia's government and administrators agreed.
The first day of class is known as Den Znanii or "Day of Knowledge" and is meant to be a celebration of education..."
"We're optimistic,' said Yerofeev about having children back together again safely in a school setting. 'I don't feel worried.'
Even though many educators outside Russia are urging children to avoid touching or direct contact with one another, at the Balashikhan School, the new Grade 1 students held hands and walked in through the building's front doors together.
Whereas many Canadian provinces have opted for mask use, smaller groupings in classrooms and maximized physical distancing, Russia has stressed different priorities..."
"President Vladimir Putin kicked off the learning on Tuesday in a teleconference call where he made only a passing reference to the educational challenges posed by COVID-19.
"These restrictions are necessary to protect your health and the health of others around you — your grandparents, parents and everybody at school and at home," said a transcript of Putin's remarks provided by the Kremlin.
He then went on to speak at length about the need to learn about Russian victories in the Second War War, or what Russians refer to as the Great Patriotic War..."
"Controversial vaccine
Russia's government is also counting on its much-hyped coronavirus vaccine — dubbed Sputnik V — to ensure classrooms around the vast country remain open.
The first batch of mass inoculations involving up to 40,000 people will start later this month as part a Phase 3 trial, according to Health Minister Mikhail Murashko, even as immunologists outside the country openly question whether the vaccine will actually work.
So far, it's only been tested on a few dozen patients and the Gamaleya Research Institute, which is developing the vaccine, has yet to publish its findings in-peer reviewed publications..."
"Dmitry Belousov, the director of the Balashikha school, acknowledged some teachers have concerns about the vaccine but he expects most will take the injection in the end. The government insists taking the vaccine is voluntary but some teachers groups aren't convinced of that.
"We conducted a survey of employees — it was an informal conversation and I saw that there are doubts," Belousov told CBC..."
"Parents appeared equally conflicted.
'Well, to be honest of course it's scary, 'said Alexander Ryzhkov, who has a daughter in Grade 7. 'We don't know what kind of vaccine this really is."
More with photos of happy Russian schoolchildren living in Putin's paradise
HERE:
Temperature checks and no masks: School is back in Russia, but classes look much the same
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Community policing, the only effective form of policing, is well established at the City of Coatesville Police Department. We can learn from Brett Parson. "A Conversation w/ LGBTQ Unit Pioneer, Retired DC Police Officer Brett Parson About Police Reform "
"My good friend, retired police officer Brett Parson, pioneered the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department's LGBTQ+ Unit. His work received Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government Innovation in Government Award, complete with a $100,000 grant used to replicate the model in other police departments around the country.
As you all know, I haven't had any guests on "Justice Matters." So I am proud to have Brett as my first guest to talk about his experiences as a police officer for three decades. Brett is the quintessential police officer, understanding that all victims are not the same, all witnesses are not created equal and all suspects are unique individuals whose rights must be scrupulously honored. Brett always policed from a place of empathy, decency and compassion. In short, Brett listened. He made the citizens of DC proud.
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Sir Robert Peel's Policing Principles
In 1829, Sir Robert Peel established the London Metropolitan Police Force. He became known as the “Father of Modern Policing,” and his commissioners established a list of policing principles that remain as crucial and urgent today as they were two centuries ago. They contain three core ideas and nine principles.
9 Policing Principles
- To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.
- To recognize always that the power of the police to fulfill their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behavior, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.
- To recognize always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing cooperation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.
- To recognize always that the extent to which the cooperation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.
- To seek and preserve public favor, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humor, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.
- To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public cooperation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.
- To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
- To recognize always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.
- To recognize always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.
Monday, September 21, 2020
Trump, a criminal & proud of it: Trump & Barr plan a redo of Bush vs Gore.
"Speaking on “Fox & Friends,” Trump on Monday said because of 'fake ballots,' he does not want a 4-4 Supreme Court ruling on the election, should there be one. There is zero evidence of fake ballots.” https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/trump-openly-admits-hes-fast-tracking-scotus-nominee-to-rule-on-fake-ballots-during-contested-election/
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Pittsburgh Federal Judge William Stickman IV used Lochner “among the handful of the very worst decisions by the court” to stop PA Governor Wolf current size limits on indoor and outdoor gatherings
"A federal judge this week struck down as unconstitutional statewide shutdown policies ordered by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) to curb the coronavirus. On its own, that is significant — a judge second-guessing a governor during a public-health emergency — but equally notable is how the court arrived at its conclusion. U.S. District Judge William S. Stickman IV put forth an array of objections to the orders, including they violated residents’ First Amendment rights of association and were not tailored to take account of differences in viral spread in different parts of the state. He also argued the governor was not owed any special deference from the court because he was dealing with an emergency.
But what was most striking — what reveals the radical nature of the opinion — is that Stickman leaned on a discredited 1905 Supreme Court decision, Lochner v. New York, in arguing Pennsylvanians had the due process right to choose how to earn a living, even during a pandemic. Until this week’s case, Lochner had been consigned to the dustbin of history. Lochner specifically held that states could not impose maximum hour restrictions on bakers, because that would infringe the bakers’ freedom to work long hours if they chose. But more broadly, Lochner read a theory of “economic liberty” into the Constitution, thereby blocking all sorts of government regulation of working conditions and wages until the mid- to late 1930s, when judges effectively wrote off the decision and departed from its reasoning.
Today, of course, states and the federal government regulate working conditions and wages extensively — although libertarians occasionally express the desire to revive the Lochner perspective. That a district court judge would cite the decision shows how consequential President Trump’s stacking of the courts has been. The committed ideologues he has appointed — Stickman joined the district court in 2019 — stand in the way of effective public-health policy and will promote the Republican Party’s political agenda for decades to come. This case shows they will do so even if they have to turn back the constitutional clock.
The Pennsylvania case involved challenges to two measures — one that restricted the size of gatherings and one that closed “non-life-sustaining” businesses. The specific orders have expired, but the court reviewed their constitutionality because the orders could “be re-imposed” at any time. The court acknowledged the policies were “well-intended effort[s] to protect Pennsylvanians from the virus” but nonetheless held they violate numerous provisions of the Constitution.
That includes, in the judge’s view, the Due Process Clause. When Lochnerwas decided, “due process” protected workers’ rights to enter into any sort of agreement with employers, no matter how unfair (and regardless of what legislators wished). The judge seemed to be aware that this is no longer the case, writing “the emphasis given to economic substantive due process reached its apex in the Lochner era” before it was “considerably recalibrated and de-emphasized by the New Deal Supreme Court and later jurisprudence.” But still, the judge concluded, “The Supreme Court has never repudiated the recognition that a citizen has the right to work for a living and pursue his or her chosen occupation.”
Really? Not only are maximum-hours and minimum-wage laws now standard (if often flouted), the court has also upheld laws that strictly limit certain occupations and trades: States can prohibit opticians from fashioning new eyeglasses based on an old prescription, for instance, and (in a case that explicitly rejected Lochner) forbid non-lawyers to work as debt adjusters...
That a judge would attempt to revive Lochner is genuinely shocking. In a 2011 article, law professor Jamal Greene identified Lochner as part of the “anticanon” — among the handful of the very worst decisions by the court, one of a set of cases that “all legitimate constitutional decisions must be prepared to refute.” Law professor Richard Primus has summarized its status in this way: “Lochner v. New York is never cited for its legal authority … [I]t is well understood among constitutional lawyers that relying on Lochner would be a pointless, if not a self-destructive, endeavor.”
Apparently Judge William Stickman IV thinks he knows something everyone else does not. His decision is an act of judicial insurgency that we can expect other Trump nominees to the federal bench, of which there are many, to repeat. Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate have confirmed more than 200 federal judges in just four years. By comparison, over eight years, President Barack Obama confirmed 329 judges. Trump has also confirmed almost twice as many jurists as Obama to the influential courts of appeals. The judges Trump has nominated are also young; The average age of a Trump nominee is mid- to late 40s, whereas the average age of an Obama nominee was mid-50s. Stickman is in his early 40s and could serve on the bench for another four decades...
The mention of Roe prompts a question: If Trump’s nominees feel free to reinvigorate Supreme Court decisions that the Supreme Court has said are no longer good law, will they also ignore Supreme Court decisions that the Supreme Court has said are still sound law? If Stickman’s reckless disregard for precedent this week is any guide, the answer may very well be yes.
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The Washington Post
A conservative judge just made it even harder to stop covid
He cited a discredited Supreme Court decision in striking down shutdown orders
By Leah LitmanLeah Litman is an assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School and host of the podcast "Strict Scrutiny," about the Supreme Court.
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Maybe the “arch of the universe bends toward justice” but from 2012 to 2020 it took a sharp right turn to Nazi.
The American turn towards Nazi began in the 1920s.
I was told that a man that I knew was grand dragon of the Chester County KKK. He might have marched in this parade:
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- Ku Klux Klan parade, Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 1926
Much of Hitler’s plan utilized the legal underpinnings of slavery in the United States.
The legal model for Nazi Race Law was the legalized slavery of the United States partly codified by John C. Calhoun.
Black people and by extension all poor & middle class people gaining real political power is a direct threat to capitalism & the .1% wealthy. Police attacks on Black Lives Matter protesters will continue after Trump is out of power.
Thursday, July 30, 2020
"There was no more extravagant site for Third Reich political theater than the spectacular parade grounds, two large stadiums, and congress hall in Nuremberg, a project masterminded by Albert Speer. From 1933 to 1938, he choreographed massive rallies associated with the annual conference of the Nazi Party, assemblies made famous by Leni Riefenstahl’s stunning documentaries of 1933 and 1935, The Victory of Faith and Triumph of the Will. Nuremberg was the setting for the September 1935 “Party Rally of Freedom,” at which a special session of the Reichstag passed, by acclamation, legislation that disqualified Jews as Reich citizens with political rights, forbade them to marry or have sex with persons identified as racial Germans, and prohibited any display by Jews of national colors or the new national flag, a banner with a swastika.
Just eight days after the Reich Citizenship Law, the Law on the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, and the Reich Flag Law were formally proclaimed by Adolf Hitler, 45 Nazi lawyers sailed for New York under the auspices of the Association of National Socialist German Jurists.
The trip was a reward for the lawyers, who had codified the Reich’s race-based legal philosophy. The announced purpose of the visit was to gain “special insight into the workings of American legal and economic life through study and lectures,” and the leader of the group was Ludwig Fischer. As the governor of the Warsaw District half a decade later, he would preside over the brutal order of the ghetto.
Every day brings fresh reminders that liberal and illiberal democracy can entwine uncomfortably, a timely context for James Q. Whitman’s Hitler’s American Model, which examines how the Third Reich found sustenance for its race-based initiatives in American law.
Upon docking, the Germans attended a reception organized by the New York City Bar Association. Everyone in the room would have known about the recent events in Nuremberg, yet the quest by leading Nazi jurists to learn from America’s legal and economic systems was warmly welcomed.
Our American Democracy which spread across the world was burdened since its inception with slavery and the laws establishing holding slaves as a legal right for wealthy aristocrats. Hitler used American slavery as his model for Germany’s 'Reich Citizenship Law, the Law on the Protection of German Blood and German Honor”
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In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in codified racism—the United States.
IRA KATZNELSON
NOVEMBER 2017 ISSUE The Atlantic
Monday, September 7, 2020
Sometimes I forget stuff I wrote about years ago. It might be that Three Percenter extremist terrorists got started 75 miles north of Coatesville PA In Gilberton, PA by Police Chief Mark Mark Kessler
Welcome to the corrupt, dangerous and confused world of extremist right wing Republican Party politics in Pennsylvania.
The extremist right wing, once on the fringes of the Republican Party is now the core of the Pennsylvania Republican Party and the National Republican Party.
January 12, 1991:
Extremist Republican John Birch Society politics often engulfs our courts in piles of frivolous lawsuits.
The City of Coatesville had 32 frivolous lawsuits brought by friends of the Saha Farm costing the city millions in legal defense. I believe those lawsuits were designed by John Birch Society Chapter Leader Patrick Henry Sellers to bring the redevelopment of Coatesville to its knees.
The corruption part:
I think the reason Harry Walker came to Coatesville to be city manager came out of Walker’s previous business in Coatesville with Andrew Lehr and Pat Sellers. The plot was bring a power plant to Coatesville on brownfield land, form a Coatesville Power Authority and spend the rest of their lives living off of that income.
SEE:
The redevelopment of Coatesville is based on Chester County’s Landscapes 21 which is based on the United Nations Agenda 21 outline plan for a sustainable 21st Century.
The first step of the “Bloc of Four” was cutting Coatesville’s Police force in 1/2. Resulting in one officer on duty on each shift. The drug business flourished under the “Bloc of Four.” What I consider to be Coatesville’s deeply racist West End Fire Department (they allegedly have a photo of Zach Walker burning alive at the 1911 lynching.) had an arsonist. He used the lack of police in Coatesville to set fires.
Not only did Zach Walker burn in Coatesville, right wing extremism set our entire town on fire.
In 2006 Chester County Republicans fueled by drug money & old wealth were on a path to extremist politics.
Pennsylvania, Chester County and Coatesville is a hotbed for white supremacy and has been since Jim Crow days. Take it from someone who knew 2 people, who as teenagers were at in the lynching of Zach Walker in Coatesville, one watched the other participated.
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Local Pennsylvania boy rises to the top as an Alt-Right Nazi
Fast forward to 2020, Republicans are right wing terrorists:
Saturday, March 1, 2014
There are John Birch Society fruitcakes that think the United Nations Agenda 21 sustainability plan is a secret plot to impose socialism on the United States by way of the redevelopment plans of planning commissions in small towns.
And then there are assault rifle armed fruitcakes wearing body armor training in the bushes that believe the same thing:
Guess he's unemployable so:
Another fake "reality" show, this one starring Former Gilberton, Pennsylvania Police Chief Mark Kessler in his role as the leader of his personal anti-government militia group:
"3 Percent Boots on the Ground”
“Secretary of State John Kerry, that piece of shit traitor. Who is he to decide what we can and can’t own?” Kessler says in one clip where he argues in support of gun ownership. “And fuck the UN. Who are they to decide what we, the American people, can own?” the disgruntled officer asks.
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Pennsylvanians ask feds to help disarm intimidating small-town militia
Published time: August 06, 2013 20:38
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"The group will train monthly and require members, who are vetted by Kessler, to supply their own fatigues, combat boots and body armour. Mr Kessler, 42, from Pennsylvania, said: 'Basically it's just a group of people who believe in the country, the Constitution, and what our founding fathers enacted.' Despite Kessler gaining Internet fame for his rants against the government and gun control, he said the group does not advocate insurrection. 'My group is not affiliated with that in any way,' he said.
'It has nothing to do with overthrowing the government, as some people would like to believe."
Mark Kessler has set up a group 3 Percent Boots on the Ground
It already has a few thousand members according to the former officer
Mr Kessler gained Internet fame for his rants against the government
However, he said the group does not support insurrections
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By TARA BRADY
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“But nearly four years later, if there were any questions still remaining about what the Oath Keepers really are, an event the group has planned for this weekend should lay them all to rest. Starting on Friday at the Farragut State Park outside Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, the Oath Keepers are hosting the Northwest Patriots and Self Reliance Rally. The lineup of participating allies is revealing.
There will be a workshop on colloidal silver — a substance that many on the radical right believe is a cure for all kinds of ailments that the government has kept secret from the people. In fact, the substance has no known medical use and, if used with the frequency that some radicals do, turns human skin blue.
There will be seminars on Agenda 21, a United Nations sustainability plan that has no legal enforcement mechanisms or requirements, but that the radical right is convinced is a secret plot to impose socialism on the United States.
There will be representatives from the John Birch Society — a primary proponent of the Agenda 21 conspiracy theory, the idea that fluoridation of water is a Communist plot, and the charge that President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a Communist agent. Also scheduled to attend are Sheriff Richard Mack, a long-time darling of the antigovernment “Patriot” movement who has been encouraging county sheriffs to resist federal gun laws, and Chuck Baldwin, a far-right pastor and “constitutionalist” who moved to Montana several years ago to battle the incursions of the federal government.
Also featured will be training sessions on hand-to hand combat, nighttime military patrols, survival firearms, and preparation of “bug-out bags” — all of these an obvious reflection of the radical right’s obsessive fear that the government is about to move against the American people, seizing their guns and ending liberty.
“If you’re concerned about the future of America, if you’ve awakened to the peril facing our American heritage, our Judeo Christian way of life and the very existence of our future as a nation, if you realize the importance of preparing for an uncertain future and striving for a self-sufficient lifestyle, then there will only be one place to be,” a promotional radio advertisement about the rally says…:
"Most recently, Mark Kessler, a self-described Oath Keeper and police chief in tiny Gilberton, Penn., formed a paramilitary militia group called the Constitutional Security Force to fight against proposed gun control legislation. Few knew of it until this week, when Kessler posted a profanity-laced video online that got wide attention. 'Fuck all you lib-tards out there,' a heavily armed Kessler says in the video. 'As a matter of fact, read my shirt,' he says, turning around to show the camera a T-shirt printed with the words, 'Liberals take it in the ass.”
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HATEWATCH – Keeping an eye on the radical right
Oath Keepers Rally Reveals RadicalPolitics of Group
By Ryan Lenz on July 25, 2013 - 3:27 pm,
Posted in Antigovernment, Extremist Propaganda, Patriot Groups
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NBC 10 PHILADELPHIA
Foul-Mouthed Police Chief: I Was An FBI Informant
Published December 22, 2014 • Updated on December 22, 2014 at 5:22 pm
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