Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown
My friends, there is hope. Law enforcement officers at the local level are making their stand and they want you to be a part of that. While I’ve written on various sheriffs that have made their own stance to protect their citizens from anyone attempting to confiscate guns, I recently ran across Police Chief Mark Kessler of the Gilberton Borough Police Department in Pennsylvania. He wants citizens to join with his police department in building a “reserve force” that will aid his police force should the need arise to resist Federal authorities when it comes to the Second Amendment.
I spoke with Chief Kessler and he is most definitely a patriot and a Constitutionalist. The police force is quite small in his town and, much like my own town, criminal activity is not rampant.
The reserve force will be made up of volunteers, they can be past or current police officers with act 120 training, along with non law enforcement personnel interested in joining the reserve force. All non law enforcement personnel won’t have any powers to arrest, but will be required to go through a background check, supply their own duty gear, uniform (military BDU, etc), weapons, ammunition. Everyone will be required to attend a firearms certification course to qualify with both long gun and hand gun at a rate set by the firearm instructor. There will also be hand to hand combat training, knife fighting training, urban combat training, sniper courses, search and rescue etc. The reserve force would only be called upon in the event of a Federal invasion or foreign invasion of the jurisdiction. They would not be called on in ordinary police work nor would they have arrest powers. This reserve force would be distinct from militia, according to Kessler.
From his website:
ALERT! Anyone interested in joining a reserve force with the Gilberton Borough Police Department ,contact Chief Kessler immediately for details! Due to our Country’s current situation I’m compelled to form an auxiliary force, DHS ( Department of Home Land Security ) is stock piling ammunition , Stock Piling Machine guns at a alarming rate! I believe we have no choice for what MAY OR MAY NOT happen shortly!, Ask yourself this one question, can you walk into any sporting good store and purchase 22LR, 9mm, 45ACP , 40 caliber,, 5.56/223 , 7.62×51 or 308 ammunition in quantity’s more then a box or two ? (OR ANY AT ALL) if you answer No, ask yourself why ???? I’ll tell you why because the GOVERNMENT is STOCKPILING BILLIONS of rounds of ammunition! (for what ????) even the police can’t get ammo ! DHS has enough weapons and ammo to wage a 30 year GROUND war, ( BUT ON WHO and WHY ) what is wrong with this picture???, Maybe the tyrants want to take as much ammo off the civilian market AS POSSIBLE! either way it’s very disturbing!
Chief Kessler doesn’t make a lot of money and informed me that even ammunition and weapons he obtains are purchased by him. While the budget of the police force there is enough to provide them a salary, Kessler funnels some of his own money back into the force.
Kessler is a law enforcement officer who is looking to honor his father who honorably served during the Vietnam war. “If not for him, I would not be the man I am today,” he said. He’s also an Oath Keeper.
The Chief is active in his community, apart from being a Police Chief. On January 3, 2013 he drafted a piece of legislation called The 2nd Amendment Preservation Resolution so he could introduce it to local elected officials in Gilberton Borough, Pennsylvania for consideration. The legislation was to reaffirm the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution which reads:
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Along with the Pennsylvania Constitution, which states:
The right of the people to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves or that of a free state shall not be questioned.
“I wanted to draw my line in the sand,” Kessler writes. “I wanted to ask my elected officials to stand with freedom, stand with the oath they took to defend freedom, to stand with so many great Americans that shed their blood or gave the ultimate sacrifice defending.”
His resolution was adopted on January 24, 2013 by the Gilberton Borough Council.
Chief Kessler said, “For those of you who think no one has a right to keep and bear arms I suggest you buy a one-way ticket to the nearest dictatorship country! Cuba is close, the weather is beautiful all year round!”
He rightly identifies the Founders intentions concerning the Second Amendment. “First,” he begins, “our founding fathers learned from their experiences! Coming from a tyrannical dictatorship country that looked down on the people as peasants, often killing thousands, taking property, raping wives/daughters and much more.”
“Our founding fathers came to America to start a new life free from tyranny, oppression and dictatorship, to live free and express freedom without reprisals from Dictators,” he continues. “They drafted the constitution specifically adding the 2nd Amendment to protect themselves from the government, period! The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting or sporting purposes whatsoever.”
Kessler also has a message for the “bleeding heart liberals.”
“If by some chance you didn’t buy your tickets to Cuba, let me state ‘I will never disarm. I will never give up my high capacity magazines, firearm accessories or ammunition. I will never give up my freedoms. I will never retreat. I’m proud to be an American. I’m proud to serve my country. I’m proud of our military personnel that sides with freedom!’ Just because a Mentally ill person commits a horrific crime dose not mean I lose my rights.”
Chief Kessler says that he will stand on the side of freedom, rather than siding with “tyrannical thugs.”
He also has a word for those “law enforcement personnel standing on ‘Bozo’s’ stage, who are condemning firearm owners: “You disgust me.”
Chief Kessler also has several videos of his on his site.
Hmmm..sounds good.
But….after years of abuse,..false arrests,..beatings,..tazerings and harrasement,..these guys now are suddenly good? and need our help?
Start by arresting crooked and corrupt politicians at your local area….refuse GOVT/DHS money……give back that military equipment…disband the SWAT team…..prove to the people who’s side you really belong to then ask for help.
In the meantime F O !
I wouldn’t be too hard on him yet, oldvet. There may be no one within his jurisdiction that he can arrest, and I wouldn’t want to discourage other LEOs from following his lead.
And I don’t know that he’s personally guilty of “years of abuse,..false arrests,..beatings,..tazerings and harrasement”
Some people only became cops because they needed a job, and when TSHTF, I expect that many of them will be on our side.
True…..it was at best a blanket statement in generality…….and yes HE may not be guilty of those things personally. But my point that wasnt plain enough,..is that LEO’s have a very very low credibility issue…….words are cheap…..but actions speak volumes….
ya know?
This guy is apparently an Oathkeeper – which makes a difference. He understands, and a has reconfirmed his role as protector of the people – so is unlikely ro be one of the powertripping psychos you allude to.
You are going to need such LEOs on your side – to comabat the other sort when the s**t goes down.
What we see here is a very primitive and tentative recognition of the need for “the Militia of the several States” to be revitalized. It appears in a confused and possibly dangerous form, however, because under no circumstances should the people be enlisted as “reserves” for the police. Rather, when the Militia are properly revitalized the police and other “law-enforcement” and “emergency-response” units will be subsumed within the Militia. The police will then come under the direct control of the people themselves (who constitute the Militia), as befits popular sovereignty, rather than the people coming under the control of the police, which in practice inevitably entails something akin to a police state. The police, after all, are merely contigent forces with no constitutional status of their own; whereas the Militia of the several States are permanent components of the federal system, with a constitutional status no less than that of Congress, the President, the Supreme Court, and the States themselves.
I would come closer to agreeing with you than any other fellow I’ve heard preach organized state militia, however, you said, “the Militia of the several States are permanent components of the federal system, with a constitutional status no less than that of Congress, the President, the Supreme Court, and the States themselves.”
The fact is we the people are superior and above the government as they are our possession as they have in reality indentured themselves to our will when they raised their hand and swore to uphold and defend our Constitutional dictate.
And always, even as militia, we must stay individuals to make sure each and every one of us is pacified before we declare peace.
So the same police that have spent the last 50 years running underage prostitution rings, distributing illegal narcotics, pilfering countless billions through asset forfeiture laws, raping our women and children, and generally pillaging our persons, property, and freedoms for the last 50 years…have suddenly decided they want to join us? With friends like this…well, anyhow.
I think General Patton had it right when he said “I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.”