angelburst29 said:
A relative newcomer to the white nationalist scene, Jason Kessler has made waves in his attempt to unseat Charlottesville’s only black city councilman and for his status as a bridge between a Virginia gubernatorial candidate and the Alt-Right. Relying on familiar tropes of “white genocide” and “demographic displacement,” Kessler has sought to parlay his status as a lonely dissenter in the “Capital of the Resistance” into notoriety on the larger far right circuit by organizing a second white nationalist rally in Charlottesville after the first, torchlit rally in May of 2017 made headlines.
A “journalist, activist and author from Charlottesville, VA,” Kessler’s LinkedIn account states that he graduated of the University of Virginia in 2009. He was virtually unknown in the media prior to his crusade against Charlottesville Vice Mayor and City Councilman Wes Bellamy.
About Jason Kessler
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jason-kessler
The name
"Kessler" struck a cord with me. In the above links, it states,
"A relative newcomer to the white nationalist scene," and
"he was virtually unknown in the media prior to his crusade against Charlottesville." Maybe because
"Jason" Kessler is actually "Mark Kessler" a controversial former Police Chief from a small town in Pennsylvania (2013), who eventually went public - stating that he was an FBI informant? After losing his status as Police Chief, it was last reported (2014) that Mark Kessler was hired on as a rent-a-cop at the Boscov's Dept. Store in Scranton's Steamtown Mall because no one else would hire him.
"Mark" claimed to have a "distaste of the Obama administration" and organized a volunteer group called the Constitutional Security Force, where as "Jason" was reportedly an Obama supporter involved in the Occupy movement as recently as November 2016, before establishing his white supremacist group “Unity & Security for America” in January, 2017.
Mark Kessler, Pennsylvania Police Chief, Says ‘F*** All You Libtards,’ Apologizes With Assault Rife (Video) Jul 25, 2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/24/mark-kessler-pennsylvania_n_3643921.html
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 Borough 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.
In the video above, which contains NSFW language, Kessler goes on the offensive.
“-flick- 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 -flick- what you say, so you can all go -flick- yourselves. Period.”
Kessler goes on to suggest that he wouldn’t take part in an “armed revolt” on Washington, D.C., apparently a reference to a march planned and later canceled by libertarian activist Adam Kokesh, who is now in jail on drug charges. It appears that Kessler and others are planning a different event in D.C. in September, though it’s unclear if they plan on being armed.
In a separate video, Kessler takes aim at Kerry and the Obama administration for their support of a UN arms trade treaty. The agreement, designed to stem the trafficking of illicit weapons to terrorists, warlords, organized crime figures and human rights violators, has emerged as a popular bugbear for gun rights activists who claim that it will be used to confiscate guns domestically.
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.
The displays caught the attention of a number of local residents this week, who have reportedly raised concerns with town officials.
At least one borough councilman has called the videos “unacceptable” for a police chief, according to WFMZ.
But Gilberton Mayor Mary Lou Hannon noted that Kessler’s actions came during his “free time,” and said it would be “terribly inappropriate to comment.”
“As you may already know, the Borough of Gilberton supports the U.S. Constitution, as well as the Pennsylvania Constitution, and therefore has made no law which would impede its employees’ First Amendment rights,” she said in a press release. “Anyone asking the borough to take action against the chief, when he has committed no illegal act, no violation of policy and no misuse of borough time, is asking that we establish an official political view of the borough and impose it upon one or more of our employees, which would obviously be unconstitutional. 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. We will not take action to quash free speech, whether or not each member of council or any member of council agrees with it.”
While there are no plans to reprimand Kessler despite the outcry, Pennsylvania’s Standard Speaker reports that Kessler’s behavior has also emerged as an issue among some candidates for local office. Most have sought to dismiss the controversy.
Kessler meanwhile told the Speaker that the videos are “in support of the Constitution,” and were created as commentary, not a reflection of his work as a law enforcement officer.
Police chief in small Schuylkill County town says he made the video to draw attention to gun rights.
Top cop's profanity-laced video goes viral July 24, 2013
http://articles.mcall.com/2013-07-24/news/mc-gilberton-police-chief-tirade-0723-20130723_1_youtube-video-kessler-gun-rights
In a YouTube video with nearly 20,000 hits, Gilberton police Chief Mark Kessler fires restricted weapons in a profanity-riddled monologue off an old stripping road in this tiny coal region borough.
[...] In the two-minute, 45-second video posted July 15, Kessler doesn't identify himself as police chief. Wearing a black T-shirt and baseball cap, he appears to be apologizing for a previous video in which he used profanities. He disappears from view and comes back with a gun he fires multiple times.
"Yeah, I don't think so. This boy don't roll that way ...," he says on the video. "For all you people out there who cried and cried about, oh, I used profanity, f--- you."
The video shows him leaving the screen and coming back to shoot three different firearms, all the while spewing profanities.
[...] He said he was on private property in the borough where he target-practices.
Kessler said he made the video and other videos to draw attention to efforts to restrict guns. He specifically pointed to public statements that politicians made after the Dec. 14 shooting in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six adults died. He called the shooting "a tragedy" but condemned the person who shot the gun, not the gun.
Kessler, the borough's chief for 14 years and a freshman member of the North Schuylkill School Board, said he used profanity to get attention. He said he's gotten thousands of emails over the last two weeks from supporters across the nation.
The YouTube video, which jumped from 3,280 hits late Monday night to nearly 20,000 after mass media reported it Tuesday, is the latest in Kessler's push for gun rights.
He has made a name for himself among gun advocates, often speaking at pro-gun rallies and conservative radio talk shows. He uses a variety of platforms, posting videos of himself on YouTube and audio recordings on Spreaker.com under the title "The Chief Kessler Show."
His lengthy audio messages touch on a wide range of subjects, including his distaste of the Obama administration, which he called corrupt, vindictive and racist, and how he finds it absurd that people in this country illegally are protected under the Constitution.
Kessler has also organized a volunteer group called the Constitutional Security Force. According to the group's website, Chiefkessler.com, the group does not consider itself a militia but will take up arms to protect against tyranny.
A former Pennsylvania police chief who posted online videos of himself ranting obscenely about liberals and the Second Amendment while shooting automatic weapons secretly fed information on people he considered militia members, anti-government extremists and so-called "sovereign citizens" to the FBI and state police, according to documents he showed to The Associated Press.
Foul-Mouthed Police Chief: I Was An FBI Informant
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Foul-Mouth-Police-Chief-Mark-Kessler-Video-Rants-Snare-Threats-Gilberton-Pennsylvania-286605701.html
The ex-lawman attracted attention last year after posting incendiary videos of himself spraying machine-gun fire and cursing liberals and others. The videos got hundreds of thousands of views online.
Kessler said that individuals advocating insurrection and violence contacted him as a result of the videos, and he saw them as a threat and had a responsibility to report them to federal and state authorities.
He said he's going public now because he wants to reclaim his reputation. Kessler retired from the police department last February in a settlement with borough officials, who intended to fire him after the videos emerged.
The ex-lawman had private Facebook communications that he shared via email with the state and the FBI, according to documents viewed by AP. The agents' names were redacted by Kessler.
[...] Kessler's attorney, Joseph Nahas, said his client reached out to law enforcement about his contacts with radical groups.
Extremists "looked at Mark to be some sort of leader and further their cause of governmental destruction," Nahas said, and Kessler gathered intelligence about "who they were, what their plans were, what their targets were."
Nahas said a state trooper told him this fall that he had been receiving information from Kessler.
Kessler claims his first contact with individuals he termed extremists came nearly two years ago, after he pushed Gilberton's council to adopt a resolution nullifying certain gun laws.
Kessler says he met with an FBI agent and a state trooper and continued to pass on information, but received contact from fewer people as months wore on. That's when he said he ramped up his rhetoric by posting incendiary videos in the summer of 2013.
At the time, Kessler said the videos were designed to draw attention to an out-of-control federal government and the erosion of Second Amendment and other constitutional rights. He now asserts his public persona was an act meant to lure would-be domestic terrorists.
Police chief suspended for rant against ‘Libtards’ and gun control to star in reality show featuring his own MILITIA (Videos)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2567265/Police-chief-suspended-rant-against-Libtards-gun-control-star-reality-featuring-MILITIA.html