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Haverford shuts down fire company over Proud Boys controversy
Philly.Com ^ | 09/04/2019 | Katie Park

Posted on 09/04/2019 4:04:41 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

Haverford Township said Wednesday that one of its five companies had been “relieved of duty indefinitely” after officials were told by the volunteer organization that it would not dismiss a volunteer who admitted he had been in the process of joining the Proud Boys, a controversial far-right men’s group. According to the township, the volunteer, whom officials did not name, admitted to the township in mid-August that he had attended “several social gatherings” for the Proud Boys and passed two out of the four steps in the initiation process, which included hazing.

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Totalitarian mindset. Shutdown a volunteer fire company that has been serving the community for 100 years because a member tried to join a non PC group.
1 posted on 09/04/2019 4:04:41 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

Haverford is a bunch of rich Liberal douche bags.


2 posted on 09/04/2019 4:06:52 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Let it burn boys.


3 posted on 09/04/2019 4:09:11 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Kid Shelleen

WTH?!

This is totally a fascist tactic


4 posted on 09/04/2019 4:09:55 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Kid Shelleen

Sad to say, the only way these people will be forced to back down is if civil rights charges are filed against the decision makers, resulting in personal civil liability.


5 posted on 09/04/2019 4:12:45 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: EEGator

USAA.


6 posted on 09/04/2019 4:12:55 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: Albion Wilde
****** PING ********
Philadelphia LibTards have infested the suburbs.
7 posted on 09/04/2019 4:14:19 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Is there a list of leftist groups whose members are not welcome to extinguish their burning homes?


8 posted on 09/04/2019 4:14:42 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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Would it be evil of me to hope that the houses of the people who run Haverford Township, and the Town’s Municipal buildings all burn down due to the unavailability of this volunteer fire crew?


9 posted on 09/04/2019 4:16:24 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Zhang Fei

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

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Of course it says “congress shall...”, but ever since the Civil Rights movement, the First Amendment not only limits what laws congress can make, but what a business or group of people can do. But I guess it only applies now to forcing a company (or volunteer fire department) to hire a gay or transexual or a woman or a muslim.


10 posted on 09/04/2019 4:22:36 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Nothing done to antifa, but the proud boys are the problem though. Attempting to shut down the response, we will not have it


11 posted on 09/04/2019 4:33:34 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Joke. Are they going to find snowflakes as volunteers.

Volunteerism is dead in America if it is not honored. Screw these these pis piper morons


12 posted on 09/04/2019 4:34:20 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: LegendHasIt
The real kicker is that they cited the Southern Poverty Law Center as source for describing the Proud Boys as an extremest group..

In other words a fire company was shutdown and the public welfare endangered because they refused to fire one of its members who was loosely associated with a group the SPLC disliked.
13 posted on 09/04/2019 4:38:04 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Haverford College dominates the area. I know one fellow who went there in the ‘70s-80s. He was an explicit Communist in his high school days. Really big on central control. He wound up in Germany and writes Euro-style papers these days. His younger brother had been a friend of mine, and he was just about as Communist, but is cynical enough to just take a regular job and live a life.

https://www.wzb.eu/en/node/172/subpage/9208


14 posted on 09/04/2019 4:39:53 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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To: 21twelve

How would this town treat an Antifa member?


15 posted on 09/04/2019 4:43:42 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Why are they called globalists? Because they want the whole world!)
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Like their children, because they are their children.


16 posted on 09/04/2019 4:45:44 PM PDT by EEGator
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How would this town treat an Antifa member?

Elect him mayor.

17 posted on 09/04/2019 4:50:45 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

https://www.haverfordtownship.org/egov/apps/staff/directory.egov

Get busy folks.


18 posted on 09/04/2019 5:07:35 PM PDT by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

The same org that also describes the Oathkeepers as a radical right organization. I never thought of keeping the oath I vowed during many enlistments as radical.


19 posted on 09/04/2019 5:10:31 PM PDT by USAF1985 (Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country.)
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To: Zhang Fei
or a few of their houses burn to the ground...
20 posted on 09/04/2019 5:13:55 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
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