Posted on 09/05/2019 1:21:52 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
A Pennsylvania fire company was closed by town officials on Wednesday after the company's leadership refused to address that one its volunteer firefighters was affiliated with the extremist group the Proud Boys.
Officials in Haverford Township, in Delaware County, were informed on Aug. 12 that a volunteer with the Bon Air Fire Company was affiliated with "an organization described as an extremist group," the township's manager David Burman wrote in a statement released Thursday.
The township immediately launched an investigation, which included interviewing the volunteer, who admitted he was involved with the Proud Boys, Burman said. The volunteer revealed he had attended social gatherings hosted by the group and had passed two of the group's four initiation steps, "which includes hazing."
Burman's statement quoted the group's "self-proclaimed basic tenet," posted on their website, that they are “Western chauvinists who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.” The proclamation belongs to the Proud Boys, who "are known for anti-Muslim and misogynistic rhetoric," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which designates them as a hate group. Women and transgender men are not allowed in the group.
While the volunteer "indicated that he had attempted to distance himself from the group in recent months" Burman and a police official met with Bon Air Fire Company officials on Aug. 14 to address "the seriousness of this matter and urged the fire company to address it."
Burman said he was informed the next day that the volunteer had offered his resignation, but the Bon Air Fire Company chief had refused to accept it. A week later, Burman said he received an email that said the fire company's board had "found no basis for terminating the volunteer’s membership."
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Hmmmm, and their reaction if one of their members were affiliated with Antifa???
In what way does this action not violate freedom of association?
Well, this might be one way to shove a professional FD down taxpayers’ throats....
These people need to be locked the **** up! The Proud Boys are no different than the Royal Order of Water Buffalo!
It’d be a shame if something caught fire now.
If the SPLC doesn’t like you I’m not gonna say that makes you good, but it sure doesn’t make you bad.
Conversely if the SPLC likes you then you’re probably scum.
And with that. an open invitation to burn-baby-burn was given to the local ANTIFA chapter recognizing that there would be no response from the local volunteer fire department.
The SPLC is a discredited terrorist-supporting organization (Muslims).
I see. Which liberal groups would they let their house burn rather than let them put it out? Or is this just stuff they wrongly associate with the right?
There we go again the word extremist, and yet when the green energy nuts, or the street thugs of the Democrat party called Antifa are written about the word extremist is never used
bfl
It is called PROUD BOYS...women and pretend women not allowed in....Jeesh
“A week later, Burman said he received an email that said the fire company’s board had “found no basis for terminating the volunteer’s membership.”
Good. Now let the homes of these idiot busybodies burn to the ground.
L
They volunteer--they put their lives on the line--and the township still tries to force them to bow down to the gods of the Left.
“In what way does this action not violate freedom of association?”
Does freedom of association not go both ways? You are free to do what you want, but not free of the consequences coming from that?
according to the SPLC, good grief they themselves are a hate group
Since these folks are volunteers does that mean their legal recourse is limited?
If so, for once I can see a need for some federal bigfeet and some civil rights charges brought against the town’s officials.
Don’t get me wrong. If there’s a way to get those local officals on the hook for this, I hope those firefighters avail themselves of it.
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