Entire fire company shuttered because they wouldn't address member's Proud Boys connection

NBC News ^ | Elisha Fieldstadt

[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."

[21twelve]

One of the main leaders of the Proud Boys in the Portland area is a black guy.

[wardaddy]

Anyone ever look who runs SPLC now

Worse than before

If that is possible

[manc]

Really!!!!!!! Guess that takes the race card out of the equation, nah what am I thinking of course the liberals will.

[TADSLOS]

Just more evidence that CWII is here.

[fuzzylogic]

It absolutely does.

If the government thinks they can fire people because somebody doesn’t like the people they hang out with they can think again.

“...described as a hate-group by the SPLC” - I declare the SPLC as a hate group. Why believe them over me? They’re not some official “justice department”. They’re nothing. I get so tired of them being referenced.

[dsc]

“It also says they ban homosexuals, but the Proud Boys website they accept them”

Really? That’s disappointing.

[Kid Shelleen]

**** PING *****

This story is starting to bubble up. Lawyers are being retained as we speak.

[tbw2]

Southern Poverty Law Center Adds Itself To List Of Hate Groups
https://babylonbee.com/news/southern-poverty-law-center-adds-list-hate-groups

[samtheman]

In what way does this action not violate freedom of association?
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But the only reason freedom of association is constitutional is because it’s in the constitution.

[Kid Shelleen]

Send a message to the fire fighters and show your support..

https://bonairfire.com/contact-us/

[faithhopecharity]

and when someone’s home burns down because of this removal of fire protection?

you can bet there are already 500 hungry lawyers on their way to that village, ha!

[kvanbrunt2]

fake news. The guy did two initiations then quit. didn’t like the group. The rest of the firehouse quit when they forced the one guy out.

[mdmathis6]

The Fire company just discovered why the Proud Boys exist and acted as Proud Boys even if they never joined the group or approved of them publicly. They would not knuckle down to injustice!

[mumblypeg]

Ooooh, scary Proud Boys hazing ritual, & other basic facts.

https://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/why-the-proud-boys-initiation-ritual-involves-cereal

https://medium.com/@willsommer/the-fratty-proud-boys-are-the-alt-rights-weirdest-new-phenomenon-7572b31e50f2

[mumblypeg]

Babylon Bee is satire. Babylon Bee is satire. Babylon Bee is satire. etc etc etc

[rockvillem]

So, “official thought and speech”, as opposed to free speech, creeps gradually by “social” means into law. The whole western culture is, by its “official” institutions” committing cultural suicide, which will inevitably be followed in time by political suicide. A key pillar of modern western civilization is free speech, and its corallary - freedom of conscience - and that pillar was initiated into western thought with senitments like those from voltaire, which goes something like: I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it. THAT thinking identifies a wall between government policy and its objectives and your right socially to think, and speak, differently in all your free associations. As that pillar is torn down, the freedoms in western society become no longer free but only as free as long as they agree with official policies. Law in western society deterioriates into a bulwark of government against the individual instead of a bulwark of freedom against the government. The western political class becomes the new dictatorship in all but name.

Very well put. +1

[Patriot Babe]

ROFL

[Forgiven_Sinner]

“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.”

SPLC is a hate group.

[Patriot Babe]

or The International Loyal Order of Friendly Raccoons =) (Honeymooners)

[eyeamok]

I wonder if any of their betters are members of the Pure Racist group NAACP or LaRaza?? Sounds like the makings of a great Lawsuit