Metro Task Force Letter

I was emailed the following letter from a group calling itself "Metro Task Force" out of Radner, PA. It is signed by Jim Schneller, the defeated independent tea-party-minded candidate for Congress for the 7th District of Pennsylvania (previously Sestak, won by Meehan).

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Philadelphia Metro Task Force

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January 27, 2011

William H. Ryan Jr.
Acting Attorney General
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
16th Floor Strawberry Square
Harrisburg, PA 17120

Investigative Division
Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission
309 Finance Building PO Box 11470
Harrisburg, PA 17108-1470

Lt. Col. Frank Pawlowski
Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police
Bureau of Criminal Investigations
1800 Elmerton Avenue
Harrisburg, PA 17110-9718

Pennsylvania Senate
Committee on Education
Jeffrey E. Piccola, Chairman
Harrisburg, PA 17106

Pennsylvania Senate
Committee on Local Government
John H. Eichelberger, Chairman
Harrisburg, PA 17106

Pennsylvania Senate
Committee on Public Health & Welfare
Patricia H.Vance, Chairman
Harrisburg, PA 17106

Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Committee on Ethics
Hon. Ron Buxton, Chairman
Harrisburg, PA 17106

Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Committee on Children and Youth
Hon. Dennis M. O'Brien, Chairman, Hon. Louise Williams Bishop, Chairwoman
Harrisburg, PA 17106

Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Committee on Local Government
Hon. Tom C. Creighton, Hon. Robert Freeman, Chairmen
Harrisburg, PA 17106

Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Committee on Education
Hon. Paul I. Clymer, Hon. James R., Roebuck Jr. , Chairmen
Harrisburg, PA 17106

Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Committee on Health
Hon. Matthew E. Baker, Hon. John Myers, Chairmen
Harrisburg, PA 17106

Legislative Budget and Finance Committee
Room 400A Finance Building
613 North Street PO Box 8737
Harrisburg, PA 17105

PA Local Government Commission
Senate Box 203078
Main Capitol Building
Harrisburg, PA 17120-3078

Re: Unlawful Activities Relating to Promotion of Municipal Ordinances

Dear Mr. Attorney General, Commissioners, and All Pertinent Officials and Commissions Including Those Named Above:

We are writing, including on behalf of all Pennsylvania citizens who are informed and moral-minded, who are the great majority, to object to the activities of the Human
Relations Commissioner and all other elected or appointed officials to whom this letter is pertinent, who work in favor of recent unspontaneous activist efforts in many municipalities to pass anti-discrimination ordinances favoring homosexuals and related classes.

We are constituents and southeastern Pennsylvania citizens who have organized, in order to oppose the recently stepped-up efforts of homosexual activism in our local governments, which is being inflicted under the guise of amendments to town and township law creating a special category of homosexual discrimination. We know that this effort, like others wrongly aimed at our hierarchy, are, in reality, an effort to further infuse the any-sex lifestyle as acceptable, to our children and all people, especially young adults. In reality, we, like most people, deeply question the constant unrequested presence of that lifestyle in current day media, schooling, and entertainment. We know that this is contrary to the needs of the majority, is subterranean and subliminal, and is also unconstitutional, at the least when rights of other citizens, or the majority of citizens, become blatantly oppressed or re-molded.

Naturally, the prospect of such ordinances has caused great alarm and shock. To be succinct, we, who have not been objected to in any way up to present other than by activists, object to the core effects and intended implements of the any-sex movement at large, and we also object to the clearly negative effects of such special rights ordinances on our rights in general, from those of business owners, to those working and/or leading in the public sector and schools, to those of the people, like the mother at the parade or the ball game, who wishes her children to not witness the any-sex theatrics. These ordinances are also more severely affecting to those who wish to exercise their rights of religious freedom, that are so well stated in our God-given Constitutions.

In the recently stepped up efforts by this small minority to have such ordinances passed in numerous local governing bodies, Commissioner Stephen A. Glassman, and political representatives including Senator Daylin Leach, have been utilizing their offices and, we believe, taxpayer money, in a direct affront to numerous laws and regulations.

Firstly, even Mr. Glassman, who could claim that his work was solely in furtherance of the intent of the Human Relations Act, is transgressing the intent and the essence of that Act, in misusing our hard-earned income, and the public recognition of him as an official, to act as expert, travelling spokesman, and as governmental proponent in a particular field, despite the fact that this field is not an intended subject of the Human Relations Act. He and all such officials' wishful thinking is being wrongly inflicted, with our tax money, and is disturbingly focused on future generations, all against the will of the great majority of electors and taxpayers. He and others attend local government meetings at public expense, even if they haven't charged for carfare, food, fees and costs, and/or airfare, because they hold their office at taxpayer expense and as public servants, and have sworn an oath to support, obey and defend the law and to discharge the duties of their office with fidelity. Therefore they are in derogation of accepted principles of government regarding decent and unbiased use of office. If they are not utilizing state funds or state time, they are nevertheless using offices that the taxpayer created for them and enabled their possession of.

Equally troubling is the presence of out of state and other private monies pouring into the any-sex cartels' planning, organizing, and indoctrinating efforts, where elected and appointed officials are gaining from these funds, and are performing large swaths of promotion, research, and promulgation, at the behest and in cooperation with the sources and pooled utilizers of these funds. We request immediate investigation by the appropriate agency and commission.

In addition to said violating basic tenets of conflict of interest, ethics, and the duty to not misuse office, we also accuse that the objected-to activities are a direct misuse of taxpayer monies and are a dereliction and cynical transgression of duty. The said elected and appointed servants are, in a greater way than not, working against the State government, and in doing so, are redundantly and counter-productively wasting Commonwealth funds. The Human Relations Act states the classes of citizens worthy of closer scrutiny regarding discrimination, and the any-sex practitioners are not named among them. Mr. Glassman has been quoted as saying that he has personally caused or substantially enabled the 15 special-rights local ordinances now in existence in our Commonwealth. Nowhere does the Human Relations Act nor any law state that elected and appointed officials may utilize state funds for efforts to change laws, nor to work outside of them. And unfortunately, we have in recent months witnessed these officials' multiple statements, put forth as respected leaders, for the reliance of local boards of commissioners, of sweeping unproven claims, falsity, and contradictory statements, extremely unworthy of their office and stature as high level members. Both of the named officials have now admitted that they seek passage of local ordinances in order to foment passage of a statewide act of the Assembly. This is unethical and illegal use of office to foment personally and special-interest driven legislation, in a manner hugely wasteful to dozens of localities, and the Commonwealth, in a scenario of overburdened budgets at both levels, and thus in all the more of a disreputable appearance before the public, in a manner clearly encouraging lack of public trust and lack of faith in government.

Redundancy of effort at taxpayer expense is objected to, and supportive of the wrongs. Misuse of taxpayer funds for bald attempts at publicity and infusion of attitudes is objected to, and supportive of the wrongs These acts go further. For instance, the Human Relations Commission's website unlawfully includes much mention of homosexual and other any-sex groups, averring that these groups are covered by the Commission and/or their activities. Not only is this unlawful, bur it is intended to be propoganda that will sway minds or attitudes towards some legitimacy of the wrongly included groups, in hopes of some future legislation, which is unethical and unintended.

Egregiously, all of this is occurring despite the open and undeniable conflict in these activities with the Religious Freedom Protection Act, which clearly establishes that it is a violation to infringe upon religious rights of conscience by any agency, and including local government. This comprehensive act was passed in 2002 and is clearly a re-affirmation of the religious rights of Pennsylvanians, including the right to exercise conscience in any and all activities. This means that most, if not all, of the ordinances already passed, and also those bills currently under consideration, and the endorsement and testimony from various officials, are in direct conflict with this law, as they are with the constitution.

It has, in fact, been obvious, that efforts in this regard work directly against the religious freedom guaranteed by our state and national constitutions. No exceptions for citizens nor associations who demand to exercise conscience have been written into the ordinances, which at most contain waiver clauses for religious organizations who do not receive government monies. Worse, these efforts work against many basic rights, including those of free speech, free association, right of use of property and person, and religious freedom, in favor of creation of a new category not ever voted upon in a referendum, nor even in the legislature. The avenues for conflicts with basic constitutional rights in these ordinances in fact are disturbingly numerous, and unequal protection appears to also loom in the matter. ( e.g. they contain no qualifying language like that available to employers regarding classes currently protected in the Act, as relates to bona fide occupational qualifications, in 16 Pa. Code §41.71) Haste in promulgation, and an accompanying lack of quality and thoroughness are plainly evident. You are urged to immediately cause an end to this direction of government in our Commonwealth, rather than let resolution depend on some unnecessary, attention-getting, and/or semi-useful litigation deemed likely to appear.

We request therefore, in addition, that the policy of all addressees immediately cause the said officials, and all officials, to follow the intent of the law, especially, to portray for the public, not a visage of extracurricular activists, but leaders who work, with honesty, with the intent of the written law, and for the will of the majority and the majority of their districts. We ask all relevant commissions and committees to address the matter, make reccomendations, act, and implement examination, investigation, and solutions.

We request this also, because all leaders involved, including those attempting to legislate inclusion of any-sex language into the Human RelationsAct, are apparently violating, causing, or aiding and abetting violation of § 5101 of the crimes code entitled Obstructing administration of law or other governmental function. This is because they are intentionally obstructing, impairing, or perverting, the administration of law or other governmental function by breach of official duty and other unlawful acts, or contributing to such, through affirmative interference with governmental functions as intended by law. These leaders are also enabling violation, and/or violating, § 5301 of the crimes code entitled Official oppression, because, while acting "in an official capacity or taking advantage of such actual or purported capacity," they are "den[ying and/or] imped[ing citizens] in the exercise or enjoyment of right[s], privilege[s, and] immunities," and are subjecting citizens to directly-caused " mistreatment, dispossession, assessment, lien or other infringement of personal or property rights," and unconstitutional invasion or seizure. Needless to say varying degrees of conspiracy may be ascertainable in the various efforts afoot in our townships.

We object to the efforts by any and all other officials unbeknownst to us, in this regard, for the very same reasons, where applicable. We request admonition to these officials and findings and directives wherever possible to them, that they refrain from said activities.

We note the requirement for the upholding of the moral welfare of the citizenry, that is present in many Acts governing the livability and conducting of daily life in this Commonwealth. Most, if not all, Pennsylvanians know, that all laws stated favorably herein, and our efforts to live by them, support future economic and societal health, and have nothing to do with dislike or prejudice for any human being.

Sincerely,
James Schneller, co-founder
Philadelphia Metro Task Force

cc: Governor Thomas Corbett, Commissioner Stephen A. Glassman, Senator Daylin Leach, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, Pennsylvania Elected Representatives in the Assembly, Executive Agency Heads

Philadelphia Metro Task Force
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