ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY

The Easter Bunny must have known I was a "good girl", and gave me this juicy letter with my Easter Basket.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely…and now, for the facts. The Bensalem fire service has been asking for copies of the SAFER grant for years. Here is some of the background. Bensalem Township applied for the SAFER grant in 2008. In September 2009, Bensalem Township was awarded the SAFER grant to hire 4 firefighters. When the fire service repeatedly asked for the operating procedures for the new paid firefighters, Fred Harran and the Fire Marshal's Office ignored the requests for information. In 2010, the Chief and President of each fire company were called to a meeting with Fred Harran, the Fire Marshal's Office and Mayor DiGirolamo. When the representatives of the fire companies asked what the meeting was about, Fred Harran would not tell them. Prior to this meeting, several of the current Bensalem Township Council members gave their word that the new paid crew would not involve funds being taken from the volunteer fire companies. At the meeting, Fred Harran announced that the Township would be taking $24,500.00 from each fire company to help pay for the paid firefighters. When several of the fire companies voiced concerns about the $24,500.00 not being enough to pay for the new paid Fire Company when the grant expired, Fred Harran refused to provide a funding plan. Simple math shows when you multiply $24,500. By 6 you get; $147,000.00. The salaries alone for the 4 paid firefighters equals: $160,000.00 without benefits and a pay increase! Needless to say, we don't trust Fred Harran or the councilmen who gave us their word they would not take funds from the volunteer fire companies. Now Fred Harran is using the police department to harass members of a fire company that questioned the way the paid fire company is being funded! When the fire companies raised concerns about the location and construction of the training center, Fred Harran ignored the questions. Now, because of the failure to address the concerns, we have a $5,000,000.00 facility without a sprinkler system and without the ability of providing live class A fire training to our members! They laid off the Township Fire Marshal and now rely on the Newtown Township Fire Marshal to investigate fires in Bensalem. His vehicle was clearly visible at the fire in Hidden Valley where two Township firefighters were injured. If we would have laid off from the bottom instead of the top, we would still have a qualified fire investigator. We wonder if Newtown Township is aware that they are supplying a vehicle and investigator to Bensalem Township. Or is this another backdoor attempt to move this person into the Township Fire Marshal's office? Fred Harran has admitted to the township fire service on several occasions that he knows little to nothing about the fire service. We believe you Fred, there is no reason to keep proving it to us. Fred Harran with the help of several people within the Fire Marshal's office have eliminated the Township Fire Marshal, spent millions on a training center that does not meet our training needs and continues to damage the fire service in Bensalem Township. Very soon, we will be forwarding to you a breakdown of the SAFER grant that points out the false and misleading information that was included in the Bensalem SAFER grant application. The appropriate Federal Agencies will also be supplied with the correct information. MORE TO FOLLOW

I think what I find so interesting, is that Harran is "playing with fire", when it comes to this matter. The Bible clearly states that when it comes to sin, it "finds you out" in the end, and that's just what it is doing to Freddie boy. Apparently, Freddie boy is also starting to lose it, with the threatening and harassing of members within a fire department. His sin is being exposed, and he can't handle it, so he is doing this to try to protect himself. Trust me Harran, you're a lousy and dishonest investigator, public safety director, and human being, whom God will judge. One of these days, you'll get arrested and fired from your job, and when it happens, it won't be pretty. However, there will be LOTS of rejoicing.

NEXT STOP, THE FEDS!!!!