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Montana Town Occupied By Private Paramilitary, Security Force - Call themselves APF!

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Posted: Sep 30 2009, 09:12 PM

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http://www.prisonplanet.com/montana-town-o...rity-force.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articl...qdQz6QD9AM0VM80
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?to...94.320#lastPost

APF In Hardin, Montana town: VIDEO
http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/61320122.html
http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/61320122.html?video=YHI&t=a

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American Police Force officials showed up in Mercedes SUV's that had "Hardin Police" stenciled on the vehicles. The twist, the city of Hardin doesn't have a police department.

Where is Hardin, MT?
http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Hardin&state=MT#

Local Newspaper: Billings Gazette:
http://billingsgazette.com/

American Police Force Website:
http://www.americanpolicegroup.com/america...orce_about.html

APF Logo below:

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jofortruth	Posted: Sep 30 2009, 10:46 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 31,492 Member No.: 1 Joined: 1-May 07	APF Leader Exposed As Career Criminal As Hardin Patrols Labeled Unconstitutional http://www.prisonplanet.com/apf-leader-exp...titutional.html Is this the Wild West or what? Can these little boyz please grow up????????? http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=137594.0 http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?to...28439#msg828439 This goon is a felon, and obviously a front man for who is really behind this operation in Hardin, MT. These people have gone into a town economically depressed and bribed, paid off, bought people to go along with this, and they have also sued the Governor and others in the State of Montana. Attached Image (Click thumbnail to expand)

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Gallatin Co. won't use Hardin jail. (MUST SEE DOCS)
http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/....asp?S=7481351#

If you print this out, then go to page 6, the Hardin City Attorney, Becky Convery said the following:

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"This project was brought to us by the State Dept of Commerce and we worked hard to make it a success."

NOTE: The attached documents to this article. IMPORTANT! Find these links in the article and download:

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Official Documents

Letter from City of Hardin to Crow Tribe regarding Hardin Detention Center

Defendant?s Motion to Dismiss

Defendant?s Motion for Protective Order

Click here to read the City of Hardin's full legal complaint

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Cast of Characters in these documents:

Sheriff Jim Cashell:

* Has concerns about the facility.
* Cites worries about who's accountable for maintaining the jail.
* However, the community is in desparate need of a new facility, but he won't use this one.
* He wrote a letter on June 9, 2008 to Gov Brian Schweitzer saying "he won't house his inmates in Hardin Detention Center. (The Gov had asked him to consider Hardin Two Rivers which is why he wrote to him).
* He considers it more like "a warehouse".
* Says his jail is not in competition with anybody when it comes to housing future inmates.

Greg Smith, Two Rivers Economic Development Authority:

* Along with the City of Hardin, they sued the State and Atty General.

Attorney General Mike McGrath

* He blocked this saying State law prohibits county jails from signing contracts for out-of-state prisoners.

* He determined it was illegal, which led to a lawsuit.

* At the time of these articles he was running for Montana Supreme Court (He won) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Supreme_Court

Helena District Judge Jeffrey Sherlock:

* He overturned McGrath's opinion and ruled that Two Rivers can take out-of-state inmates.

* He ruled the Hardin Detention Center is not a private jail since it was built by the City of Hardin, therefore it is allowed to house out-of-state inmates.

Wyoming Dept of Corrections - Steve Lindly weighs in:

* Says they prefer non-dorm cell housing.
* Parts of lockdown in Hardin aren't set up to safely hold inmates.

$27 Million Hardin issued Revenue Bonds to build Jail Defaulted:

* What's interesting about this, is that this area is said to be one of the poorest in America. So, therefore how could a poor town build such a huge project without outside help.

* I found links to a Texas banker (Michael Harling) who financed this project and a consortium who is apparently targeting indian reservations for these projects (this needs to be delved into)
http://www.texasprisonbidness.org/corplan/...o-oodham-nation
http://www.helenair.com/news/state-and-reg...1394948594.html

Crow Chairman Carl Venne:

* The tribe looked to acquire or arrange a federal takeover of the empty jail, but then was no longer interested after the city rebuffed the proposal.

* Crow wanted to annex the 40-acre jail site as part of their reservation.

* Atty Rebecca Convery, Hardin City Atty said "we feel like the tribe got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and is now backing off".

* Crow Venne said the City of Hardin approached them to see if there was any way they could arrange for prisoners through the FEDERAL BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. (Isn't this interesting!)

Pg 3 says The Privately operated jail was overseen by the City of Hardin and Two Rivers Authority.

Much confusion ensues over the Out-Of-State issue. People ruling different ways.

* Governor was asked "If Sanders County Jail in NW Montana can accept out-of-state inmates, why can't Hardin?

* Two judges made separate rulings on this issue. Very interesting!

Detention Center Construction started in Summer of 2006: (on page 5)

* a back room meeting in the Center got tense.
* Governor suggests they use it for sex offender treatment.

Hardin City Attorney, Becky Convery said: (A SMOKING GUN?)

* "This project was brought to us by the State Dept of Commerce and we worked hard to make it a success."

* Interesting that Commerce Dept is involved in initiating this project. This is also happening at the Federal Level where Commerce is involved in everything.

* pg 7 says "When the Two Rivers Detention Center was built, the intent was to house out-of-state inmates."

Two Rivers says the jail is: (pg 7)

* a Public entity
* Title 7 Facility, lets it contract for out-of-State prisoners
* At end of document they call this Interlocal Cooperation Act, Title 7, Chapter 11, Part 1.
* Says the Atty Gen McGraft's opinion comes from another law?

Look at the Lawsuit of the City of Hardin v the State of Montana:

* Line 4, Pg 3 of the Order says: "about the authority of the Plaintiffs to house felony offenders committed by out-of-state authorities or the Federal Government?

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? DID I READ THIS RIGHT?

jofortruth	Posted: Oct 1 2009, 11:35 AM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 31,492 Member No.: 1 Joined: 1-May 07	Exposed: American Police Force Is A Blackwater Front Group http://www.prisonplanet.com/exposed-americ...ront-group.html American Police Force Leader? A Liar http://www.prisonplanet.com/american-polic...der-a-liar.html APF Reaction to Leader�s Criminal Past http://www.prisonplanet.com/apf-reaction-t...minal-past.html

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Investigation Could Sink American Police Force
http://www.prisonplanet.com/investigation-...ice-force.html#

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Attorney General orders secretive paramilitary group to turn over all its records

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, October 2, 2009

The plans of American Police Force to boss the $27 million dollar detention center in Hardin Montana as well as expand their presence across the country while training foreign troops inside the U.S. could be mothballed after Montana�s Attorney General launched an investigation and demanded the organization turn over all its records.

Suspicions that the paramilitary unit, which attempted to pose as law enforcement in Hardin last week by placing decals on SUV�s that read �Hardin Police Department,� is a cut-out or a front group for a larger company, may be realized after AG Steve Bullock ordered Hardin city officials to turn over all their documents related to their dealings with APF by October 12.

�His office made a similar demand of American Police Force, including information that would back up (Michael) Hilton�s claims of multiple defense contracts with the U.S. government and other agencies,� reports the Associated Press.

As we have highlighted, APF grandstands as a major player in the world of international private security, even claiming on its own website that it runs the U.S. Training Center, a Blackwater or �Xe� owned facility. This has led many to claim that the company is a shell or a front organization for something far more sinister, rumors that have only grown with APF�s blanket refusal to name its parent company.

The investigation was prompted by the revelation yesterday that APF founder �Captain� Michael Hilton is a career criminal and a convicted fraudster who has operated under no less than 17 different aliases. Hilton, a native of Montenegro, was sentenced to 6 years in jail in 1993 for �Such schemes you cannot believe,� according to Joseph Carella, an Orange County, Calif. doctor, namely a dozen counts of grand theft. Hilton has defrauded numerous different individuals to the tune of $1.1 million dollars over the past 20 years.

APF�s plans to construct another facility in Hardin that will train international paramilitary forces also looks doomed following intense media scrutiny of the organization�s shady dealings with local authorities and their probable violation of article 2 section 33 of the Montana Constitution.

Judging by the reaction of Attorney Becky Convery, who negotiated the original deal between Hardin authorities and APF, the contract to man the detention center and build the training facility could be torpedoed.

�Convery said Two Rivers director Greg Smith had a tentative deal with Hilton�s company to provide law enforcement service, but she said it was never finalized and she was uncertain whether it would be legal,� reports the AP.

�We are not at all pleased with American Police masquerading as if they were the police for the city of Hardin,� she said.

American Police Force and Hilton are now obviously engaging in desperate damage control, trying to offset concerns that they were on the verge of transforming the town into a �privately run police state,� as the AP article puts it, before press scrutiny forced them to put the breaks on.

Hilton has now pledged to donate the SUV�s that were marked with the police decals to the city while still pushing ahead with plans to provide law enforcement for the area for $250,000 a year. The fact that APF�s training center plans to recruit foreign assets who could then be patrolling the streets of America bossing U.S. citizens is obviously a frightening prospect, completely unconstitutional, and another reason why APF needs to abandon its plans to act as a private police force completely.

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American Police Force
http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/59284497.html

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Story Updated: Sep 15, 2009 at 7:09 AM MDT

By Sarah Gravlee

BILLINGS - The jail in Hardin has been empty for about two years, but on September 4th officials with the Two Rivers Authority, the economic development agency that paid for the facility, signed a contract with a private police firm called American Police Force to fill the jail.
"I think it's a great situation," said Al Peterson the Vice President of Two Rivers Authority. "I have found these people to be wonderful community partners."

The company's website states the U.S. government is their biggest client, but an Associated Press search of two comprehensive federal government contractor databases turned up no record of American Police Force.

Several media agencies have identified inconsistencies with the company. For instance their website states they have "years of experience," but a company spokesman said the corporation was formed this February. They also list an address to a building in Washington D.C., but no one at that address has ever heard of them.

"At this point that does not concern me." Peterson said. "I've been in contact with enough members of the A.P.F. and their representatives."

A company spokesman who would only identify himself as Captain Michael said they have never had experience housing prisoners and the jail was not the biggest attraction in Hardin.

"We don't really want to get into the prison business," he said. "We were actually interested more in the training center."

While he can't specify exactly what they will be training for, the company investigates everything from missing persons to insurance fraud to cheating spouses.

Peterson said they're excited to have a military presence in a town without a police force. A.P.F. has already put down what Captain Michael calls a "substantial amount of money."

They'll be in Hardin next week and start filling about 250 positions, 80% of which will be hired locally.

"We will bring the city of Hardin back on their feet," Michael said.

Two Rivers Authority officials will present the information at a city council meeting Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. in Hardin, but they do have a signed contract and do not need council approval.

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Montana attorney general to investigate APF
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-...1cc4c002e0.html
http://www.doj.mt.gov/resources/attorneygeneral.asp
http://www.doj.mt.gov/department/attorneyg...albiography.asp

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JENNIFER McKEE Gazette State Bureau | Posted: Thursday, October 1, 2009 5:40 pm | (31) Comments

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Albert Peterson with the Two Rivers Authority in Hardin, MT, stands outside an empty jail the city built for $27 million, on Friday, September 24, 2009. The authority wants a California security company, American Police Force, to take over the facility. (AP Photo)

HELENA - Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock launched an investigation Thursday into American Police Force, the California company founded by a Serbian immigrant with a lengthy criminal history that is seeking to run an empty, 464-bed jail in Hardin.

Bullock sent a nine-page demand letter late Thursday afternoon to Becky Shay, the spokeswoman for APF and the company's only Montana employee.

Shay did not immediately respond to phone calls Thursday.

According to the document, Bullock is launching the civil investigation into APF over concerns that the company might be violating the Montana Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act.

Among other things, Bullock demanded that the company provide proof for many statements about the company included on APF's Web site. The site says that the company frequently has contracts with the U.S. government and has operations in all 50 states.

Research into the company has turned up no record of APF contracting with the federal government. Bullock has requested that the company provide proof of its federal contracts and operations in other states.

Bullock also requested a copy of the contract between APF and Two Rivers Authority, the economic development arm of the city of Hardin, which built the jail two years ago.

The contract is reportedly a 10-year, multimillion-dollar deal with APF to run the jail.

Although Michael Hilton, the man behind APF, and local officials say the deal is as good as done, US Bank, the trustee for the bonds sold to build the jail, has never signed off on it.

Bullock further requested that the company disclose any lawsuits filed against the company or Hilton and provide the state with any correspondence between APF and any government agency that has accused the company of being deceptive.

Bullock also sent a letter Thursday to Gary Arneson and Al Peterson, leaders of Two Rivers Authority. Peterson could not be reached for comment Thursday.

Both letters were sent the day after The Billings Gazette and Associated Press reported that Hilton has an extensive criminal past with $1.1 million in outstanding civil judgments against him. Hilton, who has a long list of aliases, left his native Serbia in the 1970s and has served time in U.S. prisons.

Hilton uses the military title "captain," but said this week it does not refer to an actual military rank. Hilton has claimed he has military experience, but no record of such experience has been found.

Also on Thursday, Montana's three-man congressional delegation all said they have questions about APF, even as they support Hardin's efforts to drum up jobs for its people.

"Like many Montanans, Max is keeping an eye on the situation in Hardin," said Ty Matsdorf, a spokesman for Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont.

Aaron Murphy, a spokesman for Sen. Jon Tester, also a Democrat, said Tester has "a lot of questions" about APF. "Hardin and all of Montana need to benefit from whatever's in store for the Two Rivers jail."

A spokesman for Rep. Denny Rehberg, a Republican, said "important questions need to be answered," and added "any deal that creates jobs and economic prosperity without putting Montanans at risk is something Denny would support in any way he can."

Rehberg in May wrote a letter to state officials urging Montana to consider placing its own inmates at the jail if the state needed more prison cells.

So, where is Hardin, Montana? (Map below) Notice it's on the tip of an Indian Reservation and looks like part of the town is on the Indian Reservation. Are these people being used due to the fact that Reservations operate on different laws?

NOTE: Also notice that this property butts up against the location in Wyoming where the Japanese-American Internment Camps were located in 1942:
http://z4.invisionfree.com/The_Great_Decep...p?showtopic=385

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jofortruth	Posted: Oct 2 2009, 10:21 AM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 31,492 Member No.: 1 Joined: 1-May 07	THIS SHOULD BE A LESSON TO EVERY STATE TO LOOK OUT FOR THESE TYPES OF GOONS. THEY ARE FRONT MEN BEING HIRED BY THE THUGS TAKING OVER AMERICA, AND THEY'RE NOT THERE FOR YOUR SAFETY. TIME TO WISE UP AMERICA! TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK STATE BY STATE! THE THUGS ARE OUT OF THEIR CAGES AND OUT OF CONTROL. THIS IS YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE!

jofortruth	Posted: Oct 2 2009, 10:44 AM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 31,492 Member No.: 1 Joined: 1-May 07	Two Rivers Center operation and management agreement http://billingsgazette.com/pdf_d0340352-af...1cc4c03286.html http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.co...?_dc=1254464487 Other News on Hardin in the Billings Gazette: http://billingsgazette.com/search/?l=50&sd...f=html&q=Hardin

jofortruth	Posted: Oct 2 2009, 12:01 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 31,492 Member No.: 1 Joined: 1-May 07	Videos on the Ground in Hardin, MT? http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?to...icseen#lastPost http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=210llwx&s=4 Original Video- More videos at TinyPic http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2hi5ysj&s=4 Original Video- More videos at TinyPic

jofortruth	Posted: Oct 2 2009, 04:31 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 31,492 Member No.: 1 Joined: 1-May 07	Senators from Montana: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_info...fm.cfm?State=MT Baucus, Max - (D - MT) Class II (This guy is the lead in trying to ram the Healthcare bill through) http://baucus.senate.gov/issues/healthcare.cfm 511 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-2651 Tester, Jon - (D - MT) Class I 724 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-2644 US House Representative: http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/mem_con...ml?statdis=MT00 Denny Rehberg Montana-At Large, Republican 2448 Rayburn HOB Washington, DC 20515-2601 Phone: (202) 225-3211 They must know about this. The facility was built in 2007!

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Tips Given by a Military Specialist who is a TRUE PATRIOT:

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1) When a government takes a WORD like MILITIA and starts to demonize it and associate it with White Supremacists, Hate Groups, Hate Crimes, gay bashing, etc etc, they are trying to focus your attention away from what they are really doing. Don't fall for it! (The media also does this adnauseum!)�

2) "Every freedom we do not actively fight for, is one we voluntarily give away."

3) When they call you LOONEY, NUTS, Whatever, it means you are on target. KEEP PURSUING IT!

4) They are rolling all of these major things out at the same time trying to break our will.�

5) Those of you with guns. This is not the time to react. That's what they're trying to prod you to do, so they can call martial law. Don't be stupid and sucker into their game. This is the time for diplomacy, calling your Senators/Reps and State Reps and Governors and putting pressure on the people who call themselves your leaders to do something about this NOW! This is how they will prove to you whose side they are on.

THEY OBVIOUSLY DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE UP AGAINST! WE KNOW THIS IS HAPPENING, AND IT JUST ENERGIZES US MORE! KEEP GOING FOLKS, WE ARE OVER THE TARGET AND THEY ARE ACTING LIKE WE ARE!

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Misunderstanding Leaves Hardin Prison Standing Empty
http://www.november.org/stayinfo/breaking0...rdinPrison.html

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February 13, 2008 - Helena Independent Record (MT)
By Jennifer Mckee
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The Two Rivers Regional State and Federal Support and Detention Facility in Hardin is almost ready to be occupied, but is without a contract with the state to house state inmates.

As told by state and city of Hardin officials Tuesday, the history behind Hardin's empty, 464-bed prison hinges on one enormous -- and expensive -- misunderstanding.

Officials from the southeast Montana town and its economic development arm, Two Rivers Authority, told the state Corrections Advisory Council they had a gentlemen's agreement with Montana to house state inmates at the privately run prison.

But former State Corrections Director Bill Slaughter, current agency officials and lawmakers on the council said they never had such an agreement and never envisioned the prison as part of the state's correctional system.

"We didn't sign any contracts with this group; There are no e-mails or promises," Slaughter said. "I don't know what to tell you. I was actually surprised they were under construction."

The council, headed by Lt. Gov. John Bohlinger and comprised of lawmakers and others with interests in Montana's criminal justice system, acts only as an advisory group to the Department of Corrections. The committee does not have the authority to change state law or approve prison contracts with Two Rivers.

Hardin city officials worked with a Texas consortium to build and finance the $27 million prison. It was completed this summer and promoted as a way to bring 100 new jobs to the economically depressed town at the edge of the Crow Indian Reservation.

The prison needs about 250 inmates to make enough money to open its doors and begin to repay the millions needed to build it, Hardin officials said.

Michael Harling, one of the Texas financers of the project, said in an interview after the meeting that the financing package includes enough money for the prison to sit empty until May of 2009. After that, the prison would be nearing a financial crisis.

But by not repaying its bonds until then, the prison would technically be in default on its debt.

But state and federal officials have said they don't need any of the prison's 464 beds -- and state law forbids the prison from housing out-of-state prisoners, according to a recent opinion by Attorney General Mike McGrath.

The Two Rivers Authority and the city of Hardin have since sued the state, asking a Helena judge to throw out McGrath's opinion.

The city-owned prison was built without a single contract, Hardin City Attorney Rebecca Convery told the committee, because they were told the state wouldn't enter into contracts with a prison that wasn't yet built.

Paul Green, a Hardin businessman who worked at the city's economic development branch several years ago when the prison was in the planning stage, said he met with Slaughter then and walked away feeling like the state would fill the prison if the city built it.

"While there is a need, (Slaughter) said they can't sign a contract with a facility that isn't built yet," Green said.

But Slaughter and Diane Koch, a Corrections Department lawyer, said the only way the state ever contemplated using the prison was to temporarily house local felons after they'd been convicted and were on their way to other state facilities.

The state has contracts with every county jail in Montana to hold felons until the state has room for them elsewhere.

"It would be maybe five or 10 inmates," Koch said, "not enough to fill a 464-bed facility."

Sen. Trudi Schmidt, D-Great Falls, a member of the advisory council, sits on the eight-member panel that helps draft the Department of Correction's budget.

She asked Two Rivers and Hardin officials why they didn't come to the panel's meetings in 2005 when lawmakers were crafting the agency's two-year budget.

"I guess I'm wondering why the city of Hardin never knew what was going on in the Legislature," she said.

Schmidt and others also questioned just what kind of detention center the Hardin prison is.

Montana has one private prison in Shelby that houses mostly state inmates under a contract with the state. The state also has contracts to house inmates at regional prisons in Glendive and Great Falls.

Those prisons were built and owned by the counties and also function as county jails.

The Hardin prison is not a purely private prison like Shelby facility, nor is it the Big Horn County jail, said Greg Smith, executive director of the Two Rivers Authority.

The county does not support the prison, he said in an interview after the meeting.

Convery told the panel that the prison is city-owned, but will be privately-run by a for-profit company for at least the next two years. If so, it is the only entity of its kind in the state. The authority sought out-of-state inmates after state and federal officials said they didn't need the space.

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Texas private prison developers pushing detention center on Tohono O'odham Nation (ARIZONA):
http://www.texasprisonbidness.org/corplan/...o-oodham-nation

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Wed, 05/27/2009 - 15:03 � Bob

A group of Texas private prison developers are behind a controversial proposal to build a detention center on Tohono O'odham Nation land near Sahuarita, Arizona.� The group includes well-known prison developers, including underwriter Municipal Capitol Markets Group, design firm Corplan, and prison "consultant" Richard Reyes from Innovative Government Strategies.

While it appears the plan may be faltering under pressure from local opponents, the private prison developers still hope they will be able to build a detention center on the tribal land. A recent article in the Sahuarita Sun ("Public pressure crushed detention center," May 22nd) indicates that the initial location proposed for the facility has been withdrawn, but that "the northwestern part of the District has been mentioned as a possible site" alternative.� According to an earlier article in the Arizona Daily Star ("Prison plan opposition grows," May 18), the proposed detention facility succeeded in uniting a diverse group of opponents,
Community activists, immigrant-rights advocates, tribal critics and local elected officials don't want to see a federal detention center built near Pima Mine Road on the San Xavier District of the Tohono O'odham Nation.

Opponents, including residents of Rancho Sahuarita and the Rev. Robin Hoover of Humane Borders, asked the Pima County Board of Supervisors last week for the county's help in stopping the prison's construction. The county's power lies only in raising questions and asking the federal government to require more study of the impact before signing off on the project. The county has no direct jurisdiction over projects built on sovereign Indian territory.�
The private prison pushers are being called "the folks from Texas" by opponents of the prison, and they include people involved in Texas' most controversial prison deals. They include James Parkey of prison design firm Corplan and Chris Cuny of prison engineering firm Cuny Corp.� Parkey sold the complicated and controversial bond deal that led to the Willacy County Detention Center. The Willacy facility was featured in an excellent expose by Forrest Wilder in the Texas Observer ("Jailbait: Prison companies profit as Raymondville's public debt grows," October 20, 2006).

Underwriting the proposed Arizona detention center is Municipal Capital Market Groups, led by Michael Harling.� Harling recently pitched an immigrant family detention center in Willacy County and advocated for a controversial jail privatization scheme in McLennon County, Texas. MCMG was a major player in the earlier Willacy deal that led to bribery convictions for two County Commissioners from Willacy and one from Webb County. No company involved in the Willacy deal, including Corplan, MCMG, construction firm Hale Mills, or private prison operator MTC were ever indicted in the case - a bizarre situation where the bribe-takers were sent to jail, but the bribe-givers were never named.�
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Also in the mix is Richard A. Reyes, a former Webb County Commissioner and a "consultant" with Innovative Government Strategies out of Boerne, TX.� Reyes reportedly received over $700,000 for his "consulting" role ("Doing Borrowed Time: The High Cost of Back-Door Prison Finance," Prison Legal News, November 11, 2008) in putting together the troubled prison financing deal in LaSalle County, Texas.� County officials from LaSalle are still wrangling in court with private prison company Emerald Corrections over the Reyes' LaSalle arrangement.
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Reyes was the subject of a San Antonio Current article called "The Buzz in Boerne" (the article is no longer on line, but we have a copy). It argued Reyes' La Salle deal was not as sweet as first sold, Kendall County Judge Eddie J. Vogt said before the county joins the federal prison industry, it would closely scrutinize La Salle County, where Sean Chadwell, Encinal city councilman, has opposed the project from the beginning. He criticizes the private prison firms, the financial underwriters, and Reyes, who represented La Salle County in the Encinal project, for picking a "provincial" location as an easy target to dupe the taxpaying public into funding a for-profit detention center. "Prison companies come to town and say to the county, 'You borrow the money through a public finance corporation, which is an arm of county government. You can do that without a vote and you're not obliging tax money.' The logic is pretty sensible, and it enables poor municipalities to borrow money. The problem is in building something as big as a prison, where counties encounter all sorts of other costs."

Chadwell charges that La Salle County spent $50,000 in legal fees during negotiations and construction of the La Salle County Regional Detention Center. He says the county is hemorrhaging money to service debt and finance charges. "Any population that is less than a constant 420 prisoners is losing money," Chadwell said "It also puts a damper on future development, residential or commercial. The early promise is to spur economic development in town."

Encinal's water supply company has committed so much water to the federal detention facility that it only has 40 hookups for other residential or commercial developments in town. Chadwell says that rural economies all over Texas are making themselves dependent on incarceration. "It's happening all over the country, but Texas is especially bad. Once little places are solely dependent on prisons, you can't change that very easily."

This is certainly a troubled cast of characters Texas' private prison development industry has exported to Arizona.� We'll keep you posted on developments. Best of luck to our Arizona friends working to expose the industry!��

� CorPlan
� Cuny Corp.
� Innovative Government Strategies
� James Parkey
� Michael Harling
� Municipal Capital Markets Group
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Ummm sounds like the prison in Hardin, montana. Same players. THAT prison has been sitting empty for 2 years.

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Hardin jail up for state contract
http://www.helenair.com/news/state-and-reg...1394948594.html

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JENNIFER McKEE - IR State Bureau - 03/02/08
Sunday, March 2, 2008

Billings Gazette photo - The Two Rivers Regional State and Federal Support and Detention Facility in Hardin is seen through a fence in this file photo.

A new, empty jail built to bring jobs and prisoners to Hardin might not be able to open and pay its bills on time, even if it wins the only state corrections contract now under consideration.

Backers for the jail, however, said this week they're still very interested in the contract and plan to pursue it, along with other prisoner pools, to get the jail up and running.

The Two Rivers Detention Center, a 464-bed jail built by the economic development arm of the city of Hardin and a consortium of private out-of-state companies, needs about 250 inmates to make enough money to open its doors and begin to repay the $27 million in bonds sold to build it.

The first payment on the debt is due on May 10, said Michael Harling, the Texas investment banker behind the project.� If the jail, which was completed late last summer but has never opened and has no contracts to house inmates, misses that payment, it will be in default on its bonds.

The jail's financing package includes a fund to cover bills while investors deal with default, he said. That money is expected to run out in May 2009.

But representatives of the state Department of Corrections said last week that the only state corrections contract currently considered is for 116 sex offenders not 250 inmates. What's more, they said, the agency hopes to have the contract filled by April 1, 2009, but it could be as late as July 1 -- two months after the Hardin jail would need to be generating revenue to stave off financial crisis.

July, Harling said, "is too late."

The jail must have some revenue stream before then in order to remain a going concern.

The fact that the sex offender contract is for 134 fewer inmates than the center anticipated it needed to open doesn't mean the facility can't make ends meet with the contract, should it win the bid, said Greg Smith, executive director of the Two Rivers Authority.

"It would probably be feasible to do it with less," he said, because the sex offender contract would likely include treatment and other more expensive services than the mostly custodial care of ordinary inmates.

"We're extremely interested," Smith said. However, he said the authority is cautious because the contract has not yet been issued and has been pushed back several times. Additionally, Smith said he worries the contract might be written to favor the three nonprofit correctional contracting companies in the state that typically win state correctional contracts.

Backers for the jail say the lockdown was built on the expectation that the state would house inmates there. But state officials say they never had such an understanding and don't need the jail space.

The jail was built with no state contract in place. Bob Anez, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections, said that Two Rivers has never invited Corrections officials to the facility and no one from the agency has ever been inside.

The Hardin jail then turned to out-of-state inmates as a source of money, but Attorney General Mike McGrath ruled last year that such a thing is against Montana law.

The jail, which is now at the center of a lawsuit, occupies a unique place in Montana correctional law. Legally, the facility is like a county jail, not a private prison, although its 464-bed capacity puts it more in line with the 512-bed private prison in Shelby than with even Montana's largest county jails.

The jail was built by the Two Rivers Port Authority, the economic development arm of the city of Hardin, along with a group of mainly Texas companies that have helped build private prisons in other states. As a city-owned jail, the facility is one-of-a-kind, said Diana Koch, the Department of Corrections' top lawyer. No other Montana city has its own jail.

It doesn't make sense for Montana cities to build their own jails, said Dan Schwarz, Yellowstone County's chief deputy attorney, because Montana law requires counties to incarcerate all city inmates for free. Even more curious: The city of Hardin doesn't have a police force. All suspects arrested in Hardin are done so by Big Horn County authorities and housed in the 36-bed Big Horn County jail. The city of Hardin doesn't have any of its own inmates and has no use for the jail.

Big Horn County is not part of the jail project and is not interested in housing inmates there, said Greg Smith, executive director of the Two Rivers Authority.

That the facility is a "jail," not a "prison," is an important distinction, Koch said. By law, only certain kinds of inmates can be held in jails, including people awaiting trial and witnesses in a trial confined to be certain they testify. Generally speaking, convicted felons remanded to the Department of Corrections to serve out their sentences are not held in county jails.

The law does not forbid such a thing, Koch said, but it has only happened once in the last 12 years and involved a single inmate.

That lone case was before a new section of law was passed in the 1990s that created regional prisons and the state's only private prison. Regional prisons are joint projects of counties and the Department of Corrections in which the county jail shares space with space dedicated for state inmates. The state section of the lockdown is designed to state specifications and the state is a partner in the project from the very beginning, Koch said.

Montana has regional prisons in Great Falls and Glendive. Montana also has one privately owned prison in Shelby built after lawmakers in 1997 wrote a new section of law allowing such a prison. That law spells out an exhaustive process entities must follow to become a private prison, including obtaining a license from the Department of Corrections. Such a license cannot be issued unless the department deems the prison necessary to house state inmates and has money from the Legislature to house inmates there. The Hardin prison didn't follow those laws and is not a licensed private prison.

Under certain circumstances, out-of-state inmates like the kind Two Rivers is courting can be housed in Montana's private prison.

The state's regional and private prisons didn't solidly replace the rare possibility of housing state inmates in jails like the Hardin lockdown, Koch said.

"We just don't foresee that there would be a reason to do that since we have the regionals and the private prison," she said. "Now that we have that option, I really doubt we would (house state inmates in a jail) again."

Smith said the jail never wanted to house state inmates long-term. Instead, he said, the authority hoped to house only a select subset of state inmates: recently sentenced prisoners waiting in county jails until a cell comes open at Deer Lodge or another state correctional facility.

"Those are the ones we've always wanted," he said.

Those inmates can be housed in jails and, in fact, state contracts with every county jail in Montana to house those prisoners. Such inmates might stay in the jail from only a few days to a few months. Last year, such inmates waited in county jails for an average of 33 days before moving into a Corrections' facility, Anez said.

The department has never identified a special contracted jail to house such inmates as a need and has never appealed to the Legislature for money for such a project. No one from Two Rivers has ever contacted the department about using the Hardin jail for that purpose, Anez said, adding that consolidating such temporary inmates in one location would create a transportation problem. Say a convict was sentenced in Butte, Anez said. Why move the man to Hardin for a few weeks only to drive him to Deer Lodge when a cell becomes available?

Additionally, the state doesn't have enough of those inmates to begin to fill a 464-bed jail. Currently, the state had 59 men and 14 women felons waiting in county jails.

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Montana jail dealraises questions
http://www.kxxv.com/Global/story.asp?s=111...ttype=printable

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Posted: Sep 13, 2009 2:29 AM
Updated: Sep 14, 2009 6:09 PM

By MATTHEW BROWN
Associated Press Writer

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The Two Rivers Detention Center was promoted as the largest economic development project in decades in the small town of Hardin when the jail was built two years ago. But it has been vacant ever since.

City officials have searched from Vermont to Alaska for inmate contracts to fill the jail, only to be turned down at every turn and see the bonds that financed its construction fall into default. They even floated the idea of housing prisoners from Guantanamo Bay at the jail.

So when Hardin officials announced this week that they had signed a deal with a California company to fill the empty jail, it was naturally a cause for celebration. Town officials talked about throwing a party to mark the occasion, their dreams of economic salvation a step closer to being realized.

But questions are emerging over the legitimacy of the company, American Police Force.

Government contract databases show no record of the company. Security industry representatives and federal officials said they had never heard of it. On its Web site, the company lists as its headquarters a building in Washington near the White House that holds "virtual offices." A spokeswoman for the building said American Police Force never completed its application to use the address.

And it's unclear where the company will get the inmates for the jail. Montana says it's not sending inmates to the jail, and neither are federal officials in the state.

An attorney for American Police Force, Maziar Mafi, describes the Santa Ana, Calif., company as a fledgling spin-off of a major security firm founded in 1984. But Mafi declined to name the parent firm or provide details on how the company will finance its jail operations.

"It will gradually be more clear as things go along," said Mafi, a personal injury and medical malpractice lawyer in Santa Ana who was only hired by American Police Force a month ago. "The nature of this entity is private security and for security purposes, as well as for the interest of their clientele, that's why they prefer not to be upfront."

On its elaborate Web site and in interviews with company representatives, American Police Force claims to sell assault rifles and other weapons in Afghanistan on behalf of the U.S. military while providing security, investigative work and other services to clients "in all 50 states and most countries."

The company also boasts to have "rapid response units awaiting our orders worldwide" and that it can field a battalion-sized team of special forces soldiers "within 72 hours."

Representatives of American Police Force said the company presently employs at least 16 and as many as 28 people in the United States and 1,600 contractors worldwide.

"APF plays a critical role in helping the U.S. government meet vital homeland security and national defense needs," the company says on its Web site. "Within the last 5 years the United States has been far and away our" number 1 client.

However, an Associated Press search of two comprehensive federal government contractor databases turned up no record of American Police Force.

Representatives of security trade groups said they had never heard of American Police Force, although they added secrecy was prevalent in the industry and it was possible the company had avoided the public limelight.

"They're really invisible," said Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel for the Professional Services Council. The group's members include major security contractors Triple Canopy, DynCorp and Xe Services, formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide.

"Even a single unclassified contract in the last couple of years should show up" in the federal database, Chvotkin added.

Spokesmen for the State Department and Defense Department said they could not immediately find any records of contracts with the company. The city has not released a copy of its agreement with American Police Force. But the deal as announced would be a sweet one for Hardin, a depressed rural town of 3,500 about 45 miles east of Billings.

The company is pledging to fill the 464-bed facility by early next year.

Hardin officials say the first payment on the contract is due Feb. 1 - regardless of whether any prisoners are in place. The city's economic development authority would get enough money to pay off the bondholders and receive $5 per prison a day.

American Police Force also is promising to invest $30 million in new projects for the city, including a military and law enforcement training center with a 250-bed dormitory and an expansion of the jail to 2,000 beds. The company says it will build a homeless shelter, offer free health care for city residents and even deliver meals to the needy.

Where the prisoners would come from is unclear. City officials said California was the most likely possibility, but a spokesman for that state's corrections system said there was no truth to the claim.

Federal prisoners also were mentioned by both American Police Force and the city. U.S. Marshal Dwight MacKay in Billings said he would have been notified if such a plan was pending.

"There's skepticism over whether this is a real thing," MacKay said.

Hardin officials said they were approached by American Police Force about six months ago, soon after the city made international news in its quest to become "America's Gitmo." American Police Force incorporated around the same time.

Albert Peterson, the city's school superintendent and vice president of the authority that built the jail, said the city was "guaranteed" the contract would be upheld.

"There's never a question in my mind after I've done my homework. It's legit," Peterson said of American Police Force. "We believe in each other."

The contract was still being reviewed by the city attorney, he said.

Peterson refused to answer when asked if he knew the name of American Police Force's parent firm. He said news coverage of the city's political tussles with the administration of Gov. Brian Schweitzer had left him suspicious of the press. The administration brought a court challenge over whether Hardin could take out-of-state inmates at the jail.

"If you're looking for the source of the money, you're not going to find it from me," Peterson said.

A member of the Texas consortium that developed the jail, Mike Harling, said he had "every reason to believe they'll be successful."

Mafi, the American Police Force attorney, said his company intends to reverse Hardin's recent problems with the jail and give the town an economic boost.

In Santa Ana, American Police Force occupies a single suite on the second floor of a two-story office building. During a visit to the location Thursday, a reporter for The Associated Press encountered a uniformed man behind a desk who would identify himself only as "Captain Michael."

The man declined to discuss basic details about the company and referred the reporter to the company's Web site. In a subsequent phone interview, he provided his surname but insisted it not be used because of security concerns. The man said he was a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Montenegro with decades of experience in military and law enforcement operations.

The man said his boss is a retired U.S. Army colonel named Richard Culver who is currently overseas. Culver's role with the company could not be immediately verified.

The company claim of a headquarters address is just up the street from the White House.

The K Street building houses "virtual offices," where clients pay to use the prestigious Pennsylvania Avenue address and gain access to onsite conference rooms but have no permanent presence.

"It lets small businesses get started up and have a professional front and not have a lot of a cash to do it," said Ashley Korner with Preferred Offices, which leases the location.

She said American Police Force's application to use the address was pending, but incomplete.

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Associated Press Writer Amy Taxin contributed to this story from Santa Ana.

jofortruth	Posted: Oct 2 2009, 09:44 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 31,492 Member No.: 1 Joined: 1-May 07	DPS - Defense Protective Services http://www.answers.com/topic/pentagon-forc...tection-agency# http://www.answers.com/topic/defense-protective-service Caller on the show mentioned they found DPS when they were looking around the APF site. If this is the parent company, I would question why the Pentagon is hiring a complete thug to run the show in Hardin??? Also, wouldn't this mean taxpayer money is being used partially in this venture? This sounds like a Public-Private Partnership to me, which is the direction things are going today! The bigger question is why are they setting these types of operations up all over America? MANY OF US THINK IT IS IN PREPARATION FOR MARTIAL LAW WHEN THEY DROP THE HAMMER ON THE ECONOMY, GUN CONFISCATION, AND MASS FLU VACCINATION. IF YOU DON'T THINK THIS IS FOR A ROGUE PURPOSE, THEN YOU AREN'T READING OR INVESTIGATING, AND YOU BEST START DOING SO! NOTE: In the Gallatin Co. Won't Use Hardin Jail" article earlier in thread, a lawyer said that "this project came to them from the State Dept of Commerce." It's interesting that a lot of what we're seeing is coming from Commerce departments locally and federally. So is this coming from top down?

jofortruth	Posted: Oct 3 2009, 10:14 AM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 31,492 Member No.: 1 Joined: 1-May 07	Steve Quayle on Alex Jones Tv 1-6: Red Dawn in America! Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlUf4viX7Nk...re=channel_page Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zydKbrat_Nk...re=channel_page Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROKgtxE6SS8...re=channel_page Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl7CPo0aciw...re=channel_page Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V79Usi-gxFY...re=channel_page Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXt1sQ-Kwho...re=channel_page Quayle lives in Montana not far from this town. He was also on the show with others Thursday, October 1, 2009 and Alex was reporting from Hardin, Montana: http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=34316

jofortruth	Posted: Oct 3 2009, 11:20 AM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 31,492 Member No.: 1 Joined: 1-May 07	Hardin, Montana town officials hornswoggled by American Police Force http://www.infowars.com/hardin-montana-tow...n-police-force/

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Who is Richard Culver? Captain Michael claims this guy is his boss:

AP Enterprise: Montana Jail Deal Raises Questions:
http://www.localnews8.com/global/story.asp...tType=Printable

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"The man said his boss is a retired US Army colonel named Richard Culver who is currently overseas."

Security is Everyone's Responsibility (Says Culver):
http://www.ebanmagazine.com/mag_story.html?ident=7723

To Serve and Protect:
http://www.portfolio.com/careers/job-of-th...urity-Director/

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by Sophia Banay� Apr 24 2007

In an insecure world, security directors like Richard Culver can provide some piece of mind.

Security director Richard Culver

Job title Security director, International SOS

Companies that hire them: International SOS, iJet, MEDEX, and other providers of international risk management and emergency rescue services

How to find out about openings: Through specialized security recruiters like SSR Personnel or CSO, the Resource for Security Executives; employee referrals are also key.

How much you might earn: $100,000 to $350,000. The bigger the company, the more you make.

Useful skills: A high tolerance for risk, standing in harm's way, and last-minute travel help. So does previous military or law enforcement experience. College degrees are good, but aren't often required.

Number of jobs in the U.S.: No one tracks the exact number of security directors in the country. However, there are about 25 companies in the niche-travel and medical-assistance industry, each with between one and four security directors.

Richard Culver has had a bag packed for four years. Being prepared has come in handy on a number of occasions, including when he had to catch a last-minute flight to Saudi Arabia in 2003 to rescue 100 businesspeople from a terrorist bombing in Riyadh, or when he figuratively parachuted into Mauritania in 2003 to counsel corporate clients threatened during a coup "It's not a job, but a way of life," says Culver, one of four security directors for International SOS, a provider of emergency health care, risk consulting, and crisis management to multinational conglomerates as well as vacation travelers. In addition to designing security plans for clients and training SOS security-program staff, Culver makes sure SOS' international alarm centers are on alert, running smoothly and ready to respond anywhere in the world.

That's no small task. SOS caters to 6,500 clients, including Microsoft, Exxon, and Coca-Cola. Of course, billion-dollar multinational corporations aren't the only ones seeking safety. Recreational travelers are increasingly hiring Culver and his company to handle everything from emergency dentist appointments abroad to mortal repatriations, the process of returning an individual's remains to their home country. Such consumer services cost $100 for a 10-day trip, or $350 for year-long coverage. The costs for corporate clients are considerably more, anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. "But you can't quantify how it makes you feel when you get people from danger to safety," says Culver, who supervised the evacuation of 350 people from Beirut during the summer of 2006.

Unfortunately, you can't save everyone. In May 2003, Culver joined a "priority operation" in Riyadh, where an al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group attacked the residential compound of a North American tech company, overwhelmed its guards and drove an explosives-laden car into the compound. The attack killed more than 50 people. Culver's job: mortal repatriations, arranging for air ambulances for the wounded, and shuttling some 100 survivors to the airport's V.I.P. lounge, where one of Osama bin Laden's brothers and his entourage were spotted.

It won't be all action forever, says Culver, a native Australian who spent 12 years in that country's army. Now with a wife and two daughters -- three years and three months old -- Culver is based in SOS' Philadelphia headquarters and is debating a more desk-oriented role. "I have a very, very understanding wife, and long may that last," he says.

Typical Day

5:30 to 6:30 a.m. Woken up by three-year-old daughter.

6:30 to 7:30 a.m. Checks BlackBerry, showers, and eats breakfast. Concurrently scans TV news for anything that might cause client activity�terrorist attacks, coups, and so on.

7:30 to 8:00 a.m. Heads to office, grabbing a take-out coffee on the way.

8:00 to 9:30 a.m. Calls team in Middle East for project updates and prepares for client meeting.

9:30 to 10 a.m. Answers emails from colleagues still at work throughout the Eastern hemisphere while also scanning the news.

10:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. Meets with a client and a kidnap-and-ransom consultant to discuss how Culver's and SOS might assist in the event an employee is kidnapped.

1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Has lunch at his desk.

2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Sits in on a conference call to discuss and debrief on recent SOS evacuations from Kazakhstan.

3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Approves invoices to be released to clients for consulting assignments and evacuation support.

5:00 to 6:30 p.m. Preps a presentation to be delived the following day to industry managers.

6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Home for dinner; tries to spend some time with the girls before they go to bed.

8:30 to 10:00 p.m. Clears emails on BlackBerry and packs for the next day's business trip to the West Coast. Sits in on any late conference calls before calling it a night.

11:00 p.m.-ish Bed.

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America Is Under the Iron Curtain:
http://alt.nntp2http.com/politics/democrat...edc9655ae7.html

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Von: brian (surrogates777@gmail.com) [Profil]
Datum: 03.10.2009 03:45
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The iron curtain has come down.
http://itssmoking.com

Lift the lid and unveil the fraud behind the globalists to destroy the last vestiges of America�s freedom, Constitution and economy, all while helping the bankers loot the country clean The burgeoning police state, warrantless wiretapping, secret arrests, indefinite detention of citizens, torture, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Pakistan, have all been expanded under Obama despite his promises to reverse them all APF Mercs Are Fullfilling RAND Corporation Recommendations For Secret
Police In US Two Rivers Fema Camp Hardin Montana, Breaking Developments! Is International SOS The Mysterious Secret Parent Company Of American Police Force?

Was The Two Rivers Detention Center Ever Even Intended To Be A Dept Of
Corrections Facility?

Fusion Centers Recruiting Private Mercenaries To Skirt FOIA and Civil
Rights Laws

Suspicion was aroused in Hardin when a number of Mercedes were spotted with an unfamiliar decal and the words "Hardin Police" prominently displayed. This along with the fact that the new correctional facility was abuzz with fresh activity prompted some questions. Problems began to arise when questions were asked and answers were not provided.

The facility had been under controversy since it had been built as a detention facility but did not meet the requirements for a correctional facility. Once the building was completed, Hardin officials were unable to secure a contract for the facility. Enter APF. Details remain sketchy about "American Police Force"; however, in an article in the Helenair newspaper, a source from APF revealed that
his boss was retired U.S. Army colonel Richard Culver. Thanks to some investigative snooping by Ron Paul supporters from the DailyPaul.com, particularly "Liberty_Belle", on the connection between the American Police Force and Richard Culver, he is an executive with the security firm International SOS out of Trevose, PA. Culver is profiled in Portfolio.com's "Job of the Week" spotlight which states that in this particular job one could expect to earn between $100,000 to $350,000 annually. Not only does ISOS provide security services it touts itself
as the world's largest "medical and security assistance company". In fact, it is keeping tabs on the swine flu pandemic and has its own "pandemic preparedness" page. Two items of note on this page under the topic "International SOS capability" are "Medical Evacuation" and "RMR Capability".

Whether or not APF's duties were to extend beyond the detention facility is unclear. It is also unclear as to the relationship between APF and International SOS, other than sharing a security director.

However, one disturbing fact regarding International SOS is that it is listed as a member of the International Peace Operations Association, which at one time provided an umbrella for Blackwater, and currently resides over Dyncorp as well as numerous other security and medical agencies. The IPOA's Wikipedia page defines the group as "created to support the burgeoning private military industry."

For one, I am uncomfortable with the "burgeoning" of this particular industry, but
maybe I have watched too many superhero movies lately.

What is disturbing in all of this is the growing trend which the government displays in "outsourcing" the fundamental responsibilities it has under the Constitution; namely, "to promote the general welfare, and to provide for the common defense". In a recent report, Moshe Schwartz, Specialist in Defense Acquisition, reported that the U.S. Department of Defense had 200,000 contractors and 194,000 military troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. He further states that,

DOD officials have stated that the military�s experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, coupled with Congressional attention and legislation, has focused DOD�s attention on the importance of contractors to operational success.

In other words, Congress is well aware that contractors now outnumber U.S. militiary forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. The use of civilian personnel during war raises numerous concerns. Not only the obvious concerns regarding logistics, discipline, safety and protocol, but concerns regarding the reporting of casualties and overall progress of the campaign. The reported torture of Iraqi prisoners, for example, takes on a completely different focus with the introduction of mercenary groups.

Overseas activities are not the only areas of concern regarding these para-military organizations. During Katrina, Blackwater troops were used extensively and were placed in positions of having to disarm American citizens. What are the ramifications of a private, civilian army violating the first and second amendment rights of American citizens for the purpose of financial gain? Numerous officers during the recent protests at the G 20 summit in Pittsburgh were unable to be
identified by insignia. Undoubtedly, they were contracted by a private
agency such as International SOS

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AP Enterprise: Montana Jail Deal Raises Questions:
http://www.localnews8.com/global/story.asp...tType=Printable

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An attorney for American Police Force, Maziar Mafi, describes the Santa Ana, Calif., company as a fledgling spin-off of a major security firm founded in 1984.

Guess whose major security firm was founded in 1984?
http://www.adamsmith.org/80ideas/idea/36.htm

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Another leading US firm in this rapidly developing market is Wackenhut Corrections Corporation, founded in 1984.

More on Wackenhut Corrections Corporation: (These guys have a long laundry list of corruption and evil)
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?to...cseen#msg832636

jofortruth	Posted: Oct 4 2009, 12:29 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 31,492 Member No.: 1 Joined: 1-May 07	Senator Max Baucus seems unwilling to talk with Montanans http://www.billingsgazette.com/news/opinio...1cc4c03286.html Sen Max Baucus is one of two Senators from Montana and he REFUSES TO TALK TO THE PEOPLE. He also didn't hold any Town Hall meetings when he was on recess. So, what is Max Baucus hiding? Well, it's partly because he's the one spearheading the Healthcare Reform (if you call it that). So who knows what else he's doing that is selling out the people! Max Baucus isn't listening to the people he is suppose to represent! He appears to be working for the wrong side. So, in 2010 you people need to send him home!

jofortruth	Posted: Oct 5 2009, 12:24 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 31,492 Member No.: 1 Joined: 1-May 07	APF Changes Name, Logo & Website To �Diffuse Tension� http://www.prisonplanet.com/apf-changes-na...se-tension.html This is what the banker boyz and other thugs like to do also - CHANGE THEIR NAME - to try to snow the public once again. SORRY IDIOTS, this doesn't work anymore, we can still hunt you down! How about changing your ethics and acting like real adults for a change? How about learning what the word ETHICS means. Then you wouldn't have to keep changing your names. IDIOTS! TOTAL IDIOTS PLAYING CHILDISH GAMES!

jofortruth	Posted: Oct 7 2009, 12:59 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 31,492 Member No.: 1 Joined: 1-May 07	Montana city's jail deal delayed amid controversy (AG Starts an Investigation) http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=15&sid=211723

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