Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Fema Camp or Run of the Mill Detention Center?

Two Rivers Detention Center (modern day concentration camp?)








By ZACH BENOIT Of The Gazette Staff | Posted: Saturday, September 26,2009 11:20 am

Link to Original Article here


HARDIN - Officials from American Police Force, a California security company working to lock down a contract with Two Rivers Authority to fill and operate Hardin's new but empty jail, provided more details Saturday of how the finished facility will look and operate.

At a Saturday morning press conference, Becky Shay, APF's new public-relations director, said the company hopes to build a 30,000-square-foot military-style training facility northeast of the jail and a 75,000-square-foot dormitory for the trainees to the southeast, all on a 50-acre plot of land.

She said the buildings would be paid for by APF's "business activities," including security and training, weapons and equipment sales, surveillance and investigations, and are projected to cost $17 million to build and $6 million to equip. There is also room to expand the jail, if needed.

The land is owned by TRA and the city of Hardin and will be leased to APF with a stipulation that the company develop the land.

Two Rivers is the city's economic development agency.

APF plans to focus on getting the jail operating and filled before building begins on a training facility and dorm.

"We've got a 114,000-square-foot building that has been absolutely inactive for two years," Shay said.

Significant obstacles remain - including a lack of any prisoner contracts. The company's operating agreement for the facility has yet to be validated - two weeks after city leaders unveiled what they said was a signed agreement.

Al Peterson, Two Rivers' vice president, said the contract with APF is being reviewed by lawyers to make sure it meets federal and state laws to maintain tax-exempt status for bonds used to pay for the original facility. The original 10-year contract was signed by Two Rivers and APF, but not the bank that has the bonds.

"That's what the holdup is" in finalizing the contract, Peterson said.

Also addressed Saturday were a number of concerns residents have posed about APF. Officials from the company have been checking out Hardin, Shay said, but they weren't hiding out in the community or performing stealth operations during that time.

"They were doing market research that any good business does," Shay said.

Shay and Capt. Michael Hilton, APF's owner, also declined to name APF's mysterious parent company and did not say if or when that information would be released.

"We are here as American Police Force and we will always work with you as American Police Force," Shay said.

But the company's flashy arrival this week stirred new questions. APF officials rolled into Hardin with three Mercedes SUVs marked with a logo that said "City of Hardin Police Department." Yet the city has not had a police force of its own for 30 years.

"Pretty looking police car, ain't it?" Hardin resident Leroy Frickle, 67, said as he eyed one of the vehicles parked in front of a bed-and-breakfast where Hilton and other company representatives were staying. "The things you hear about this American Police, I don't know what to think."

Hilton said the vehicles would be handed over to the city if it forms a police force of its own. City law enforcement is now under the jurisdiction of the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office. The city and county are in discussions to deconsolidate.

After meeting briefly with Hilton on Friday, Mayor Ron Adams said he wanted the police logos removed. The decals were gone from the vehicles by Friday.

"This helps, but it doesn't answer everything until the contract is signed," Adams said. "Talk is cheap."

On Saturday, Hilton said the logos were a sign of good faith to the community that the company is committed to helping Hardin establish a city police department. It would be operated by the local government, he said, like any other police department.

As for prisoners to fill the jail, the APF representatives remained optimistic the place would start filling up in early 2010. Shay declined to say where the inmates would come from but did say that APF is in contract negotiations with various agencies.

"This facility is built for, and this facility will hold, minimum- and medium-security inmates," Shay said.

To staff the 464-bed facility, hundreds of workers will need to be hired, although the percentage of how many locals will be hired has not been finalized. A job fair will be held in the coming weeks for those interested in applying, although a date hasn't officially been set.

Shay is APF's first local hire. A former Billings Gazette reporter, she started work for the company on Friday. She will be the company's spokeswoman for $60,000 a year.

Hilton said he also had a job discussion with Kerri Smith, wife of Two Rivers Authority Executive Director Greg Smith, who helped craft the deal to bring American Police Force to Hardin. Greg Smith was placed on unpaid leave two weeks ago for reasons that have not been publicly explained.

Kerri Smith is one of two finalists in the city's mayoral race. Hilton said he asked her to call him about possible employment if she did not win the race.

Kerri Smith could not be reached immediately for comment. A message was left by The Associated Press at a theater owned by the Smith family. Her home number is unlisted.

Posted in Montana on Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:20 am Updated: 11:33 pm. | Tags: Hardin Jail, Two Rivers Authority, Michael Hilton, Al Peterson,

16 comments:

  1. Thanks laudy, I know. THis was a followup to my article from yesterday:

    http://cotocrew.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/the-american-version-of-the-nazi-ss/

    How do you like their symbol? Is it taken from the Serbian flag? No one knows much about this group.

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  2. Guess we're recycling war criminals now on the Pentagon's dime.

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  3. then they came for the Civilized Nations

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/CheyenneStone.JPG

    http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.570278,-107.4275&spn=0.01,0.01&t=h&q=45.570278,-107.4275

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  4. See this website for some real interestin info on the company and it's founder. Apparently, he is a scam artist with many aliases, and currently is on the hook for 2.1 million in judgements against him stemming from 3 different court cases. the company was incorporated just two weeks after the Hardin facility made the news for being an expensive, empty prison. check it out

    http://cryptogon.com/?p=10995

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  5. Thanks Brad. The plot thickens.

    http://www.prisonplanet.com/apf-refuses-to-divulge-parent-company-amidst-blackwater-accusations.html

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  6. purrrrrrr ...........

    Becky Shay as their director of propaganda
    oops,
    I mean their director of public relations

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_the_Propagation_of_the_Faith

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  7. What a trend...towns reaching out to the private prison industry as a cash cow. See Florence, Az. for an example of how bad it can get. Like, let's build another prison, duh....your brother-in-law can put it up and my uncle can fill it and we all profit! The city population goes steady as the ones behind bars (for simple shit like posession of a joint) aren't counted as citizens....just inmates....cash cowmates, I guess. These townships are selling their souls as the population moves out of town and behind bars. America is CHANGING. From the inside out, the USA is turning into one big prison. Freedom? You are free to leave and never come back. THAT's what I call freedom.

    I haven't checked the latest headlines on AJ's site yet but I'm anxious to find out who the mistery man is, which company owns APF, if the people of Hardin have gathered in the streets yet and what Cpt. Michael from Montenegro (guess) is up to now that all the world knows who and what he is.

    Let's put up a prison! Gee, that'll create loads of jobs. We can continue to buy stupid shit we don't need as we get fatter and fatter and we don't need to read more than 100 words cause it's all propaganda anyway. If this one prison works out okay, we can open a second one. Hot damn! Cookin' with gas now!

    Gas? Oh shit.

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  8. According to that vapid sellout spokesperson for APF named Becky, they plan to build several of these around the U.S.

    As I illustrated in my other post, I believe the APF is the start of the American version of the Nazi SS. The City Year kids will be our German Stasi, as will anyone else that will relish the idea of spying on their neighbor in the name of "rooting out terrorists."

    APF's link to the vile Blackwater aka Xe which, while not yet confirmed, makes perfect sense doesn't it?

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  9. Now it appears APF is a front for Blackwater:

    http://coto2.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/video-american-police-force-exposed-as-a-blackwater-front-group/

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  10. Canada will grab a group of Northern states
    Prof. Panarin calls
    "The Central North American Republic."

    http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/12/american-civil-war-in-2010-russian-academic-says.html

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  11. Militarism is on the march!
    See http://www.infowars.com/jamboree-used-by-military-police-to-indoctrinate-boy-scouts/
    September 27, 2009 INFOWARS
    Jamboree Used by Military, Police to Indoctrinate Boy Scouts

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  12. UPDATE: From TPMMuckraker: Montana AG Probing American Police Force Deal

    http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/montana_ag_probing_american_police_force_deal.php?ref=mp

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  13. It's been bugging me all day
    why Xe, why those letters

    from Blackwater

    to Blacklight ?

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/XeTube.jpg

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  14. Xe, pronounced "zee", like na-zi.

    Private Security Companies:
    Aegis Defence Services Ltd
    ArmorGroup International Plc
    Blackwater USA
    Blue Hackle
    Chiron Resources (Ops) Ltd
    Control Risks Group
    Edinburgh Risks
    Erebus UK
    Erinys International
    Hart Group Limited
    Janusian
    Kroll Inc.
    Olive Group
    Red24
    Saladin Group

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