The Hardin Montana Saga Continues…American Police Force UPDATE

*Be sure to see newest updates at the bottom of the post.*

After coming upon the story of the American Police Force in Hardin Montana on 09/28, I have tried to keep on top of the relevant information in an effort to find the truth. It is my sincere hope that this is being taken out of proportion. But I keep finding little things here and there that make me continue to question those that say, “Nothing to see here.”

I have always respected and admired World Net Daily’s reporting, they are a wonderful source for conservative news and I will continue to use them in the future. However, the story that they have published regarding this small town in Montana makes me question their sources and just how far they went to get answers. It appears that the only residents that they interviewed were the finance officer for the city and the wife of Two Rivers (detention facility) Authority Executive Director. Now, I would think, in order to get straight answers, you would not want to go to someone connected to the possible source. I would want to hear from actual citizens.

What made me question this even further is an article I came across on Alex Jones’ website. I do not agree with everything on InfoWars with Alex being a 9/11 truther and a bit on the paranoid side, but I do find some valuable information on there from time to time. Anyways, this article is written by Michael Hollingsworth, who says he lives just north of Hardin MT. He made some phone calls and uncovered some interesting details surrounding this story.

The most surprising detail to me was the information he received from the Billings Gazette reporter, Becky Shay, who after breaking the story on the American Police Force earlier this month is now working with them. She actually confided in him, as he states, “Ms. Shay confided in me that she went from a reporter’s salary and conditions “driving a ‘99 Dodge Intrepid with a broken tie rod and bad front brakes”, to “a brand new black  SUV that she doesn’t have to pay the gas bill for”. Mr. Hollingsworth also said that he got the feeling that she was “trying to sell [him] something”. And when calling the KULR 8 News office, he states that “They expressed concern about how a near 20 year career reporter could simply sell out and go to work for the very company SHE ousted!”

Michael Hollingsworth also has in his article that he contacted others in the town as well, in which he details in his writings to Alex Jones. This all seems very strange to me and I would really like to know why it seems that there are people being paid off to cover something up.  No matter what, having the APF there and impersonating officers was illegal to begin with although the insignia has been taken off the vehicles now. I sure hope that some responsible reporters get in there and do some video coverage to verify or clear things up soon.

Sources:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=111442

http://www.infowars.com/hardin-montana-under-siege/

My original post on this topic (contains quite a few links):

https://unconstrainedtruth.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/montana-town-taken-over-by-national-civilian-security-force/

New Posts about APF last updated 10/01/09 at 10:59 pm:

http://www.infowars.com/exposed-american-police-force-is-a-blackwater-front-group/

http://www.billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_023e1c90-ae1b-11de-8891-001cc4c03286.html (Criminal history and multiple aliases used by APF head Michael Hilton.)

http://www.kulr8.com/home/related/62994352.html (APF & Hardin Constitution Violations, also see related links on KULR 8, I think they provide a pretty clear picture of what is going on.)

Montana Town Taken Over By National Civilian Security Force

I don’t know where to begin, this is just something you do not expect to hear of in the United States of America, we are a free nation. A small town in Montana needs this story to get out, it is simply unconstitutional what is said to be happening to them. The town is seemingly being taken over by a private security force called the American Police Force who’s symbol eerily resembles a Russian symbol called the Coat of Arms from the Serbian Flag. The news station in Montana said, “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.”

It started as a contract with the APF, having them secure and take over the jail in preparation for Guantanamo detainees, but according to local news and residents who live in Hardin they are harassing the whole town. The American Police Force are integrating themselves with the Sheriff’s department, patrolling the streets, pulling people over, and it has even have been said by one supposed resident that they are building some kind of heavy duty gates at the entrances of the town. However, that has not been confirmed. A Two Rivers Authority official said that the aggressive tactics of the APF was never part of their agenda. A concerned citizen said:

“I am also told by a reliable source that today one of the managers at a local business in Hardin was visited by this new private security force which is now the new Hardin Police Department. He is an avid hunter and they came to inform him that they had a list of all fire arms that he owned; this includes all the residents of our town, and that he would need to take his guns down to have them put a marking device on them.”

This really has the residents of Hardin Montana upset, as they rightfully should. It sounds like this private security force is doing things the city council did not contract for them to cover. Is this government’s doing? Or is this a private organization overstepping their bounds? I think it is the later. However, scarily, I do recall President Obama, while running for president, saying that he wanted “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the US military. (Here is the video.) It is hard to understand what is going on in Hardin Montana, but we need to make sure that it does not go unnoticed.

Sources:

http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/61320122.html

http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/09_Global/090928.out.of.time.html

http://www.americanpolicegroup.com/ (This link looked like it had been completely taken off the internet up until just the last 30 minutes or so, 5:00 EST, but now I am able to pull it back up.)

Here is the cache found on google for http://www.americanpolicegroup.com:

http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:XuZxYtqXj4oJ:www.americanpolicegroup.com/+American+Police+Force&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

SCREEN SHOT OF WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN POLICE FORCE (Special Thanks To Steve Quayle):

http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/09_Photo_of_Day/090929.photo.of.day.html

UPDATE:

Here’s some more links on this breaking news, I will continue to update as I find relevant sources:

Here are questions about APF’s legitimacy http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ifOx0LPKy5B_0KAyPHyNTEqdQz6QD9AM0VM80

http://www.crushingchris.com/blog/?tag=american-police-force

http://www.billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_4079a856-a017-11de-994f-001cc4c002e0.html

Here’s another one Update 09/29/09 09:22pm ET:

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/29/crimesider/entry5351491.shtml

See my newest post on this topic here:

https://unconstrainedtruth.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/the-hardin-montana-saga-continues-update/