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It's got the sovereigns/FEMA death camps/Obama is Hitler/etc loons coming out of the woodwork.
Google it.
The short story is some small-time con man from Southern Cal who'd done time for check forgery and other little scams decided to go big. He saw that the small Montana town of Hardin had built a huge jail and couldn't find anybody to put in it. So he formed the "American Police Force," scammed a Mercedes dealership out of a couple of nice black SUVs, drove up there all fancy and apparently rich, and started negotiations with the illiterate hicks who run the town. Well the local gov't up there was >< INCHES away from signing a deal to give him control of the facility in return for his promises of $$$$$, the building of a homeless shelter, dog pound, ice cream parlor, work for the yokels..er.. locals.. and god knows what else.
I'm sure his end game was not so much about scamming the hicks, but about scamming large contractors and defense suppliers for big bucks once he could say he "ran" a government agency's prison facility.
Well, the sovereigns and their crazy network of loons somehow heard of the story and came up with billions of ridiculous conspiracy theories--- you know the type-- the gov't is hiring private contractors to enforce martial law, Obama is selling us to death camps, international bankers are running the country and are going to take over all the towns starting with backwater hillbilly bergs, etc. etc. etc.
Ironically, the loon network seems to have pulled the rug out of the scammer, a guy who goes by the name "Hilton" but has about 50 aliases. Now people are checking into him, the MT attorney general is demanding info, it's on all the right-wing radio, the MT governor is up in arms, and I bet you'll have a federal investigation pretty soon.
Pretty damn funny. And, of course, the little dude who started the scam, "Captain" Michael Hilton, is nowhere to be found. Probably back in California.
Google it! City of Hardin, American Police Force, etc. Great story.