Conspiracy: Who Are Michael Hilton & The American Police Force?
And Why Do They Want To Take Over A Former Prison And Run A Private Training-Detention Center In Hardin, Montana?
A vacant prison outside Billings Montana has been leased by a mysterious "Captain Michael" (no last name given for the first few days) and the American Police Force. Who is Michael Hilton and what is the purpose of the APF?
The details remain a mystery, but my guess is that Hilton is attempting to create a competitor to Blackwater's private military organization, and rumors that the facility will be used to house former Gitmo prisoners is likely false.
According to TPM, Captain Michael Hilton has used the following aliases:
- Miodrag Dokovich, Miodrag Djokich, Miodrag Djokovich, Michael Hamilton, Anthony M. Hilton, Michael A. Hilton, Michael Milton and Hristian Djokich, plus related variants.
And he has a lengthy list of previous arrests:
• 1988: Hilton arrested in Santa Ana, Calif. for writing bad checks.
• April 1990: Hilton is again arrested in Santa Ana for writing bad checks and for grand theft.
• 1992: A civil judgment of $83,000 is entered against Hilton and Ilia Dokovich.
• March 1993: Hilton pleads guilty in Orange County court to 14 felonies, including 10 counts of grand theft. One charge involves a $20,000 real estate scam, in which Hilton persuaded an associate to give him a deed on property in Long Beach, Calif., saying it was to be used as collateral on a loan, then sold the property to someone else. According to the AP, he spends six years in prison in California.
• March 2000: Hilton is accused of fraud, larceny, and breach of contract, in connection to a venture in which Hilton and others recruited the plaintiff to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to create collectible Super Bowl commemorative coins. According to the complaint, Hilton and the others said the money would be used for the design and manufacture of the coins and for a license to produce them from the National Football League -- but the NFL never issued a license. Hilton is ultimately ordered to pay the plaintiff $200,000.
• Around the same period: Hilton also faces two similar fraud suits: In one, he's accused of posing as a fine arts dealer to deceive a Utah couple into giving him a $100,000 silver statue. In the other, he is said to have teamed with a doctor to recruit investors for a southern California assisted-living facility that was never built.
• November 2002: Hilton files for bankruptcy, in order to avoid eviction by his landlord.
• March 2003: Hilton is arrested for DUI in Huntington Beach.
• February 2004: Hilton files for bankruptcy once more, again to avoid eviction.
• January 2006: A $5,052 judgment lien is entered against Hilton in Orange County, CA.
TPM has the most recent update including word that Montana Attorney General, Steve Bullock, has opened an investigation into the agreement between Captain Michael and Hardin, Montana. The funniest quote from the entire mess is the following from Al Peterson, head of the TRA, who negotiated the deal with the APF:
- Addressing concerns, raised mostly on the internet, that citizens could be forced to give up their guns, Peterson writes: "It would be a cold day in hell when anyone could ask the citizens of this area give up their firearms without a HUGE fight." Peterson adds a "personal opinion" that "Gun control in Montana is best described as 'Being Able To Hit Your Target.'"
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There has been a growing narrative taking hold about Barack Obama’s presidency in recent weeks: that he is loved by many, but feared by none; that he is full of lofty vision, but is actually achieving nothing with his grandiloquence.
* The cost of the contractors is substantially higher than the cost of the soldiers they replace. (That is, the cost of the war is going up as the U.S. “scales down” its presence in Iraq)
* “Where private guards replaced soldiers, many more guards were needed to do the same job.” So the numbers and cost of the U.S. presence is going upward, not downward.
* The new contractors are overwhelmingly “third-country nationals” employed by U.S. corporations under contract from the U.S. Defense and State departments. That is, with unemployment at 60% in many places around Iraq, the new jobs created by these contractors are not giving employment to unemployed Iraqis.
* And just to underscore that this is not a process of de-escalating a U.S. presence, the “third country nationals” brought in to replace U.S. soldiers are required to speak English, but they need not speak Arabic. So we learn that the process of cultural imperialism is continuing—there is no effort to have the U.S. presence become blended into Iraqi civil society. In fact, this and so many other actions work to coerce the Iraqis into integrating into the globalized U.S. political economy.
This concept is not new, as the Pinkerton agency was founded on the same principles. Once the Pinkertons set their unblinking eye on a man or group, no matter how scant the evidence, that party must be guilty. Mix with this a complete identification with their clients -- the railroaders, mine owners, and other industrialists -- and by the turn of the century the Pinkertons had developed a Bourbon cast of mind. They were ultraconservative and could do no wrong, true practitioners of Social Darwinism who resisted social reform and were dedicated to the rule of the status quo. "Never has the private detective been used to such an extent, or with such unscrupulousness," as during the first decade of the twentieth century, the president of the American Federation of Labor, later said. "They have been not only private soldiers, hired by capital to commit violence, and spies in the ranks of labor; they have been ... used in the capacity of agents provocateurs -- that is, in disguise, as union men, to provoke ill-advised action, or even violence, among workingmen." ...These same tactics are still used today to form excuses to break up peaceful protests, as seen in the G-20 protests and Seattle WTO protests in 1999.
However Seattle sorta backfired on them.
In his book TWO EVIL ISMS: PINKERTONISM AND ANARCHISM (1915), former Pinkerton detective Charley Siringo detailed the way the agency overcame obstacles to get their men, including breaking the laws they were sworn to protect. He said: "The Pinkerton National Detective Agency was above the law. A word from [William] Pinkerton or one of his officers would send any "scrub" citizen to the scrap heap or the penitentiary. This is no joke, for I have heard of many innocent men "railroaded" to prisons, and my information came from inside the circle. A man without wealth or influence trying to expose the dastardly work of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency would be like a two-year-old boy blowng his breath against a cyclone to stop its force."
It was no coincidence that the slang term to railroad, meaning to send to prison with summary speed or by means of false evidence, came into wide use at this time.
This is just one more example in "the calm before the storm". William Pinkerton dreamed of a worldwide web of data and social control, dreams that later saw greater expression in the development of the FBI's fingerprint files and
IBM's early punch-card technology.
Today the "spiders" are very busy completing the web.
No doubt the death star is being constructed with utmost speed. I think it very likely that Captain Michael could be affiliated with "eX"-Blackwater . Remember their last foray into a "training center " outside San Diego failed due to exposure. Certainly conceivable to me they were testing the waters and could deny any such connection if they (again) failed.
The internet is a problem to these folks and their masters.
Yes. Keep the sheep in the dark. They can't afford the bad publicity. Lots of bad press right now in Pakistan.
"The internet is a problem to these folks and their masters. "
And Gomp, I liked the history on Pinkerton...
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/surveillance/2009-09-30-backscatter-body-scanners_N.htm
Here's a link
http://freedomedium.com/2009/08/obamas-civilian-defense-force-is-now-paying-for-recruits/
Some patriot.
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