claiming the prison is outdated, American Police Force turns tail and drops their bid for the Hardin Jail.

Hardin Jail/American Police Force President Michael Hilton: Scam Artist or True Western Hero?
Here’s a new joke we tell out here in the windswept plains of eastern Montana: what do you get when you cross a wanna-be Serbian Militant with a Southern California car salesman? That’s right, the keys to the Hardin Jail.
Lock and Load Them Ballet Tunes Boys, We’re Headed to Hardin
I associate Ravel’s Bolero with, if not softness itself, the soft curvature of a woman.
Imagine my surprise to find it as the website theme American Police Force, a group that sells arms in Afghanistan, and is a general one-stop shop kidnap and ransom/fugitive recovery/spousal infidelity service group that also does international military and paramilitary operations, cruise ship and shipping security, and trains special forces.
Oh, and this they’re the new residents of the Hardin, Montana jail.

Welcome to Montanamo Bay: Hardin Montana continues its campaign to become Gitmo North
Al-Jazeera? Yes, that network. The local news gave it all the shock-value of an invasion of the Taliban. In reality, the crew was two white dudes — one from D.C., one from Canada. It looked more like the invasion of the Nordic News Network. Not since Dick Cheney and his fishing guide swooped down in a Blackhawk helicopter to fish the nearby Bighorn have two white dudes garnered so much attention in Hardin.
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140 miles east of cool is both a place and a space.
As a place, 140 miles east of cool is where I live–exactly 140 miles east of Bozeman, Montana in the “Magic City” of Billings, MT.
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