Again, getting information out as fast as possible, mostly highlights, etc…

Stories are breaking all over about the “American Police Force”: http://www.americanpolicegroup.com/index.html

Like how they drove into a city with “City Police” written on their SUVs with blacked out windows..

Click here for the AP Story: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ifOx0LPKy5B_0KAyPHyNTEqdQz6QD9AOHIIO1

I called them earlier and the gentleman who answered the phone told me they had a contract they were negotiating to serve as the local police force and it fell through, but that is why they drove in with those cars, the decals have been removed…. uh…

Here are my initial concerns:

1. They sell weapons and equipment internationally ONLY… and yet they contract with local US cities to do policing? This seems like a conflict of interest for American Citizens to pay tax dollars into…

Here is a list copied directly from their website of the weapons they sell INTERNATIONALLY:

American Police Force (APF) offers the world’s finest products and services to the military, police, and security professionals. We present to you our comprehensive product category list:
Weapons & Equipment Sales – INTL ONLY

http://www.americanpolicegroup.com/weapon.html

2.This appears to be an economic move with no thought about the current political atmosphere – bailing their own town out at the cost of…?

“Al Peterson, who is also Hardin’s superintendent of schools, wouldn’t release a copy of the contract. Bond holders have not signed off on the contract, which is being re-negotiated with regard to how $27 million in revenue bonds used to build the jail will be repaid. The bonds went into default last year.”

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ifOx0LPKy5B_0KAyPHyNTEqdQz6QD9AOHIIO1

3.Who are they sharing and getting information with / from?

“APF draws upon their vast global network of highly ranked officers and government officials providing private investigative services unparalelled to any operation in the industry worldwide.”

http://www.americanpolicegroup.com/american_private_police_force.html

4. Where does their funding come from?  On the phone they told me they take NO tax payer dollars… but if you’re contracted with the government… don’t you get tax payer dollars?  I am still trying to get a hold of their PR girl.

(I was directed to call this woman after calling American Police Force and it went to a cell with no voice mail set up.  Someone please look up the other stories she has written? )

“On Friday, American Police Force announced its first local hire: a reporter for the Billings Gazette, Becky Shay, who has covered events surrounding the jail since its construction. She will be the company’s spokeswoman for $60,000 a year.

Shay said she intended to bring new transparency to the process, but declined to directly answer the first question posed to her: Where is American Police Force getting the money to operate the jail and build the training center?

“I know enough about where the money is coming from to be confident signing on with them,” she said.”

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

Here is a list of other resources to information on the group and the situation

A blogger looks into APF’s background (or lack thereof):http://www.crushingchris.com/blog/?tag=american-police-force

This blogger looks into the webdomain names and links them to other projects: http://cryptogon.com/?p=11131

I thought you all would like some information on the developing story…

peace,

Cat
Catherine Bleish
executive director
Liberty Restoration Project

http://www.LibertyRestorationProject.org/

Midwest Liberty Fest: Showcase of the skills, talent and creativity found within the grassroots: Documentary premiers, Freedom concerts, Workshops, Speakers, and FUN.  http://www.midwestlibertyfest.com/

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Freedom reaches across party lines.

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=1092

I have pasted the important parts below for your convenience. My comments are in red.

THIS IS WHY THE FIGHT AGAINST THE FUSION CENTERS AND THE MIAC IS SO IMPORTANT.

I spoke with the woman who wrote this report last week – I was very clear that non of this was about race. VERY. I gave her facts about the government and she obviously had an agenda….

Blaming anti-government sentiments on racism, again.

One big difference from the militia movement of the 1990s is that the face of the federal government — the enemy that almost all parts of the extreme right see as the primary threat to freedom — is now black. And the fact that the president is an African American has injected a strong racial element into even those parts of the radical right, like the militias, that in the past were not primarily motivated by race hate. Contributing to the racial animus have been fears on the far right about the consequences of Latino immigration.

Quoting the RETRACTED MIAC report implying we are racist

The situation has many authorities worried. Militiamen, white supremacists, anti-Semites, nativists, tax protesters and a range of other activists of the radical right are cross-pollinating and may even be coalescing. In the words of a February report from law enforcement officials in Missouri, a variety of factors have combined recently to create “a lush environment for militia activity.”

Defending the DHS Report?

That same pugnacious attitude was on display after conservatives attacked an April report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that suggested a resurgence of radical right-wing activity was under way.

Linking in Ron Paul, as always these days, implicated Oath Keepers and Stewart Rhodes (I interviewed Stewart on my old internet radio show earlier this year GREAT intelligent guy)

In April, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes — a Yale Law School graduate and former aide to U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (a Texas Republican and hard-line libertarian) — worried about a coming dictatorship. “We know that if the day should come where a full-blown dictatorship would come, or tyranny … it can only happen if those men, our brothers in arms, go along and comply with unconstitutional, unlawful orders,” Rhodes told conspiracy-minded radio host Alex Jones. “Imagine if we focus on the police and military. Game over for the New World Order.”

Jack McLamb Implicated (was a speaker at the Revolution March in DC last year that I helped plan)

He’s not the first to think so. In the 1990s, retired Phoenix cop and conspiracy enthusiast Jack McLamb created an outfit called Police Against the New World Order and produced a 75-page document entitled Operation Vampire Killer 2000: American Police Action Plan for Stopping World Government Rule.

Sheriff Mack and Oath Keepers Implicated (Mack is a SPEAKER at MWLF)

One Oath Keeper is longtime militia hero Richard Mack, a former sheriff of a rural Arizona county who collaborated with white supremacist Randy Weaver on a book and who, along with others, won a U.S. Supreme Court decision that weakened the Brady Bill gun control law in the 1990s. “The greatest threat we face today is not terrorists; it is our federal government,” Mack says on his website. “One of the best and easiest solutions is to depend on local officials, especially the sheriff, to stand against federal intervention and federal criminality.” Mack’s views echo those of the Posse Comitatus, which believed that sheriffs are the highest law enforcement authorities in America. “I pray for the day that a sheriff in this country will arrest an IRS agent for trespassing or attempting to victimize citizens in that particular sheriff’s county,” Mack said in a video he made for Oath Keepers.

10th amendment movement

remarkable aspect of the current antigovernment movement is the extent to which it has gained support from elected officials and mainstream media outlets. Lawmakers complaining about the intrusiveness of the federal government have introduced 10th Amendment resolutions (reasserting that those powers not granted to the federal government remain with the states) in about three dozen states.

Tea Parties Implicated

Patriot ideology also has crept into the anti-tax “tea parties” that were staged by conservatives around the country in April and July. In addition to protesting government spending and taxation, some demonstrators called for the sovereignty of the states, abolition of the Federal Reserve (a long-time bogeyman of the radical right), and an end to “socialism” in Washington.

We must protect the internet

The recent Department of Homeland Security report also pointed to the role of the Internet in the current movement: “Unlike the earlier period, the advent of the Internet and other information-age technologies since the 1990s has given domestic extremists greater access to information related to bomb-making, weapons training and tactics, as well as targeting of individuals, organizations and facilities, potentially making … the consequences of their violence more severe.”

Catherine Bleish
executive director
Liberty Restoration Project

http://www.LibertyRestorationProject.org/

Midwest Liberty Fest: Showcase of the skills, talent and creativity found within the grassroots: Documentary premiers, Freedom concerts, Workshops, Speakers, and FUN. http://www.midwestlibertyfest.com/

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Freedom reaches across party lines.

Imagine this man in Congress, standing up for us all against endless war and endless debt.

Imagine the precedent he will set with his pledge to take home no more income than the national average, and donating the rest to a charity voted on by his constituents.

Imagine, and see it in your mind as a reality.

Now, help him get there.

9/30 is the last day of the quarter. The campaign has been pushing to raise their total over $100,000 to help discourage potential primary challengers. Supporters have declared 9/30 as the day for a mini-bomb to raise $30k. Their idea is to get 1,000 people to donate $30.

Join us!

https://kokesh.netboots.net/contribute

Thanks

The Free & Equal Elections Foundation

407 S. Dearborn Street Suite 1170

Chicago, IL 60605

Contact: Sean Haugh

Phone: (919) 402-3489

Email: Sean@FreeAndEqual.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Gubernatorial Debate for 2010 Candidates to be held in Du Quoin on October 9th

September 28th, 2009 –The Free & Equal Elections Foundation announced today that a Gubernatorial debate featuring candidates for the 2010 Governor’s race will be held on October 9th.

The event will be sponsored by Free & Equal and will take place as part of the Midwest Liberty Fest in Du Quoin, IL.

ALL candidates who have an intention of running in the race are invited to participate.

The debate will include members of the Democratic and Republican parties as well as Third-Party candidates and Independents.

“Free & Equal is committed to giving all candidates a forum, regardless of political ideology or partisan affiliation,” said Founder and Chair Christina Tobin. “It is imperative that the voters have a chance to hear all the candidates, not just those who may appear in the headlines regularly.”

The Free & Equal Elections Foundation is committed to ensuring that the ballot choices of the voters of Illinois are not limited. Several candidates are already confirmed for the debate, and we expect more in the coming days.

The Free & Equal Elections Foundation is a non partisan, non-profit  501 (c)4 public policy advocacy organization dedicated to eliminating restrictive ballot access laws that target Independent and Third-Party Candidates.

Free & Equal is committed to reforming restrictive ballot access laws across the nation, so that all candidates have a chance to be heard, regardless of political affiliation.

During the 2008 election, Free & Equal held an independent Presidential Debate in Washington, DC. The Free & Equal debate was the ONLY Presidential debate featuring Independent and Third-Party candidates held during the 2008 election to be broadcast to a national audience. The debate was broadcast Live by C-SPAN.

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http://www.midwestlibertyfest.com/node/78

Hi folks, I wanted to let you all know I will be speaking at the St. Charles Tea Party on October 2nd about State Sovereignty.  They have spent over $2,000 on radio ads thanks to their generous contributors (no they are not an AstroTurf funded group, rather a rag tag group of patriots working like DOGS to make this happen!).  5-10 thousands are expected.

LRP will have a booth at this event and would love some volunteers to help sell t-shirts and pass out Midwest Liberty Fest fliers!  If you’re in the KC area, the Amtrak is a fun and cheap way to travel!  Please email Catherine@libertyrestorationproject.org if you are interested in volunteering for LRP at this event!

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2

PRE-RALLY 4:00 pm; RALLY 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Come and Celebrate Being an American

Speakers:

• Emcee Diane Jones, 1220AM - KPLW Radio Personality, Washington, MO
• Paul Curtman, U.S. Marines, “The U.S. Constitution”
• Catherine Bleish Liberty Restoration Project, “State Sovereignty And The 10^th Amendment”
• Dr. Bob Onder, M.D. A.B., Washington U; M.D., Washington U; J.D., St. Louis U, “Healthcare Reform”
• Stephanie Rubach, Critical care R.N. (CWA of MO)
• Kevin Jackson, Author of “The Big Black Lie”

Information booths open at 3:30.

Don’t forget your lawn chair (rain or shine).

Sponsors: Show Me Patriots website ShowMePatriots.org

I Heard the People Say website IHEARDTHEPEOPLESAY.ORG

KFAV RADIO, KFAV 99.9FM - KWRE 730AM WILL BE BROADCASTING LIVE For more info, contact Joe Brazil @ 636-798-2424 or e-mail Joetbraz@centurytel.net

Supportcorruption.com went live yesterday as a redirect to our new national activism social network.

We advise groups in every major area to sign up to spread photos and videos of their actions and post upcoming actions.

The point of this social network is a flier downloads section where you can get the image of the “support corruption” flier along with other fliers being submitted for national street teams’ viral distribution.

This is so any spreading one group does of the “supportcorruption.com” link leads people to groups in their area who are fighting the same fight nationwide.

To submit your flier for review, please send it to kevin@libertyrestorationproject.org Our only request is that you don’t mind fliers being altered slightly to fit member groups’ activities (website urls, for example) and that if you use this service, we ask that you find a way include the supportcorruption.com url on some of your distributions (especially fliers downloaded from there) as to keep people finding all of our actions on it.

We want to provide a service where we all can promote each other in an easy way, that could potentially go viral. The long term goal of this website is to eventually have the home page allow people to click whether or not they would like to support corruption, and when they click that they don’t it will lead them to the social network, which will direct them to view their locality.

(just letting you all in on the vision of this, so that you understand the point of us using the reverse psychology method of sending people to a website that sounds like the opposite of what we’re fighting for)

Support Corruption.com

Thursday September 17th

Bob Parker Constitution Day Money Bomb

Bob Parker has announced that he will be challenging the incumbent in next year’s Republican primary for US Congress in Missouri’s 8th District.  He is a true patriot who could use your support.

Paid for by Bob Parker

(reposted from: http://www.midwestlibertyfest.com/node/68)

Liberty lovers,

Today I wrote a letter to the editor of my local paper about the upcoming Midwest Liberty Fest, an event I am working VERY hard on with a team of patriots to plan, organize and promote.  I could really use your help!

Would you submit a letter to the editor of YOUR local paper, you can even use mine as an example! (see pasted below).  I also submitted the event to be included in my local papers “entertainment” section.  If your paper has a section like that, please consider helping us spread the word by doing the same!

This is going to be the first ever event of its kind, a true spotlight on all the skill, talents, successes, and lessons learned by the REAL grassroots.  Keep your eye on the schedule on our website, the event is growing daily   www.midwestlibertyfest.com to purchase tickets or become a sponsor!

My letter to the Editor:

Dear Editor,

I am sure you have heard much about the growing grassroots movement to restore the Constitution to our beautiful country.  This nonpartisan movement, which I believe really took root during the Ron Paul campaign and is being carried by the Tea Party movement, has produced a class of activists like nothing our country has seen in recent times.  I wanted to let you know about a very exciting event happening driving distance from our community and I thought your readers might be interested.  It is called the Midwest Liberty Fest.

This event can only be described as a showcase of the afore mentioned grassroots movement.  Successful activists from across the political spectrum will be teaching their trade to attendees, liberty minded documentaries will be debuting (four total so far!), freedom loving musicians will be performing, big named movers and shakers will be give speeches and there will even be the opportunity for the crowd to get involved during an evening event called “Soap Box Idol” where attendees can sign up to give a three minute speech that will be judged much in the same fashion as American Idol.

The three day event only costs $20.00 and sounds like an amazing opportunity for folks in our community to learn about the various ways they can get involved.  Please consider letting your readers know about this event.  More details can be found at www.midwestlibertyfest.com

Hope to see you there!

Catherine Bleish

If you have any questions about the event, or would like to be  speaker, please shoot an email to team@midwestlibertyfest.com!

Catherine Bleish
executive director
Liberty Restoration Project
816-868-8806
Catherine@libertyrestorationproject.org
www.libertyrestorationproject.orgO

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Freedom reaches across party lines.

Part of our upcoming street action this Sunday at 1:00pm 63rd and Brookside blvd will be an attempt to spread the word of this provision to patrons of drinking establishments.

This is more than merely an issue of ethical reasoning for freedom in alcoholic consumption, this is also an issue of improper regulation of competing businesses, as these provisions have exclusions for some businesses.

The city council committee will also be meeting on this issue 10:00 AM City Hall 26th floor on 9/23.

If this issue affects you or your vision of freedom within the city, please attend.

We will also be discussing this issue at our weekly planning meeting on 9/22 at 7:00 at The Levee 43rd and Main.

The following link is the actual provision.

http://cityclerk.kcmo.org/LiveWeb/Documents/Document.aspx?q=fW98ycpo8rg3Gfskwe6er6%2byill3f5uLfJGnqURGhGaVQoCPd43kxsBqIumPvqNb

Big thank you to the following Facebook group for the head’s up!: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=127250692987&ref=mf

for more on the street action: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=261613525526&index=1

Here is a list of all of the city council email addresses:

Mayor:
Mark Funkhouser – mayor@kcmo.org

1st District:
Deb Hermann: terri_wolfe@kcmo.org
Bill Skaggs: jackie_burton@kcmo.org

2nd District:
Ed Ford: lisa_minardi@kcmo.org
Russ Johnson: traci_gleason@kcmo.org

3rd District:
Melba Curls: melba_curls@kcmo.org
Sharon Sanders Brooks: kimberly_randolph@kcmo.org

4th District:
Beth Gottstein: jim_giles@kcmo.org
Jan Marcason: susan_borge@kcmo.org

5th District:
Cindy Circo: gina_boucher@kcmo.org
Terry Riley: schylon_clayton@kcmo.org

6th District:
Cathy Jolly: lisa_sturgeon@kcmo.org
John Sharp: araceli_gallegos@kcmo.org

Don’t forget to add in all of the members of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Committee, they are the ones who consider advancing these items to the full council:

Cathy Jolly (Chair) – lisa_sturgeon@kcmo.org
John Sharp (Vice-Chair) – araceli_gallegos@kcmo.org
Cindy Circo – gina_boucher@kcmo.org
Melba Curls – melba_curls@kcmo.org

PRINT THE FOLLOWING IMAGE AND ASK TO LEAVE A FEW IN YOUR LOCAL BAR

Street team KC handing out good information and the propaganda in brookside.

We’re going to have LRP and Midwest Liberty Fest themed literature.

If you want to bring other Liberty-related infos to hand out along with these, please bring them.