Its not for real, its a stunt. Somebody got drunk and mashed together a Tom Clancy reject and a deservedly forgotten Heinlien, and made a screenplay out of it. Totally ridiculous, of course, like Red Dawn, couldn’t happen. No way. Its about this guanobrained rightard who recruits an army of merc wannabes, the kind of guys who polish their gun reading Soldier of Fortune.
Totally implausible. Never happen. So, anyway, they got Roger Corman out of storage, filmed it in three weeks just outside San Berdoo, and their out drumming up some buzz. So, they cooked up this stunt, and AP bought it, and are gonna look real silly tomorrow morning…
Either that, or they’re for real, and they’re ACORN’s militant wing, and ACORN is making it’s move for world domination.
The Xe connection to APF, while unfalsifiable, seems bogus to me. If Xe wanted to keep the connection secret, why advertise a connection to USTC? And if Xe didn’t want to keep it secret, then why run such an amateur-hour website? And why would APF advertise USTC, when APF doesn’t offer training services? I think APF is one wannabe who made up the USTC connection.
Hardin specifically lobbied to have the Gitmo prisoners sent to them, but the feds refused. Probably because the people running the town and the prison don’t seem terribly competent.
US Training Center is an acknowledged subsidiary of Xe/Blackwater. That’s not the issue. It’s the connection to APF that’s in question.
Well, the APF connection to US Training Center seems … unproven. It’s unclear to me if they’re saying they use US Training Center for training, as clients, or they ARE US Training Center.
I doubt that guy even has that many employees. Looks like a straightforward scam, and this Hilton figure is probably just namedropping with the Xe connection, to look more legitimate.
The website looks like it was farted together in a single evening. Considering that the “APF” logo seems to be the heraldric arms of the former Yugoslavian royal family, and the guy on this http://www.americanpolicegroup.com/careers_american_police_force.html page is wearing Russian Navy gear.
When I taught college, it was in a rural area. A town nearby was in competition for a prison.
They wanted it BAD! They also won.
The town WAS elated. The school I taught at had to scramble to provide criminal justice courses. The prison tended to hire locally because, I imagine, it would be difficult to get people to move to that rural area. I even taught a few classes at the prison and enjoyed it very much (few faculty actually wanted to teach there but I volunteered, just like I did at the Air Force base which few wanted to teach at).
For all the NIMBY projects, one should really consider really rural areas. Many of them would be glad for NIMBY projects if they provide decent jobs for the area.
The links seem to come and go-- whether due to high traffic, or because they’re under modification, I do not know.
One statement made is that “APF works in every country in the world” along with a host of references to what can only be Blackwater experience.
If APF is a scam foisted upon Blackwater, that seems like a really dumb move for anybody to make.
If this is a case of Blackwater re-branding itself and now bringing its vision of “protection” from overseas to small towns in America, I will be highly disturbed.
