More plagiarism, still live as of 10/05/09, 5:50 Central time:

Page on kidnapping. I've highlighted difference in the text in bold.

When dealing with a kidnapping and ransom situation, you need a private investigator on your side who you can trust and that has plenty of experience in the matter. If not handled properly, worse case, it can result in the loss of life. American Private Police Force Private Investigators can assist the police or even work on their own behalf. We can aid in the ransom delivery and even possibly uncover who is behind the kidnapping.

International Counterintelligence Services, Inc. page on kidnapping and ransom services:

When dealing with a kidnapping and ransom situation, you need a private investigator on your side who you can trust and that has plenty of experience in the matter. If not handled properly, worse case, it can result in the loss of life. Our Private Investigators can assist the police or even work on their own behalf. We can aid in the ransom delivery and even possibly uncover who is behind the kidnapping.

I won't quote all the rest - every sentence in the APPF page appears word-for-word on the International Counterintelligence Services, Inc. page. (Exceptions: "ICS" becomes "APPF"; "this kind of situation is a positive one." becomes "this terrible kind of situation is ultimately a positive result")

This could end in the zenith of ironic comedy. Michael Hilton along with other co-conspirators, is indicted and convicted of fraud and various other illegal activities in this scam, and ends up in prison... and it is.. (wait for it) the unused jail in Harden where his incarceration and prison term is served.

APPF plagarism, still live as of 10/05, yada yada yada. Differences in bold

APPF page on Special Forces Training:

Our extensive tactical firearms training facility (ETA Spring 2010) will be capable of providing a wide range of instruction and training for all types of law enforcement organizations. From basic firearms training to complex SWAT tactics, our corps of instructors can meet all your training requirements.

Matcal International Security Services, International Training - section entitled "Law Enforcement Operations":

Our extensive tactical firearms instructors are capable of providing a wide range of instruction and training for all types of law enforcement organizations. From basic firearms training to complex SWAT tactics, our corps of instructors can meet all your training requirements.

What's strange is that some of the source pages for the plagiarism seem to also be replete with haphazard grammar (e.g. "For instances" "extensive tactical firearms instructors"), some of which APPF actually improved. Makes one wonder if the whole industry isn't fishy, and APPF simply got too visible.

More plagarism, still live as of.. oy.

Finally plagiarizing from Xe (neé Blackwater). Differences in bold

APPF page on Police Officer and Security Training

APPF has successfully provided assistance in training foreign military organizations in combating transnational terrorism, coastal/harbor patrol threat interdiction, and terror activity interdiction in support of governmental security initiatives.

Xe page on International Training

Xe has successfully provided assistance in training foreign military organizations in combating transnational terrorism, coastal/harbor patrol threat interdiction, interdicting terror activity, and interdicting weapons of mass destruction, in support of Department of Defense security initiatives, and other US Government agencies.

I was at least expecting Xe to have a professional sounding website, but they seem to insist that Department of Defense security initiatives are a type of government agency.

Completing the "International Operations" trifecta (quintfecta?) in the lower left corner of the Services page is Convoy Security (Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan etc). Then I promise I'm done hijacking the comment thread. As usual, differences in bold

The basic skills all soldiers must know to prevail on the battlefield include battle drills for offensive and defensive operations, patrols, construction and emplacement of fighting positions, use of weapons and artillery, mines and explosives, land navigation and map reading, communications, individual security/camouflage and combat medicine.

2nd half of Blurb at Books•A•Million for book "Combat Leader's Field Guide (Paperback)" (original source may be book's publisher?)

the basic skills all soldiers must know to prevail on the battlefield, including: battle drills for offense and defense operations patrols construction and emplacement of fighting positions -- use of weapons and artillery mines and explosives land navigation and map reading communications individual security and camouflage and combat medicine ...

2nd half of APPF page text:

A guide to small unit dismounted combat operations has been extensively updated to include both the latest doctrine and lessons learned from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The equipment, operations, and individual combat skills essential for soldiers and others who must act as infantry, are essential for infantry leaders at the platoon and company level. This also includes Special Forces Troops, Air Force Security and other branches of the military.

1st half of Blurb at Books•A•Million for book "Combat Leader's Field Guide (Paperback)"

The book is a guide to small unit dismounted combat operations. It has been extensively updated to include both the latest doctrine and lessons learned from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It covers the equipment, operations, and individual combat skills essential for soldiers, marines, and airmen who must act as infantry, [...]

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This is great! The City fathers of Hardin locked up (so to speak) APPF for their law enforcement needs. Now if they can just get Judge Roy Bean under contract for the judiciary, they are all set for justice!

Only in America!

reminds me of those two jokers who were selling, like, 30-year old guns to the US or Afghani forces in Afghanistan a couple years back

half-assed operations that we throw money at like there's no tomorrow. once they get a little cash flow, they can start to hire ex-CIA folks and so forth and then apply for the big bucks

First of all, don't they have contract for 2 million a year? And they run the police force and the jail, so I'm sure they will find ways to augment their income. And then the guy who wrote that the best way to resolve this is with a big ol' Montana shootout.
The South has risen, and is taking over!

It seems the focus is all on how totally full of shit the APPF description of themselves is, and how this should lead to some serious legal action against the company.

The Montana town that fell for this seems to be spared the complete ridicule they are due. They build a jail they don't even need or have the money to operate? They enter into a contract with a company that makes the Male Enhancement products industry look like a pillar of honesty. They are so hyped up with the idea of black SUVs, cool guns and kick ass commandos that they invite a complete sham to unfold upon themselves with no evidence that their elected officials possesses the least inkling of an idea of how to competently run a municipality.

The folks who run that city must be just a bunch of hick country rubes; totally beguiled by the Glenn Beck demagoguery . You tend to see this when the level headed ones in town just throw up their hands at the inanity of City government and check out; the nuts take over. It's a story being played out in a lot of small towns across America, but they don't all achieve this level of keystone cops - scooby doo amusement.

By the end of this week, it will all be over. Hilton probably won't be arrested but I'm sure he'll be dreaming up a new alias. It's interesting to see new business models emerging though isn't it? I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Dick Cheney was funding this whole thing.

If they're not country bumpkins, then they must be the kind of City Fathers who want the services, but they just don't want to raise the taxes to pay for them! You know, the ones who feel entitled to this stuff and are offended if anyone says that they have to pay a tax to get it!

They need to make a movie about it and use the $$$ it would gross to pay off the bonds.

This could make a really, really good slapstick comedy.