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"Self-serving opportunism is irresponsible, immoral,

and reprehensible."

Amidst creating a flurry of false and fanciful tales, accusations and threats, leaders of the Powell County Museum and Arts Foundation (PCMAF), landlords-only of the Montana Law Enforcement Museum, rallied Deer Lodge locals to protest SB-73.

In the end, PCMAF cited their only true concern: that relocation of the Memorial would bring negative tourist and monetary* hardship upon their community.  Based therefore on this reason, the Senate Hearing Committee voted 11 to 5 to table Montana’s law enforcement community and family survivors' legislative request.  SB-73 died on the table.

*[NOTE: the then, long-time president of the 'non-profit' PCMAF privately owns and operates the for-profit Old Prison Museums Gift Shop; as well, PCMAF's then-executive director's generous full-time salary is effected by this same monetary hardship; not to mention the Memorial's move from Deer Lodge effecting others' political aspirations.]   
 

"According to communist teaching, the end justifies the means. This allows communists to use lies, deliberate deception, murder, and every measure possible to reach their goal."  -Haralan Popov, 1970

"The basic problem with negotiating with Communism was that compromises were always one-sided; the Bolsheviks always took and never gave; their aim was never peaceful co-existence, but complete conquest.  They considered everything as belonging to them."  -Vladimir Moss, Russian Historian
 

HOWEVER, except for one (the longest serving member), the chairman and New Generation Board of Directors of the Montana Law Enforcement Museum cowered at further overtones and court threats from the PCMAF - noting their decision to be the "politically correct" thing to do.  

“What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.”  -Bodie Thoene, Warsaw Requiem

“Political Correctness” was one of the very foundations of the Bolshevik-Communist Revolution.  ...Political Correctness is Marxism, with all that implies.  -Raymond V. Raehn, 2008, The Historical Roots of “Political Correctness” 

"By using the excuse of not upsetting anyone, the politically correct are demanding that people behave like the fool who would please everyone; that everyone must become such a fool! All must accept the notions of the Politically Correct as truth, or else! This is the same mentality that inspired the Inquisition and forced Galileo to recant; the same mentality that inspired the Nazis and obtained the Holocaust."  Philip Atkinson, Political Correctness

The MLEM Board handed operation of law enforcement's very own Memorial over to the private-owned PCMAF, and officially chose not to pursue any course of action to rescue the Montana Law Enforcement Officers Memorial from bullying, outsider hands and literal imprisonment. Even in spite of legal counsel from a longstanding, expert private property rights law firm; and in spite of the adamant admonitions of the Memorial's founder and Museum's 24-year Coordinator-Administrator, who then in exasperation resigned.  After removing and dispursing the last of MLEM artifacts out of Deer Lodge, the Board betrayed the sacred trust they accepted to defend, and abandoned their Died in the Line of Duty comrades.

Just prior to their March 2007 decision, the Great Falls Proposal group (making up most of the Board) dropped the Great Falls plans and building proposed for the relocation of the MLEM - without replacement plan or continuing in their pursuit.     

"Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes."  -Tom Cochrane

"Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it."  -Christine Feehan, Dark Demon

"Betrayal is common for men with no conscience."  -Toba Beta

"If you have integrity, nothing else matters.  If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."  -Alan Simpson

"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."  -Confucius

"He who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friends."  -George Shelley

History’s first distinctive police force, the  Cohortes Vigiles Urbanae, was established by the Roman Emperor Augustus in 6AD to Serve & Protect the citizens of Rome.  Like military Legionaries of the Empire, they swore two oaths:

FIRST, they all swore to obey the Emperor;
SECOND, they all swore to one another:
Rule No. 1: NEVER to desert comrades in order to save yourself;
Rule No. 2: NEVER to abandon your place in the battle line unless to recover a weapon, attack an enemy, or to save a comrade.

They repeated their oath annually in solemn ceremony every New Year’s Day.
No act of bravery was viewed as more important or so selfless as forcing back the enemy to save a fallen comrade.
It was the epitome of comradeship, illustrating for whom they really fought: each other.  This was the essence of the effectiveness of every Cohortes.  Cowardice in any battle was punished by futurism (being beaten to death by comrades whose lives had been betrayed) or being thrown headlong off the Tarpeian Rock overlooking the Roman Forum.                                                                                                                                          -Ordo Evocarti Cohortes Vigiles Urbanae

“He who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friends.”  -George Shelley, 1800s

"...you should have died!  Died, rather than betray your friends,
as we ... have done for you!"
                                                                   -(Joanne Kathleen Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

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       "It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty

                                     ...   and how few by deceit."

                                                                                                                                  -Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit