The Montana Human Rights network claim as a mission statement:

"To promote democratic values such as pluralism, equality and justice; challenge bigotry and intolerance; and organize communities to speak out in support of democratic principles and institutions."

However, when national news broke about Montana law enforcement working to find a recently released convict on the run away from authorities, the Montana Human Rights Network’s Travis McAdam took no time at all to try and attach a clearly mentally ill person to the TEA party and swing a political stab

(Travis McAdam from MHRN to NBC Montana) Burgert spent eight years in prison on an assortment of felony charges. He got out last year. He then came to Missoula, with the Tea Party movement in full swing in western Montana. McAdam says it's the perfect thing to set Burgert off. "If he kept his belief system that he had going in, which it very much seems like he has, then being in Missoula he had a whole menu of options to choose from if he wanted to jump back into groups that were promoting that type of ideology," says McAdam.

Aaron Flint, Montana’s only statewide talk radio host, summarized it perfectly:

"The Montana Human Rights Network typically tries to portray themselves in the Montana media as defenders of human rights, the holy warriors taking on discrimination in any form.  Yet, given all their claims of fighting discrimination, MHRN's Travis McAdam is wasting no time to paint a wide discriminatory brush against thousands of Montanans.  As law enforcement engages in a sweeping effort to rein in a mentally ill ex-con in the mountains of Western Montana, McAdam is engaging in a sweeping effort to compare this man to the thousands of peaceful, law abiding, law enforcement loving, and patriotic Montanans who consider themselves members of the Tea Party and who listen and engage in talk radio."

Travis McAdam needs to leave the Montana Human Rights Network, or the organization clearly needs to change the mission statement that they hold to be true. By no means is the statement by Mr. McAdam challenging “bigotry and intolerance” but rather subscribes to it. Email the Montana Human Rights Network to explain frustration here.