tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249464422024-03-13T14:01:29.076-06:00What's Wrong With This Picture?M.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.comBlogger381125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-8755613412377096862015-01-19T23:42:00.000-07:002018-01-30T05:00:11.998-07:00Reies López Tijerina September 21, 1926 – January 19, 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reies López Tijerina: 47 Years</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina, who lead the Hispanic Land-Grant movement, of the mid to late 1960s, passed away today from natural causes in an El Paso Hospital according to Russell Contreras, who covers the Southwest for <a href="http://www.abqjournal.com/528613/abqnewsseeker/chicano-activist-reies-lopez-tijerina-dies-at-age-88.html">Associated Press</a> as a reporter/photographer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was 88.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijernia was born in a field where his mother was a migrant picker in Falls City, Texas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This post starts at the end:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Epilogue</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina spent most of his last few years in Mexico and El Paso, Texas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjH7eh5pSkI/AAAAAAAAFjo/Z1mAveHY0-4/s1600-h/Tijerina-Isabel-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346330734580288066" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjH7eh5pSkI/AAAAAAAAFjo/Z1mAveHY0-4/s400/Tijerina-Isabel-w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 289px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>This is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reies_Tijerina">Reies López Tijerina</a> and his 30-month old daughter Isabel. Isabel would play a crucial role in the following story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Forty years ago, I was in Federal District Court in Albuquerque testifying for both the prosecution and defense, about events that unfolded and became the end of Tijerina's public "militant" career. He was a charismatic leader of a movement in the states that were formed from the land that was once Mexico and captured during the Mexican-American war of 1846-48.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I spent eight days with Tijerina in New Mexico and Washington, D.C., in early June 1969 culminating when he and his wife Patsy were arrested for burning federal property and his resisting arrest by assaulting a federal law enforcement officer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The underlying issues leading up to these events are complex and convoluted. I by no means attempt to chronicle the history of this man, the land grant movement, or the broader issues of the ethnic politics or culture of our region. Those issues are well documented in books about Tijerina, including:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Michael Jenkinson's 1968, "<a href="http://www.oldcornerbooks.com/cgi-bin/fgb455/12020">Tijerina land grant conflict in New Mexico</a>",</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peter Nabokov's 1969, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tijerina-Courthouse-Raid-Peter-Nabokov/dp/B001UZLAW6/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244493198&sr=8-16">Tijerina and the Courthouse Raid</a>",</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Richard Gardner's 1970, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tijerina-photos-Richard-Jamison-others/dp/B002B9L6IS/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244493198&sr=8-15">Grito! Reies Tijerina and the New Mexico land grant war of 1967</a>",</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Patricia Bell Blawis', 1971, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tijerina-Land-Grants-Americans-Heritage/dp/0717803376/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_3">Tijerina and the land grants; Mexican Americans in struggle for their heritage</a>,"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Richard Griswold del Castilo‘s 1992, “<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=p_T9BS3hHzkC&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq=Tijerina+land+grant+conflict+in+New+Mexico&source=bl&ots=PyYh0RaI2r&sig=yPp41ZzDNfE0WEPcGh7xrOr6aiw&hl=en&ei=EaFHStvyOZGsMJyuhLMK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9">The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy of Conflict</a>“,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Francisco Arturo Rosales' 1995, "<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qvGgsGBFQncC&dq=Chicano%21+By+Francisco+Arturo+Rosales&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0">Chicano</a>!: the history of the Mexican American civil rights </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rudy V. Busto's 2005, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/King-Tiger-Religious-Vision-Tijerina/dp/0826327893/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244492852&sr=8-2">King Tiger: The Religious Vision of Reies Lopez Tijerina</a>",</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">George Mariscal's 2005, "<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Z45UUJmlAbIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Tomas+Ben+Yacya&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=6">Brown-eyed children of the sun</a><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Z45UUJmlAbIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Tomas+Ben+Yacya&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=6">: lessons from the Chicano movement, 1965-1975</a>",</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Francisco Arturo Rosales' 2007, "<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Wacm-XKHz3gC&pg=PA421&lpg=PA421&dq=Tijerina+sign+burning&source=bl&ots=FK4143Iqcp&sig=Tvm6q-RrRlylsEvCNP0PoWODdnw&hl=en&ei=PnAzSsb8DYHosQPAnty2Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9#PPA268,M1">Dictionary</a> of Latino civil rights history", and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina's autobiography, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/They-Called-Me-King-Tiger/dp/1558853022/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244492852&sr=8-1">They Called Me "King Tiger": My Struggle for the Land and Our Rights</a>," the 2000 English translated version of his earlier Spanish edition.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina donated his <a href="http://rmoa.unm.edu/printerfriendly.php?docId=nmupict000-654.xml">papers</a> to the University of New Mexico's University Libraries, Center for Southwest Research in 2005 and may be viewed at the Anderson Reading room.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If one makes an Internet search the events of 1969 are non-existent or shallow, incomplete and misdirected. Some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reies_Tijerina">sources</a> explain that Tijerina went to federal prison, but ignore telling which <a href="http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/446/446.F2d.675.138-70.html">crimes</a> he was convicted or correctly identifying the terms of the sentence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This post deals with photographs I made of Tijerina's activities from 1968 to 1972. The color photographs have never before been published or displayed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">United Press International, the Associated Press, <a href="http://www.theblueflyer.com/Blue%20Flyer%20html%20folder/Influence%203FMcC.html">The Albuquerque News</a>, and Newsweek previously published some of this work. Please look at the link because I try not to repeat those pictures here. You will have to scroll down a ways to get to the story.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So what’s wrong with this picture?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjGphC1xczI/AAAAAAAAFh4/JDrfdFSNaq0/s1600-h/c-Tijerina_28a_San-Jaquin-W.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346240617828676402" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjGphC1xczI/AAAAAAAAFh4/JDrfdFSNaq0/s400/c-Tijerina_28a_San-Jaquin-W.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 273px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Originally known as the Alianza Federal de Mercedes, the <a href="http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=nmu1mss628bc.xml">Alianza Federal de los Pueblos Libres</a>, as translated by its founder Reies López Tijerina to mean, the Alliance of free City-States.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Founded in 1962 the Alliance was characterized by the establishment press as a militant Spanish American group.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina and the Alianza made claims to land grants based on provisions of the 1848 <a href="http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/guadalupe-hidalgo/">Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildalgo</a> ending the Mexican-American War. The U.S. Senate struck provisions for land grants from the treaty, however the New Mexico State Constitution addresses treaty provisions for land grants to remain intact as issued by the Spanish crown:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Though some grants were issued to individuals, most land grants were made as property of towns comprised of several families and were not to be subdivided, but were to be maintained for future use. A residential area set aside existed and all the other area was to be for a common use, including: irrigation, farming, grazing, and lumbering. Such community grants could not be sold or broken up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Despite efforts to resolve land grant claims that, included a series of Federal Court cases heard in 1891, and eventually appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which said the matter, because it was a treaty, a Congressional issue; Congress has never addressed or tried to clarify the issue.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The issue has been kept alive and is repeatedly submitted to Congress, but the bill never makes it through a committee hearing. In the practical sense it is an issue unlikely to be resolved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>In the summer of 1966, Tijerina led a group of followers on a three-day march from Albuquerque to Santa Fe to present Alianza land grant demands to New Mexico Governor Jack Campbell.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Skv7rTPNmRI/AAAAAAAAFwU/yVAdIwCXHhs/s1600-h/Cargo-Govs-Conf-4w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353649303376992530" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Skv7rTPNmRI/AAAAAAAAFwU/yVAdIwCXHhs/s400/Cargo-Govs-Conf-4w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 284px;" /></a>The Alianza also met with newly elected New Mexico Governor <a href="http://www.theblueflyer.com/Blue%20Flyer%20html%20folder/Personal%20Influences%20Cargo.html">David F. Cargo</a>, seen here during the National Spring <a href="http://www.rga.org/">Republican Governors</a> Conference in Santa Fe, May 1970.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>On October 22, 1966, the Alianza Federal de Mercedes held a convention at the <a href="http://www.digitalabiquiu.com/pages/tours/echo_t.html">Echo Amphitheater</a> campground in the Carson National Forest, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. The Alianza claimed the property to be the Pueblo San Joaquin del Rio de Chama land grant taken from the people and illegally under the control of the United States.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two U.S. Forest workers tried to collect campground user fees from the group. The land grant’s marshals seized rangers Walter Taylor and Phil Smith and their vehicles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A "mock" trial was commenced and rangers were convicted of trespass and being a nuisance. They were given suspended sentences and were released. Their trucks were "impounded."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>On June 5, 1967, Tijerina led the Tierra Amarilla courthouse "raid." The purpose was to free some Alianza members from jail who had been arrested at an earlier event. Ironically, the men were freed and had left the courthouse shortly before the jailbreak occurred.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkN1Ggwe7uI/AAAAAAAAFt0/LYcikBlogQA/s1600-h/NMSP-Nick-Saiz-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351249536979234530" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkN1Ggwe7uI/AAAAAAAAFt0/LYcikBlogQA/s400/NMSP-Nick-Saiz-w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 281px;" /></a>During the "raid" two law enforcement officers were shot: New Mexico State Police Officer Nick Saiz, seen here at the National Spring Republican Governors Conference in Santa Fe, May 1970, and Rio Arriba County Jailer Eulogio Salazar. Tijerina was charged with shooting Salazar twice, once in the jaw.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Associated Press Writer Larry Calloway was in the courthouse in a phone booth filing his story to the AP office in Albuquerque when gunfire erupted. Calloway has <a href="http://www.larrycalloway.com/column.html?_recordnum=125">written</a> at length about his experience; he was kidnapped and held by a couple of the raiders.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Salazar was abducted from in front of his home while opening his gate and was later found murdered in his car. Suspicion immediately turned to Tijerina and the Alianza. The investigation was short lived. Several members of the Alianza were arrested, but all could account for their whereabouts at the time of the murder and no one was charged. A law enforcement official close to the investigation at the time told me some undisclosed Constitutional issue made the case impossible to pursue, though police believe they knew what happened. New Mexico District Judge Joe Angle slapped a gag order on government officials, from the governor on down through law enforcement, to not comment about the case or investigation. Neither Tijerina nor the Alianza were involved.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkOu3yWF6JI/AAAAAAAAFt8/j94qrhSqrgU/s1600-h/Wanted-Posters_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351313055676754066" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkOu3yWF6JI/AAAAAAAAFt8/j94qrhSqrgU/s400/Wanted-Posters_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 337px;" /></a>The Albuquerque Journal posted a $7,500 reward. Years later the reward poster still adorned law enforcement office walls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Tijerina and others were tried in Federal court. The trial venue was changed to <a href="http://www.las-cruces.org/">Las Cruces</a> in <a href="http://www.co.dona-ana.nm.us/">Doña Ana County</a> at the Federal Courthouse before Judge Howard Bratton.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reies López Tijerina, Cristobal López Tijerina, Jerry Noll, Ezekial Dominguez and Alfonso Chavez were convicted to varying degrees of assault of the two rangers and conversion (stealing) of two forest service trucks. The jury was deadlocked on the conspiracy count on all defendants and the judge ordered a mistrial.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Tijerina was convicted of assaulting the two rangers and acquitted of stealing the forest service trucks. He was sentenced to two years in prison and five years of probation.<br />Tijerina and Noll were also found to be in contempt of court for having violated a gag order by talking about the case before the trial at an Alianza convention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina Sentenced in the Echo Amphitheater Case</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Tijerina and Noll were sentenced to 30-days for the contempt.<br /><br />Tijerina posted a $10,000 bond and was released pending the out come of an appeal.<br />Tijerina and his fellow defendants appealed the <a href="http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/407/407.F2d.349.10031-10035_1.html">conviction</a> and <a href="http://openjurist.org/412/f2d/661">contempt</a> to United States 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, Colorado, and the U.S. Supreme Court denied Writs of Certiorari rejecting hearing the issues.<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saturday May 17, 1968, the Poor People's March, Albuquerque, N.M.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjVeWlDRcTI/AAAAAAAAFpA/vrOnIHwdy2I/s1600-h/-0_Tijerina_PPM_Central_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347283874568302898" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjVeWlDRcTI/AAAAAAAAFpA/vrOnIHwdy2I/s400/-0_Tijerina_PPM_Central_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 268px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>The Poor People's March, started as an idea of the late <a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html">Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.</a> Tijerina was chosen by King to be a representative of the Hispanic delegation. His selection was controversial, with some claiming that the Alianza represented land retention and not poor people as typified by southern blacks. However King's vision for the march was not limited to blacks, but was to include all "poor people." He also included, Native Americans, residents of Appalachia, and any other groups deemed poor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was the western contingent that started in Los Angeles and worked its way to Washington, D.C.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjoWUx90PCI/AAAAAAAAFrA/ZU4aXhHph5s/s1600-h/Tijerina_PPM_BannerWl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348612053721693218" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjoWUx90PCI/AAAAAAAAFrA/ZU4aXhHph5s/s400/Tijerina_PPM_BannerWl.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 267px;" /></a>Marchers passed through Albuquerque, from Dennis Chavez Park to the Old Town Plaza.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjoVxrfN4rI/AAAAAAAAFq4/_F-IbBCVUuw/s1600-h/Tijerina_PPM_H2O_RalphWl+.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348611450687316658" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjoVxrfN4rI/AAAAAAAAFq4/_F-IbBCVUuw/s400/Tijerina_PPM_H2O_RalphWl+.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 272px;" /></a>Tijerina offers the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, right, of the Southern Christen Leadership Conference water from a canteen while marching through downtown.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjqMaoZcnQI/AAAAAAAAFrI/aT4TmJdgERk/s1600-h/Tijerina_PPM_surveillance_Wl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348741896604523778" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjqMaoZcnQI/AAAAAAAAFrI/aT4TmJdgERk/s400/Tijerina_PPM_surveillance_Wl.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 268px;" /></a>Police provided an escort common to such parades and maintained surveillance in the wake of King's April 4, 1968, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._assassination">assassination</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkJyY9Hif7I/AAAAAAAAFtM/pgaF16o6aIM/s1600-h/-0_Tijerina_PPM_Abernathy_1Wl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350965080318181298" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkJyY9Hif7I/AAAAAAAAFtM/pgaF16o6aIM/s400/-0_Tijerina_PPM_Abernathy_1Wl.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 272px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>At Old Town, Tijerina whispers in Abernathy's ear during his speech.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH40/chase40.html">Poor People's March</a> ended in Washington, D.C. on the South Mall where the marchers took up residence in a complex of tents and temporary shelters that was called, "Resurrection City." The protesters spent about six weeks on the mall from mid May until late June when federal workers razed the "City."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina would lead a group of "Resurrection City" residents on a "raid" on the United States Supreme Court building on May 29.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina for Governor</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1968 the Alianza created a political arm, the People’s Constitutional Party. Running for governor, Tijerina led a slate of candidates for state offices.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The State Supreme Court ruled that Tijerina could not remain on the ballot because of his federal felony conviction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>November 12, 1968, First Tierra Amarilla Courthouse "Raid" Trial</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the State trial for the Tierra Amarilla courthouse "raid" case charges against Tijerina were severed from the nine other defendants.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The charges of shooting Rio Arriba County Jailer Eulogio Salazar were initially dropped due to his death.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina fired his court appointed attorney and Second Judicial District Judge Paul Larrazolo granted his motion to represent himself. He represented himself on the three remaining charges: kidnapping, false imprisonment and assault on a jail.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First Judicial District Attorney <a href="http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=nmumss803bc.xml">Alfonso Sanchez</a> prosecuted the case. Sanchez had been one of the targets of the raid.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The trial lasted a month and on December 13, the jury acquitted him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The verdict came ‘as a complete shock – and I guess I’m still in shock," says Jack L. Love, one of the prosecutors (Ed Meagher, Los Angeles Times December 15, 1968) "Never can I remember so completely misreading what the mood of a jury seemed to be.”</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Love's statement is a third party quote, reported in an article, "New Mexico: The Coming Guerrila War" by Alan Stang, published in the March 1969 American Opinion, and originally attributed to the Los Angeles Times, December 15, 1968.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qvGgsGBFQncC&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq=Tierra+Amarilla+courthouse+Alfonso+Sanchez&source=bl&ots=fVIeRe7WhQ&sig=AFG7_gKTuiZZA5hxscGmD6Kh_xY&hl=en&ei=QT9zStykOcOelAeT1vj4Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=Tierra%20Amarilla%20courthouse%20Alfonso%20Sanchez&f=false">Sanchez</a> lost reelection as District Attorney in the November election and left office the last day of 1968.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>Saturday March 15, 1969, Alianza Headquarter car bombing</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SmuEE7DlQPI/AAAAAAAAF3g/FfqH10LAG9o/s1600-h/Tijerina_Bombing_7Wl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362525001421766898" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SmuEE7DlQPI/AAAAAAAAF3g/FfqH10LAG9o/s400/Tijerina_Bombing_7Wl.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 272px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Albuquerque police and fire departments were dispatched to an explosion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjGkt1zB_wI/AAAAAAAAFhg/hxx1Syvabk4/s1600-h/-1_Tijerina_Bombing_5w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346235340107677442" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjGkt1zB_wI/AAAAAAAAFhg/hxx1Syvabk4/s400/-1_Tijerina_Bombing_5w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 274px;" /></a>The vehicle belonging to Alianza Vice President Santiago Anaya, below right, was destroyed by a bomb in a parking lot next to the Alianza headquarters at 1010 3rd St. N.W. Albuquerque, N.M.</span><br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSU8PSFaXI/AAAAAAAAFoo/9CsbFycZkxI/s1600-h/-1_Tijerina_Santiago_Anaya_w.jpg"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347062420211067250" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSU8PSFaXI/AAAAAAAAFoo/9CsbFycZkxI/s400/-1_Tijerina_Santiago_Anaya_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 261px;" /></span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjGkj8lCD9I/AAAAAAAAFhY/zFS1efDRK4o/s1600-h/-1_Tijerina_Bombing_4w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346235170129317842" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjGkj8lCD9I/AAAAAAAAFhY/zFS1efDRK4o/s400/-1_Tijerina_Bombing_4w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 270px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Scattered wreckage was found several blocks away.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364457142580871250" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnJhWVxXAFI/AAAAAAAAF5Y/80ln6ErPr-U/s400/-1_Tijerina_Bombing_3w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 271px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364456710980659522" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnJg9N72aUI/AAAAAAAAF5Q/0LWi6aljR2w/s400/-1_Tijerina_Bombing_2w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 271px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina, who was suffering from a cold, covered his mouth with a towel to protect against the temperature, while he spoke with investigators and military bomb squad members.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SmuCjBxEsLI/AAAAAAAAF3Y/smIOHM45RD4/s1600-h/Tijerina_Bombing_6Wl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362523319596003506" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SmuCjBxEsLI/AAAAAAAAF3Y/smIOHM45RD4/s400/Tijerina_Bombing_6Wl.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 270px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>A military ordnance disposal unit checked other vehicles for additional bombs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bombing was only one of a series of blasts against: the Alianza headquarters, members’ vehicles, and homes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Skv3NZk7nMI/AAAAAAAAFwE/YxuTFWzZb84/s1600-h/APD-Gerber_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353644391636114626" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Skv3NZk7nMI/AAAAAAAAFwE/YxuTFWzZb84/s400/APD-Gerber_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 261px;" /></a>Albuquerque Police Department Detective Pat Gerber investigated this bombing. No arrest was made.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The string of bombings was chronicled by Peter Montagu in the Sept. 1969 The New Mexico Review's and reprinted in a Special Issue of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Grito_del_Norte">El Grito Del Norte</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>Tuesday May 6, 1969, NBC's "First Tuesday" </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.nbc.com/">NBC</a> (National Broadcasting Company) television network's newsmagazine "<a href="http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain/article/3566/0/1511840/WAMC.Speakers.Corner/Alan.Chartock.....In.Conversation.with.Sander.Vanocur">First Tuesday</a>" had a segment reported by host <a href="http://www.speakers-network.com/speakers/speaker.asp?id=360">Sander Vanocur</a> entitled, "The Most Hated Man in New Mexico" about Reies López Tijerina.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the program Tijerina spoke of plans to hold an Alianza convention celebrating the second anniversary of the Tierra Amarilla courthouse "raid." Tijerina said that during the celebration, participants were going to confront the federal government, specifically, the Forest Service by possibly driving sheep and cattle onto National Forest land in symbolic protest of lost ancestral lands.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>On May 12, 1969, I approached Tijerina with a proposal to do a photo story on his activities during the early part of June. He said no.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjGkNGDIcnI/AAAAAAAAFhI/1ljjuxTbbwo/s1600-h/-0_Tijerina_PPM_2w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346234777534493298" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjGkNGDIcnI/AAAAAAAAFhI/1ljjuxTbbwo/s400/-0_Tijerina_PPM_2w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>I followed him into his office and saw the photo, above, I had taken from him with Reverend Ralph Abernathy, right, of the Southern Christen Leadership Conference and Chief <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Enycalaba/LongCem.html">Beeman Logan</a>, left, a leader of the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians from New York State at the May 17, 1968, Poor People's March. I pointed out the photo as being one I had taken. He questioned whether I shot the picture. I took the picture off the wall and showed him the back of the print had my rubberstamped name on it. He stated that it was his favorite photograph of himself and agreed to let me travel with him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He told me he wanted a copy of all the photographs I took. I told him that that did not sound reasonable because my style was to shoot a lot of film then to select the best shot from the many to print. We agreed that I would give him a choice and make him 150 prints for his personal non-publication use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>Saturday May 17, 1969, Spanish Language Parade, Albuquerque</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHwjfCyylI/AAAAAAAAFjg/7yWTv4fh5OA/s1600-h/_3-Tijerina_SLP_429_Ann_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346318725084793426" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHwjfCyylI/AAAAAAAAFjg/7yWTv4fh5OA/s400/_3-Tijerina_SLP_429_Ann_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 271px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>The Alianza sponsored a Spanish Language Parade from the <a href="http://www.unm.edu/">University of New Mexico</a> to the <a href="http://www.albuquerqueoldtown.com/">Old Town Plaza</a> in Albuquerque.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjGlZolysBI/AAAAAAAAFho/Q3K6N4AnAlY/s1600-h/-3_Tijerina_Parade-18w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346236092476731410" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjGlZolysBI/AAAAAAAAFho/Q3K6N4AnAlY/s400/-3_Tijerina_Parade-18w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 266px;" /></a>The parade celebrated the 429th anniversary of <a href="http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/coronado.htm">Francisco Vásquez de Coronado</a>'s 1540 expedition into what is now New Mexico.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjIHlOEi34I/AAAAAAAAFkY/0aSYHE9hsEs/s1600-h/-3_Tijerina_Parade-16wa.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346344043655913346" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjIHlOEi34I/AAAAAAAAFkY/0aSYHE9hsEs/s400/-3_Tijerina_Parade-16wa.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 270px;" /></a>Jose "Duke" Aragon openly wore a .22 caliber pistol on his hip during the parade. The pistol would be seen later when it was fired at the Forest Service sign burning incident near Gallina.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A flier about the event announced that Aragon's art work would be featured.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjH9RZ2S-uI/AAAAAAAAFjw/I3Svdu9Wv9U/s1600-h/-3_Tijerina_Parade-11w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346332708103715554" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjH9RZ2S-uI/AAAAAAAAFjw/I3Svdu9Wv9U/s400/-3_Tijerina_Parade-11w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 309px;" /></a>The Tijerinas' 2 and a half-year old daughter Isabel swings between them during the march in downtown Albuquerque.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjIAkGz4lMI/AAAAAAAAFj4/nHSBjvW2EZQ/s1600-h/-3_Tijerina_Parade-12w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346336327945721026" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjIAkGz4lMI/AAAAAAAAFj4/nHSBjvW2EZQ/s400/-3_Tijerina_Parade-12w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 316px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina family members ride on a jeep driven by son Danny.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Sn0f0pnI1FI/AAAAAAAAF7o/nKaTK0HtVaE/s1600-h/-3_Tijerina_Parade-13w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367481320279168082" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Sn0f0pnI1FI/AAAAAAAAF7o/nKaTK0HtVaE/s400/-3_Tijerina_Parade-13w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 265px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Albuquerque Police Traffic Unit officer blocked traffic at 5th street and Central Avenue downtown for the parade.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjIEqUy6y9I/AAAAAAAAFkA/irhAPs1JeJg/s1600-h/-3_Tijerina_SLP_1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346340832825494482" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjIEqUy6y9I/AAAAAAAAFkA/irhAPs1JeJg/s400/-3_Tijerina_SLP_1w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 269px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina spoke to the marchers at the Old Town gazebo then danced with Patsy.</span><br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjIFJZmfmUI/AAAAAAAAFkI/holLGmLeAfQ/s1600-h/-3_Tijerina_SLP_2w.jpg"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346341366691502402" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjIFJZmfmUI/AAAAAAAAFkI/holLGmLeAfQ/s400/-3_Tijerina_SLP_2w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 272px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>Sunday June 1, 1969, Youngsville and Ghost Ranch, New Mexico</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I met Tijerina at the Alianza headquarters and he drove north through Bernalillo towards Rio Arriba County, N.M.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Traveling with Tijerina was his wife, Patsy, their daughter, Isabel, Wilfred Sedillo and Frankie Archibeque.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHoSpvOXxI/AAAAAAAAFio/YKGhly7RIO0/s1600-h/01-Tijerina-Isabell-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346309639804706578" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHoSpvOXxI/AAAAAAAAFio/YKGhly7RIO0/s400/01-Tijerina-Isabell-w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 266px;" /></a>Tijerina stopped at a gas station and general store in Cuba. He and Patsy did some shopping for food and I took a picture of Isabel who had picked out a large bag of peanuts that she had taken to the counter where the register was.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina stopped at the edge of the highway along State Road 96 between Regina and Gallina to get out of the car to stretch.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHneUoXv4I/AAAAAAAAFig/z9a9eiSYuvY/s1600-h/Tijerina-44w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346308740785618818" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHneUoXv4I/AAAAAAAAFig/z9a9eiSYuvY/s400/Tijerina-44w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 278px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>He explained how the area was one of the Spanish land grants, called the Free City-State of San Joaquin, established by King Juan Carlos IV of Spain in 1806.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SklFK4yjk5I/AAAAAAAAFu0/06JERRbu7pA/s1600-h/Tijerina-San-Joaquin-CH-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352885685451985810" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SklFK4yjk5I/AAAAAAAAFu0/06JERRbu7pA/s400/Tijerina-San-Joaquin-CH-w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 279px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina stopped at the Alianza's mobile home in Youngsville that had spray-painted on it, “City Hall San Joaquín.” Here are, Tijerina’s son Danny, left, daughter, Isabel, Tijerina, his wife, Patsy, and Frankie Archibeque.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SmtmqX8QKJI/AAAAAAAAF3A/jfq5pkfUwJM/s1600-h/Tijerina+06-01+01Wl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362492659481979026" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SmtmqX8QKJI/AAAAAAAAF3A/jfq5pkfUwJM/s400/Tijerina+06-01+01Wl.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 271px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Inside was an old weathered man named Jose Lorenzo Salazar, who was the Mayor of San Joaquín del Río de Chama or the Free City-State of San Joaquin. Tijerina, Wilfredo Sedillo, right, and Mayor Salazar had a conversation in Spanish.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Sn0NTsyzNsI/AAAAAAAAF7Y/-1VOq-oW_XA/s1600-h/Tijerina_46w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367460962988406466" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Sn0NTsyzNsI/AAAAAAAAF7Y/-1VOq-oW_XA/s400/Tijerina_46w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 251px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>As he watches a New Mexico State Police cruiser pass through Youngsville, Tijerina speaks with Carol Watson and Archibeque, left.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHpb6AZQUI/AAAAAAAAFiw/AHjtcQ6iTcc/s1600-h/Tijerina+06-01+05aWl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346310898302140738" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHpb6AZQUI/AAAAAAAAFiw/AHjtcQ6iTcc/s400/Tijerina+06-01+05aWl.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 271px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina drove around Abiquiu Reservoir towards Ghost Ranch and stopped at a roadside rest area on US 84. He met with a group of about 60 Alianza members speaking about the plans for the meeting with the New Mexico synod of the United Presbyterian Church.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Synod of United Presbyterian Church Ghost Ranch, New Mexico</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Synod of United Presbyterian Church at a meeting in San Antonio earlier in the year had voted to return some land that it had acquired in a land swap with the Forest Service at its <a href="http://www.ghostranch.org/about-us/history.html">Ghost Ranch</a> facility west of Abiquiu. The land was identified as having been the Piedra Lumbre land grant. Grant heirs insisted that the Alianza be involved in the transfer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjG0EXciGNI/AAAAAAAAFiI/MTRi_qNRhRU/s1600-h/06-Tijerina-06-01-06w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346252219771656402" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjG0EXciGNI/AAAAAAAAFiI/MTRi_qNRhRU/s400/06-Tijerina-06-01-06w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 271px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>The Synod invited Tijerina and Alianza members to discuss the planned return of the land.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Alianza group drove to <a href="http://www.ghostranch.org/about/">Ghost Ranch</a> where the Presbyterian Synod was meeting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Smtn_IKPdGI/AAAAAAAAF3I/D70KWQ4_6J0/s1600-h/Tijerina+06-01+07Wl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362494115534566498" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Smtn_IKPdGI/AAAAAAAAF3I/D70KWQ4_6J0/s400/Tijerina+06-01+07Wl.jpg" style="display: block; height: 270px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina, second from left, reviews with Alianza leaders a handout from the Director of the Ghost Ranch Conference Center James Hall. The United Presbyterian Church's position regarding four points:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to convene a group of local Spanish American leaders with whom to negotiate the release of a specific area of Ghost Ranch for development by Spanish American people.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to assist in acquiring water right for that land.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to support an investigation of the legitimacy of land grant claims by a Congressional committee.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Increasingly to encourage Spanish American people to use Ghost Ranch Conference Center facilities for meetings and programs in which their efforts towards self-determination can be studied and advanced.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The church's Board of Christian Education wrote that it had not negotiated with the Alianza over the land, nor could it or would it deal with the Alianza's request to negotiate the gift of the land. The Board also would not sell the land to the Alianza.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The handout went on:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mr. Tijerina has seized upon the actions of the General Assembly as being directed to the Alianza. At no time was this the intention of the Assembly. The Church will move to exercise its own deep concern for the progress of the Spanish-speaking people, but it will do so on its own terms and in ways it considers appropriate. It will not be done at the direction of, or in response to pressure by, the organization known as the Alianza.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjGzvJmegWI/AAAAAAAAFiA/S9WFDUle6fU/s1600-h/12-Tijerina_Ghost-Speech-1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346251855278014818" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjGzvJmegWI/AAAAAAAAFiA/S9WFDUle6fU/s400/12-Tijerina_Ghost-Speech-1w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 263px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina responded to the handout forcefully when speaking before the gathering of United Presbyterian Church and Alianza members.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSlmuHiEWI/AAAAAAAAFow/yHNwiG0P5RQ/s1600-h/11-Tijerina-06-01-11w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347080742228857186" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSlmuHiEWI/AAAAAAAAFow/yHNwiG0P5RQ/s400/11-Tijerina-06-01-11w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 268px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina speaking before the Synod of United Presbyterian Church delegates at Ghost Ranch with Alianza Vice President Santiago Anaya about plans for the church to exchange land with the Forest Service. Tijerina demanded a role in any such talks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSupg0ww-I/AAAAAAAAFo4/I7jcrUOMrGU/s1600-h/15-Tijerina-06-01-12w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347090685804725218" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSupg0ww-I/AAAAAAAAFo4/I7jcrUOMrGU/s400/15-Tijerina-06-01-12w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 270px;" /></a>After the meeting the Alianza met again at the roadside rest area to talk about what had happened with the Presbyterian Church.</span><br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkwfJTfyMBI/AAAAAAAAFwc/RgG_EeuSubA/s1600-h/16-Tijerina-06-01-13w.jpg"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353688301749547026" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkwfJTfyMBI/AAAAAAAAFwc/RgG_EeuSubA/s400/16-Tijerina-06-01-13w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 269px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>Monday June 2, 1969, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Washington, D.C.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I flew to Washington where Tijerina planned to make a citizen's arrest of Supreme Court Chief Justice designate, <a href="http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/weburger.htm">Warren Earl Burger</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Upon arriving at Washington National Airport the Tijerinas were met by a man named Aba Sullabum who told me he was the Alianza's representative member in Washington. There were several men (three whom I could determine as police) waiting for Tijerina at the airport. One had a camera and took pictures of people getting off the airplane. There were two others who followed Tijerina. I later found out that the three men were police officers, members of the District of Columbia <a href="http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/site/default.asp?mpdcNav_GID=1523&mpdcNav=%7C31417%7C">Metropolitan Police Department</a>'s Intelligence Unit. These officers followed the Tijerinas openly everywhere they went. Sullabum accompanied the Tijerinas and myself, followed by our escorts, to the Congressional Hotel on South Capitol Hill. Aba Sullabum gave me the name and phone number of <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/julius-hobson">Julius W. Hobson </a>(1919-1977) in case there was any problem. I believe Hobson to have been a Washington attorney who would later become prominent in local District of Columbia politics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>Tuesday June 3, 1969, Washington, D. C. and Albuquerque, New Mexico</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Washington, the local radio and television news was about the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Supreme Court Chief Justice designate Warren Burger. The news report stated that the hearing was expected to be relatively easy for Burger, but there was a possibility of controversy due to Tijerina's stated effort to arrest Burger.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lyle Denniston, a Writer for "The Evening Star" newspaper, met Tijerina and his wife, Patsy in the hotel lobby asking to follow along with them during the day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Armed with a legal textbook on "The Laws of Arrest" by Alexander, the Tijerinas set off for the Senate Office building to find the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room, so he would know where the hearing would be held. He found the hearing room locked.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjG0fGChr1I/AAAAAAAAFiQ/etXHXR6D9LQ/s1600-h/b-01-Tijerina_13a-06-03-13w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346252678955642706" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjG0fGChr1I/AAAAAAAAFiQ/etXHXR6D9LQ/s400/b-01-Tijerina_13a-06-03-13w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 277px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>The Tijerinas, accompanied by the Evening Star reporter </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Denniston </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">went, by taxi, to the Mayors Office, to ask for him and other city officials to assist in making the citizen's arrest of Burger.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnWyhmfnSI/AAAAAAAAFqY/szZW21N9yvA/s1600-h/Tijerina_14a_DC_Mayor.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348542195980803362" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnWyhmfnSI/AAAAAAAAFqY/szZW21N9yvA/s400/Tijerina_14a_DC_Mayor.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 285px;" /></a>The Mayor was not available, so he met with the Assistant Mayor a man named Sullivan who was asked to help in making the arrest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjG0s7dODkI/AAAAAAAAFiY/rp2_tXAEo40/s1600-h/b-Tijerina_15a_DC_Mayor_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346252916632981058" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjG0s7dODkI/AAAAAAAAFiY/rp2_tXAEo40/s400/b-Tijerina_15a_DC_Mayor_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 273px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>The Assistant Mayor said he would not help, suggesting that the request should be directed towards the police. Tijerina went to the front of the District Building to get a taxi. The driver was told that he wanted to be taken to the Police Department, the building where the Chief's office was located. The cab driver said he was not sure exactly where the building was and left his cab walking back to a car parked behind his cab and asked a plainclothes police officer if the Chief's office was located in the main building of the Police Department.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina sought out Chief John Layton of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, who was not available. He met with an Assistant Chief. Tijerina showed him a copy of the citizen's arrest warrant for Burger and asked for help in making the citizen's arrest. The Assistant Chief looked at the warrant and declined to assist because the warrant did not order him, or any other law enforcement officer to make an arrest, nor did it have a judge's signature. The Assistant Chief did not question the right of a citizen to make an arrest, and though he did not think the scenario that Tijerina laid out for arresting Judge Burger was one in which a citizen could legally make an arrest, he did not deny Tijerina's right to try. The Assistant Chief suggested that Tijerina pursue his efforts through the court system rather than trying to arrest Burger himself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnEp3eATWNI/AAAAAAAAF4Y/cToNJLcaY8M/s1600-h/Tijerina_20_SenateHearingWlbw.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364114664098846930" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnEp3eATWNI/AAAAAAAAF4Y/cToNJLcaY8M/s400/Tijerina_20_SenateHearingWlbw.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 269px;" /></a>The Tijerinas returned to the Senate Office building and the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room where there was a line about 15 people long.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnSGW6auuI/AAAAAAAAFqA/QQYmKmN6-hQ/s1600-h/Tijerina-Capitol-Cop_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348537039150824162" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnSGW6auuI/AAAAAAAAFqA/QQYmKmN6-hQ/s400/Tijerina-Capitol-Cop_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 261px;" /></a>Three rather large United States Capitol Police officers barred the door. Press photographers were being allowed into the room. I was denied access to the hearing because I did not have a Senate Press Pass. One of the officers at the door told me I could get a pass at the Senate Press Gallery. I thanked him and began to leave to get the pass. The officer asked if I wanted directions. I declined, knowing where the Press Gallery office was in the Capitol building and then sensed that he was trying to misdirect me. Having lived in the Washington area, several years before, I had spent a good deal of time wandering about the Capitol exploring the buildings. I knew there was a basement subway system that connected the various Senate Office buildings with the Capitol.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I went to the basement subway station just as one of the cars was arriving. I approached the car as it stopped and rushed it as the door opened. However, in my haste, the occupant did not have a chance to exit and I bumped into him as he stepped from the car. I stepped back, excused myself to a rather large man, well over six feet tall, over 200 pounds, with pure white hair and dressed in a black suit. As I stepped back, I realized that there were several other large men with him. They were also dressed in suits, but they were not made of the same quality material as the first man's suit. I realized that these men were security. I could not tell if they were City police, or Supreme Court police, Capitol police, or United States Marshals, or some other Federal Agents and it didn't matter. They were clearly describable as universally cops. I then recognized that this was the entourage of <a href="http://www.oyez.org/justices/warren_e_burger">Warren Burger</a>. I had bumped into the judge.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had a copy of Tijerina's citizen's arrest warrant in my inner jacket pocket and for a fleeting moment thought I could lay the warrant on him. The moment passed very quickly as I thought: it was Tijerina's warrant, I was there to photograph his actions not to become part of the story and looking at these men with Burger, I thought somewhere in the United States, contrary to all the beliefs I had, there was a dungeon and if I tried to confront this man and touch him with a piece of paper I would have found myself in that dungeon. Burger did not say anything to me, his expression did not change and he walked stone faced quickly through the station's doorway and out of sight.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I rode the subway car to the Capitol, took the elevator up to the Senate Gallery level and found the Press Photographers Gallery. I explained my circumstances and was issued a visitor's press photographer's card good for three days.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hurried back to the Judiciary Committee hearing room and arrived just as the press photographers were being escorted from the room. The police officer recognized my credentials and with a big grin said that the photo opportunity was over. I was able to see into the room and saw that it was a very small hearing room in comparison with other hearing rooms I had seen before. There was the dais at the front of the room, then the witness table and about four rows of about 10 or 15 chairs for a total of maybe 40 to 50 seats. Tijerina was still standing in line with 10 or 15 people ahead of him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnEq2F8GNpI/AAAAAAAAF4g/iZ_-wnDae3k/s1600-h/Tijerina_17b_DC_Senate_bw.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364115739970516626" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnEq2F8GNpI/AAAAAAAAF4g/iZ_-wnDae3k/s400/Tijerina_17b_DC_Senate_bw.jpg" style="display: block; height: 274px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Once the press photographers were out of the hearing room their attention turned to Tijerina who showed them a copy of his warrant and then read it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHu-DQNpPI/AAAAAAAAFjI/nCU3ufIkMB0/s1600-h/b-Tijerina_18a_DC_Senate_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346316982458098930" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHu-DQNpPI/AAAAAAAAFjI/nCU3ufIkMB0/s400/b-Tijerina_18a_DC_Senate_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 273px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Several reporters and correspondents interviewed Tijerina on his planed citizen's arrest of Burger at the hearing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The hearing lasted about an hour and forty minutes. I saw one of the men, who had been at the airport and had been following Tijerina earlier in the day. I had seen him in the car when the taxi driver had asked for directions to the police station from the District building; he was now standing in the hall across from the line of people trying to get into the hearing room. I approached this man introducing myself as a photographer for the Albuquerque News and asked him who he was. He told me his name was Sergeant Torres. He was the head of the Intelligence Unit of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police. We talked for a while. He knew Tijerina from the events of the 1968 Poor Peoples March on Washington and activities at "Resurrection City." Tijerina had led a symbolic "Raid" on the Supreme Court building. I asked him if he had met Tijerina? He had not. I told him he might like to meet him; that Tijerina was actually very approachable and because of their mutual Hispanic heritage they might find something in common. At a later time during the day Sgt. Torres and Tijerina did talk.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina was unable to get into the hearing room and when the meeting was over Senator <a href="http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senator_Everett_Mckinley_Dirksen_Dies.htm">Everett McKinley Dirksen</a>, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a Republican from Illinois, came into the hallway to talk to the press.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnEsCsNXF0I/AAAAAAAAF4o/84_36Ca0pUs/s1600-h/Tijerina_20a1a_Senate_bw.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364117055913531202" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnEsCsNXF0I/AAAAAAAAF4o/84_36Ca0pUs/s400/Tijerina_20a1a_Senate_bw.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 277px;" /></a>Tijerina was told that Burger had been taken out the back door and had already left the building. Tijerina spoke before the stand of microphones, before Senator Dirksen could, saying, "...then he (Burger) was a fugitive. But, I will be on his tail."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnTCFF8Z5I/AAAAAAAAFqI/Wcus1kEXlYY/s1600-h/Tijerina_Dirksen_Cameras_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348538065159481234" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnTCFF8Z5I/AAAAAAAAFqI/Wcus1kEXlYY/s400/Tijerina_Dirksen_Cameras_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 263px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Dirksen waited for Tijerina to finish and then asked the assembled press if they were done with their distinguished friend.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHvVsDRNEI/AAAAAAAAFjQ/Wq6c7dbwMfc/s1600-h/b-Tijerina_20aa1a_Dirkson_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346317388546651202" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHvVsDRNEI/AAAAAAAAFjQ/Wq6c7dbwMfc/s400/b-Tijerina_20aa1a_Dirkson_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 276px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Judge Burger impressed the Committee, Dirksen stated, and they had voted a recommendation to the full Senate and was sure that his confirmation would be swift.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHvjOnaMcI/AAAAAAAAFjY/KVBIRbVS6xQ/s1600-h/b-Tijerina_21a_Dirckson_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346317621163340226" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHvjOnaMcI/AAAAAAAAFjY/KVBIRbVS6xQ/s400/b-Tijerina_21a_Dirckson_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 265px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina was close to Dircksen and expressed his concern that the judge had been taken in and out of the hearing room through the back door "like a thief in the night." The statement angered Senator Dirksen who confronted it. Tijerina and Dircksen had a short discussion ending when Dircksen calls Tijerina's attempt to arrest Burger as being "Totally ridiculous." Dircksen died three months after this encounter at the age of 76.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHs_wYXQmI/AAAAAAAAFjA/VEaybfyIHQ0/s1600-h/b-Tijerina_23_Capitol_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346314812728492642" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHs_wYXQmI/AAAAAAAAFjA/VEaybfyIHQ0/s400/b-Tijerina_23_Capitol_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 275px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina was somewhat dejected as he returned to the Congressional Hotel to get lunch. As he passed in front of the Capitol building he looked up at the <a href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/freedom.cfm">statute of Freedom</a> atop the dome and said that it was an Indo-Hispano because the statue wears a feathered headdress. The comment made him raise his head and moments later he stated he would pursue Burger. Tijerina entered the House office building, got some scotch tape from a Congressman's office so he could tape a copy of his citizen's arrest warrant on the front door of the Supreme Court. Tijerina said it was like <a href="http://www.wsu.edu/%7Edee/REFORM/LUTHER.HTM">Martin Luther</a> did with his 95 thesis on the door of the German Cathedral.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a quick lunch, I met the Tijerinas at the hotel desk where Reies was on the phone checking the schedule for an airplane home, while Patsy was thumbing through a rack of tourist brochures selecting several after reading them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjNcB6y_ljI/AAAAAAAAFko/KzKPRpuklJE/s1600-h/b-Tijerina_25L_SCt_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346718370651674162" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjNcB6y_ljI/AAAAAAAAFko/KzKPRpuklJE/s400/b-Tijerina_25L_SCt_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 274px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina went to the front of the Supreme Court where he met a few members of the press and a TV news crew where he made another statement about Burger having been secreted by the Senate to avoid facing justice. He said he would tape his warrant on the front door of the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc78.htm">Supreme Court building</a>. He all the while was being watched closely by a single Supreme Court Police Sergeant.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjNbkypKDTI/AAAAAAAAFkg/rOx9IJ3mWho/s1600-h/b-Tijerina_27_SCt_Cop-1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346717870246726962" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjNbkypKDTI/AAAAAAAAFkg/rOx9IJ3mWho/s400/b-Tijerina_27_SCt_Cop-1w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 267px;" /></a>Tijerina showed the warrant to the officer and asked for his assistance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSGB0OCBgI/AAAAAAAAFnA/cB_Un5RWLw0/s1600-h/Tijerina_28a_SuperemCourt_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347046023351109122" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSGB0OCBgI/AAAAAAAAFnA/cB_Un5RWLw0/s400/Tijerina_28a_SuperemCourt_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 274px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>The officer escorted Tijerina inside the front of the building, under the main steps where he and Patsy were taken to the clerk's office. I was barred from taking photographs in the clerk's office.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnQ1__GOeI/AAAAAAAAFpg/Rmfa6nTdjmY/s1600-h/Tijerina_28_SuperemCourt.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348535658606901730" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnQ1__GOeI/AAAAAAAAFpg/Rmfa6nTdjmY/s400/Tijerina_28_SuperemCourt.jpg" style="display: block; height: 274px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina left a copy of his citizen's arrest warrant with Clerk of the Supreme Court John Davis. Davis recorded that he received it, giving Tijerina a receipt for the warrant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He spoke again to the press about leaving the warrant with the clerk of the court.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sgt. Torres offered the Tijerinas and myself a ride to National Airport. Tijerina accepted and did talk with Sgt. Torres. Their conversation was about their heritage, upbringing and backgrounds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHsepl3BjI/AAAAAAAAFi4/XmFYIX0O9WM/s1600-h/b-Tijerina_28b_Patsy_Cap-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346314243970369074" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjHsepl3BjI/AAAAAAAAFi4/XmFYIX0O9WM/s400/b-Tijerina_28b_Patsy_Cap-w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 264px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>The Tijerinas returned to Albuquerque leaving from National Airport mid-afternoon. Patsy fell asleep prior to take off and did not see the view of the Mall and Capitol out the window. She later awoke and read an article in a woman's magazine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnVm6YZYyI/AAAAAAAAFqQ/iJhnzgJyvJg/s1600-h/Tijerina_29a_Home+Alb2bw1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348540896962503458" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnVm6YZYyI/AAAAAAAAFqQ/iJhnzgJyvJg/s400/Tijerina_29a_Home+Alb2bw1.jpg" style="display: block; height: 274px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Upon arriving in Albuquerque, late in the evening about 11 PM, the Tijerinas were met by numerous members of their family and the Alianza. His brothers Ramón and Christobal, son Reyes Hugh and others were present, treating him like a returning conquering hero. In his autobiography, Tijerina described the welcome group as Alianza militants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>Wednesday June 4, 1969, Youngsville, New Mexico</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Wednesday June 4, 1969, Tijerina was to meet with a Mr. Brown of the Episcopal Church while I took the day off so I could graduate from High School.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>Thursday June 5, 1969, Youngsville, New Mexico</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQ-WUSZMtI/AAAAAAAAFmQ/5AMVaz6z-Z4/s1600-h/c-Tijerina_33a_NewsConf_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346967210719523538" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQ-WUSZMtI/AAAAAAAAFmQ/5AMVaz6z-Z4/s400/c-Tijerina_33a_NewsConf_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 272px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>At Youngsville, Tijerina held a walking press conference announcing plans for the Alianza convention celebrating the second anniversary of the Tierra Amarilla courthouse "raid".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjRDCvzg0VI/AAAAAAAAFmw/uHfV1Hzj_qs/s1600-h/c-Tijerina_32_NewsConf_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346972372066947410" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjRDCvzg0VI/AAAAAAAAFmw/uHfV1Hzj_qs/s400/c-Tijerina_32_NewsConf_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 268px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>He further announced the intention to drive "Hippie" sheep and cattle onto National Forest land.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina is with his legal adviser William Higgs, left, Mayor of San Joaquín del Río de Chama Jose Lorenzo Salazar, sons Daniel and Tuti on the river bank.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSGbkpAQwI/AAAAAAAAFnI/PqLMyzlm-ws/s1600-h/Tijerina_30a_NewsConf_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347046465845871362" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSGbkpAQwI/AAAAAAAAFnI/PqLMyzlm-ws/s400/Tijerina_30a_NewsConf_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 272px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Then he had lunch with his family including his daughter Isabel. Bill Hume, State Editor of the Albuquerque Journal reported on the walking press conference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>Friday June 6, 1969, Coyote, New Mexico</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSRpR5qRSI/AAAAAAAAFog/TZbdc0lntZQ/s1600-h/e-Tijerina_San_Jaquin_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347058795961533730" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSRpR5qRSI/AAAAAAAAFog/TZbdc0lntZQ/s400/e-Tijerina_San_Jaquin_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 269px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>On Friday June 6, 1969, the 4-day Alianza convention moved from Youngsville and began east of Coyote near Abiquiu Dam.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnHrFk__nNI/AAAAAAAAF44/S_bKxqrP8fE/s1600-h/Tijerina+Outside+Supporters-1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364327112238931154" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnHrFk__nNI/AAAAAAAAF44/S_bKxqrP8fE/s400/Tijerina+Outside+Supporters-1.jpg" style="display: block; height: 296px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>There were several groups of people not directly involved with the Alianza that attended including a three man contingent of the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/index.html">Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee</a> led by National Program Secretary Phillip Hutchings, left, and a half dozen members of the <a href="http://brownberets.info/history">Brown Berets</a>, a California based group. SNCC had started after the group of students refused to leave the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, during the civil rights movement.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By 1969 SNCC had abandoned much of its stance of nonviolence and would even changed its name to Student National Coordinating Committee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>Saturday June 7, 1969, Abiquiu Dam, Los Alamos, New Mexico</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQ-gpJuDxI/AAAAAAAAFmY/c1uYyv4H4ec/s1600-h/d-Tijerina_32a_vote_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346967388118978322" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQ-gpJuDxI/AAAAAAAAFmY/c1uYyv4H4ec/s400/d-Tijerina_32a_vote_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 269px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina announced plans for making a citizen’s arrest of New Mexico Governor David Cargo. A vote was taken to arrest Cargo. The Governor was at a town celebration in Santa Rosa. State Police took Cargo to his summer home in Las Vegas after hearing of Tijerina's plans through the KOB radio news report I had made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjRAaQxmq5I/AAAAAAAAFmg/yQ4AE2kPvUE/s1600-h/Tijerina-Higgs-Cargo-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346969477519420306" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjRAaQxmq5I/AAAAAAAAFmg/yQ4AE2kPvUE/s400/Tijerina-Higgs-Cargo-w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 137px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>On the way to find Cargo, Tijerina, left, and lawyer Bill Hggs react to the radio news report that the Governor had been moved and Tijerina returned to the Abiquiu site to reformulate their day's plans.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnQf6c7gXI/AAAAAAAAFpY/KG1qcLkgxl4/s1600-h/Tijerina_34_SpeakingWl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348535279164293490" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnQf6c7gXI/AAAAAAAAFpY/KG1qcLkgxl4/s400/Tijerina_34_SpeakingWl.jpg" style="display: block; height: 269px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina changed plans for making a citizen's arrest of the governor to trying to arrest the heads of the <a href="http://www.lanl.gov/">Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkU0kNfM4rI/AAAAAAAAFuM/RNRmvwCeHUU/s1600-h/Tijerina-Vote-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351741528900166322" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkU0kNfM4rI/AAAAAAAAFuM/RNRmvwCeHUU/s400/Tijerina-Vote-w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 262px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>The matter was put to a vote.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnPp9R0FCeI/AAAAAAAAF6Q/ofSzsEzPsYY/s1600-h/Tijerina_41a_petition_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364888820091521506" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnPp9R0FCeI/AAAAAAAAF6Q/ofSzsEzPsYY/s400/Tijerina_41a_petition_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 269px;" /></a>Juan Roybal signs his to the register of the vote as Pueblo San Joaquin del Rio de Chama land grant's Mayor Salazar holds the paper down from blowing in the wind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkvGmLshpOI/AAAAAAAAFv0/Mv_FGIxaXWU/s1600-h/Tijerina_38_Brown+BeretWl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353590941336839394" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkvGmLshpOI/AAAAAAAAFv0/Mv_FGIxaXWU/s400/Tijerina_38_Brown+BeretWl.jpg" style="display: block; height: 269px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Brown Beret members watched the proceedings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnPmklVhUUI/AAAAAAAAF6I/fJkTyP9-yio/s1600-h/Tijerina-Roybal-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364885097300447554" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnPmklVhUUI/AAAAAAAAF6I/fJkTyP9-yio/s400/Tijerina-Roybal-w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 264px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Before the caravan set off for Los Alamos, Juan Roybal sang Spanish songs accompanied by a guitarist to entertain the Alianza crowd.</span><br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Snq_YIk6rpI/AAAAAAAAF7Q/lqOy7Q9KLDo/s1600-h/Tijerina-Guitar-w.jpg"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366812327305457298" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Snq_YIk6rpI/AAAAAAAAF7Q/lqOy7Q9KLDo/s400/Tijerina-Guitar-w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 264px;" /></span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkuTa7k-WsI/AAAAAAAAFvc/rj9LQL0Cmis/s1600-h/Tijerina-Los-Alamos-1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353534672938621634" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkuTa7k-WsI/AAAAAAAAFvc/rj9LQL0Cmis/s400/Tijerina-Los-Alamos-1w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 263px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>On the way to Los Alamos, Tijerina's vehicle experienced some minor problem and he pulled to the side of the road. Those following also pulled over.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkuVBBR9jsI/AAAAAAAAFvk/8kKw0VzTWbg/s1600-h/Tijerina-Los-Alamos-2w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353536426816147138" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkuVBBR9jsI/AAAAAAAAFvk/8kKw0VzTWbg/s400/Tijerina-Los-Alamos-2w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 273px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>The State Police officer following the caravan also pulled over.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkuJrRAHy6I/AAAAAAAAFvU/g_TYODnO14U/s1600-h/Tijerina_42_LosAlamosWl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353523958451260322" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkuJrRAHy6I/AAAAAAAAFvU/g_TYODnO14U/s400/Tijerina_42_LosAlamosWl.jpg" style="display: block; height: 269px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina did not know at the time know that <a href="http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/home.story/story_id/1641">Norris Bradbury</a> was the head of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories, but found out by going to the Laboratories <a href="http://www.lanl.gov/museum/about_us/history.shtml">museum</a> at the headquarters.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkfDnDJk0QI/AAAAAAAAFus/4ar_kbCt3mw/s1600-h/Tijerina-Los-Alamos-5w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352461757780906242" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkfDnDJk0QI/AAAAAAAAFus/4ar_kbCt3mw/s400/Tijerina-Los-Alamos-5w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 284px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina was unable to locate Bradbury, who was playing golf, but left a copy of his citizen's arrest warrant in Bradbury's mailbox, at his home.</span><br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnM0cdjP8ZI/AAAAAAAAF5w/Txrtus9OuS8/s1600-h/Tijerina+Post+Los+Alamos-w.jpg"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364689244701847954" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnM0cdjP8ZI/AAAAAAAAF5w/Txrtus9OuS8/s400/Tijerina+Post+Los+Alamos-w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 294px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina spoke to his followers in Los Alamos about the day's activities.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was part of his routine when he engaged in his public acts; he held a pre-event meeting, if the press was there, all the better, he would hold his event, often times an expression of civil disobedience, followed by a post-event meeting to explain what he had done and to claim a moral victory against the oppressors of the people he represented. No one knew that this would be one of the last such activities he would hold as his militancy was coming to an end. In his autobiography, in describing the week he wrote:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is not an easy task for me. I knew that I would go to prison any day now, but I wanted to do all that I could for the struggle while I still had my freedom.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>Sunday June 8, 1969, Abiquiu Dam, Gallina, and Coyote, New Mexico</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQbqqmBFkI/AAAAAAAAFlI/Z3Z_k7H7EuQ/s1600-h/e-Tijerina_Patsy_speaks_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346929077397820994" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQbqqmBFkI/AAAAAAAAFlI/Z3Z_k7H7EuQ/s400/e-Tijerina_Patsy_speaks_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 309px;" /></a>Patsy Tijerina announced her intention to burn a National Forest Service sign.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnQSlhE2wI/AAAAAAAAFpQ/E0WdzfxJG8o/s1600-h/Tijerina_37_LunchWl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348535050206239490" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnQSlhE2wI/AAAAAAAAFpQ/E0WdzfxJG8o/s400/Tijerina_37_LunchWl.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 387px;" /></a>In the afternoon a caravan proceeded west to the Santa Fe National Forest sign near Gallina.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina told me I could not accompany them for, "legal reasons." I rode in a vehicle that followed the Tijerina's car in the caravan.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Patsy Tijerina was placing fallen pine sticks and newspaper under the sign by the time I arrived. The National Forest Service sign was made of a brick base with three iron "I" beams that raised from the base and had two panels of wood attached to them by bolts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQcQ-odYtI/AAAAAAAAFlQ/2jcL_Ewfoj0/s1600-h/e-Tijerina_45_Patsy_Isabel.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346929735611802322" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQcQ-odYtI/AAAAAAAAFlQ/2jcL_Ewfoj0/s400/e-Tijerina_45_Patsy_Isabel.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 279px;" /></a>Isabel Tijerina followed her mother.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQcpaDwEyI/AAAAAAAAFlY/gXyMkj5KMIY/s1600-h/e-Tijerina_46_Patsy_MatchesWl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346930155290891042" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQcpaDwEyI/AAAAAAAAFlY/gXyMkj5KMIY/s400/e-Tijerina_46_Patsy_MatchesWl.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 269px;" /></a>Patsy poured gasoline from a Coca-Cola bottle over the newspapers and lit the National Forest Service sign that flared then began to burn. The flames worked their way up the inside of the two panels that created a chimney effect.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSHja5O-tI/AAAAAAAAFnY/OwNN9lOpTpA/s1600-h/Tijerina_47_Patsy_Burning_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347047700180171474" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSHja5O-tI/AAAAAAAAFnY/OwNN9lOpTpA/s400/Tijerina_47_Patsy_Burning_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 269px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>The outside of the sign showed little indication of fire. The visual image was not dramatic. Ramón Tijerina approached and Patsy assisted him in getting a burning stick, then proceeded to light his cigar for him. She stoked the coals to try to get the outer part of the sign to ignite, but it wouldn't.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQdC33-zZI/AAAAAAAAFlg/_hbRzTyr_qs/s1600-h/e-Tijerina_Patsy-SignBurn-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346930592791317906" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQdC33-zZI/AAAAAAAAFlg/_hbRzTyr_qs/s400/e-Tijerina_Patsy-SignBurn-w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>A man brought Patsy a Coca-Cola bottle filled with gasoline that she threw at the sign. The bottle hit the sign and ignited, falling to the base breaking, and then flared up. The outside of the sign still did not catch fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjoGgQvpoFI/AAAAAAAAFqo/I8L5PGUhEHA/s1600-h/Tijerina_49_PatsyCutFenceWl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348594658776293458" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjoGgQvpoFI/AAAAAAAAFqo/I8L5PGUhEHA/s400/Tijerina_49_PatsyCutFenceWl.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 272px;" /></a>Patsy then took a pair of pliers and cut about 35 yards of fencing. The sign was consumed from the inside until flames broke through and the panels fell off their bolts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSIGxoUKHI/AAAAAAAAFng/0W2LVMNaq4g/s1600-h/Tijerina_52_Sign_Burned_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347048307578644594" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSIGxoUKHI/AAAAAAAAFng/0W2LVMNaq4g/s400/Tijerina_52_Sign_Burned_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Patsy found a part of the sign, a wooden replica of the U. S. Forest Service badge, which had previously been torn from or had fallen off the brick piling and she threw it onto the fallen panel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnRhqsHUnI/AAAAAAAAFpo/umkqXMRpX9k/s1600-h/Tijerina-Ramon-pistol-2w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348536408804381298" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnRhqsHUnI/AAAAAAAAFpo/umkqXMRpX9k/s400/Tijerina-Ramon-pistol-2w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 270px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Jose "Duke" Aragon, far right, a man who acted as one of Tijerina's bodyguards, took out a small .22 cal. pistol that he always wore in a holster on his belt and fired it into the air, then Reies' brother, Ramón Tijerina, right, took the pistol and also fired it into the air. Reies Tijerina at the edge of the road, center, with his son Danny, left, watch as Samuel "Hap" Stewart, in white and wearing sunglasses photographed the event.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The photograph also shows how close Tijerina came to the burning sign, about 40 feet. He would testify that he was a reluctant protester.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjoHSs7QshI/AAAAAAAAFqw/d-O_caCS7_A/s1600-h/Tijerina_Patsy_FaulknerWl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348595525334643218" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjoHSs7QshI/AAAAAAAAFqw/d-O_caCS7_A/s400/Tijerina_Patsy_FaulknerWl.jpg" style="display: block; height: 269px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Reies Tijerina, left, stood back during the sign burning, then drove his wife, Patsy, center, towards Coyote. Tijerina invited me to ride in his car on the way back to the campsite. Also in the car were: a member of the Brown Berets, a man I took to be a member of the Alianzia, and SNCC's National Program Secretary Hutchings, right.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina stopped the car at the side of the road where there was a downed tree and instructed Patsy to gather firewood.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQYvmGlzgI/AAAAAAAAFk4/rjrEGNNZ1vg/s1600-h/e-Tijerina_Gas-1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346925863556730370" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQYvmGlzgI/AAAAAAAAFk4/rjrEGNNZ1vg/s400/e-Tijerina_Gas-1w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 250px;" /></a>Tijerina stopped the car again at a Mobil gas station that was part of the general store in Coyote. He purchased gas for the car; then filled a plastic Clorox bottle with gas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The gas was distributed into several glass containers: a pint cranberry juice bottle, a pint 7-up bottle and a couple of 12 ounce, 7-up bottles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQZHx15SPI/AAAAAAAAFlA/f0zn5MjIm_w/s1600-h/e-Tijerina_Patsy_match_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346926279024789746" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQZHx15SPI/AAAAAAAAFlA/f0zn5MjIm_w/s400/e-Tijerina_Patsy_match_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 273px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Patsy stayed in the car and someone brought her a bottle of orange soda pop. She had a wooden "strike anywhere" match that she played with in her right hand. On the front seat of the Pontiac station wagon was a pile of newspapers, the wood she had collected from the downed tree and two firearms. There was a <a href="http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/uniforms_firearms/firearms/p38/p38index.htm#top">Walther P.38</a> semi automatic pistol and a .30-06 <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/m1garand.htm">M-1 Carbine</a> rifle. Both guns were on the driver’s side of the front seat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina drove to the entrance of the National Forest Service's <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/sfe/districts/coyote/index.html">Coyote Ranger Station</a>, followed by the caravan. Reyes Jr., his wife, right, Kerim Hamarat, with his dog, and several of the teenaged boys traveling with the caravan moved to the south side of the sign to watch. Patsy took the newspapers, placed them under the sign along with the firewood she had gathered. She put the newspapers and the wood under and between the two parts of the sign.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nVJ9mVNxerU/SjQdi8rX5iI/AAAAAAAALrg/aqrRVL_tnIs/s1600/e-Tijerina_Patsy_Gas_w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="292" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nVJ9mVNxerU/SjQdi8rX5iI/AAAAAAAALrg/aqrRVL_tnIs/s1600/e-Tijerina_Patsy_Gas_w.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQdi8rX5iI/AAAAAAAAFlo/ZX_ewdObGSw/s1600-h/e-Tijerina_Patsy_Gas_w.jpg"></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSKD4jDnpI/AAAAAAAAFno/H8oy2wYEvQo/s1600-h/Tijerina_54_NMSP_w.jpg"></a>She poured gas from the glass pint cranberry juice bottle and pint 7-up bottles that had earlier come from the gas station. She ignited the newspaper to burn the Coyote Ranger Station, Santa Fe Forest sign.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSKD4jDnpI/AAAAAAAAFno/H8oy2wYEvQo/s1600-h/Tijerina_54_NMSP_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347050456919285394" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSKD4jDnpI/AAAAAAAAFno/H8oy2wYEvQo/s400/Tijerina_54_NMSP_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 270px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Just as Patsy lit the sign, two New Mexico State Police cars approached at high rates of speed from opposite directions, with red lights rotating, passing each other in front of the sign.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SoPrVlU6T2I/AAAAAAAAF8A/xDaXVXWdsvE/s1600-h/Tijernia_Patsy_Reyes_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369393936785362786" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SoPrVlU6T2I/AAAAAAAAF8A/xDaXVXWdsvE/s400/Tijernia_Patsy_Reyes_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 233px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Patsy, accompanied by Reyes Jr. walks away from the burning sign. Ramon Tijerina, in white shirt watches as State Police officers arrive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSKiKDtXfI/AAAAAAAAFnw/OV3rc4vEbms/s1600-h/Tijerina_55_NMSP_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347050977015717362" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSKiKDtXfI/AAAAAAAAFnw/OV3rc4vEbms/s400/Tijerina_55_NMSP_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 268px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Officers braked to a stop turning across the oncoming traffic lane blocking the roadway.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnRswWD9HI/AAAAAAAAFpw/0fmO2K7Cv24/s1600-h/Tijerina-Fire-3w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348536599301059698" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnRswWD9HI/AAAAAAAAFpw/0fmO2K7Cv24/s400/Tijerina-Fire-3w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 261px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Several other State Police vehicles, up to maybe eight approached and parked on or next to the road. Uniformed New Mexico State Police officers included: Sergeant Joe Tarazon Jr., Robert Gonzales, Mike Montoya, Joe Mascarenas, and Jerome Jones. There were also at least two plainclothes officers: Detectives Robert Gilliland and Jack Johnson.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjwSbFHKrjI/AAAAAAAAFsI/-L-AtJvkXGg/s1600-h/Tijerina-Fire-2w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349170713847311922" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjwSbFHKrjI/AAAAAAAAFsI/-L-AtJvkXGg/s400/Tijerina-Fire-2w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 263px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina spoke with the closest State Police officer identifying Patsy as the person who burned the Gallina and Coyote Forest Service signs. The Sergeant quickly relieved the officer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQd_2ujLiI/AAAAAAAAFlw/43g5Ch6o6mM/s1600-h/e-Tijerina_RaymomnfSP_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346931640455343650" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQd_2ujLiI/AAAAAAAAFlw/43g5Ch6o6mM/s400/e-Tijerina_RaymomnfSP_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Uniformed New Mexico State Police Sergeant Joe Tarazon, right, National Forest Service Rangers and other law enforcement officers in plain clothes converged on the scene as Danny, left looking out of the picture, brother Ramón, Reies, and son David Hugh, also known as Reies Jr., Tijerina confront the officers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQeni1lVsI/AAAAAAAAFl4/9ntvxT6lqd4/s1600-h/e-Tijerina_Patsy_Police_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346932322310903490" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQeni1lVsI/AAAAAAAAFl4/9ntvxT6lqd4/s400/e-Tijerina_Patsy_Police_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 272px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina points out his wife Patsy to State Police Sgt. Tarazon, right, as the person who burned the signs, in flame in the background.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSK1k6D4tI/AAAAAAAAFn4/TzKB88EG6yQ/s1600-h/Tijerina_56_Patsy_NMSP_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347051310640521938" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSK1k6D4tI/AAAAAAAAFn4/TzKB88EG6yQ/s400/Tijerina_56_Patsy_NMSP_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 271px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tarazon arrests Patsy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjzMuMKjwhI/AAAAAAAAFsY/INSKaKV0xt4/s1600-h/Tijerina-Hamarat-1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349375551320867346" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjzMuMKjwhI/AAAAAAAAFsY/INSKaKV0xt4/s400/Tijerina-Hamarat-1w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 265px;" /></a>Officers were lead by Chief of the Law Enforcement Branch of the Forest Service for the southwest region James Evans. He approached Tijerina to arrest him but meets Kerim Hamarat who confronts Evans.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQ7wxThtEI/AAAAAAAAFmI/rQ_TvBW4X-0/s1600-h/e-Tijerina_Hamerat-2w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346964366650618946" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQ7wxThtEI/AAAAAAAAFmI/rQ_TvBW4X-0/s400/e-Tijerina_Hamerat-2w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 322px;" /></a>Hamarat armed himself by taking the spiked collar off his German shepherd dog. Evans arrested Hamarat grabbing him by the front of his vest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSLYec2N0I/AAAAAAAAFoA/GL2nGBBNJlE/s1600-h/Tijerina_Hamerat-3w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347051910202799938" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSLYec2N0I/AAAAAAAAFoA/GL2nGBBNJlE/s400/Tijerina_Hamerat-3w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 286px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>State Police Sgt. Tarazon and other State Police officers took Hamarat into custody. Officer Clarence</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Filip, right, took a hunting knife from Hamarat's belt as Officer Leroy Urioste watches.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evans confronted Tijerina who was surrounded closely by about twenty to thirty people including; his two sons, Reyes Hugh and Danny, Reyes Hugh's wife, Kerim Hamarat, Carol Watson, Rudy Trujillo, Wilfredo Sedillo, who was tape recording the event. "Bodyguards," Jose (Duke) Aragon and Juan Roybal are in very close.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSL1wTlePI/AAAAAAAAFoI/oPv-2EOvxA4/s1600-h/Tijerina_Evans-1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347052413211998450" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSL1wTlePI/AAAAAAAAFoI/oPv-2EOvxA4/s400/Tijerina_Evans-1w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 280px;" /></a>Evans told Tijerina he is under arrest. Reies told Evans that as a citizen he was placing him under a "citizens arrest." Evans told Tijerina that because he was already under arrest he could not make a "citizens arrest."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQ65H5duYI/AAAAAAAAFmA/n3n9uwYtTmo/s1600-h/e-Tijerina_Reyes_Evans_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346963410642647426" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQ65H5duYI/AAAAAAAAFmA/n3n9uwYtTmo/s400/e-Tijerina_Reyes_Evans_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Reyes Hugh López Tijerina Jr., left, stepped forward and says he is placing Evans under "citizens arrest." Evans tells Reyes Hugh that is also under arrest and turns towards Reies reaching out grabbing him by his belt. At the far left is Carol Watson of New York who would be arrested after she "pinched" Evans' hand trying to get him to release Tijerina. These photographs do not show that act, though they show her close. Former Albuquerque radio reporter, then of a Los Angeles radio station announcer, Alfonso Tafoya, right, holding down his flat topped hat holds his microphone, seen between Evans and the Tijerinas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQYCFRdKCI/AAAAAAAAFkw/yHIPBeQKcPo/s1600-h/e-Tijerina_Evans_Arrest-1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346925081649817634" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjQYCFRdKCI/AAAAAAAAFkw/yHIPBeQKcPo/s400/e-Tijerina_Evans_Arrest-1w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 269px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Reies outstretched his arms, placing his hands on the shoulders of his son Danny, left, and on Rudy Trujillo. Trujillo reaches across Evans' chest trying to pull him away from Tijerina.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSQy67RtBI/AAAAAAAAFoY/xveIhBY44JE/s1600-h/Tijerina_Evans_Arrest-6w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347057862081360914" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSQy67RtBI/AAAAAAAAFoY/xveIhBY44JE/s400/Tijerina_Evans_Arrest-6w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 255px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Danny wraps his arms around his father and Rudy Trujillo is pulled close into Reies' body. "Bodyguard" Jose "Duke" Aragon gets between Evans and Tijerina as Reies strains to break Evans' grasp. Sgt. Tarazon moves in behind Reies and takes Reyes Hugh into custody. Above Tarazon's left shoulder is plain clothed State Police Officer <a href="http://www.theblueflyer.com/Blue%20Flyer%20html%20folder/Linfluences%20J%20Johnson.html">Jack Johnson</a> with binoculars around his neck and a rifle in his hand.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Sj6HnHHN3RI/AAAAAAAAFsk/GHBPfiPiR-k/s1600-h/Tijerina-Reyes-Break_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349862513356692754" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Sj6HnHHN3RI/AAAAAAAAFsk/GHBPfiPiR-k/s400/Tijerina-Reyes-Break_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 264px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Sgt. Tarazon takes Reyes Hugh by the arm leading him away from the confrontation. Reyes Hugh does not resist as Sgt. Tarazon places a wrist restraint grip to control him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As Tijerina breaks free of Evans' grasp, he "walks hurriedly" according to State Policeman <a href="http://www.theblueflyer.com/Blue%20Flyer%20html%20folder/Linfluences%20R%20Gilliland.html">Robert Gilliland</a>'s later testimony or runs to his station wagon as the crowd remains still watching Reies. Tijerina retrieves the .30-06 rifle from the front seat of his car, actuates the receiver, waves the weapon from side to side, indicating people should clear a way and then levels the rifle at Evans.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">State Police Officer Johnson came off the hill on the other side of Tijerina's car and he: raised the hood of the vehicle, removed the distributor cap, disabling the car. Johnson points his own rifle at Tijerina's head, telling him, "Psst. Reies, you're a dead man."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSPN9m_SuI/AAAAAAAAFoQ/oxpOu9y4ne4/s1600-h/Tijerina_Arrest_Carabine_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347056127634787042" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjSPN9m_SuI/AAAAAAAAFoQ/oxpOu9y4ne4/s400/Tijerina_Arrest_Carabine_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 269px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>"Bodyguard" Juan Roybal, left, convinced Tijerina to surrender.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkUrnf__CvI/AAAAAAAAFuE/FiIm3WQvzbA/s1600-h/Tijerina-Custody-2w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351731689804466930" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkUrnf__CvI/AAAAAAAAFuE/FiIm3WQvzbA/s400/Tijerina-Custody-2w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 264px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina waved off the first state policeman who approaches him because he is Anglo and called for a Hispanic Officer Manuel Martinez, to whom he surrenders and is taken into custody.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnPuE68GGQI/AAAAAAAAF6o/VoHCpyvrcYU/s1600-h/Shotgun_NMSP_Capt_Evans+Wl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364893349436594434" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnPuE68GGQI/AAAAAAAAF6o/VoHCpyvrcYU/s400/Shotgun_NMSP_Capt_Evans+Wl.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 281px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Espanola's State Police District Commander Lieutenant <a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/12/jose-delfino-jd-maes-jr-1924-2012.html">Jose "J.D." Maes</a> arrived on the scene well after the event was over. Armed with a customized gold-plated carbine, Maes consults with Evans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also arrested were: brother Ramón Tijerina, son Reyes Hugh, Carol Watson, Kerim Hamarat, Manuel Rudy, and José Aragón.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina and Patsy were released on their own recognizance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>June 11, 1969, Tijerina Attempts "Citizens Arrest" of Evans</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After bonding out of jail, Tijerina and some of his follower went to the home of Evens to attempt to serve a citizen's arrest on him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were unsuccessful and the United States attorney had Tijernia retaken for violations of conditions of his bond release and held on no bond.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>June 16-17, 1969, Bond Revocation Hearing</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkYtGvTDVAI/AAAAAAAAFuk/bXY4YewCGvU/s1600-h/Kunstler-1Wx.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352014800975254530" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkYtGvTDVAI/AAAAAAAAFuk/bXY4YewCGvU/s320/Kunstler-1Wx.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 205px;" /></a>United States District Court Judge Howard Bratton held a bond revocation hearing. The United States Attorney was Victor R. Ortega and his assistant was Michael P. Watkins.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina's lawyer was <a href="http://www.aclu.org/">American Civil Liberties Union</a> Chief Trial Attorney <a href="http://www.theblueflyer.com/Blue%20Flyer%20html%20folder/LInfluence%201WMK.html">William Kunstler</a>, seen here during a later speech he gave at <a href="http://www.nmhu.edu/">New Mexico Highlands University</a> in <a href="http://www.lasvegasnm.gov/">Las Vegas</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was subpoenaed to testify by both the prosecution and defense.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I testified and was on witness stand for two hours. Defense Attorney Kunstler questioned me for about an hour and a half and was stopped by Judge Bratton when he started asking the chemical make up of the film developer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bratton, an admitted advanced armature photographer, ruled that I did not have to understand all the chemical properties of the photographic process to be a photographer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was not being offered as an expert witness. The only thing I needed to do was testify that the prints offered into evidence clearly depicted what I saw at the time the picture was taken.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kunstler's main attack was that New Mexico State Police and Forest Service Law Enforcement Chief Evans tried to kill Tijerina on the road in front of the ranger station.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Sjq0bC464RI/AAAAAAAAFrQ/OtzxUotk6K8/s1600-h/Tijerina-Fire-1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348785884180963602" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Sjq0bC464RI/AAAAAAAAFrQ/OtzxUotk6K8/s400/Tijerina-Fire-1w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 271px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Kunstler focused in on a particular picture of a State Police Officer Martinez, center, for having had his hand resting on his holstered gun. Kunstler tried to get me to testify that the officer was drawing the weapon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Sjq1eEnPkdI/AAAAAAAAFrY/Ox0Chc0wOBI/s1600-h/Tijerina-Fire-1w1a.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348787035694928338" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Sjq1eEnPkdI/AAAAAAAAFrY/Ox0Chc0wOBI/s400/Tijerina-Fire-1w1a.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 347px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 235px;" /></a>The court presentation print was not large enough for Kunstler to easily discern the location of the officer's hand. Here is a blow up of the Martinez's hand, which is not gripping the butt of the weapon. The restraining strap was not unsnapped. The strap visible is either that of a slapper of a gas billy in a small pocket below and to the right of the right rear pocket. Martinez did not draw his weapon at this point; he might have later when Tijerina brought his M-1 into play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kunstler's activities, including his representation of Tijerina were documented in a Look magazine article entitled "'The blackest white man I know' Civil Rights Lawyer William Knustler is soul brother to radicals of many colors." Playboy magazine would call him a "courtroom freedom fighter."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina with U.S. Marshal for New Mexico Doroteo Robert Baca being moved from Federal court during his bond revocation hearing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Federal District Court Trial</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">September 22, 1969, Tijerina's trial starts on charges arising from the sign burnings. He faced two counts of aiding abetting his wife Patsy in the destruction of government property and one count of resisting arrest by assaulting a federal law enforcement officer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">September 25, 1969, I testify under direct examination and was on witness stand as the last witness as the government rests.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">September 27, 1969, I testify as a rebuttal witness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reies Lopez Tijerina was found guilty, convicted on 3 counts in Federal District Court.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Newsweek photograph</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In November 1969, <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/">Newsweek</a> magazine contacted my father, while I was studying in New York City at the <a href="http://www.nyip.com/">New York Institute of Photography</a>. Newsweek wanted to buy a photograph of Reies Lopez Tijerina to illustrate a story.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the December 15, 1969, issue of Newsweek, in the Religion section there was an article, "The Almoner's Dilemma," which discussed a rift in the Episcopal church's over giving money to legitimate organizations providing services, as long as they are, "non-violent."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Smt-aC9vAzI/AAAAAAAAF3Q/HawFNtPTCbc/s1600-h/Tijerina_Brown+Beret+W.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362518767252210482" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Smt-aC9vAzI/AAAAAAAAF3Q/HawFNtPTCbc/s400/Tijerina_Brown+Beret+W.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 244px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 360px;" /></a>This picture illustrated the article with the caption, "Alianza's Brown Beret: Power, prioity and a Christian position".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Alianza was slated to receive $41,000. New Mexico Bishop Charles J. Kingsolving objected claiming because Tijerina had been convicted in the Echo Amphitheater case that the Alianza was a violent organization.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The screening committee, on the other hand, supports the Alianza's efforts to organize</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"community power" in Spanish speaking communities. The committee report criticizes both public and church authorities in New Mexico for failing to take serious the Alianza's sweeping land claims and blames the "indifference of responsible whites" for compelling the Alianza to employ confrontation tactics." The basic question, the report concludes, "has been and remains: Is the Alianza a creditable and grass-roots organization of poor and powerless people?</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">November 26, 1969, Second Tierra Amarilla Courthouse "Raid" Trial</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After being acquitted in the State trial for the Tierra Amarilla courthouse "raid," Tijerina was recharged on different counts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Special Prosecutor Jack Love replaced First Judicial District Attorney Alfonso Sanche, who was out of office. Love, had assisted Sanchez in the first trial.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina was found guilty on two charges:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">False imprisonment of Rio Arriba County Deputy Sheriff Pete Jaramillo,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Assault with intent to kill or maim the late Rio Arriba County Jailer Eulogio Salazar.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SmwCO4EZgDI/AAAAAAAAF3o/xaLsdG-WvNc/s1600-h/Tijerina_Manacled_State_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362663710883676210" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SmwCO4EZgDI/AAAAAAAAF3o/xaLsdG-WvNc/s400/Tijerina_Manacled_State_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 299px;" /></a>Tijerina in handcuffs greeted supporters as he was led away after a day in court.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnM7sewCPrI/AAAAAAAAF54/fjfKIhcmX_s/s1600-h/Jaun-Valdez_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364697216483212978" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnM7sewCPrI/AAAAAAAAF54/fjfKIhcmX_s/s400/Jaun-Valdez_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 298px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>The trial had other defendants including, <a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/09/juan-valdez-1938-2012.html">Juan Valdez</a>, right, who was accused of shooting State Police Officer Nick Saiz during courthouse raid. Another man, Geronimo Borunda, left, testified for the defense that he, not Valdez had shot Saiz.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnOvIlfLSoI/AAAAAAAAF6A/VFAPhkBr5TI/s1600-h/Nick-Saiz-1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364824143165082242" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnOvIlfLSoI/AAAAAAAAF6A/VFAPhkBr5TI/s400/Nick-Saiz-1w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 286px;" /></a>Saiz, above during a break, testified on rebuttal that he was sure of his identification.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Valdez was convicted of shooting Saiz</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The jury found Baltazar Martinez, who was accused of kidnapping AP Reporter Larry Calloway, not guilty by reason of insanity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Baltazar Apodaca was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Monday January 5, 1970, Sentencing Second Courthouse "Raid" Trial</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina was sentenced to one to five years for the kidnapping of Dep. Jaramillo and two to ten years for aggravated assault with intent to commit a violent felony of Jailer Salazar, the sentences to run concurrently in the New Mexico State Penitentiary, but to be served after the Federal sentence for the Echo Amphitheater crimes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Valdez was sentenced to two to ten years in prison. However, Governor Bruce King would pardon just him four days before he was scheduled to report to prison.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Former prosecutor Love has his own site, <a href="http://jackllove.blogspot.com/">New Mexico Law And Society</a>. In commenting on this case <a href="http://jackllove.blogspot.com/2005/06/convicted-courthouse-raiders-pardoned.html">Love</a> wrote and then posted a <a href="http://jackllove.blogspot.com/2007/06/correction-of-2005-post-about-reies.html">correction</a> about its outcome, sentence and ultimately that Tijerina served a short sentence, was paroled, and Governor Toney Anaya pardoned him as he left office.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">February 16, 1970, Patsy Ann Tijerina trial</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The case of United States v. Patsy Ann Tijerina's trial on two charges of destruction of government property, National Forest Service signs in Gallinia and Coyote, New Mexico starts. The Assistant United States Attorney was Michael P. Watkins. The defense Attorney was Peter Adang assisted by Thomas E. Davis. I was subpoenaed to testify by both the prosecution and defense.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On February 17, 1970, I testify under direct examination and was on witness stand as the last witness as the government rests.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnHl4VmpPPI/AAAAAAAAF4w/usODZ-5IM5M/s1600-h/b-Tijerina_27_SuperemCt_wbw.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364321387209637106" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnHl4VmpPPI/AAAAAAAAF4w/usODZ-5IM5M/s400/b-Tijerina_27_SuperemCt_wbw.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 274px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>I was recalled and testified as a rebuttal witness to point out that Patsy Tijerina seemed capable of reading. The defense had put on evidence that she could not read because she had a limited IQ of about 69. I had seen her select a number of tourist pamphlets from a rack at the Congressional hotel, including some that had no pictures. I had photographs of her, above right, in front of the Supreme Court building showing her holding some of these pamphlets. I also testified that on the airplane ride home she seemed to read an article in a woman's magazine, taking a fair amount of time on each page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">August 4, 1971, Conviction Upheld</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">August 4, 1971, the United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit <a href="http://openjurist.org/446/f2d/675">upheld</a> the Federal District Court conviction.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the appeal brief prepared by Tijerina's Attorney Leonard E. Davis argued that his client had not participated in his wife's crimes. Davis characterized my testimony as circumstantial evidence that did not rise to a sufficient level of proof.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, without ever mentioning my photographs, which showed facts that could not be disputed. Tijerina had driven Patsy from the first sign burning to the scene of the second sign. Along the way, Tijerina stopped twice: to direct Patsy to gather firewood from a fallen tree, and at a gas station. After filling his car with gasoline, he filled a clorox bottle with gas, which was then distributed into other bottles that Patsy used to burn the second sign. Other witnesses, including Tijerina himself had testified to other facts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The court disagreed with Tijerina's position that there was not enough evidence, writing, "The conflicting versions of the facts were for the jury and its verdict was against appellant." The court went on, "We are satisfied the proof amply supports the convictions on counts one and two," the aiding and abetting in burning the two Forest Service signs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina returns from federal prison.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjsNQtDly5I/AAAAAAAAFro/27hBZtokrUQ/s1600-h/g-01-Tijerina_ReturnsWl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348883563056319378" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjsNQtDly5I/AAAAAAAAFro/27hBZtokrUQ/s400/g-01-Tijerina_ReturnsWl.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 399px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>In August 1971 Tijerina was released from the federal penitentiary at La Tuna, Texas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjsN2JtcZ5I/AAAAAAAAFrw/p7MtoY1ohkw/s1600-h/Tijerina_Home_PressWl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348884206403217298" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjsN2JtcZ5I/AAAAAAAAFrw/p7MtoY1ohkw/s400/Tijerina_Home_PressWl.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 270px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Upon returning to Albuquerque, a large crowd of supporters and the media greeted him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjsOZ6ztVkI/AAAAAAAAFr4/LJaMPNJhXDU/s1600-h/Tijerina_APE_1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348884820878251586" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjsOZ6ztVkI/AAAAAAAAFr4/LJaMPNJhXDU/s400/Tijerina_APE_1w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 268px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina spoke before the Albuquerque Press Club.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjsUSHft0OI/AAAAAAAAFsA/gtpk7qilbrU/s1600-h/Tijerina_APE_C_2w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348891283914871010" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjsUSHft0OI/AAAAAAAAFsA/gtpk7qilbrU/s400/Tijerina_APE_C_2w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 270px;" /></a>He renounced his militant ways. While in federal prison, Tijerina was diagnosed with cancer in his throat and had surgery performed on his right neck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My Take</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are three things that have lingered or haunted my involvement in these events that have not been completely addressed. They are: journalistic ethics, law enforcement participation, and proof/evidence of guilt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">History has relegated the events of Tijerina’s summer of 1969 to obscure footnotes, often factually incorrect.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjGj6R1jjpI/AAAAAAAAFhA/sQZi1Te_DX0/s1600-h/-0_Tijerina_PPM_3w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346234454281260690" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjGj6R1jjpI/AAAAAAAAFhA/sQZi1Te_DX0/s400/-0_Tijerina_PPM_3w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 271px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>In Tijerina's autobiography, "They Called Me "King Tiger": My Struggle for the Land and Our Rights", he used one of my photographs, above, and misidentifies Chief Beeman Logan as Hopi leader Tomás Ben Yacya. In his collection of papers he donated in to the UNM Libraries Center for Southwest Research, Tijerina misidentifies Logan in the photograph with Abernathy as (Wallace) "<a href="http://whiterootsofpeace.com/">Mad Bear</a>" Anderson.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Logan is to the left of Tijerina, wearing feathers. He is directly in front of Rosa Tijerina who is in the second row.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnR6u-1L6I/AAAAAAAAFp4/f9rWjPQA01g/s1600-h/Tijernia_PPM_Beeman_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348536839453355938" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnR6u-1L6I/AAAAAAAAFp4/f9rWjPQA01g/s400/Tijernia_PPM_Beeman_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 251px;" /></a><a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Enycalaba/LongCem.html">Beeman,</a> was an Indian leader from Tonawanda Creek Indian Reservation, located in Erie, Genesee, and Niagara Counties, in western New York State.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Journalistic Ethics.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have written about the ethical question in my providing photographs for use in court. I wrote about it on <a href="http://www.theblueflyer.com/">The Blue Flyer</a>, in a piece, “<a href="http://www.theblueflyer.com/Blue%20Flyer%20html%20folder/Influence%2018%20CarryBet.html">Ray Cary, Press & the Bet</a>.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Traditional journalism ethics instructors and practicing news leaders, mostly editors, have argued that government officials are not proper consumers of journalistic efforts unless they drop their 50 cents in the newspaper box and read the media’s version of events.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My position is quite simple: I’m a storyteller and will tell my story to anyone willing to listen. Juries are just another group of citizens with whom I am willing to talk.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina tried to convince the court I should not be allowed to testify under his theory that he had some kind of journalistic privilege.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was no agreement, nor could there be. By photographing Tijerina he was not an anonymous source to be protected from being identified. Nor would I allow him to edit my work.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina took the issue from the District Court to United States 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, Colorado, which denied it and it was further rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were moments when I was with Tijerina where I recognized intimate conversations. I photographed without listening and have never revealed what was said. I have no idea if something improper was relayed; I was the photojournalistic “fly on the wall.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Sku-0UA57jI/AAAAAAAAFvs/YqMDrrISq4k/s1600-h/Tijerina-Audio-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353582387994947122" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Sku-0UA57jI/AAAAAAAAFvs/YqMDrrISq4k/s400/Tijerina-Audio-w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 263px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>I tape-recorded several of the events during my travels, but everyone was well aware of the microphone. At the crucial moments, Alianza member Wilfred Sedillo, center with box hat, and others also recorded. This is an ad-hoc press center on the hood of a pickup truck where several people copied audio of what I had recorded and had earlier been broadcast on KOB radio.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Neither the prosecution nor the defense were particularly interested in the word for word recording as a matter of evidence, the lawyers never listened to my tapes. Portions of former Albuquerque radio reporter, who was then of a Los Angeles radio station announcer, Alfonso Tafoya's interviews with Tijerina were introduced by the defense and heard in court. According to an article by Tribune Staff Writer Dick McAlpin wrote about the last day of testimony, headlined, "Confrontation Is Told Jury Hears Tape Recording Of Tijerina's Conversation".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tafoya's tape stopped when his recorder dropped to the ground.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkwjktACvfI/AAAAAAAAFwk/HF_Y7XQWjiQ/s1600-h/c-Tijerina_33b_News-Conf_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353693170498715122" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkwjktACvfI/AAAAAAAAFwk/HF_Y7XQWjiQ/s400/c-Tijerina_33b_News-Conf_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 273px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>News media representatives came and went during the week-long events.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnQFwujGqI/AAAAAAAAFpI/YHozyC2kU7k/s1600-h/Tijerina_36_PointWl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348534829877238434" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjnQFwujGqI/AAAAAAAAFpI/YHozyC2kU7k/s400/Tijerina_36_PointWl.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 268px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>The mainstream media represented by: The Albuquerque Journal, The <a href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/">Santa Fe New Mexican</a>, the Associated Press, and United Press International. Here Carol Cagle, left, of the Santa Fe New Mexican listens as a radio interview takes place.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Albuquerque television market was not represented. I provided several radio reports to KOB AM radio. There were a number of non-daily news outlets that would run articles and pictures of the events, including: Chicano Press Association papers, that specialize in Mexican American issues, land grants and Tijerina, EL GRITO Del Norte, an Espanola based monthly newspaper and El Papel in Albuquerque.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkwkcgcthyI/AAAAAAAAFws/OE7UZ_eIG2U/s1600-h/Tijerina-Stewart-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353694129201973026" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkwkcgcthyI/AAAAAAAAFws/OE7UZ_eIG2U/s400/Tijerina-Stewart-w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 278px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>A number of freelanced journalist were present, including: McGraw-Hill Executive Editor Samuel "Hap" Stewart, upper left, with "Mayor" Salazar and Alfonso Tafoya, a former Albuquerque radio reporter were taking pictures and tape recording the events.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The August-September, 1971, double issue of "The New Mexico Review and Legislative Journal" had a lead article by Antonio Cordova and Jack Cade, “Riot Report: The Press and the Police.” The sub headline read: "There's something different about this time. They seem to be on to us."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In its first 24 column inches the “report” rehashed my involvement in covering the Tijerina events of two years earlier and my being beaten for photographing a rioter who was burning an overturned APD police car in Roosevelt Park June 13, 1971. The article suggested that the “riot” was a result of attitudes set by my photographs of the Tijerinas and their subsequent convictions at trial.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is a posting about the "<a href="http://www.jamrent.com/coa/riot1971.htm">Albuquerque Riot</a>."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The article hit me particularly hard. It was a mixture of fact and paranoid fantasy; it became a tale of propaganda.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are some undisputable facts however, what they mean is open to more than one interpretation. The Review chose to view those facts as completely negative towards what I did photographically.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Review got the story partly right and yet managed to leave an impression that was completely wrong.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They got little facts completely wrong. They built a story to suite their own perception. They simplify deeper conversations that mislead and misinform their readers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They try to make me seem more important than I was. Ego aside, I was not from “Life” magazine. I had contacted Life, as one of the five major national magazines and five national newspapers to whom I offered the story idea.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.life.com/">Life</a> magazine and the <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/">Denver Post</a> expressed an interest in the story. Life backed out in a letter sent after the events were concluded. The Denver Post initially wanted my work but then opted to send staffers, though I never identified anyone form the paper covering any of the June events.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina was not misled as to my journalistic status. In a letter of introduction, he identified me as, “a reporter from Albuquerque, New Mexico and who has been allowed to be and travel with Mr. Reies Lopez Tijerina beginning June 1st and through the 10th of June, 1969.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The most inaccurate and damning paragraph was:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As they drove to the sign-burning itself, Bralley snapped away like fury, photographing every step of the way: Tijerina driving into a gas station; a coke bottle being filled with gasoline; Tijerina waiting in the car while his young wife, Patsy walked over to the sign, poured gasoline on it, struck a match and burned the sign; The Rangers showing up pointing automatic rifles into the unarmed crowd of onlookers, arresting Tijerina and a half a dozen idle bystanders. After Tijerina had been arrested and taken to Albuquerque, Bralley made his own way home to develop his photos and deliver them to his true employer, the FBI.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Sn54PKkoqmI/AAAAAAAAF74/T8Oj9Z8DzyA/s1600-h/Tijerina_Molatov_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367860007803595362" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Sn54PKkoqmI/AAAAAAAAF74/T8Oj9Z8DzyA/s400/Tijerina_Molatov_w.jpg" style="float: right; height: 400px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 216px;" /></a>The paragraph states facts, the pictures showed: Tijerina filling his car and a Clorox bottle with gas and another man, right, dividing the gas into other bottles including a 7up bottle, I didn’t have a picture of Tijerina waiting in the car. I did have his wife burning the second sign. My pictures did not show the rangers pointing automatic rifles into the crowd of onlookers. There were a few other weapons in the “unarmed “ Alianza crowd, though I didn’t photograph them at that time. “Tijerina and a half a dozen idle bystanders,” were arrested, however they were not so idle. several were arrested for opposing officers. The FBI never employed me .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Co-author Antonio Cordova, also wrote for El Grito Del Norte: A Cry for Justice in New Mexico published in Espanola, N.M., a paper that supported the Alianza. I saw Cordova on occasion at Newspaper Printing Corporation, the parent company that housed the Albuquerque News offices. We had a strange working relationship, El Grito used several of my photographs that they took from what I had given to Tijerina, which were not supposed to be for publication and later El Grito used a <a href="http://www.theblueflyer.com/Blue%20Flyer%20html%20folder/Li%20Robbins%20GrapeJuice.htm">photo</a> of mine from a story on a group associated with the Alianza that monitored police activity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cordova was a true believer in Tijerina and it appears he was a committed revolutionary.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In an APD training bulletin on use of force I wrote:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On January 29, 1972, Cordova was involved in an aggravated commercial burglary of dynamite from a construction shed on Black Mesa just north of Isleta Indian Pueblo during the construction of Interstate 25 south of Albuquerque, just west of the Rio Grande. Cordova was killed along with Rito Canales by law enforcement officers from the: New Mexico State Police Albuquerque Police Department. State Police Officers were Leroy Urioste, Ralph McNutt and Ted Drennan, Albuquerque Police Officers were Sgt. Wayne Larson, Jose "Bennie" Salazar and Riolino "Rio" Polo.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a wrongful death case, Cordova v. City, the New Mexico State Court of Appeals found that Cordova and his partner Canales, who were burglarizing an explosives shed had committed two felonies in the presence of six police officers. When Cordova fired upon the officers, it was considered the duty of the officers not to retreat, but instead, to press forward and place him under physical restraint. The court held that the officers could, in pressing forward, defend themselves, and use deadly force.<a href="http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:5mfw0z2xztgJ:www.supremecourt.nm.org/cgi-bin/dnloadit.cgi/pastopinion/04ca-087.wpd+Cordova+v.+City+of+Albuquerque,+86+N.+M.+697,+526+P2d+1290&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari"> Cordova v. City of Albuquerque, 86 N. M. 697, 526 P2d 1290</a> (CT. APP. 1974). </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were other non-traditional newspapers that had their own take on events and their meaning. Two in particular: EL GRITO Del Norte A Cry For Justice in New Mexico, based in Espanola, New Mexico and El Papel, a student newspaper published in Albuquerque, by United Mexican American Students of UNM, the Brown Berets and the Raza High School Students.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El Grito and El Papel were part of the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Wacm-XKHz3gC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=El+Papel+Newspaper+Albuquerque&source=bl&ots=FK46Z2Ks8v&sig=Hqf82TIU3jk5CCyZH6On2au5OFo&hl=en&ei=det0SoDpEJHQtgPW-cTGCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=El%20Papel%20Newspaper%20Albuquerque&f=false">Chicano Press Association</a>, a group of about 26 niche papers serving Hispanic communities across the country.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In El Grito published several photographs of mine, in particular, in their July 6, 1969 edition, and September 26, 1969, which was a special issue "letter from prison" written by Tijerina.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The papers used several photograph of mine; including, at least these two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjRD4-nYa5I/AAAAAAAAFm4/g71Sl0Cmv9c/s1600-h/d-Tijerina-Isabell-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346973303755533202" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjRD4-nYa5I/AAAAAAAAFm4/g71Sl0Cmv9c/s400/d-Tijerina-Isabell-w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 338px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>"Tijerina with daughter Isabel at Coyote, before the rangers came" was taken June 5, 1969, after the Youngsville walking press conference.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjwUot4V9DI/AAAAAAAAFsQ/G-N8dIa3btQ/s1600-h/Tijerina-Evans-24w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349173147152544818" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjwUot4V9DI/AAAAAAAAFsQ/G-N8dIa3btQ/s400/Tijerina-Evans-24w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 265px;" /></a>"James Evans, (left, gun in hand) arresting Tijerina June 8."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Former Albuquerque radio reporter, then based at a Los Angeles radio station, Alfonso Tafoya, right, tape recorded the event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Several books were published with references to the sign burning incident, the retelling of the story had huge errors of fact in their attempts to explain the event.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the book "<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qvGgsGBFQncC&dq=Chicano%21+By+Francisco+Arturo+Rosales&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0">Chicano</a>! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement" author Francisco Arturo Rosales makes a bold assertion about the sign burning incident.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When a Forest Service employee tried to stop her (Patsy), Tijerina came to her aid, was beaten and almost shot. The police dispersed the crowd but arrested both Patsy and Reies Tijerina -- Again they were released on bond.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rosales just has it wrong:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No Forest Service employee tried to stop Patsy. The sign was on fire before any law enforcement officer arrived.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina did not come to Patsy's aid; he instantly gave her up to the police.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnP5W__9yMI/AAAAAAAAF6w/-VdNXUG66l4/s1600-h/Tijernia_NMSP_Arrest_1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364905754660554946" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnP5W__9yMI/AAAAAAAAF6w/-VdNXUG66l4/s400/Tijernia_NMSP_Arrest_1w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 268px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina was not beaten or manhandled. He selected his own arresting officer, rejecting an Anglo in favor of the Hispanic officer that Kunstler had accused of drawing his weapon at the start of the incident.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnP9cDNN5rI/AAAAAAAAF64/MphxFA6saJg/s1600-h/Tijernia_NMSP_Arrest-2aw.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364910239467300530" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnP9cDNN5rI/AAAAAAAAF64/MphxFA6saJg/s400/Tijernia_NMSP_Arrest-2aw.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 269px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Tijerina spoke to a radio reporter as he was led to a police car.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364459985707588082" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnJj71Pl2fI/AAAAAAAAF5o/TQ_sZ_lqhr0/s400/e-Tijerina_57a_8th_14w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 269px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span>The above picture shows the Tijerinas in State Police Officer Mike Montoya's unit. Tijerina is handcuffed in front, while Patsy is not handcuffed at all.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnQCRNOXygI/AAAAAAAAF7A/25X_Mga9qvc/s1600-h/Tijerina_Arrest_Carbine_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364915550736075266" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnQCRNOXygI/AAAAAAAAF7A/25X_Mga9qvc/s200/Tijerina_Arrest_Carbine_w.jpg" style="float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 134px;" /></a>Rosales was correct to the degree that Tijerina was, "almost shot."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fact that he was not shot begs the question of how much does "almost" means.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From a legal definition, Tijerina's life was in peril because he had armed himself and threatened Evans. The collective law enforcement response was the combined threat of deadly force.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What was apparent was no one with a weapon was willing to fire.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina placed the weapon against his car, contrary to his account in his autobiography where he wrote, that he returned the rifle to the front seat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Police did not disperse the crowd, the crowd dwindled away after the Tijerinas were removed from the scene.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Tijerinas were not released on bond, they were released on their own recognizance.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On June 9, Associated Press Albuquerque Office Bureau Chief <a href="http://pullman-cupofpalouse.blogspot.com/2009/06/howard-graves-there-isnt-newspaper-he.html">Howard Graves</a> gave me a piece of newsprint with the names of FBI Agents on it, which read; "pls call FBI agent Cary Carlton 247-1555 Bill Folkner, and Forrest Putman". Graves said give them a call; he didn’t say cooperate, nor did he say not to cooperate. I took it that it was the position of AP I was to cooperate with the FBI.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I met with FBI Special Agents Cary Carlton and later Bill Folkner. Carlton asked to see my negatives. I had not even been able to make contact sheets yet. He wanted about 75 shots printed. I asked for a subpoena and was promised one. I made two sets of prints of the pictures the FBI wanted; one for the prosecutors and one for Tijerina.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also made two sets of contacts sheets, one for myself and a set for Tijerina so he could select the 150 shots that were part of our agreement to travel with him. As part of the deal he could not publish them without further negotiations. The agreement didn’t hold up as several pictures appeared in Chicano Press Association newspaper that backed the Alianza.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I took a full set of the 26 proof sheets to Tijerina at the Alianza headquarters. The proof sheets were quickly passed around among followers. Reyes Hugh Tijerina and Frankie Archibeque pulled me aside and told me that I could not let the photographs be published or to fall into the hands of the court. I said that the photographs would be published because several news outlets still wanted to see them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reyes Hugh and Archibeque demanded that I give them the negatives. They maneuvered me into a corner of an office about 20 feet from the entrance. I felt a great deal of pressure being applied and knew I had to get out of their territory quickly. I left the set of proof sheets for Reies Tijerina. I told Reyes Hugh and Archibeque that I did not have the negatives with me and that I had a ride waiting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>My law enforcement participation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My willingness to testify extended to both the prosecution and the defense. I testified to tell the facts, as I knew them, not for or against a side. The facts and photographs spoke for themselves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was contacted by Albuquerque Police Department Intelligence Unit officers who introduced me to New Mexico State Police Narcotics and Intelligence Unit officers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the trials I had no further contact with the FBI until I became involved in law enforcement several years later.</span><br />
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John R. Cooney who represented Reyes Jr. subpoenaed me.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On July 1, 1969, I was on the witness stand at United States Commissioner's hearing zas a defense witness. My testimony was that I had not seen or photographed Reyes Hugh Tijerina Jr. committing any act that I thought violated the law. I testified that I had not seen or photographed Reyes Jr. doing anything other than offering verbal and moral support to Patsy Tijerina until after Evans had arrested Reies Lopez Tijerina and Reyes Jr. stepped in to try to make a "citizens arrest" of Evans. That is when Evans had arrested Reyes Jr. and he was taken into custody by State Police officers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the Commissioner's hearing charges against Reyes Jr. were dismissed. A short time later all the other defendants, except Reies López and Patsy Tijerina, also had their charges dismissed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">State Police Officer Gilliland told me that in July there had been at a meeting in a bar in Las Vegas, New Mexico, amongest several Alianza members including Reyes Hugh Tijerina Jr. Reyes Jr. reportedly threatened me by supposedly telling the others that I could not be allowed to testify because the photographs were damaging to their case.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>Proof/evidence of guilt</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina's account glosses over the details and he excludes one of the two sign burnings completely. His story didn't track with the sequence of events as I photographed them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnEENQpCATI/AAAAAAAAF34/HZZYq0FLR5A/s1600-h/Tijerina_53_PatsyWl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364073257026847026" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnEENQpCATI/AAAAAAAAF34/HZZYq0FLR5A/s320/Tijerina_53_PatsyWl.jpg" style="float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 217px;" /></a>During Tijerina's testimony and again in his book he made a big deal about his daughter Isabel having been in the car when he arrived at the Coyote Ranger Station. I had been in the car and Isabel wasn't in his vehicle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Patsy, right, paused after arriving at the Coyote Ranger Station until the caravan of vehicles stopped and followers got out to watch.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can't speak to what might have happened after I followed Patsy to the sign which she burned; Isabel might have been returned to the car.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina would use the photograph of Isabel taken in Cuba the week before to try to demonstrate that I had photographed her at the Coyote gas station - country store. Upon inspection of the pictures, in the shot of her with the bag of peanuts, you will note she had her hair pulled back and white shoes and socks. At the first sign burning her hair was in pig tails and she wore gray sneakers with no socks. Look at the lead picture of Isabel in this post and the picture of her following Patsy at the first sign burning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Our people were not armed," Tijerina wrote in his autobiography. "I was the only one with an M-1 and 30 rounds, but it was in the car."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were a fair number of guns in the camp.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkNytWmYAAI/AAAAAAAAFts/pDonwI-Oin0/s1600-h/Tijerina-Shotgun_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351246905732497410" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkNytWmYAAI/AAAAAAAAFts/pDonwI-Oin0/s400/Tijerina-Shotgun_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 273px;" /></a>I was aware of at least six firearms: Tijerina's Walther P.38 semi automatic pistol and his .30-06 M-1 Carbine rifle, a double barreled shotgun, above, Jose "Duke" Aragon's .22 cal. pistol and a Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee member, below, who was armed with a Santa Fe 308 Trooper M 59 rifle, and a .45 semi automatic pistol.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Snq9CWXILdI/AAAAAAAAF7I/Pni2MeIJpyc/s1600-h/Tijerina-Aragon-pistol-w1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366809754025340370" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Snq9CWXILdI/AAAAAAAAF7I/Pni2MeIJpyc/s400/Tijerina-Aragon-pistol-w1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 251px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Aragon's .22 cal. pistol, fired in celebration after the Gallina sign fell apart, was described in court by a woman visiting from Germany as, "an itty-bitty gun."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkNgv-LTBJI/AAAAAAAAFtU/Asf6vBX6qp0/s1600-h/e-Tijerina_SNCC_Shooting_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351227159506781330" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkNgv-LTBJI/AAAAAAAAFtU/Asf6vBX6qp0/s400/e-Tijerina_SNCC_Shooting_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 270px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>The member of the SNCC, in an act of irony armed himself with a Santa Fe 308 Trooper M 59 and took a couple of shots at a 20-foot boulder a hundred yards away and missed by better than 10 feet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkNhpLNNrpI/AAAAAAAAFtc/10LjjsQYVjQ/s1600-h/e-Tijerina_Danny_Shooting_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351228142257024658" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkNhpLNNrpI/AAAAAAAAFtc/10LjjsQYVjQ/s400/e-Tijerina_Danny_Shooting_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Danny Tijerina took the weapon, called the foot wide rock on top of the boulder and struck it squarely.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkNmC-tvLKI/AAAAAAAAFtk/yPEK8UXE4EQ/s1600-h/Tijerina-handguns-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351232983626886306" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkNmC-tvLKI/AAAAAAAAFtk/yPEK8UXE4EQ/s400/Tijerina-handguns-w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 140px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 255px;" /></a>Both men were also armed with pistols.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inset pictures, left, are closeups of two other handguns stuck in the men's belts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The left image is of Danny Tijerina with his father's Walther P.38 semi automatic pistol sticking out below his jacket. The right image is of the butt of a .45 semi automatic pistol.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkU5pFXm_lI/AAAAAAAAFuU/qAsu4u0ITJs/s1600-h/d-Tijerina_41_Rifle_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351747110178324050" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkU5pFXm_lI/AAAAAAAAFuU/qAsu4u0ITJs/s400/d-Tijerina_41_Rifle_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 271px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>There were a number of men who took turns carrying these weapons around camp.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjrHLq2XYhI/AAAAAAAAFrg/dvemnSMHs44/s1600-h/e-Tijerina_Guns_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348806510750687762" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SjrHLq2XYhI/AAAAAAAAFrg/dvemnSMHs44/s400/e-Tijerina_Guns_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 269px;" /></a>Tijerina's claim of his fear for his daughters safety are countered by the fact that he was not uncomfortable with her being around guns. The two guns in this picture are the same guns that were in the front seat of Tijerina car later in the day when he was arrested. I have to ask a question of logic. Would Tijerina have left his daughter unattended in the car with the two weapons readily available on the front seat?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the arrests, knives were also taken from Hamarat and Danny Tijerina's sheath was empty in the picture of him helping his father break free from Evans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later in the day a vehicle bearing three SNCC members traveling to Albuquerque was stopped by State Police and two weapons: a .30-06 Remington, and the Santa Fe 308 Trooper M 59 rifle were seized.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s1600-h/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341541282638661154" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SiD3fvDDBiI/AAAAAAAAFfE/Jxzq3NJ6xZ8/s400/Blue+Line+Medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px;" /></a>Conclusions</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I approached this story more than 45 years ago having heard a lot about Tijerina. I didn't believe all of it. It was clear that he was a charismatic leader of a cause he believed in, the restoration land grants. What was hard for me was accepting the public sentiment, fostered by the local press and especially the Albuquerque Journal, that he was completely wrong. It just couldn't be true, facts didn't support it. There had been the land court and the Supreme Court ruling that sent the issue to Congress. The court hadn't ruled on the merits and Congress refused to look at the issue or the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was determined to cover Tijerina fairly. I had steeled myself to not be taken by his charm or rhetoric, I wasn't going to be caught by the fervor he instilled in his followers nor let their passions over take me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnPqiv725_I/AAAAAAAAF6g/02GxjYm149k/s1600-h/Tijerina_33c_News+Conf.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364889463832373234" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SnPqiv725_I/AAAAAAAAF6g/02GxjYm149k/s400/Tijerina_33c_News+Conf.jpg" style="display: block; height: 272px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>I managed not to get caught up. I didn't photograph many private moments. I didn't get too many chances. Meals seemed the exception.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is my belief that the land grant issues are not resolved, nor are efforts to resolve them over.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is further my belief that there is enough blame for the problem to go around.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For those who wish to believe that indigenous people were wronged and conquest was bad; the argument can be made.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For those who wish to believe that war ended legitimate claims and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is hollow; the argument can be made.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For those who wish to believe that some land grant claimants had no hand in the transfer of land against the interest of their fellow claimants; the argument can be made.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For those who wish to believe that the transfer land grant property was all above board and was and now should be considered legal and closed to further discussion; the argument can be made.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My conclusion is that this discussion is far from over.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, I have no illusion that there is no likely resolution to this matter. Congress has no incentive to delve into the matter. It rather follow its long history of approving treaties, which are defined in the Constitution as the "Supreme Law of the Land" and then simply ignoring them, especially when it comes to people who were on the land before the expansion of the country.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Note: I am able to trace back my oldest ancestors in this country as arriving in Massachusetts shortly after the Mayflower voyage. There is a reality in this country that the original owners, or even subsequent owners have had lands taken by any number of means, in what today might be considered legally or illegally or maybe even quasi-legally. Those who owned the land or as some indigenous people put it, the land owned them, stewardship has changed and there are those who feel aggrieved.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What remains are emotional issues that won't rest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina's legacy will probably be shrouded by the actual and threatened use of violence rather than his efforts to raise the issues to a civil public discussion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Sn0OzN_ld7I/AAAAAAAAF7g/7fP6CPuqHoY/s1600-h/Tijerina-Los-Alamos-BrainTrust_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367462603987974066" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/Sn0OzN_ld7I/AAAAAAAAF7g/7fP6CPuqHoY/s400/Tijerina-Los-Alamos-BrainTrust_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>In the spring and summer of 1969, Tijerina's Alianza brain-trust consisted of his closest advisers: Wilfred Sedillo, center, who was the silent, yet knowledgeable researcher, and the lawyer William Higgs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina was correct that the land grant problem should be resolved. He was and still was frustrated in any effort to have a public discussion of the issues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina entered into a series of escalating efforts to confront both the state and federal governments trying to engage them in dialogue about land grants. He was reduced to engaging in political street theater and acts of civil disobedience. They posed a couple of problems: primarily Tijerina was being ignored, the local establishment press was vehemently opposed to his efforts, and the public did not want to deal with unsettled issues that might disrupt the status quo. More than one landowner has told me not to tell this story because they own land that is disputed and they do not want to dredge up past grievances.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My photographs stated facts. I was not permitted to express an opinion during the court proceedings about whether Reies López Tijerina had committed a crime.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If I had, I would not have drawn too many conclusions. There were some things I thought the jury could have used to conclude their finding of guilt. They are the same points that the court of appeals had gone through.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Patsy Tijerina made it clear that she was going to burn a second sign at the Coyete Forest Service Ranger Station. Tijerina could not have been uninformed of her further intentions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was at a disadvantage in that Tijerina and Patsy spoke Spanish in the car during the ride between the two signs and I could only draw inference from their actions without knowing the specific verbal communications.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were a couple of additional points: Tijerina had always been very solicitous of his wife. He did a lot for her. When he stopped his car and motioned her to gather firewood, it was uncharacteristic of him. She already had a pile of newspapers and the amount of wood she collected was not sufficient to keep a campfire alive during an evening, yet it was enough to start a fire under a Forest Service sign.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tijerina was trying to remain separated from her actions. I believe that in doing so he actually highlighted his knowledge and encouragement towards her.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the State Police arrived at the second sign burning, Tijerina instantly identified Patsy as the arsonist. My photographs did not show him commit an overt crime related to the sign burnings, but even through his own testimony he was bound by the images and could not make them speak his version of what happened.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was up to the jury to determine the meaning of what had happened and they seemed to have little trouble drawing their conclusion of guilt on all three counts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the time, there was no doubt in my mind that Tijerina resisted arrest. He admitted it. The question was could he legally do so?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a legal question. If the arrest for other charges is not legal or, in this case the question was, did Evans have probable cause to believe Tijerina had committed a felony, if not, then Tijerina could legally resist an unlawful arrest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The problem was Tijerina had no way of knowing how much Evans knew that made Evans think he had probable cause. Evans believed he had sufficient probable cause based on police radio reports describing what Tijerina was doing moment to moment allowing him to make a warrantless arrest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ultimately the question was resolved after a hearing in court where the judge ruled as a matter of law whether Evans had probable cause to think Tijerina had committed a felony, two, adding and abetting Patsy's destruction of government property by burning the two signs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit in Denver probably stated the ultimate conclusion best in their final point of the Echo <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Amphitheatre</span> appeal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These defendants sought publicity through a public demonstration and a confrontation with federal officials. They got all three. In accomplishing those objectives they violated federal laws and must suffer the consequences.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had confronted the confrontation, not to stand in its way, but to examine it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In today's culture, with the Patriot act and the fear generated by our government, looking at 40 year old events makes the era seem mild by comparison, almost quaint.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, there is nothing quaint about the armed takeover of a courthouse. It is the act of a failed society that has allowed its citizens to be disenfranchised from their resolution process. When the right to petition government for a redress of grievances is not met with a workable process to address those grievances, then protest escalating to violence is an understandable conclusion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In retrospect, as harsh as the punishment was, at the time, the sentences meted out, the amount of the sentences actually served and the fact that in several cases sentences were commuted and even pardoned is telling that the society through its government was unwilling to be extremely harsh.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More likely, those in power -- economical and governmental -- wanted the problem to become invisible, to simply go away. It hasn't gone away, nor should it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Associated Press Writer Sue Major Holmes wrote that Tijernia’s daughter Rosita and Vecinos United Director Andres Valdez have written a letter to President Barack Obama seeking his help in gaining control of millions of acres of land lost when the United States took over the southwest. The front page story was published under the headline “<a href="http://masnewmexico.com/mas/archivo/2009/junio/masnmpub061009.pdf">Reparations – Land grant activists turn to Obama for help</a>” in the June 10, 2009, edition of <a href="http://www.masnewmexico.com/">Más New Mexico</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkJmYX6indI/AAAAAAAAFtE/Rji2xY6Kdto/s1600-h/Ethics+Board+VC+1Wl.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350951876192017874" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/SkJmYX6indI/AAAAAAAAFtE/Rji2xY6Kdto/s400/Ethics+Board+VC+1Wl.jpg" style="display: block; height: 237px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Valdez, left and Rosita Tijerina are seen with their lawyer Paul Livingston during a preliminary meeting of the City of Albuquerque’s Ethics Board where the complaint of Vecinos Unidos De Nuevo Mexico (New Mexico Neighbors United) Vs. Mayor Martin Chávez ABQPAC City of Albuquerque Ethics Board complainants Andraes Valdez and Rose Tijernia. were among three groups that filed ethics charges against the mayor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This <a href="http://www.theblueflyer.com/Blue%20Flyer%20html%20folder/Influences%20Personal%20RLT%2011.html">story</a> also appeared hidden within theblueflyer.com. I originally intended to post Tijerina as a personal influence then held back because I wanted to develop the story as a possible book project. This posting was the next step.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Much of the work that <span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">appears</span><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;"> here has been </span><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">pilfered many times to illustrate Tijerina's story, including:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="watch-title long-title" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" style="border: 0px; letter-spacing: -0.03em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Reies Lopez Tijerina Video by Abel Muhammad on NPR's Latino USA">Reies Lopez Tijerina Video by Abel Muhammad on NPR's Latino USA, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_KAVX4VdZk#t=17">published</a></span> March 17, 2012.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="watch-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Reies Tijerina speaking at UCLA 5/9/1969">Reies Tijerina speaking at UCLA 5/9/1969, </span><span style="line-height: 13px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1x6X1uHlYs">published</a> April 11, 2014</span></span></h1>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">And </span>Reies López Tijerina, a Chicano leader’s lifetime of achievement is honored <a href="http://borderzine.com/2009/07/reies-lopez-tijerina-a-chicano-leader%E2%80%99s-lifetime-of-achievement-is-honored/">published</a> by Christina Gonzalez on July 4, 2009</span><br />
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M.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-76715585410872102262014-09-19T20:25:00.001-06:002014-09-23T15:53:54.676-06:00There is Life After APD!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">Just north of Travis County and the city of
Austin, Texas, is Williamson County, where the city of Round Rock is located.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: white;">In March 2014, Round Rock Police department
hired a new chief, Allen Banks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: white;">Banks, as deputy chief, had been interim chief here in Albuquerque
following Chief Raymond Schultz’ retirement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: white;">On a recent road trip with my buddy Rocky
Nogales, to attend a wedding of his sister, we ran into Banks as he filled his
SUV at a local gas station.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Nogales and I had planned on tracking down
Banks to see how his new world was treating him, but instead, he rolled up on
where we were.</span></span></div>
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155-officer department.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">While talking with us, the wife of an officer
came over to shake the chief’s hand and to introduce herself to him,
commenting, she and her husband were very pleased at how he was directing the
department.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Motorcycle Officer Jesse Rodriguez, whom we had
seen running radar earlier, pulled in to get gas. I noticed his name was on the lower
fairing and asked Banks about it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial;">The name of every officer is on their marked
take-home vehicles, Banks said. It is part of his community policing effort,
and he says it has been well received.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">I approached Rodriguez, introducing myself as
having worked with Banks in Albuquerque.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Rodriguez approached Banks, shook his hand,
and joined our conversation.</span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">These two contacts seemed truly sincere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Later in the day I went to the font of all truth in a
community – the barbershop to get a shave.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">The barber, sporting tattoos, admitted to knowing members
of the Banditos motorcycle club. He also said he had several clients who were
Round Rock police officers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">The man slinging the razor reported, every
officer told him they were impressed with Banks and believed they were on the
right path.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Banks may have wanted to lead APD, but it is
apparent that he has found a new, welcoming home, with good workers, and
community support.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Banks said his family was pleased with the
move, his in-laws having moved into the area a few years back. He was wearing his long-sleeved dress uniform as he was on his way
to watch his sister present her dissertation for a PhD.. in nursing management
from the University of Texas at Austin's School of Nursing Doctoral program.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial;">My Take</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Banks made a very good move, for several
reasons:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">He is unburdened by the problems of the
Albuquerque Police Department, some of which he had occurred under his watch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">APD’s problems are bigger than a single
change in rank from the inside could overcome. This is evidenced by the continued and
increasing issues since Bank’s departure.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial;">Financially, he is pulling down a very good retirement
through the State of New Mexico’s system and is now receiving a good salary in
a healthy economy,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial;">What he could not accomplish at </span><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial;">Albuquerque Police Department</span><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial;">, the community of Round Rock is now going to enjoy.</span></div>
M.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-15233563572443880662014-05-01T00:06:00.003-06:002014-05-01T22:02:33.681-06:00The War is Over<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One hundred years ago yesterday
the <a href="http://www.du.edu/ludlow/cfhist3.html">Colorado Coalfield War</a> ended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where the war ended, another prickly battle began for workers rights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some sixty-six people were
killed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coal miners in southern
Colorado along the Rocky Mountains Front Range between Trinidad and Pueblo, struck
against several <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller,_Jr.">John D. Rockefeller Jr.</a>’s, Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.
coalmines, in September 1913, in an effort to join the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">United Mine Workers of America.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Several tent colonies were
set up, because strikers were thrown out of the company town.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SnPxLy3hldA/U2HfCvfOE0I/AAAAAAAALoM/LD-9_xr6TIQ/s1600/12:05:22-Ludlow-L1004406w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SnPxLy3hldA/U2HfCvfOE0I/AAAAAAAALoM/LD-9_xr6TIQ/s1600/12:05:22-Ludlow-L1004406w.jpg" height="266" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On April 20, 1914, Easter
Sunday. 20 people were killed at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre">Ludlow</a>, Colo. by the Colorado National Guard
and embedded private detectives hired by Rockefeller to break the strike. Of
the 20 killed, 11 were children and two were women; family members’ of strikers
died in a pit dug under a tent, to protect them from gunfire, when the tent was
torched.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The site has been enshrined and
is known as the “Death Pit.’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The numbers killed that
day vary, even within the <a href="http://www.umwa.org/?q=content/ludlow-massacre">United Mine Workers of America</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One by-passer was killed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three National Guard and
private detectives were also killed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When word spread to other
tent colonies and gun battles raged for ten days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Federal troops were sent to
separate the warring factions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O18zHGZnApE/U2HfXxJfHQI/AAAAAAAALoc/4-Zl0zpc17Y/s1600/12:05:22-Ludlow-L1004422w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O18zHGZnApE/U2HfXxJfHQI/AAAAAAAALoc/4-Zl0zpc17Y/s1600/12:05:22-Ludlow-L1004422w.jpg" height="640" width="403" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The strike was broken, but
the deadly events became the catalyst for unionism to take hold in America.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was the practice of the
day, of large corporations in providing everything for the workers from:
housing, schools, to groceries, to libraries, (containing censored books), to
everything they might need through a company store, and even ministers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, everything provided
was just slightly overpriced, requiring the workers to establish credit, which
hooked and trapped the workers in an indebted servitude. Workers were
prohibited from acquiring goods from any other source.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An economic concept that
some argue continues to exist to this day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coal mining was dangerous
work and nearly 200 miners through out the country were killed each year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The number one issue for
workers was safety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The strike failed but a
number of things changed with numerous after-effects that have had an impact on
our society in many ways, some subtle and others more obvious:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John D. Rockefeller Jr. was
called before congress and hit hard in the day’s media.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rockefeller set up company
unions. They could not bargain, but workers were able to meet and talk to mine
operator to express their concerns and grievances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The damaging publicity was
so bad Rockefeller hired a public relations firm, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Lee">Ivy Lee</a>, and created a new
field of industrial public relations, which is with us today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note the advertising on
network newscasts and in particular, Sunday morning talk shows where such industrial
giants as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_revenue">Exxon/Mobile</a>, a direct spinoff of Rockefeller Sr's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil">Standard Oil</a> and the third
largest company by revenue in the world, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto">Monsanto</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_Daniels_Midland">Archer Midland Daniels</a>, and
others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lee would claim an
overturned stove, not the fires started by the National Guard, caused the
deaths in the pit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair">Upton Sinclair</a> would call
Lee, “Poison Ivy.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the early 1930s Lee
consulted with a German company, I.G. Farben Industrie and would be accused of
having Nazi sympathies, he was brought before Congress, but he died before the
question was resolved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Union activist <a href="http://motherjonesmuseum.org/Bibliography.htm">Mother Jones</a>
gained more <a href="http://motherjonesmuseum.org/Mother_Jones_links.htm">notoriety </a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H-I6gzBwWrk/U2HgaP79PKI/AAAAAAAALo0/xTGy_wXNjW4/s1600/12:05:22-Ludlow-L1004379w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H-I6gzBwWrk/U2HgaP79PKI/AAAAAAAALo0/xTGy_wXNjW4/s1600/12:05:22-Ludlow-L1004379w.jpg" height="640" width="424" /></span></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Colorado miners would join the UMWA, which put up this monument.</span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fL1CfPvGz5c/U2Hh7WNaiDI/AAAAAAAALo8/TDVSjy_1D-Y/s1600/12:05:22-Ludlow-L1004341w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fL1CfPvGz5c/U2Hh7WNaiDI/AAAAAAAALo8/TDVSjy_1D-Y/s1600/12:05:22-Ludlow-L1004341w.jpg" height="265" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ludlow, Colorado Cola Miners
Strikers’ <a href="http://www.chieftain.com/news/pueblo/2490085-120/ludlow-massacre-chieftain-death">Massacre Centennial</a> was Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4gyVP7py3Gk/U2HewCrP_iI/AAAAAAAALoE/lg-I_JLtB_Y/s1600/12-05-22-to-Colorado-Springs-L1004474w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4gyVP7py3Gk/U2HewCrP_iI/AAAAAAAALoE/lg-I_JLtB_Y/s1600/12-05-22-to-Colorado-Springs-L1004474w.jpg" height="640" width="425" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today there are only two
coalmines in Colorado and none on the front range, yet there is a manufacturing
of other competing sources of energy.</span></div>
M.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-89198317900078755642014-02-17T05:37:00.000-07:002014-02-17T06:07:02.507-07:00Shirley Temple-Black 1928-2014<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Child movie star </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Temple"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Shirley Temple</span></a> died of natural causes
February 10, 2014, at home in Woodside, Calif., near San Francisco.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">She was 85.</span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kLkeM27GaIw/UwIA1l5ru2I/AAAAAAAALn0/qfUzW3K5eIU/s1600/Shirley-Temple-Black_w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kLkeM27GaIw/UwIA1l5ru2I/AAAAAAAALn0/qfUzW3K5eIU/s1600/Shirley-Temple-Black_w.jpg" height="640" width="488" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Shirley Temple-Black, the United States Protocol Officer to the Social,
Humanitarian and Political Committees at the U.N., arrives prior to President
Richard Nixon's arrival to speak before the General Assembly in New York City,
on September 18, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">1969.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She
would later serve as U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">.</span></div>
M.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-65895970215118614342014-02-17T03:33:00.002-07:002014-02-17T03:41:00.247-07:00If You Don’t Like the Weather in New Mexico; Just Wait, It’ll Change!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What’s
Wrong With This Picture?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a matter of a few days one couldn’t tell
what season it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday, December 21, 2013, began the Northern
Hemisphere’s astronomical winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is
it winter? It seemed to be a couple of weeks ago,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Br_6eOWDSpE/UwHifps-NmI/AAAAAAAALnQ/475RaXqfb0c/s1600/14:02:05-Park-Snow_2383w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Br_6eOWDSpE/UwHifps-NmI/AAAAAAAALnQ/475RaXqfb0c/s1600/14:02:05-Park-Snow_2383w.jpg" height="285" width="400" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then
it looked and felt like fall again.</span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lzp-6LxWPg0/UwHi3gK-2EI/AAAAAAAALnY/hBIyfXQ5hFc/s1600/14:02:12-Yard-Leaf_2646w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lzp-6LxWPg0/UwHi3gK-2EI/AAAAAAAALnY/hBIyfXQ5hFc/s1600/14:02:12-Yard-Leaf_2646w.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And
this weekend, eight weeks into winter, with a record high temperature </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of 71°,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for the </span><a href="http://www.weather.com/weather/pastweather/Albuquerque+NM+USNM0004:1:US?startdate=20140215" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">date</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, green
is sprouting on the bush in my front yard. It is green a <a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2013/03/its-green.html"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">month earlier</span></a> than last year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surely
winter has not gone away, it has just relinquished its hold here and given the
East-coast the honor of a good blast.</span></div>
M.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-36309057909603709462013-08-21T04:12:00.000-06:002013-08-21T04:14:09.508-06:00Don’t Pay the Ransom, I’ve Escaped!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">What’s Wrong With This Picture?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It’s the punch-line of an old joke about the bar flies wondering aloud what
excuse they’ll use for being out late and drunk; one says, I’ll just call my
wife and tell her....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I haven’t been hanging around bars, but I have been working on a number
of large time-consuming projects, which are coming to a head and I can see some light at the
end of the tunnel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The projects are not going away, but there might be a little break where
I can get a post or two up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So, to my readers and followers who have been patiently waited and for
those who have not been so patient, don't give up or pay the ransom, I do have
several stories in various stages of completion that I should be able to get
up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YTtVIgfDFpc/UhSLBpNt_DI/AAAAAAAALmU/6ZBsQaVK-KI/s1600/13:06:22-Road-Trip-Yosemite-L1020455.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YTtVIgfDFpc/UhSLBpNt_DI/AAAAAAAALmU/6ZBsQaVK-KI/s640/13:06:22-Road-Trip-Yosemite-L1020455.jpg" width="546" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I’ve also been out in the wilderness staring down wild beasts to bring
you hair-raising tales.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">OK! It’s a coyote in the high regions of Yosemite National Park
scrounging for food from any passing motorist who would slow down to take a
look.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Yogi Bear over in Jellystone Park with Ranger Smith has nothing on this
critter, but it didn’t score anything from a “picanic basket” either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4ruHrl3-biQ/UhSLeKdjpnI/AAAAAAAALmc/w646Kvtm5DQ/s1600/13:06:15-Road-Trip-L1019582w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4ruHrl3-biQ/UhSLeKdjpnI/AAAAAAAALmc/w646Kvtm5DQ/s320/13:06:15-Road-Trip-L1019582w.jpg" width="175" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have a road trip story, from whence this picture came.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A short planned seven-day trip to California, to see a nephew-godson get
married and to visit my mother in the Sacramento area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Follow my misadventures as a broken differential and a nationwide search
for the right part extends my stay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_0GhfPnHmpw/UhSRXtXB5jI/AAAAAAAALm0/Y_0jMNO_Mdg/s1600/11:08:18-Dave-Cargo-Bust-Unveiling-1878w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_0GhfPnHmpw/UhSRXtXB5jI/AAAAAAAALm0/Y_0jMNO_Mdg/s320/11:08:18-Dave-Cargo-Bust-Unveiling-1878w.jpg" width="182" /></a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have a photographic review of former Governor David Cargo upon his
recent passing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Those big projects have stories behind them also and
we still have things to talk about over what is happening with government and
how they don’t deal with aspects of the press they refuse to even acknowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">As I have done before, don’t’ forget in the midst of the:
hotdogs, beer, flag flying, baseball playing or watching, ice cream, and apple
pie, to take a few moments to read the master essay of the <a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_timeline.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">Committee of Five</span></a>,
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Sherman, and Robert
Livingston – <a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">The Declaration of Independence</span></a> – wrote such a fine love letter to
King George III.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The third and decisive day in the Battle of
Gettysburg happened 150 years ago today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was arguably the turning point against the Confederacy; as not only was General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia repulsed, but Union General
Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee completed the siege and battle of
Vicksburg, Mississippi on the same day, which gave control of the Mississippi river to the Union and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">effectively </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">ended </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">the war in the west.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Though it wasn’t delivered until November 1863, President
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, considered to be some of the best prose
ever delivered is worth also reading today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I will spare you having to link to it and let you
read it here:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Gettysburg Address<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought
forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing
whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long
endure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We are met on a great battle field of that war. We
have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for
those who here gave their lives that nation might live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do
this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But in a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can not
consecrate we can not hallow this ground.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The brave men, living and dead, who struggled her
have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The world will little note nor long remember what we
say here, but it can never forget what they did here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated
here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great
task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased
devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not
have died in vain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth
of freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And that government of the people, by the people, for
the people shall not perish from the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Abraham Lincoln<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Pause and reflect on these documents and please
consider what they mean as a reflection of our country today.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Now go take in one of the local fireworks displays.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Better yet, what is this picture?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This is the north wall of a room in the Albuquerque Publishing Company
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is the Ray Cary Auditorium.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Who was Ray Cary and why was the auditorium named for him?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Cary was an Albuquerque Journal photographer for many years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">You have met him <a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2008/03/200th-blog.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">here</span></a>, and on the <a href="http://www.theblueflyer.com/Blue%20Flyer%20html%20folder/Influence%2018%20CarryBet.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Blue Flyer</span></a>; here Cary, center, is at a
June 5, 1969, impromptu press conference with land grant activist Reies Lopez
Tijerina, left during a convention that would end with the burning of U.S.
Forest Service signs. Tijerina and his wife were arrested and convicted. He was
sentenced to ten-years along with another conviction, yet spent a little over
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I had heard about the room, but had never seen it. I had the opportunity
to attend a day-long event in the auditorium last week. I was greatly
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The walls are bare. How could a room named in honor of a Journal
photographer not have a single picture taken by him or of him to demonstrate
why he is recognized?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Cary and I were not the best of buddies, but we were peers, contemporaries,
and fierce competitors when it came news photography contests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What may have been his most famous pictures were taken after the
courthouse raid and appeared in a book by Peter Nabokov, “</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tijerina-Courthouse-Raid-Peter-Nabokov/dp/0671207237"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Tijerina and the Courthouse Raid</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Smithsonian Institution has photographs in their
museum of his coverage following the June 5, 1967, Rio Arriba County courthouse
raid at Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It is unfortunate that Journal Editor Kent Walz and Albuquerque
Publishing Company Owner and Journal Publisher, Tom Lang, purportedly his friend, don’t go through the
morgue and select eight or ten of Cary’s best work, print them, frame them, and
hang them in the room.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It’s the least they could do as a real honor.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">What’s Wrong With This Picture?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Take a beautiful Albuquerque evening, at Isotopes Park, let the winds
calm down, play back and forth ball, get to the end the ninth inning tied 4-4
with the <a href="http://www.milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t235"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Memphis Redbirds</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L_A5bPSSHuM/UYLmYVcrQtI/AAAAAAAALi0/g9dkKqnrT84/s1600/13:05:02-Isotopes-Memphis-6-4-L1017709w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="390" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L_A5bPSSHuM/UYLmYVcrQtI/AAAAAAAALi0/g9dkKqnrT84/s400/13:05:02-Isotopes-Memphis-6-4-L1017709w.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></a></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial;">After enjoying the between innings promotional events </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O7mMYl7cxC4/UYLmW0iQReI/AAAAAAAALis/RKsocNlR3Ek/s1600/13:05:02-Isotopes-Memphis-6-4-L1017713w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O7mMYl7cxC4/UYLmW0iQReI/AAAAAAAALis/RKsocNlR3Ek/s400/13:05:02-Isotopes-Memphis-6-4-L1017713w.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></a></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial;">and the antics of
the huggable <a href="http://www.milb.com/content/page.jsp?ymd=20090118&content_id=40993250&sid=t342&vkey=team2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Orbit</span></a>, winner of <a href="http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120619&content_id=33566752&vkey=news_t342&fext=.jsp&sid=t342"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">best mascot</span></a> in all of Minor League baseball</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"> contest.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6GJYCk52wBU/UYLmZNdE-sI/AAAAAAAALi8/EfNSx7aIWlA/s1600/13:05:02-Isotopes-Memphis-6-4-L1017722w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="231" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6GJYCk52wBU/UYLmZNdE-sI/AAAAAAAALi8/EfNSx7aIWlA/s400/13:05:02-Isotopes-Memphis-6-4-L1017722w.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></a></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Hang out in the dugout with <a href="http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?pos=LF&sid=t342&t=p_pbp&pid=448242"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Tony Gwynn</span></a> eating sunflower seeds and analyzing the game on an off night.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k4GwnCVRQLk/UYLmbr904bI/AAAAAAAALjM/4Y5MJg4bdPE/s1600/13:05:02-Isotopes-Memphis-6-4-L1017766w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k4GwnCVRQLk/UYLmbr904bI/AAAAAAAALjM/4Y5MJg4bdPE/s400/13:05:02-Isotopes-Memphis-6-4-L1017766w.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></a></span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Get the Birds out in the top of the tenth inning on the relief pitching
of Australian native <a href="http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?pos=P&sid=t342&t=p_pbp&pid=493247"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Peter Moylan</span></a>, who pitched two no-hit innings.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Bring to bat Isotopes First Baseman <a href="http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?pos=1B&sid=t342&t=p_pbp&pid=475100"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Scott Van Slyke</span></a>, let him get on
base, this time by way of a walk.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Earlier in the game Van Slyke was face down in the mud, hit in the left
hand by a pitched ball.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Catcher <a href="http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?pos=C&sid=t342&t=p_pbp&pid=543148"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Tim Federowicz</span></a>, who had already hit two doubles, scoring two
runs, takes a pitch and with a mighty swing places it in the Redbirds bullpen.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The Isotopes bench gathers around Home Plate to greet Van Slyke and
Federowicz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Final score 6-4.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Here are some sure signs of Spring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The foliage is showing early signs of the changing season, (don’t worry, this is New Mexico, there is cold still left in the
calendar).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">With a reported high temperature of 73 degrees, Saturday March 15, these
men got out the motorcycles to go to lunch and a shirtsleeve ride.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">It also must be March as 15<sup>th</sup> ranked
University of New Mexico <a href="http://www.golobos.com/sports/m-baskbl/nm-m-baskbl-body.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Lobos</span></a> won the Mountain West Conference Basketball
<a href="http://www.themwc.com/champ/13-mwc-bb-tourney.html"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">tournament</span></a>, in Las Vegas, Nv, by<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>defeating University of Nevada Las Vegas, <a href="http://www.unlvrebels.com/sports/m-baskbl/unlv-m-baskbl-body.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Rebels</span></a> 63 – 56, clinching a spot in
the <a href="http://www.ncaa.com/sports/basketball-men/d1"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">NCAA</span></a> first round of 68.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">This picture, taken February 2, 2013, at the only game I
attended, shows the Lobos on a breakaway after a steal against the University
of Nevada Wolf Pack; UNM 75 – <a href="http://www.nevadawolfpack.com/sports/m-baskbl/unv-m-baskbl-body.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Nevada</span></a> 62.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The 2013 New Mexico Legislature (Senate) slogged through another 60-day session which ended at noon, March 16, without any earth-shattering results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In the most anticipated Senate confirmation hearing of Governor Susana
Martinez’s administration, that of Secretary of Public Education, will take place today in what is expected to be a
contentious political battle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Senate Rules Committee Chair Sen, Linda M. <a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SLOPE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Lopez</span></a> – D Bernalillo County, left, has delayed a conformation hearing into the third Legislative session.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">New Mexico Department of Public Education
Secretary Designate Hanna <a href="http://ped.state.nm.us/resources/NMPED%20Secretary%20Hanna%20Skandera%20Biography.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Skandera</span></a>, right, has been serving in the position since
January 1, 2011. She is paid the same as if she were the confirmed Secretary
and acts with full authority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">New Mexico Constitution</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Sec. 6. [Public
education department; public education commission.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">A.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is hereby created a “public
education department” and a “public education commission” that shall have such
powers and duties as provided by law. The department shall be a cabinet
department headed by a secretary of public education who is a qualified,
experienced educator who shall be appointed by the governor and confirmed by
the senate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">What seems at issue is based on the Constitutional requirements that the
secretary of public education, “is a qualified, experienced educator.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">According to her resume she has a Bachelor’s degree in Business from
Sonoma State University and a Master’s of Public Policy, specializing in
American Politics and International Relations from Pepperdine University’s
School of Public Policy.</span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SJaBJWrAYUI/UTCewmtrrlI/AAAAAAAALgs/U5z9VGn-92U/s1600/Leg_Ingle_5390w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SJaBJWrAYUI/UTCewmtrrlI/AAAAAAAALgs/U5z9VGn-92U/s200/Leg_Ingle_5390w.jpg" width="155" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">The Martinez administration citing Skandara's resume, takes the position her
vast experience as a high level as a senior policy advisor and Deputy Chief of
Staff at the U.S. Department of Education, as Florida’s Deputy Commissioner of
Education, California’s Undersecretary for Education, and having taught
Education Policy at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Public Policy
substitutes for “qualified, experienced educator”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Senate Minority Floor Leader Sen. Stuart </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SINGL"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Ingle</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> – R Chaves, Curry, De
Baca, Lea, and Roosevelt Counties, right, and as senior Republican member of the Rules
Committee will introduce Skandera. The hearing is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. –
Room 321, State Capitol.</span></div>
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M.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-19395382303211131482013-01-20T23:00:00.000-07:002013-01-21T08:40:28.316-07:00Fabian Chavez, Jr. 1924 – 2013<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A8TY139JBzc/UPzI0Jwm1RI/AAAAAAAALfU/es4SY8q_7_E/s1600/Fabian-Chavez-2w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A8TY139JBzc/UPzI0Jwm1RI/AAAAAAAALfU/es4SY8q_7_E/s320/Fabian-Chavez-2w.jpg" width="211" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A8TY139JBzc/UPzI0Jwm1RI/AAAAAAAALfU/es4SY8q_7_E/s1600/Fabian-Chavez-2w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"></span>Former State Senator Fabian Chavez, Jr. died Sunday January 20, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He was 88.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He served in the legislature from 1951 into the late 60s. He left the
State Senate as Majority Leader in 1968.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Chavez was the 1968 Democratic gubernatorial </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-kid-on-block00.html"><span style="color: #88add6; font-family: Arial;">candidate</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, but lost to David Cargo by a narrow margin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I first photographed him while I was in High School and he gave his
stump speech, Cargo also spoke a different day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I covered Democratic Party Candidate for Vice President, Maine Senator
Ed Muskie’s airport campaign stop at the Albuquerque International Sunport,
October 5, 1968. Muskie sat on the platform with Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Fabian </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Giants-Fabian-Chavez-Politics/dp/0826344364"><span style="color: #88add6; font-family: Arial;">Chavez</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n0qoEv_Zgqk/UPzJC8d-bYI/AAAAAAAALfc/_i0ud95ZcVg/s1600/Muskie+68-02Wx.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n0qoEv_Zgqk/UPzJC8d-bYI/AAAAAAAALfc/_i0ud95ZcVg/s1600/Muskie+68-02Wx.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Chavez ran for Congress against first-term Rep. Manuel Lujan Jr. in
1970.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the top photo, Chavez is giving his stump speech during his run for
the U.S. House of Representatives to the Albuquerque Press Club.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He lost to Lujan 59 – 41.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I’ll leave the political details to the Capitol
Reporters in Santa Fe, the New Mexican’s </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://roundhouseroundup.blogspot.com/2013/01/rip-fabian-chavez.html"><span style="color: #7b9fca; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><u style="text-underline: #002EE4;">Steve Terrell</u></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/012113fabianobit#.UP1Vlo5%20%20dWlK"><span style="color: #88add6; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><u style="text-underline: #002EE4;">Tom Sharpe</u></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, New Mexico Politics with </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://joemonahansnewmexico.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-c-word-resurfaces-will-susana-take.html"><span style="color: #88add6; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><u style="text-underline: #002EE4;">Joe Monahan</u></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, and Capitol Report New Mexico’s </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.capitolreportnewmexico.com/2013/01/fabian-chavez-jr-dies-at-88/"><span style="color: #7b9fca; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><u style="text-underline: #002EE4;">Rob Nikolewski</u></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">What's Wrong With This Picture?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">I don't make endorsements, however, I will call out those candidates who
have histories of questionable or outright bad governmental conduct or improper
ethical behavior. Those who claim to be above their actual performance on
issues critical to this blog's purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">My regular readers are well aware of my association with the Saturday
morning discussion group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On January 5, 2013, Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education
Member, </span><span style="font-family: "arialmt";"><a href="http://www.aps.edu/about-us/board/2013-school-board-member-election/documents/APSBOEDistrict6b.pdf"><span style="color: #94bae0; font-family: "arial"; text-decoration: none;">District 6</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arialmt";"><a href="http://www.aps.edu/about-us/board/board-members/david-l.-robbins"><span style="color: #94bae0; font-family: "arial"; text-decoration: none;">David Robbins</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">, below left, attended
as a candidate for reelection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">A member of the group, David Walker, above far right, had the floor and was speaking about
the behavior of the school board towards citizens who want to communicate with
the board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Walker, a retired Federal Magistrate in Alaska and a former aid for the
Virginia legislature in Richmond is acutely aware of the manner that the school
board goes about, not only ignoring their constituents, but also suppressing
public comments, and any coverage that they determine to be against their self
interest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Walker was recounting how the board had gone about ejecting people for
the offense of attempting to speak or petition the board to be heard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">He pointed out that the board and administration were using
"banning letters" to keep those deemed nuisances from, not only
attending school board functions, but also from entering school property in a
manner that he says is unconstitutional because of its lack of any due process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Walker further went on to say that board members had stood by silently
while the </span>
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people, including several in the room, who had stood silently holding signs
asking for recognition of their request to communicate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Walker pointed out that he had been one of those thrown out of a
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">He spoke about how the school system was holding public meetings on how
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unacceptable behavior themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Robbins was shaking his head in agreement with Walker's condemnation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">James Madison's admonition on the market place of ideas screamed in my head, "more speech, not
less speech!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though Robbins had not said
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the group that he agreed with Walker's comments of board conduct or lack of
denunciation as being a bad thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">"How dare you, how dare you sir," I called Robbins out for
trying to give the impression that he was not one of those board members who
remained quiet, during the administrations actions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Robbins is one of the most flagrant violators in the practice of abusing
citizens attending meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">It was Robbins who
<a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">expelled</span></a> Ched MacQuigg and myself from an August 25, 2010, APS Audit committee
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">My loud verbal comments took the room by surprise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">"So who is the bully now," Robbins stammered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">"Not I," was my reply, " I'm speaking a truth."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The head of the table, co-moderators Frank Ruvilo, Kim Hillard, and
former State Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones, called out my name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I was through.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Some might think I owe an apology for breaking in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I believe I might owe an apology, but to only one person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Judge Walker.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I was not trying to be contemptuous, of the man I refer to as
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me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I apologize for having interrupted his fine indictment of Robbins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Robbins would leave the meeting before availing himself of the
five-minutes given specifically to any candidate for public office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">This is not the first time Robbins and Walker have crossed wits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">During a regularly scheduled school board <a href="https://v3.boardbook.org/Public/PublicItemDownload.aspx?mk=50031107&fn=minutes.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">meeting</span></a>'s public comment
session, on August 10, 2011, Arnold-Jones presented a petition with more than
100 signature requesting a citizens advisory council on communications the
administration meet with members of the petitioning group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Mac Quigg was physically barred from entering by an APS Police officer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On November 10, 2011, Robbins was a guest speaker at a District 28
Republican Ward meeting of Representative Jimmy Hall, Bernalillo County.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">A question was asked as to why the petition request was answered with
only a "thank you" note from then Board President Paula Maes, but no
effort was made on behalf of the board to acknowledge receipt of the documents
or to take up the issue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Robbins pleaded ignorant of knowing anything about the petition, though he was present when Janice Arnold-Jones delivered it to the board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Walker cross-examined Robbins so skillfully that Robbins seemed not to
have noticed that his throat was slit so cleanly his head would fall off only
if he were asked if he was feeling OK and nodded in agreement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Robbins unknowingly admitted to totally failing to know or follow the
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Several petitioners gathered on March 23, 2011, to plan on how to best
make the case for the board to accept and meet with the committee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On March 24, 2011,during the Saturday morning meeting a break-out group
gathered to discuss final preparations for the upcoming APS committee meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Walker, second from
left above, was one of four petitioners, along with Galen Smith, far left, Kim
Hillard, far right, and Charlie Countee were scheduled to speak at the upcoming
committee meeting</span></div>
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<!--EndFragment--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">On the March 27, 2011 </span><span style="font-family: "arialmt";"><a href="http://www.aps.edu/about-us/board/meeting-archives/20120327-board-of-education-district-and-community-relations-committee-meeting"><span style="color: #7b9fca; font-family: "arial"; text-decoration: none;">agenda</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> of the District
and Community Relations Committee, where the entire board participated as a
committee of the whole, was an item, a petition submitted by the Citizens
Advisory Council on Communications seeking recognition in establishing two-way
communication with the APS administration and board.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Walker, Smith, Hillard, and Countee were the presenters to the
committee; Janice Arnold-Jones was invited to join them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Korte made a statement about why she would oppose the request:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">I'm sorry to say, I
know that one of your leaders is Ched MacQuigg. I read his blog every now and
then. It is the most negative thing I have ever read. So I don't read it,
actually. To be honest with you, I don't read it. So I'm suspect of your
intentions because I know Ched MacQuigg plays a big Role in this, and he's the
most negative person I've ever met in my life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">According to the <span style="color: #6d8fbc;">minutes</span> of the
meeting:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Board members felt
that APS already has many of these requests in place (Student Service Center,
PEAPS, open audit committee meetings, APS website, etc.). Board members felt
many people do not utilize the services APS has and does to help engage
families and communities.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">By November 17, 2011, the board had not taken any action on the request.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">APS had held a series of meeting; one in each school board district to
gather "</span><span style="font-family: "arialmt";"><a href="http://www.aps.edu/about-us/documents/Community%20Input%20for%20Goals.pdf"><span style="color: #6d8fbc; font-family: "arial"; text-decoration: none;">Community Input for Goals</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The last of the community input sessions was scheduled at Manzano High
School. In addition to Robbins, whose district encompasses Manzano, other board
members present were: </span><span style="font-family: "arialmt";"><a href="http://www.aps.edu/about-us/board/board-members/katherine-korte"><span style="color: #7b9fca; font-family: "arial"; text-decoration: none;">Kathy Korte</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">, district
2, and </span><span style="font-family: "arialmt";"><a href="http://www.aps.edu/about-us/board/board-members/david-eugene-peercy"><span style="color: #7b9fca; font-family: "arial"; text-decoration: none;">David Peercy</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">, district
7.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Fourteen petitioners appeared at the session and six silently raised
signs as Robbins began to speak.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">APS Superintendent </span><span style="font-family: "arialmt";"><a href="http://www.aps.edu/about-us/superintendent/biography"><span style="color: #7b9fca; font-family: "arial"; text-decoration: none;">Winston Brooks</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">, below
left, told petitioners they would not be allowed to disrupt the meeting with
their protest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">It wasn't until Brooks' loud comment, interrupting Robbins, below right,
that there was any disruption.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">When the petitioners did not lower the placards, Brooks ordered APS
Police Chief Steve Tellez to remove them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tellez approached Ched MacQuigg and physically removed him by applying
an "arm pinch" to induce pain, where there was no resistance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tellez returned and removed Walker, above center, who
also offered no resistance, but had the pain compliance hold applied beyond the
minimum necessary force needed to accomplish the goal.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Other officers removed: Ron Peterson, Charlie Tipton, and Frank Ruvilo,
one protester put down her sign and was not removed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The protestors were allowed to return without their signs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On January 15, 2013, the Albuquerque Tea Party held its monthly meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The program was an Albuquerque School Board Candidate forum for APS
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Walker, right, was the moderator. There were no sparks, as Robbins,
left, was given the same five-minutes each candidate received and was asked the
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">At the end of the session, I approached Robbins and invited him to
return to the Saturday meeting and he would be given the five-minutes we give
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The man with the golden carbine who supervised the June 8, 1969, arrest of Reies López Tijerina by U.S. Forest Service Agent James Evans, right, backed up by New Mexico State Police officers was Lieutenant J.D. Maes, Jr., left, died </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">December 17, 2012.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was <a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lasvegasoptic/obituary.aspx?n=jd-maes&pid=161865059&fhid=10279#fbLoggedOut"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">88</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was born in Maes, NM., </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on March 11, 1924.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1979 he r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">etired from the New Mexico State Police at the rank of Major.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I met J.D. Maes Jr., August 8, 2009 at the home of his son, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris D. Maes and wife, Dianne, of Rio Rancho. Chris Maes was also a retired New Mexico State Police officer whose last assignment was Executive Protection</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Unit. They both had many a tale to tell.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J.D. Maes Jr,. had worked protecting various governors including, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_F._Cargo"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">David Cargo</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Simms"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">John F. Simms</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J.D. Maes, Jr., was the shift supervisor at the Española State Police Office on the Sunday in June 1969, when Tijerina's wife Patsy, burned two Forest Signs. When arrests were made Maes left </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Española driving at high speed, arriving moments after Tijerina was taken into custody.</span></div>
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after a long struggle against lung cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was 77.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luján
was a life long resident of Nambé, served the House District 46, for Santa
Fe County 37 years, and </span><a href="http://www.koat.com/news/Speaker-Ben-Lujan-passes-away-from-lung-cancer/-/9154100/17827478/-/o5tk12z/-/index.html#ixzz2FVho5DRa"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">was</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Majority Whip and Majority Floor Leader before becoming the Speaker.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Though he did not seek reelection, he officially died in office, leaving the Speaker's chair vacant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Governor
Susana Martinez issued a <a href="http://governor.state.nm.us/uploads/PressRelease/191a415014634aa89604e0b4790e4768/SPEAKERLUJAN.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">statement</span></a>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Speaker Ben Lujan's service to New Mexico spanned four decades and his
legacy will live for years to come. He fought for causes near and dear to New
Mexicans from all walks of life and guided the House of Representatives through
some of the most important debates in our state’s history. Speaker Lujan’s
story was one that embodied the New Mexican dream and the American dream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The son of a sheepherder, he made his
living as an ironworker at Los Alamos before running for office and rising to
one of the most prominent and powerful positions in the state. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Chuck and I join all New Mexicans in offering our thoughts and prayers
to Speaker Lujan's wife, Carmen, his children, and his entire family during
this trying time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">His
standing as a senior elected office holder gave him great influence, especially
within the Democratic Party.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He
was only eclipsed in elective seniority by Representative <a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HSALA"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Nick L. Salazar</span></a>,
above right, D– Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, and Taos Counties of
House District 40, who has been a Representative since 1973; Luján served since
1975.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Salazar
of Ohkay Owingeh was literally a neighbor, friend, their families socialized
together, their children were friends. Salazar worked at Los Alamos doing
thermonuclear research and knew Luján through Salazar’s brother who was the
shop forman over Luján. Salazar, is the longest serving elected official in the
state having served a four-year term as County Commissioner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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said of Luján’s passing:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I’m saddened in fact by his passing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In my 40 years of the legislature, I have served
under four speakers, but Speaker Luján was my speaker.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He died in office. When he came to the last session,
he announced he was dying, but he served. That was Ben; he served to his dying
days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We worked on many projects together; I supported him, and
he supported me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He always gave me good advice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Luján
was an ironworker at Los Alamos National Laboratories and a shop steward before
leaving to begin he political career in the mid 1970s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">“He
was a good man, good man for labor, a fair man, honest man; did well, not just
for labor, but for the people,” said Marty Padilla, organizer for the <a href="http://www.ironworkers495.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Iron Workers Local Union No. 495</span></a>, based in Albuquerque. Contrary to </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Luj%C3%A1n"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">wikipedia</span></a>, he was not a contractor,
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didn’t leave his ironworker mentality, as he was a strong and often unbending
political force. He had perfected the art of being a “union goon” (in the best
sense of the word and that’s from one union goon to another), his ability to
articulate at the level of the common man, his persuasive manner, his use of
coercive tactics, and horse-trading.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wielded the power of the Speaker’s gavel with an iron fist and members of the
minority party often bristled at his ability to shut them out by his use of
what committees he would assign legislation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Luján,
above right, partnered with then Governor Bill Richardson, above left, in standing
behind, supporting, and sheepherding Richardson’s agenda through the House.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Luján’s
wife of 53- years, Carmen, above left, was a constant presence at political
events and helped soften his strong personality. His son, Ben Ray Luján, above
right, often referred to as junior, was elected to the <a href="http://lujan.house.gov/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">U.S. Congress</span></a> for CD-3
Northern New Mexico in 2008. They were among family and friends as Luján passed
away at Christus St. Vincent’s hospital in Santa Fe, after being admitted with
respiratory problems earlier in the week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will leave it to Santa Fe New Mexican’s Steve Terrell to provide other
<a href="http://roundhouseroundup.blogspot.com/2012/12/some-tributes-to-speaker.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">tributes</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MAN, husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother, brother-in-law, uncle, and FRIEND; Ken Coolidge, above all, was a human being. All the other accomplishments in his life pale by comparison to what he did for and with people; those close to him and complete strangers.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 24px;">Michael
Coolidge, his son responded to an e-mail request for details of his father’s
life. I present it here, because it is as complete, concise, and contains all
the things I had learned about Ken, but had faded in my memory because of
vibrancy of the immediacy of his life when you were in his presence overwhelms
the details</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ken was born in
Manchester, New Hampshire, 5 November, 1936, to Ann Gladys Harris, a newspaper
woman, and Theodore Coolidge, a professional boxer, who had a varied military,
then civilian career, Ken grew up in the newspaper business as his parents
owned a weekly newspaper. He grew up in Newmarket, and moved to Somersworth for
high school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">His recruiter uncle
enlisted him in the Naval Reserve at 17 and he went to submarine school. He got
a degree in English from the University of New Hampshire in 1960. Ken and
Mariette St Pierre were married 7 February 1959. Their first child, Michael,
was born in March 1960, just as Ken went into the Air Force and pilot training.
By the time Sharon came along in August 1962, Ken was in Nav/bomb training. His
first operational assignment was in the B 66 at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter,
South Carolina, just in time for the Cuban crisis. Ken also did his first tour
in Southeast Asia from Shaw. He did two tours in the F4 Phantom in England for
a total of seven years with a return to Southeast Asia in between. Then one day
in 1975, his career took an abrupt change of direction when he was declared a
cop. He went to Moody Air Force Base as chief of police. Three years later he
got his Pentagon assignment -- only they decided that USAF Security Police
Headquarters was now in Albuquerque, New Mexico! He also joined the Albuquerque
Reserve Police Force while there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He retired from the
Air Force in 1982 and immediately joined a company called California Plant
Protection. They moved to Camarillo Calif. as a regional director. CPP provided
security for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and later purchased Pinkerton to
become the largest Security Business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In 1994, Ken left
Pinkerton to start a company of our own; doing mostly guards at US Embassies
overseas. That kept us busy until he was diagnosed with lymphoma in 1997. He
handled the treatment well and it seemed to do the job until New Years Eve when
we learned the cancer was back. Ken underwent a stem cell transplant early in
1998; after that we decided to make the most of each and every day and
succeeded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We are blessed with
wonderful children and their fabulous spouses, 7 amazing grandchildren, as well
as 2 great grandchildren and one more on the way who will surely be even more
amazing than their parents!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have left out many
things, from Ken’s additional education, his military awards and decorations,
amazing trips and adventures, but most of all the wonderful people who so
blessed and enriched our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ken took enormous
pleasure in everything he did. His cup always ran over!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So,
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H0a-7Te-A_Q/UM8dI2omPiI/AAAAAAAAK98/jUhVtWdHTF8/s1600/Air-Force-Academy_4169aw.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H0a-7Te-A_Q/UM8dI2omPiI/AAAAAAAAK98/jUhVtWdHTF8/s400/Air-Force-Academy_4169aw.jpg" height="330" width="400" /></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This
is one of the last pictures I took of Ken and his wife of 53-years, Mariette,
at the Air Force Academy <a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/06/so-you-want-to-fly.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">graduation</span></a> ceremony in May, for their grandson Alex
Kingsley.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I
chose this picture because it shows how Ken saw himself. If this is not a
portrait of pride, you’re not going to find one anywhere else. Ken was
extremely proud of his entire family and he is one of the few people who, when
talking about his family, you didn’t need a scorecard to keep up with the players.
From the way he so artfully told stories, you always knew exactly of whom he
was talking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The
stories he told always had a flair about them; he found humor, pride and joy in
his offspring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This
picture also shows the pride he had in his public service. He loved to fly! The
Air Force would send him and other crewmembers up into hostile skies in
multi-million dollar jets to go find and or make trouble over enemy lines. The
necktie is covered with F-4s the lapel pin is also of an F4. It was the plane
in which there was only one other crewmember, the pilot; it offered him the
greatest opportunity to practices his skills, and it gave him the best view.
His specialty was navigation, with a sub-specialty of reconnaissance, taking
picture for planners of air strikes to analyze for future missions and for
analysis of the effectiveness of earlier attacks. He had flown the RB-66 as
navigator and was a navigator-training officer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He
has a camera around his neck. He always wanted high quality pictures and he
made sure he got it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He
was not one of those often-typical fathers who have hundreds of pictures of the
first-born, then fewer and fewer pictures of the other children as they came
along. He was more likely to have more pictures as the grand children came
along. I didn’t get to see too many pictures of his great grandchildren, but I
sure heard about them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After
his family and his national service, he never looked at change as a set beck,
but as a challenge. When the Air Force took him off the flight line and assigned
him to a desk, he quickly realized it didn’t have a tail number, controls, or
switches, and levers, so he set about learning how to be a Chief of Police.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It
is quite a switch when you think about it. You are suddenly the boss in a job
you’ve never done. He joined the Albuquerque Police Department Reserve program
as much to learn about civilian policing as he had for his real quest to learn
more so he could put his experiences into his work. He was then the wordsmith
for writing Air Force wide security policy and understanding the realities of
the street made him cautious about writing rules that could be carried out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He
and I became partners patrolling the streets, mostly because I allowed Reserve
Officers to drive the patrol car.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Along
the way he had obtained a master’s degree in counseling and put it to great
use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He
prepared himself for the civilian world, in part to share his passion for
flying, by becoming a certified flight instructor. I became his first student.
He was not really that hard to teach how to teach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In
one of those nervous moments, while practicing night landings, at a
small private airport, where turning on the runway lights was controlled by
clicking the aircraft radio, we got around to practicing the problem of
approaching a runway where the light went out after the set time or as an
emergency procedure. To try to break the tension I was experiencing I asked a
stupid question. “what do you do if you turn on the landing light and see
something on the runway you don’t like (I was thinking an airplane, without
lights, or a deer)? Ken’s answer, ”Turn off the light.” It broke the tension
and snapped me back to reality – land beyond the obstruction or go around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">His humor was always
on the surface, it wasn’t biting, but he would nip you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He was always good
counsel and a great listener. However, the true mark of his friendship was best
demonstrated in those rare times he sought out my counsel, because he knew I
had experience in the subject he was just entering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We were good friends
and enjoyed each others company. He also was a rare individual were the other
people who were his friends, were </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2006/06/can-we-see-george.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">instantly</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> your </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2007/07/welcome-neighbor.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">friends</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> also.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He
was a faithful supporter of my efforts in the on-going battle to improve
government. He always advocated a firm letter to open the challenge against a
governmental encroachment on civil liberties and personal rights. His suggest
draft was right to the point. (For my readers who don’t mind his eloquent, yet
accurate choice in the use of the English language, click on the lightened area
below to see his word choice).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dear Sir,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">FUCK</span></span> You very much! Strong message to follow!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Love and Kisses<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Mark<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He will be placed to
final rest at Arlington National Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; font-family: Georgia, serif; height: 4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I made this </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.theblueflyer.com/Blue%20Flyer%20html%20folder/Ken%20Coolidge.html"><span style="color: #99c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">personal</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, but I believe
everyone Ken knew has an equally compelling story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If
one believes in Heaven, then I’m sure Ken is already signing up angels to take
his flight navigation course for those new wings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EwgK7xela0k/UKdpG4XlaNI/AAAAAAAAKTM/-ef1xSLGyas/s1600/12:11:15-Bosque-Del-Apache-L1013124w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EwgK7xela0k/UKdpG4XlaNI/AAAAAAAAKTM/-ef1xSLGyas/s400/12:11:15-Bosque-Del-Apache-L1013124w.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/newmex/bosque/"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Bosque del Apache</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=22520"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">National Wildlife Refuge</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">,
south of San Antonio, New Mexico is its </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.festivalofthecranes.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">25th Festival of the
Cranes</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.festivalofthecranes.com/AllEvents.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">this week</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A little photo mission
with my brother Guy and his wife Barb on Thursday afternoon found the refuge
sparsely populated with visitors and birds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The day had a
mid-level layer of cloud cover.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There were birds,
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3G9qeifdXLw/UKdpD18rkWI/AAAAAAAAKS8/VyMQPU1XOBU/s1600/12:11:15-Bosque-Del-Apache-L1013115w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3G9qeifdXLw/UKdpD18rkWI/AAAAAAAAKS8/VyMQPU1XOBU/s400/12:11:15-Bosque-Del-Apache-L1013115w.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Some fields are
flooded to augment the wetlands, but there was a conspicuous absence of
Canadian Geese.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A Golden Eagle
established a perch on a tree in the center of an area half flooded and
ventured out to dive and swoop, but this duck, below, kept flying as the eagle
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Among those viewing
this raptor, there was some disagreement whether it was an immature Bald Eagle
or a Golden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Referring to the
National Audubon Society’s Field Guide of Birds of the Western Region, based on
the size and coloration, I’m going with it being a Golden Eagle. An immature
Bald Eagle is larger and darker, it is actually larger than a mature Bald;
having a greater wingspan. After its first molt, wing-tip feathers are not
replaced. It’s like the bird loses its training-wheels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also smaller, with up to a six-foot wingspan, while the Bald has a wingspan up
to seven and a half feet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This coyote was
trying to jump the cranes, but they spotted him and those close took flight,
while the others kept a sharp eye out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At least the
likelihood of this coyote is probably safe from the scheduled massacre, because it
is making its home on federally protected land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At sunset we arrived
at a very popular viewing location, the Flight Deck, where normally large
flocks return to the wet area for the night. There was little activity as the
sunset was muted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Even the moon only
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was a less hectic experience than others I have had where you seemed to be
spinning, overwhelmed by the numbers of birds constantly moving and dividing
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M.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-72628129568308749062012-11-14T22:44:00.001-07:002012-11-14T22:44:38.212-07:00Kenneth John Gonzales nominated to United States District Court<br />
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Barrack Obama nominated Kenneth J. Gonzales, right, a born, raised, and educated New
Mexican, who is currently serving as United States Attorney, to be the next
United States District Court judge for the District of New Mexico.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The
President nominated Gonzales as one of seven to District Court judgeships across the country, according to a White House release from the Office of the Press Secretary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">His
nomination is subject to advice and consent of the U.S. Senate. If confirmed,
he will replace retired U.S. District Court Chief Judge Bruce D. Black, who
left the bench in October.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Born
in Española, in 1964 he graduated from Pojoaque High School and received from
the University of New Mexico Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctorate degrees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He
was a legislative assistant to New Mexico’s U.S. Senator Bingaman on, among
other issues, criminal justice and Native American affairs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Gonzales
was one of five names forwarded to the White House for consideration by Bingaman
and New Mexico’s other U.S. Senator Tom Udall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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M.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-46897855240111619542012-11-13T19:04:00.000-07:002013-07-31T16:16:00.364-06:00Robert Merle Schwartz<!--StartFragment-->
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Philadelphia
lawyer, prosecutor, district attorney, defeated mayoral candidate, and Second
Judicial District Court Judge, Bob Schwartz died Monday from complications –
Pneumonia – after having broken his leg last week when he <a href="http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/central/judge-bob-schwartz-dies-monday"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">tripped</span></a> over his dog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He was 62.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When I joined the
Albuquerque Police Department in 1976, Schwartz was a young assistant district
attorney establishing a reputation of winning. He soon became a premier
prosecutor in the office of DA Ira Robinson. He would become Chief Deputy DA
under Steve Schiff until Schiff ran for and was elected to Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Schwartz, who had
been a Democrat changing parties to be elected as a Republican DA and would <a href="http://www.joemonahansnewmexico.blogspot.com/2010_08_22_archive.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">return</span></a> to being a Democrat when he had to run for district court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He handled several of
my cases before the grand jury, but all those case went to pleas. I’d give him
full credit for taking my police work and convincing defendants and their
attorneys they did not want to risk going to trial.</span></div>
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I had one encounter
in court with Schwartz that was unlike any normal judicial proceeding.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On April 26, 1996, I
attended a State District Court hearing presided over by Judge Albert S.
"Pat" Murdouch, into a citizens group's petition request for a Grand
Jury to look into the City's payment of $450,000 to Officer Bruce McAllister.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">McAllister had been
an Albuquerque Police Department's narcotics detective who was targeted by a
former Deputy Chief and his former narcotics squad sergeant, both who had
retired, and conducted an illegal (unlicensed private investigators) criminal
investigation against him into allegations of murder, rape and drug dealing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Through the union,
McAllister’s area representative passed him on to me; within minutes McAllister
was talking to a lawyer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The end result was
McAllister was not criminally charged, but was fired and when he demanded an
administrative grievance hearing the City refused to put on a case or to
reinstate him; as a result the City settled for McAllister’s resignation in
exchange for a payment of $450,000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Attorney Schwartz challenged the sufficiency of citizens group's petition for
presentation to a grand jury because it lacked specific charges and evidence
that are required under state law for a grand jury to be impaneled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Schwartz lashed out
at supporters for not having drafted the petition to include specific charges. Schwartz
pointed to the spectators in the courtroom and stated that they were supporters
and included two Albuquerque Police officers, (Billy Pounders and myself)
stating, at least one who had been a former Union President and they know how
to write a criminal charge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Both Pounders and I
were former union presidents; Pounders had an interest in the petition process,
but he had not been involved in writing it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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interested spectator; I was not a supporter of, nor did I sign, the petition.</span></div>
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interest was in McAllister, yet he was not at any risk through the grand jury
process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The citizens group's
wanted to know how the administration had mishandled the investigation and why
they refused to provide McAllister a due process hearing; that was being
covered up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I first saw the
petition, (which was written in the form of asking questions about the legality
of the acts committed rather than as statements of criminal charges) on August
9, 1995, when the citizens group's leader, Al Leath was a guest on the APOA
Forum Cable 27 Public Access TV program.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The petition was
already being circulated and I had no input into or influence on the request
for a grand jury.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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petition ordering the impaneling of a grand jury: Schwartz was not going to
present the case and the citizens group could not find an attorney willing to
step forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Schwartz was plagued
by <a href="http://www.joemonahansnewmexico.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">personal</span></a> demons – drugs and alcohol – and battled them for years; attending
rehabilitation several times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">International
indigenous people and Native American civil-rights leader, activist,
politician, actor, writer, artist, and musician, Russell Charles Means <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-russell-means-20121023,0,6323784.story"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">died</span></a> of cancer, Monday October 22, at home in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcupine,_South_Dakota"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Porcupine</span></a>, South Dakota.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The above pictures, of the multi talented man were <a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/.../just-getting-older.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">taken</span></a> February 2, 2007 at the New Mexico Capitol</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">An
Oglala Sioux, he was born in Wanblee, on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Ridge_Indian_Reservation"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Pine Ridge</span></a> Indian Reservation,
South Dakota. He was baptized, Oyate Wacinyapin, which in his native Lakota
language means, "works for the people".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The reservation covers all or part of three counties in the southwest corner of the state. It represent some of the poorest area of the country, yet the landscape is magnificent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Means
was one of the main <a href="http://www.aimovement.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">American Indian Movement</span></a> leaders during the 71-day <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Incident"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Wounded Knee</span></a> occupation, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, S.D., which began February
27, ending May 8, 1973.</span></div>
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was charged with a number of felony crimes along with fellow <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Movement"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">AIM</span></a> leader Dennis
Banks for the siege at Wounded Knee. Both were represented by ACLU lawyer
<a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2009/03/mannys-arrogance.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">William Kunstler</span></a> and after eight months of trial, US District Court of South
Dakota Judge Fred Joseph Nichol, dismissed all charges citing prosecutorial
misconduct. The ruling withstood an appeal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This triptych, is of
the <a href="http://southdakota.hometownlocator.com/sd/shannon/wounded-knee.cfm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">church</span></a> at Wounded Knee, the central gathering point during the 1973 occupation
and siege. The upper left is the view of the church and cemetery from across
the road, BIA 27 also known as Big Foot Trail, as seen through a cut-out in the
door of an outhouse, just in front of the stream bed where the </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">massacre</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> at Wounded
Knee took place in 1890. The upper right picture is of the cemetery from the
church looking towards the site: it is also where the artillery pieces were located. The bottom picture was a neighboring girl who sold me a raffle ticket in support of her softball team. The picture below left is of a memorial at the grave of the 1890 victims.</span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rXuoiN5H1gs/UIgwZud7wpI/AAAAAAAAKQY/LB14j_6-oUo/s1600/WoundedKneeCemetaryw.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rXuoiN5H1gs/UIgwZud7wpI/AAAAAAAAKQY/LB14j_6-oUo/s400/WoundedKneeCemetaryw.jpg" width="261" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"></span>Means participated in several other AIM occupations and <a href="http://www.aimovement.org/ggc/history.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">events</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">He joined AIM when he
participated in the 1969 take over of Alcatraz island in San Francisco Harbor.
He also protested: Mount Rushmore, S.D. in 1970, on Thanksgiving Day 1970, on a
replica of the Mayflower at Plymouth, Massachusetts, and the Bureau of Indian
Affairs offices in Washington, D.C. in 1973.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Means had a
mainstream political history, he ran for the presidency of the Oglala Sioux
tribe in 1974. He was defeated, but due to massive voter fraud, a federal court
ordered a new election. The fraudulent government refused, and the court did
not enforce its ruling. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">He
had failed efforts at national politics when in 1984, as a vice-presidential
candidate, he joined Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flint’s presidential
campaign. In 1988 he made a run for the Independent Party’s presidential
nomination, which went to Texas Representative Ron Paul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A
part time resident of San Jose, New Mexico, Means failed to get on the 2002 New
Mexico ballot as an Independent candidate for Governor, because the Secretary
of State claimed he’d missed a deadline for filing by ten-minutes. However,
unlike this year’s election cycle, the State Supreme Court upheld the rejection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Where-White-Fear-Tread-Autobiography/dp/0312147619"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">wrote</span></a> a 1995 best selling book: “Where White Men Fear to Tread, the
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U.S. Senator, D – South Dakota and 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, George
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A harsh critic of the
Vietnam War, McGovern only carried the State of Massachusetts and the District
of Columbia by the greatest plurality in history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Burglars working for
Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), were arrested June 17,
1972, while planting electronic listening devices in the National Democratic Party
Headquarters in the Watergate office and hotel complex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_timeline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Watergate</span></a> scandal
was not widely reported until after the election and would lead to the resignation
of Nixon. A number of his White House and campaign staff were: indicted,
convicted, and sentenced for numerous crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VLmw5ibfcGA/UIXvYSdpSiI/AAAAAAAAKPI/MhJz8vVNMC8/s1600/McGovernHarris-2Wx.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VLmw5ibfcGA/UIXvYSdpSiI/AAAAAAAAKPI/MhJz8vVNMC8/s320/McGovernHarris-2Wx.jpg" width="213" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">These <a href="http://www.theblueflyer.com/Blue%20Flyer%20html%20folder/George%20S.%20McGovern%20Home.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">pictures</span></a> were
taken during a June 5, 1972, McGovern primary campaign stop at Old Town Plaza, Albuquerque.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Senator Fred Harris,
D-Okla., left, sits with 1972 McGovern and Rep. Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz., at a press
conference at the Hacienda Restaurant in Old Town.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Harris, now a New
Mexican had also been a primary candidate in 1972 receiving two electoral
votes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6tcAYH79s3k/UHysEb01qOI/AAAAAAAAKKo/IkFTZp0VqTg/s1600/Buffett_8245w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6tcAYH79s3k/UHysEb01qOI/AAAAAAAAKKo/IkFTZp0VqTg/s320/Buffett_8245w.jpg" width="198" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"></span>Former 12-term New Mexico State <a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legdetailsArchive.aspx?SponsorCode=HBUFF"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Representative</span></a>,
Republican National Committee member, and <a href="http://www.buffettscandies.com/about.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">candy-maker</span></a> George Buffett died
Saturday, October 9, 2012 of kidney and heart failure. He was 83.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He was also known for being a <a href="http://www.omaha.com/article/20110918/MONEY/709189920/-1&template=mobileart"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">cousin</span></a> of Berkshire
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">As a representative, he was known as a conservative’s
conservative. He produced a newsletter between January 1989 and June 2008
called <a href="http://www.buffettsbullets.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Buffett’s Bullets</span></a>. In the 99 editions he was known to rail against
political inside dealings, calling many CROOKS. He also gave sage advice along
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 24px;">The man convicted of
firing the first shot into a New Mexico State Police officer during the June 5, 1967
Rio Arriba County Courthouse "raid" in Tierra Amarilla, has died,
August 25, 2012, of complications following two recent heart attacks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Born May 25, 1938,
Juan Valdez was 74.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I photographed
Valdez, right, with back to camera, talking with Attorney Edwin L.
Felter Jr., center, and Geronimo Bournda, left, during a recess in the trial of
the shooting of Officer Nick Saiz, below right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EsG1AzKOuTk/UFZwuaeWR5I/AAAAAAAAKFg/NAZuS18VtOk/s1600/Nick-Saiz-1w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EsG1AzKOuTk/UFZwuaeWR5I/AAAAAAAAKFg/NAZuS18VtOk/s320/Nick-Saiz-1w.jpg" width="228" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">Valdez, a rancher
from Canjilon, participated in the raid on the Northern New Mexico County courthouse,
as a member of the Alianza Federal de Mercedes, also known as, the Alianza
Federal de los Pueblos Libres, which translated means, the Alliance of free
City States, a land grant movement, led by Reies Lopez Tijerina.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Upon entering the
courthouse, Valdez was confronted by Saiz. Though Valdez pleaded not guilty,
his friend, Bournda, testified he was the actual shooter, Valdez was convicted,
but did not serve a state prison term, because he was pardoned by Gov. Bruce King. Valdez
later admitted, in a book,<span style="color: white;"> </span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.trespassersonourownland.com/index.php"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Trespassers on
Our Own Land</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, based on his
family’s oral history, "It came down to, I shoot him or he was going to
shoot me — so I pulled the trigger," Valdez. "Lucky for both of us,
he didn't die."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The raid was an
attempt to free other members of the Alianza, arrested a few days earlier at a
gathering, declared illegal by New Mexico’s First Judicial District Attorney
Alfonso Sanchez. The group also wanted to make a citizen's arrest on Sanchez,
but did not locate him in the courthouse, where he was hidden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The jailed members
were freed during a court hearing held shortly before a group of about eight
raiders, according to Valdez, or up to 30 by others, arrived at the courthouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lt. Gov. E Lee
Francis called out the National Guard to hunt down Alianza members. Francis was
acting Governor because Dave Cargo was out of the state visiting in Michigan.
In 1970, Cargo was also visiting Michigan when Francis called out the National
Guard to retake a virtually empty Student Union Building on the University of
New Mexico Campus after a<span style="color: white;"> </span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2007/09/those-were-days.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">protest</span></a></span><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">in support of<span style="color: white;"> </span>four<span style="color: white;"> </span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2010/05/kent-state-repercussions-remembered.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Kent State</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> students
killed by Ohio National Guard, May 4, 1970. Twelve people were bayoneted and
over 150 protestors arrested at UNM. Francis’ two calls for National Guard
deployment are considered some of the most excessive uses of force in the state’s
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The raid became
international news and would have been an even bigger story had it not
coincided with the<span style="color: white;"> </span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Six-Day War</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, or the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Tijerina was charged
with shooting and injuring Jailer Eulogio Salazar and false imprisonment of
others in the courthouse, including Deputy Sheriff Daniel Rivera, who was badly
beaten. Salazar was murdered before the trial began. Tijerina was eliminated as
a suspect in the killing, which has never been solved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">New Mexico State
Police Criminal Intelligence Unit Officer Robert J. Gilliland, left, who was
the lead investigator of the courthouse raid, speaks with Special Prosecutor </span><span style="color: white; font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://jackllove.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Jack Love</span></a></span><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">during a break in the Valdez trial, in front of the
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Administrative Law Judge, Colorado Office of Administrative Courts, did not
respond to a request for a comment, and former New Mexico District Court Judge
Jack Love, could not be located. However, he posted a <a href="http://jackllove.blogspot.com/2005/06/convicted-courthouse-raiders-pardoned.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">story</span></a> on his site, "New Mexico Law and Society," June 07, 2005, “Convicted Courthouse Raiders Pardoned by Governors King and Apodaca.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 24px;">The first human to walk on the moon, July 20, 1969, U.S. Astronaut Neil Armstrong has died of complications of heart bypass surgery. He was 82.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On August 13, 1969, he and fellow Apollo 11 Astronauts Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the lunar surface and Michael Collins were given a ticker-tape parade in New York City seen by an estimated crowd of some four million people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Astronauts, waving from the bottom, Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin, received the Keys to the City, on the steps of City Hall, from Mayor John Lindsay, waving right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” Armstrong said upon putting his foot on the moon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrance_County,_New_Mexico"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Torrance County</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, New Mexico calls itself the heart of New Mexico, as indicated on the County's flag, above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the town Estancia, in the Estancia valley, which up until a ten-year drought starting in 1946, their main crop was pinto beans.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Estancia claims to be the true heart of New Mexico, as it is centrally located in Torrance County.</span></div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estancia,_New_Mexico"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Estancia</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a town with a </span><a href="http://townofestancia.com/index.php?page=about-us"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">history</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> dating before 1779.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has since seen better days and prospered; but it now shows signs of wear, despair, and dilapidation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is also the Torrance County seat of government, above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rural nature of the community is filled with activities for their youth including: </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Torrance-County-4-H-Tumbleweeds/133285160026053"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4-H</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, Boy Scouts, Estancia FFA Chapter, R.E.S.P.E.C.T program (Real-life Education for Self Protection Empowering College-bound Teens), school activities, sports, and of course church. The county sheriff puts on a summer-time </span><a href="http://www.sheriffheathwhite.us/Junior_Deputy_Program.php"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Junior Deputy Program</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The county, through its official </span><a href="http://www.torrancecountynm.org/index.php?page=about-us"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">website</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, is openly sensitive of the urban citizen coming into a rural setting and they defend their countryside ways:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Persons moving into a rural area must recognize there are drawbacks, including conflicts with long-standing agricultural practices and a lower level of services than in town.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are the McIntosh public service buildings with the fire department to the left.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Torrance County is one of the most productive agricultural counties in the United States. The rural areas of Torrance County may be open and spacious, but they are intensively used for agricultural. Persons moving into a rural area must recognize there are drawbacks, including conflicts with long-standing agricultural practices and a lower level of services than in town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rnnv8nPYug8/UBZ3HK5cWhI/AAAAAAAAJ30/Sc2yIe5TSUI/s1600/12%253A07%253A28-Estancia-Old-Timers-Day_4875w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span>Agricultural users of the land are not expected to change their long established agricultural practices to accommodate the intrusions of urban users into a rural area. Well run agricultural activities will generate off site impacts, including noise from tractors and equipment; dust from animal pens, field work, harvest and gravel roads; odor from animal confinement, silage, and manure; the use of pesticides and fertilizers in the fields, including the use of aerial spraying…. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Torrance County’s seat of government is located in the "old courthouse," in the small centrally located town of Estancia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is 17 miles south of the larger town of Moriarity, above, which has Interstate Highway 40 run along its north side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With a total population of 16,383 and less than 10,000 registered voters, all politics is local, there is a good chance that some of the elected officials know the vast majority, if not all of their constituents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then Sheriff Pete Golden, above, wearing white cowboy hat, stops for a meal in a Moutainaire cafe in 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Torrance is comprised of 3,346 square miles. Interstate 40 is the main east – west highway in the very northern part of the county.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad passes east – west through the central part of the county.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Along US Route 60 are a number of one stoplight towns, including: </span><a href="http://www.city-data.com/city/Encino-New-Mexico.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Encino</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.city-data.com/city/Willard-New-Mexico.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Willard</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, above, and Mountainair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The </span><a href="http://www.newmexicocare.org/1pages/highlonesome.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">High Lonesome Wind Ranch</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> with 40, </span><a href="http://www.abqjournal.com/AED/25224655state10-25-09.htm"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">40-story</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> high windmills, on the Mesa de los Jumanos, is just south of Willard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The southern third of the county is only sparsely populated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With its access to rail lines, </span><a href="http://discovermountainairnm.com/?page_id=29"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mountainair</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> claimed title as the "pinto bean capital of the world."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Torrance County has several cultural and historic </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_New_Mexico#Torrance_County"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">sites</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, including: Quarai, below, one of three sites associated with the Salinas Pueblo Missions </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.nps.gov/sapu/index.htm"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">National Monument</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Mountainair
Municipal Auditorium, where local performer Dorothy Cole and Co staged a
revival "Diamond in the Fields," about ten years ago in commemorating
the valley’s history of bean growing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://shafferhotel.com/History.html"><span style="color: #5dacdc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Shaffer Hotel</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> and
Rancho Bonito are also listed on the National Register of Historical Places.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There is a perceived level in a sense of </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/patriotism"><span style="color: #67aadc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">patriotism</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> in Torrance, not unlike that in many other parts of the country, which has elements contrary to a complete definition of the word:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In Estancia’s Old Timers Day parade was patriotically themed float sponsored by the </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.estanciavalleyclassical.com/index.html"><span style="color: #67aadc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Estancia Valley Classical Academy</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spirit of Enterprize, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Adults carried a poster board identifying the Academy, with:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"We Still Hold These Truths…"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Academy is a charter school pending State approval from the New Mexico Public Education Department. It is scheduled to open in August.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A quick look at their website and review of their “founders” and directors backgrounds, one finds a lightly veiled form of religious based education.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There is nothing wrong with religious and or politically based schooling, as long as it isn’t taxpayer funded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Estancia Valley Classical Academy seems to espouse two things that government sanctioned education normally would reject – politics and religion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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embodied in the Classical education movement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I might even support it as better than what is provided through our
public school systems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">However, there are some basic differences in philosophy, which grate
directly against the limitations “We the People” have placed on our government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This Academy, in requesting sanctioning as a State Charter School, will
test the Governor Susana Martinez/Public Education Department
Secretary-designate Hanna Skandera’s resolve to promote educational ideas and
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On August 14, 2001, I wrote a </span><a href="http://theblueflyer.com/Blue%20Flyer%20html%20folder/BF%2098%20only%20keepers.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blue Flyer</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> article analyzing a question of posting a biblical reference on an Estancia Municipal Schools billboard:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At the January 11, 2012, Torrance County Commission meeting, Melody Everett, an Albuquerque lawyer, who is the alternate member of the Planning and Zoning Committee, was on the agenda to raise questions about how some contracts in Torrance County were being let to particular contract vendors. Everett, however, was unable to make her presentation because, on advise of County Attorney Dennis Wallin, below, the way the matter was to be presented, by his interpretation, allegations of possible violations of law, are covered also as a personnel matters and can not be aired publicly.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Torrance County Attorneys are Brandon Huss, Dennis K. Wallin, and Adolfo J. Mendéz II, of </span><a href="http://pview.findlaw.com/view/3385669_1"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wallin Huss & Mendez Law Firm</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> LLC of Moriarty, NM.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Any person, under the
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17. [Freedom of speech and press; libel], of the Constitution of the State of
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It would seem that
when County Manager Joy Ansley defended herself and the administrative process
of contracting, from such allegations, she has waived her right to discuss,
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Wallin argued and advised the Commission that Everett could not bring forth her complaint against Ansley, because he said such an issue is a personnel matter under the State Personnel Act. He then did not prohibit Ansley from defending herself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">According to Edwina Rae “George” Hewett, center, of Mountainair, who attends County Commission meetings, with her small video camera and records the meetings; posting her results on </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WOrL-5zqvs&feature=relmfu"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">YouTube</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> wrote:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The questionable activities were discovered by Melody Everett this past December from and (sic) IPRA request - she attempted to present her findings at the January 11, 2012 meeting - the sensational tabloid style video Mr. (District 1 Commissioner Lonnie) Freyburger mentioned in his letter to the editor of the Telegraph.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mrs. Everett was denied her right to speak through use of the agenda format combined with an Emmy award winning performance by the county manger who assumed the role of victim in order to stop Mrs. Everett from reporting those findings. At the commission meeting of January 11, 2012, Mrs. Everett was maligned and attacked by the county attorney Wallin and (District 2) Commissioner (Leanne) Tapia as well as the county manager (Joy) Ansley. In exchange for those abuses, Mrs. Everett forced the commissions hand and an investigation by the AG and Auditor was at last ordered.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Whispering.Range.Realty.LLC.Edwina.R.Hewett.Qualifying.Broker.505-847-2300/picture/view/3279493"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hewett</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a sitting member of the Planning and Zoning Committee, which is appointed by the Commission, and was a </span><a href="http://www.votehewett.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">candidate</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for the Torrance County Commission, District 3 seat. She lost in the Republican primary to Leroy M. Candelaria.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Hewett’s email to me, about Freyburger‘s efforts to convince his fellow Commissioners to restrict access on recorded media by the public and press, she wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">District 3 Commissioner and Board Chair Venessa Chavez-Gutierrez wrote a letter January 12, 2012, to New Mexico State Auditor Hector Balderas requesting a financial audit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He does not like what he calls “negative publicity,” of the Commission, officials, and public servants; so in order to control such publicity (otherwise known as news reports), he is willing to engage in propaganda, not in the pejorative sense, but by producing an “official record” video posted on the County website for all to see and hear and for those who want to report what happened are forced to use rather than being allowed to cover events themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On February 22, 2012, Freyburger introduced:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RESOLUTION NO. 2012-07<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">POLICY FOR RECORDING PROCEEDINGS OF THE TORRANCE COUNTY COMMISSION</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> WHEREAS, In order to maintain the proper decorum required for conducting the business of the county while, at the same time allowing members of the media or general public access to audio and visual recordings of the proceedings of the county commission, the Torrance County Commission hereby adopts the following policy for the recording of any such proceedings;<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WHEREAS, the County Commission has implemented a method of audio and visual recording, for events within the County Commission Chambers, including but not limited to County Commission meetings; and,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WHEREAS, these recordings will be available for public viewing and/or listening on the County website, following the meeting or event</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Torrance County Board of Commissioners, that the public is strictly prohibited from operating audio and/or visual recording devices within the Commission Chambers.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Freyburger‘s February 22, 2012 resolution clearly violates the First Amendment United States Constitution:</span><span style="color: #001bed;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Constitution of the State of New Mexico<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adopted January 21, 1911<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Preamble</span></div>
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Mexico, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty, in order to
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">ARTICLE II<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Bill of Rights<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sec. 17. [Freedom of speech and press; libel.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Every person may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all
subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be
passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all
criminal prosecutions for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the
jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is
true and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It also violates the
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Reasonable efforts shall be made to accommodate the use of audio and
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The resolution was
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MountainView Telegraph, ran an </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.mvtelegraph.com/2012/03/01/officials-want-to-ban-recordings/"><span style="color: #67aadc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">article</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, “Officials
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the Telegraph ran an </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.mvtelegraph.com/2012/03/01/scrutiny-part-of-the-position/"><span style="color: #67aadc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">editorial</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, “Scrutiny
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from Hewett, above, as a response to Freyburger‘s comments during the
Commission’s discussion about how she posted her video on her </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.czech-me-out.com/video/WhisperingRange/page1.html"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">YouTube</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> account:</span></span></span></div>
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The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States grants every member of the public the right to record public meetings. This right is continually tested by governmental entities who do not like the scrutiny that elected office brings.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a citizen and member of the public I am astounded that these elected officials fail to understand the very documents they swore to uphold and preserve. Even more troublesome is the fact that members of the public body believe that citizen's rights take a back seat to a managed photo op for commission and staff alike.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the party who posts meeting video on YouTube, I take great exception to Commissioner Freyburger's commentary suggesting that the video I provide is inaccurate, falsely edited or incomplete.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">…The only editing to my raw footage is use of a stabilization tool YouTube offers to make a video smoother for the viewers.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001bed;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(County Attorney) Wallin said he was a “proponent” of public recording efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I have no problem with the public doing it, frankly… I think the more exposure the better,” Wallin said.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">March 8. 2012, MountainView Telegraph published a letter to the editor, from Freyburger, as an </span><a href="http://www.mvtelegraph.com/2012/03/08/official-objects-to-editing-of-meetings/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opinion</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, “Official Objects to Editing of Meetings”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">…I will not address the editing issue as Ms. Hewett readily admits to editing in her letter when she states "the only editing to my raw footage." How much editing is permissible?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">…I realize the pen is mightier than the sword, so I expect you will write again, I hope though, that this ends it. I am sure that we will find a resolution to this problem. Perhaps a designated area for the public to film so that the disruption does not continue.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not oppose recording the commission meetings. What I am striving for is to record them accurately. If you look at what is being put on the Web now, the meetings are being edited and commented on inaccurately….<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Freyburger seized on Hewett’s admission of “editing,” as if it was bad, and does not accurately characterize what she wrote. Her claim was that she used an “edit” tool that smoothed out the shake from her hand held shots for posting on YouTube. Hewett did not remove any material from the discussions she posted, yet Freyburger’s claim is the entire facts are not displayed and calls that being less than truthful.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Freyburger‘s resolution and funding $4,000.00 for creating archived video of county meetings, including the commission, is a good step towards openness. However, just because government provides a means of watching them, does not in anyway preclude the public and media from also viewing meetings, capturing them, distributing their work in any manner they wish, edited or not, and in commenting how they think government is, or is not working.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the late 1990s the City of Albuquerque’s Labor Management Relations and the Personnel Boards were confronted by the way a particular attorney presented cases before them; they did not like his forceful bearing. The City Clerk purchased a video system, left, because she felt it would moderate him. She was sold a bill of goods because she was led to believe that she could store hours of video on her computer, but had no idea how much space it would require. It turned out to be extremely problematic for the City. The system was: unable to record audio at an acceptable level, the limits on storage manifested itself immediately, changing tape during the meetings caused difficult for the assistant clerks, while they attended to their other duties, requests for copies under the inspection of public records act was an unexpected issue, and ultimately it had no affect on the lawyer, who continued to present cases as he always had.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The City of Albuquerque/Bernalillo County jointly undertook to provide 24-hour televised programming of governmental activities of: Albuquerque City Council, Bernalillo County Commission, Police Oversight Commission, and Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority meetings, press conferences, departmental informational programs, announcements, bulletins, political debates, and documentaries through </span><a href="http://www.cabq.gov/govtv/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GOV TV</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> – Government Television to the local cable access channel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Bernalillo County League of Women Voters hosted a 1996 candidate forum for District Attorney televised by GOV TV.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GOV TV has: a four member full-time </span><a href="http://www.cabq.gov/govtv/crew.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">staff</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and contractors as needed, remote controlled cameras to cover live meetings, a two-camera mobile production van, and a state of the art TV studio.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Albuquerque Public Schools broadcasts live, delayed, and re-runs through the same requirements with the local cable provider as does the City County governments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Torrance County plan to stream meetings from their website is ambitious, but the technology has come a long way since the last century. There has been no mention of using the local cable provider's requirement to make available bandwidth for government programming.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On March 9, 2012, MacQuigg </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2012/03/torrance-county-commissioner-not.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">posted</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, “Torrance County Commissioner not backing down.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On March 10, 2012, MacQuigg </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2012/03/torrance-county-commissioner-backed.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">posted</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, “Torrance County Commissioner backed down.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On March 14, 2012, Ched MacQuigg, left, James "Robby" Robertson, back, and the “Shadow,” your humble blog host, prepare to enter the Torrance County Commission meeting with equipment to document the discussion and to photograph the proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Edgewood Editor and Reporter Leota Harriman, above left, asked what the opinion of the by NM Association of Counties would be on the resolution on recording policy. Kopelman refused to answer saying it was up to the Commission to set such rules.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I told him my question wasn’t meant for him or the County, but for the NM Association of Counties, whose stated purpose, as Kopelman said, is to assist counties in keeping them from getting into legal questions like the Anti-Donation clause issue. It was meant as a test of how well the Association lawyers advised and were aware of problematic questions coming from their organization.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is not uncommon for people to enter and leave the room and walk in front of cameras. As press, we simply accept the fact that on occasion, some one will block a camera's view; it might be momentarily, or it might be longer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">...NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Torrance County Board of Commissioners, that all County Commission meetings will be recorded by the County Clerk using the audio and visual recording devices installed for that purpose and all such official. recordings shall be posted on the Torrance County website and available to the public pursuant to the Torrance County Inspection of Public Records policy;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED that an area within the County Commission chambers shall be designated wherein members of the public using their equipment may record commission meetings; so as to cause as little disruption to the decorum of the meeting and the ability of other attendees of the meeting to hear and see the proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clerk of the Commission Michelle Jones, above, spoke first, saying she was distracted, by: the presence of cameras, the movement of photographers, and especially the noise of Nikon camera shutters, keeping her from doing her job.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Others spoke, including: Planning and Zoning Coordinator Steve Guetschow, who suggested the Fire Marshall be consulted about camera tripods in the aisles, possibly blocking fire exit routes, and he spoke in favor of the resolution.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MacQuigg, according to the </span><a href="http://12/03/14%20Commission%20Minutes.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">minutes</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...he believes the Commission is at a “fork in the road”. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They can lean towards more transparency or less. And this not at all disruptive. And for a few hundred bucks the Commission could buy state of the art recording equipment. And he resents being told he has to be in a pen to record these meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hewett, above, read a written statement as recorded in the draft minutes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After much consideration and council, I refuse to allow defamatory statements made by a member of this Commission to sully my reputation and good name. Mr. Wallin’s use of “one lady,” in an article appearing in the Independent News, as well as unsubstantiated libelous comments made on behalf of the Commission by member Lonnie Freyburger in the Mountain View Telegraph clearly defines the narrow scope applied to justify adoption of a recording policy by this body. That narrow scope is being used to suppress my individual viewpoint and the scrutiny it brings to this Commission. As such, I challenge any creation of a policy regarding public recording and I reserve the right as any other citizen to take action on this matter at a future date and time. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am a member of the press; the people acting as the press, under not only the first amendment of the Constitution, but suggest the Commission look at the more open interpretation of the New Mexico Constitution. In Government there is a fourth estate – the press.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I suggested the Commission review the recent U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals case, </span><a href="http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/10-1764P-01A.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Glik vs Cunniffe… the City of Boston</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> on recording public officials (police) in a public place. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In response to Jones' comment, I said that we might have looked like the circus had come to town, because Torrance County was not accustomed to such attention, brought upon by them selves, by an attack on the First Amendment. That we, (MacQuigg, Robertson, and I) had traveled in defense of the First Amendment. And this was how the press covered public meetings.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my continued comments, I praised the way the meeting was run. Board Chair Chavez-Gutierrez, above, had a firm grasp of the meeting and took every item through their procedural steps, without trying to take any shortcuts. I commented on how she thanked each presenter for their words and commended county workers and department heads for their efforts. I hadn't seen such a well run meeting at this level of government, or up, through some state meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michele Jones works in County Clerk's office and is assigned to be the Commission Clerk. She provides staff-support for the board and is responsible for maintaining the minutes. Jones is a bureaucrat whose power is to be reckoned with; she is competent and incompetent at the same instant.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like many bureaucrats, she is often asked the proper procedure for conducting the commission meeting. Yet, at the same time she dislikes the fact that journalists and citizens record every action in the room.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was the first, to speak, at the March 14, 2012, meeting, favoring the resolution of a policy disallowing recording the proceedings of all meetings held in the commission chambers.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was the first, to speak, at the March 14, 2012, meeting, favoring the resolution of a policy disallowing recording the proceedings of all meetings held in the commission chambers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The County Clerk, seated, was particularly perturbed, informing Commissioners that the cameras in the room this morning had made it "impossible for her to do her job" during the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jones wrote a </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32800006&postID=1112931082141169268"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">comment</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in response to MacQuigg’s post:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">… I'm Michelle Jones and you misquoted (sic) me in your blog. IN QUOTES you misquoted (sic) me. I never said "impossible to do my job". I said the camera clicking was disruptive to me personally as I was attempting to do my job…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i was quoting you from memory. My recollection was strong. If I quoted you incorrectly, I do indeed apologize.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was I, who had initially misidentified Jones as County Clerk Linda Kayser, above, by reading the Torrance County Clerk's </span><a href="http://www.torrancecountynm.org/index.php?page=county-clerk"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">webpage</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, which list the duties as:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The county clerk shall be ex-officio clerk of the board of county commissioners, shall attend the sessions of the board in person or by deputy, keep the seals, records and papers of said board of county commissioners and keep a record of the proceedings of said board in a book as required by law, under the direction of the county commissioners.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the commission meeting, Jones was referred to as the County Clerk. I did not realize that she was designated to act for the County Clerk in the role as the Clerk of the Commission.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The March 15. 2012, MountainView Telegraph published </span><a href="http://www.mvtelegraph.com/2012/03/15/news-briefs/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">News Briefs</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, “Move to Regulate Recordings Tabled”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also on March 15. 2012, MountainView Telegraph published an </span><a href="http://www.mvtelegraph.com/2012/03/15/open-government-helps-everyone/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opinion</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by Executive Director of New Mexico Foundation for Open Government Gwyneth Doland, above, “Open Government Helps Everyone”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">March 22. 2012, MountainView Telegraph published an </span><a href="http://www.mvtelegraph.com/2012/03/22/resolution-designates-camera-area/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">article</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, “Resolution Designates Camera Area”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">March 22. 2012, MountainView Telegraph published a </span><a href="http://www.mvtelegraph.com/2012/03/22/a-lesson-in-communication/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Staff opinion</span></span></span><span style="color: #0039ea; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> “A Lesson in Communication”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On March 23, 2012, MacQuigg </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2012/03/torrance-county-commission-open.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">posted</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, "Torrance County Commission Open Meetings - round three".<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">March 23, 2012, MacQuigg wrote me an email, looks like another road trip. He, Robertson, and I would make the trip and attend our second meeting.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On March 24, 2012, I wrote an e-mail:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Linda Kayser - Torrance County Clerk,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In reviewing your draft minutes of the March 14, 2012, Board of County Commissioners meeting, I noticed that you have misspelled my name.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The proper spelling is Mark Bralley.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you in advance for correcting it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On March 26, 2012, MacQuigg </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2012/03/big-week-for-open-government.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">posted</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, "Big week for open government".<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On March 27, 2012, MacQuigg </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2012/03/torrance-county-commissioners-just-want.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">posted</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, "Torrance County Commissioners just want 'decorum'".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On March 28, 2012, while we were in Estancia, Doland wrote in an e-mail:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just wanted to let you know that I discussed the proposed resolution with my board and the consensus was that it's reasonable to designate an area for the media and public to use for their recording equipment.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The March 28, 2012, meeting agenda listed a second amended version of Resolution 2012-07 Recording Policy, under Action Items – Commission Matters:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVE, by the Torrance County Board of Commissioners, that all County commission meetings will be recorded by the County Clerk using the audio visual recording devices installed for that purpose and all such official recordings shall be posted on the Torrance County website and available to the public pursuant to the Torrance County Inspection of Public Records policy;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the Approval of Meeting Agenda, Freyburger, right, failed to disclose his intent to table Resolution 2012-07 Recording Policy. Had he disclosed, as is procedurally proper, citizens wanting to comment on the resolution, would have been able to speak during the Public Requests segment of the meeting, which followed</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">. Freyburger’s motion to approve the agenda was seconded and unanimously accepted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When the </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.torrancecountynm.org/uploads/Downloads/County%20Commission/2012.03.28%20Draft%20Commission%20Minutes.pdf"><span style="color: #62abdc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">resolution</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> (Action Items, Commission Matters, 4) was called, Freyburger announced, “there are still questions to be researched and answered before going forward with the policy,” and moved to table it. The other two Commissioners agreed to the tabling by voice vote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also at the March 28, 2012, meeting, during the discussion that is critical to Hewett, as a sitting member of the Planning and Zoning Committee, which is appointed by the Commission.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Freyburger is a former Planning and Zoning Committee member. The six-person committee has four members from one commission district and one each from the other two districts. At the March 14 meeting he raised a question he said, was posed to him by a constituent, as to why the Planning and Zoning Committee members were not equally represented by district?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first was, Planning and Zoning Board Policy Modifications; the second was, Planning and Zoning Board Appointments, Rescind and Reappoint.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I passed on a note to Wallin, through Sheriff White, with my contact information and indicated I wanted to communicate with him about the current draft, but he did not respond to the request.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the meeting, MacQuigg </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2012/03/room-belongs-to-people.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">posted</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. "The room, belongs to the people".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During Public Requests, Ched MacQuigg asked Chair Chavez-Gutierrez if the resolution on Recording Policy was going to be heard or deferred, and if it was going to be tabled, he wanted to make comments under the Public Requests portion of the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As the Commission </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaDYMYbiEs0&feature=youtu.be&a"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">took up</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> the Recording Policy on their agenda, Reporter Ramirez Huffman, above, approached the dais to place a cordless microphone on the desk, No one objected to it being a distraction or disruption.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MacQuigg spoke about the importance of the Commission recognizing the room belonged to the people and those who govern should not be making rules against the interest of citizens who are exercising their rights to freedom speech, or the press or petition. He pointed out that the Sheriff was present and if he (or any citizen) became disorderly, he could be arrested and he and the sheriff would appear in court where there would be due process. He said that making rules of decorum moved beyond the law. And was unenforceable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spoke about the amended resolution’s eight point and that many of them were derived from the Supreme Court guidelines for cameras in the courts and that as guidelines they were not always enforced or even acknowledged. I went on to say that at least five of the eight points were Constitutionally questionable. I suggested that the policy was not “reasonable” as required in the State’s Open Meeting act. I then turned to the difference of camera noise being “disruptive” to a meeting and the law of what constitutes disorderly behavior allowing for an arrest and the fact that with the Sheriff present, it was clear from his inaction that he recognized the behavior of the media, professional or citizens acting as the press, there was no criminal act. As my time ran out I showed two photographs taken by Albuquerque Journal photographers from an Albuquerque City Council meeting a couple of weeks before and from the State Supreme Court Hearing, the day before on candidate’s nominating petitions that did not have office names and district or division numbers listed on them. I pointed out that the pictures were taken with Nikon cameras like mine without incident.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. Resolution 2012-07 Recording Policy Madam Chair Chavez-Gutierrez speaks. She calls for comments from the table. There is none. She now calls for public comment. Two people speak in opposition to this resolution: Ched MacQuigg spoke in opposition to the resolution stating that, “this room belongs to the people”. Mark Bralley also spoke in opposition stating that the draft of this resolution that has been put out has eight standards, most of which have been lifted from the Supreme Court rules on conduct in courtrooms where there are trials and trials differ from what’s happening in this room now. Commissioner Freyburger comments that designating an area for the media is partly to insure that all who attend the meeting can have the right to “hear everything that we are doing in this room.” Madam Commissioner Tapia talks about the need, “for respect for our friends and neighbors when we come to these meetings”. Madam Chair Chavez-Gutierrez comments that she is glad that we have video and audio recording of the Commission meetings on our website so people who aren’t able to come to our meetings can still see the video online. “It opens up accessibility to everyone in our County. “She believes that as time has progressed, the Resolution has become more restrictive citing letter A of the draft which states, “The person intending to record the meeting must provide 24 hours advance written notice to the County Manager’s office of the intent to record the meeting.” Madam Chair Chavez-Gutierrez states she does not agree with this and suggests that at this time the Commission take action. She now calls for a motion to either approve or deny the resolution as written. All documents hereto attached. ACTION TAKEN: Madam Commissioner Tapia makes a motion to deny this resolution as it is currently written but to continue working on providing a resolution that is acceptable to all of the Commissioners. Commissioner Freyburger seconds the motion. No further discussion. The Commissioners vote. All in favor none opposed. RESOLUTION DENIED Roll Call District One: Yes, District Two: Yes, District Three: Yes.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He also wants to disfavor citizens recording of meetings in favor of an official posting of meetings recorded by the government in lieu of the public recording and reporting parts (edited) for public consumption.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The room is not wired for what is known as house sound, which is a sound feed to the designated area so those with cameras can put audio cables into the sound system that goes to the speakers.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He has it backwards, everybody has a right to be in the room and those acting as press have a right to gather news. It is Freyburger, as government, who must also accommodate and protect the right of those who are newsgathering.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The various sections of the First Amendment are not competing with each other, but must be viewed as being applied in unison.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Freyburger and Tapia were still not happy with the coverage of the Commission and wanted the County Attorney and County Manager to draft a resolution creating a reasonable Recording Policy. Chavez-Gutierrez was opposed in attempting to limit newsgathering and said she was not bothered by cameras in the chambers. Freyburger made a motion to reject the amended resolution; it passed unanimously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">founding fathers</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> were invoked, as being God fearing men, and that “’In God we trust’ had always been on our money and in the pledge…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What the speakers didn’t say or seem to understand is the "God fearing" </span><a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_founding_fathers.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">founding fathers</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> also feared exactly what the speakers were advocating that their government, even in the form of the County Commission, to do, by engaging in a "Sectarian (Christian) Prayer" treads upon the First Amendment’s establishment clause, by holding a religious prayer in a government setting, it is therefore unconstitutional.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thomas Jefferson wrote the </span><a href="http://www.vahistorical.org/sva2003/vsrf.htm"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, (second paragraph, below, being the law) which would become the foundation for the establishment and free exercise clauses about religion in the First Amendment:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I. Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishment or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was his Almighty power to do . . .<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">II. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">III. And though we well know that this assembly elected by the people for the ordinary purposes of legislation only, have no power to restrain the act of succeeding assemblies, constituted with powers equal to our own, and that therefore to declare this act to be irrevocable would be of no effect in law; yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present, or to narrow its operation, such as would be an infringement of natural right.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Holding a prayer endorsed by a governmental body, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion," also attacks the second phrase of the First Amendment, "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." In reverse, it means everybody may practice whatever religious beliefs they may hold, but the </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWarqKc0uGw&feature=related"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">government may not</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: participate in, or encourage, or recognize, or establish any religious conduct.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The idea that someone who wishes to be Constitutionally protected from having to engage or participate in a governmentally sanctioned religious exercise should leave the meeting is totally unacceptable to the basic tenants upon which this country was founded; such as “…</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">O’re the land of the free and the home of the brave</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">”, or “…with liberty and justice for all.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The phrase "In God We Trust," has neither, always been on our </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.treasury.gov/about/education/Pages/in-god-we-trust.aspx"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">money</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, nor in the </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.ushistory.org/documents/pledge.htm"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">pledge of allegiance</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The use of God in governmental affairs directly conflicts with the </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Constitution</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, Article. VI. (third paragraph):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under the </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifCWxUCKHWc&context=C461d603ADvjVQa1PpcFO75Mxla2e-zoWbmQzGwbXJ5rw95ij58SU="><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Commission Update</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, Commissioner Freyburger said there had been negative publicity that came from the Commission itself. He then called for Chair Chavez-Gutierrez to step down, and if she won’t, he asked Torrance County Attorney Adolfo Mendéz II, what could be done or how can the chair be removed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mendez, right, said, if Chavez-Gutierrez would not step down, then the Commission would need to pass a resolution setting up a procedure to remove their elected chair. However, until such time, Chavez-Gutierrez would be the chair. Freyburger asked that the County Attorney and County Manager draft a resolution setting forth such a procedure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chavez-Gutierrez wrote a letter to New Mexico </span><a href="http://www.saonm.org/about_hector_balderas"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">State Auditor Hector Balderas</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> requesting a financial audit without the other two Commissioners approving it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">KOB Eyewitness News 4 On Your Side Reporter Ramirez Huffman and Photojournalist Cornell produced a news </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2579825.shtml?cat=0"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">story</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> that aired on April 12, 2012, “Torrance County commissioner says state audit too costly.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chavez-Gutierrez called for transparency and was concerned by the attacks on her by her fellow councilors and would take into consideration what they had to say, praying on the matter before </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">deciding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The call for the audit centers around Everett’s concerns that no bid contracts had been awarded to at least one preferred contractor who may have had a personal relationship with County Manager Ansley raising questions of possible fraud after some cost over runs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Commissioner Tapia told Ramirez Huffman, the audit, through the State Auditor's office, was looking at a problem worth $500,000, yet would cost $15-25,000, according to Balderas. Tapia was also upset because the State Attorney General's office was already looking into the matter. If the state auditor found anything wrong, it would be turned over to the AG, Tapia said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Not withstanding the stated feelings of Commissioners Freyburger and Tapia towards Chavez-Gutierrez’ writing a letter, on County stationary as a commissioner, it is not only within her right, but also within her sworn fiduciary duty to report her concerns to the agency specifically responsible for investigating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The State Auditor has a </span><a href="http://www.saonm.org/fraud_reporting_process"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fraud Reporting Process</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> web page on how to report suspected “Fraud, Waste and Abuse of Public Recourses.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chavez-Gutierrez could have remained </span><a href="file:///Welcome.aspx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">anonymous</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, but chose to use her name, as an elected official to publicly act.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tapia complained that there is one Commission and they act as one, as if the majority can control the minority member from exercising the position of citizen and elected official without the majority’s approval.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The April 12. 2012, MountainView Telegraph published an </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.mvtelegraph.com/2012/04/12/commission-candidate-drops-out/"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">article</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by Laurie Clark, “Commission Candidate Drops Out.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">New Mexico Department of Transportation employee Jason Quintana, withdrew his name from the Torrance County primary ballot as a Democrat running for the Commission District 3 seat being vacated by Chavez-Gutierrez.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DYt__oEHj6U/T44LoAKyXRI/AAAAAAAAI8U/ATC2l1KlNpU/s320/McEntee-2w.jpg" width="237" /></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Adjutant Secretary at New Mexico Department of Transportation Mike McEntee, right, a former Air Traffic Control Specialist at Federal Aviation Administration and former Albuquerque City Councilor knows a little bit about the Federal rules about federal employees running for office. McEntee ran </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://a%20foul/"><span style="color: #62abdc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">afoul</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> of the Federal Hatch Act when he campaigned for Mayor of Albuquerque in 1993.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Telegraph article went on to point out that Commissioner Freyburger is also a New Mexico Department of Transportation classified employee sitting in a political office as a result of a partisan race.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">McEntee said that as of April 4, Freyburger was notified that "due to his position in the classified service, his political office as commissioner placed him in violation of the SPB rule."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">April 16, 2012, Capitol Report New Mexico, posted an </span><a href="http://www.capitolreportnewmexico.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">article</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, "Torrance County commissioners and their camera problem."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The posting was based on the KOB reporting of April 11 and the April 12 MountainView Telegraph article, and an interview with Executive Director of New Mexico Foundation for Open Government Gwyneth Doland, but missed the fact that the resolution was already voted down.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Also on April 16, 2012, KOB Eyewitness News 4 On Your Side Reporter Chris Ramirez Huffman and Producer Peter St Cyr, aired a </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2584435.shtml?cat=500"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">story</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> on the 10 PM broadcast, “Torrance County Commissioner's family faces harassment.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">KOB aired part of an audio recording with contractor Chris Valdez who is heard in a heavily profane rant that required censoring by the station to conform to Federal Communications Commission rules on indecency. The audio was recorded by an unnamed member of Chavez-Gutierrez' family on a smart-phone.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The TV station claimed, "After KOB 4 On Your Side broke that initial story, the retaliation intensified and got violent."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m68VXYKqawQ/T44JwSfkCvI/AAAAAAAAI7k/TCPIS7kkfvU/s1600/12%253A03%253A14-Torrance-County-Commission_9848w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">KOB did not break this story, Hewett, above, broke the story by posting video on YouTube, after the meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edgewood Independent's Editor and Reporter Leota Harriman, left, and MountainView Telegraph's Laurie Clark, right, were covering this story since the January 11, 2012, meeting.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both journalists are armed with cameras and digital voice recorders they use in reporting the news.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ramirez Huffman stated he got interested in the public access part of the story from reading MacQuiggs blog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The audio KOB ran and called violent, is rude, vulgar, and profane, but it's not violent. By what was presented on television from the audio, Valdez suggests a willingness to get violent, yet violence is not done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On April 19. 2012, the MountainView Telegraph published an </span><a href="http://www.mvtelegraph.com/2012/04/19/torrance-chair-asked-to-vacate/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">article</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by Laurie Clark, "Torrance Chair Asked To Vacate".<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also on April 19. 2012, the MountainView Telegraph published an </span><a href="http://www.mvtelegraph.com/2012/04/19/freyburger-stays-commissioner-for-now/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">article</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by Laurie Clark, "Freyburger Stays Commissioner for Now".<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Freyburger does not seem to be able to read the state law or the state personnel rules. While running for a partisan political office, he must take leave without pay. However, once elected he may no longer remain employed by the state.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On April 19, 2012, the Mountain View Telegraph published an </span><a href="http://www.mvtelegraph.com/2012/04/19/inquiry-irks-2-commissioners/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">article</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by Laurie Clark, "Inquiry Irks 2 Commissioners".<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On May 3, 2012, the Mountain View Telegraph published an </span><a href="http://www.mvtelegraph.com/2012/05/03/torrance-county-may-replace-prayer/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">article</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by Laurie Clark, "Torrance County May Replace Prayer".<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But Rick Lopez said: "I respect (Smith's) viewpoint very, very much, I find it hard to believe that our commission would deny a Navajo to come and speak in his native language, and to give the prayer to his god … it is not declaring a religion for the county."...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Every time you get in front of that press, you look bad. You look bad for the county, all three of you. This needs to stop. We need to come together as a people, as a group," he said. "… I understand that all three of you are pretty much brand new to the politics, but I am tired and I am embarrassed at my commission for what has gone on. … You are adults."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On May 10, 2012, the Mountain View Telegraph published a Staff </span><a href="http://www.mvtelegraph.com/2012/05/10/panel-to-take-up-prayer-issue/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opinion</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, “Panel To Take Up Prayer Issue,“ favoring the continuation of a prayer.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On May 31, 2012, the Mountain View Telegraph published an </span><a href="http://www.mvtelegraph.com/2012/05/31/nonsectarian-prayer-to-precede-meetings/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">article</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, “Nonsectarian Prayer To Precede Meetings” by Laurie Clark about action taken at the May 23, commission meeting, “…Commissioners Leanne Tapia and Lonnie Freyburger voted in favor of nonsectarian prayer at the beginning of meetings. … Commissioner Venessa Chavez-Gutierrez was the dissenting vote."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Torrance County Sheriff Heath White, left, signing </span><a href="http://www.nmdas.com/districts/seventh/7/index.htm"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seventh Judicial District</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Attorney </span><a href="http://www.nmdas.com/districts/seventh/index.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clint Wellborn</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'s campaign nominating petition, at the County GOP Pre Primary Convention, held in the Commission Chambers, are the highest ranking law enforcers – prosecutors and have lawful duties. If they become aware of accusation of possible illegal activity they are empowered and duty bound to investigate. If they find evidence Wellborn may impanel a grand jury yet, neither has stepped up to inform the public that there is or is not an investigation started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Much of the proposed list in the second amended resolution on the recording policy is based upon New Mexico Supreme Court </span><a href="http://search.nmcompcomm.us/nmsu/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=main-hit-h.htm&2.0"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rule 23-107</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Broadcasting, televising, photographing and recording of court proceedings; guidelines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The First goes on protecting: thought, speech, all forms of writing, acts of expression through any form of media, peaceably gathering, associating, interacting of people with themselves, and with their government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Courts are confronted with specific issues not present in public meetings, such as: the presence of juries and witnesses. Court guidelines protect people who are present under lawful order: jury summons, or witness subpoenas and who are involuntarily present as opposed to those who attend public meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I can tell you the day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body," Supreme Court Justice </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Souter"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David H. Souter</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> said, speaking before a House Appropriations subcommittee for the Supreme Court's budget request for 1997 fiscal year, as reported by the </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/30/us/on-cameras-in-supreme-court-souter-says-over-my-dead-body.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New York Times</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Justice Souter ignored the reality that the Supreme Court has and is now a political institution; he need only look at some of the decisions he participated in while serving on the court to see what are generally considered to have been political by the people of this country.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Political from the Greek </span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cosmopolite"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">polī́tēs</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: citizen<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Souter left the bench June 29, 2009 and was replaced by President Barack Obama's appointment of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sonia Sotomayor</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There may be a historical reason why cameras were not used in the US Supreme Court. It is only my speculation, but the room would have been too dark for the camera technology of the day. Above, is the 1975 restoration of the 1819 </span><a href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/capitol/oscc.cfm"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">old courtroom</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in the US Capitol building.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Court Security Officer standing behind </span><a href="http://www.sos.state.nm.us/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Secretary of State</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.sos.state.nm.us/sos-SecBio.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dianna Duran</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> has served more than 15 years and has never seen cameras turned away from any session.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14-109. </span><a href="http://search.nmcompcomm.us/nmsu/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=main-hit-h.htm&2.0"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explanation;</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> cameras in courtroom.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cameras are allowed in the courts of this state under certain guidelines. In order not to distract you, they will be located in designated areas of this courtroom. In the event any member of the jury is distracted by any member of the news media, you should immediately advise this court.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To drive the point home about cameras in the Supreme Court, Second Judicial District, Bernalillo County, Division 19, District Court Judge Sam Winder, who was recently appointed by Susana Martinez and is running for election against Metropolitan Judge Ben Chavez. Winder recorded the legal arguments that Chavez brought contesting the sufficiency Winder's petitions.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Court ruled 4-0 the Winder's petitions were acceptable and the two will square off in the general election.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By Federal Constitutional design, the legislative branch is closest to the people. Members of the House of Representatives are elected directly by the smallest number of constituents divided into districts and for the shortest period of time – two-year terms. Should a member of the House not be able to fulfill their term, a special election is the only means of replacement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Constitution mandated that the Senate represent the interests of the States and it was up to the States legislatures to select Senators to represent them; serving a six-year term, with elections staggered every three years in “classes” of a third of the body up for election. Vacancies are filled by the states in a manner of their individual choosing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The United States Congress<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">News coverage is controlled by several United States <a href="http://www.senate.gov/galleries/"><span style="color: #62abdc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Senate Media Galleries</span></a>:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Senate</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Access to the Senate floor is prohibited. The taking of pictures of any kind is prohibited in the Senate Chamber, the Senate Reading rooms (marble room and Lobby), the Senate cloakrooms, the private dining rooms of the Senate, and in the hallways on the third floor…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No photographers are permitted in the House Chamber except on special occasions such as the Joint Meetings of Congress, State of the Union addresses, etc. Admittance on such occasions is limited and requires special credentials….<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">…Generally photographs are permitted at open hearings, however, each committee establishes its own rules governing photo coverage. Photographers are usually allowed in committees wells, but should remain below the top of the dais and not between the witness and members of the committee. The use of cellular phones, lap tops and other electronic communication devices is prohibited in the committee well. It is the Gallery's right to limit the number of still photographers in a committee's well…. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are several locations where press conferences may be held in hallways, like the one taken on June 3, 1969, after the Senate Judiciary Committee met with President Richard Nixon’s nominee for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court </span><a href="http://www.supremecourthistory.org/history-of-the-court/chief-justices/warren-burger-1969-1986/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Warren Burger</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Dirksen"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Senate Majority Leader</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><a href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=d000360"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everett Dirksen</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> R – Illinois announced the committee’s recommendation of Burger for Senate conformation.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">November 16, 1999, Congressman Ben Gilman, R-New York, center. with a fellow co-sponsors Representative Bart Stupak, D-Michigan, left, Representative Jim Ramstad, R-Minnesota, right, announcing the introduction of the Convicted Offender DNA Index System Support Act. Standing in the rear is Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Dan Kerr, head of the FBI Forensic Laboratory. They stand in front of the House of Representatives side of the United States Capitol during the press conference that would create a law enforcement database of DNA samples that could be cross referenced and examined with evidence collected at crime scenes to identify or eliminate suspect through the use of unique DNA markers.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New Mexico Representatives Tom Udall, Heather Wilson, and Congressman </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Horn"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stephen Horn</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, R – Calif. of the House Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management and Intergovernmental Relations, held hearings in a five-city tour, including Albuquerque, April 1, 2002 into the level of preparation for a biological, chemical or nuclear attack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wilson and Horn attended a demonstration by members of the then newly formed joint New Mexico Army-Air National Guard's 64th Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support team, showing how they would collect samples from a chemical, biological or nuclear incident.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wilson put on a protective suit, including an air mask, worn by the military team at such incidents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Constitution of the State of New Mexico, Article IV, Legislative Department, Section 12. Public sessions; journals, reads:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_MBu_YS3sV4/T5IAo9W-UZI/AAAAAAAAJCM/NGCU9uWMB7c/s1600/11:09:13-Special-Legislative-Session-P9135765w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_MBu_YS3sV4/T5IAo9W-UZI/AAAAAAAAJCM/NGCU9uWMB7c/s320/11:09:13-Special-Legislative-Session-P9135765w.jpg" width="167" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2011, Senate Rule 9-5-7 was adopted in response to Governor Martinez’ staff recording certain committee hearings of politically controversial pieces of legislation, then posted on the Governor’s official website.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography, video or audio recording or transmission of committee proceedings may, upon request, be allowed with the permission of the chair and ranking member.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though the Senate rule clearly violates the First Amendment, </span><a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SSAPI"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sen. John Sapien</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, D – Sandoval County, who was one of the 34 Senators to vote for the rule said in an interview last year, “No one has been denied the right to record any committee meeting,” Sapien said. “You just have to ask.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both chambers are controlled by the Democratic Party. The Party calls itself into session under the term caucus where strategies, amendments and votes are hammered out. If it weren't for the Capitol building's no smoking rule, a caucus would be the old proverbial smoked filled back room.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a. The person intending to record the meeting must provide 24 hours advance written notice to the County Manager's office of the intent to record the meeting;<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"Miss Hewett never once came in before she started recording and said, 'Would you mind? What do you think about this?' She just started showing up with her camera … and I don't have a problem with her coming and videoing," said Tapia. "I think the downfall to what she does is that she posts it on YouTube and she labels it the label that she wants, and that people are able to comment and share what their thoughts are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 It violates the First Amendment’s …“abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...”, by both limiting and telling "We the People," acting as press how they must conduct their protected activities in an unreasonable effort to abridge a Constitutional freedom.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. it is inconsistent with the "reasonable effort" language in the State's Open Meetings Act; in fact, it is an unreasonable effort to not accommodate audio and video recording.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">This would seem, on its face, to be a commonsense rule, but there are instances where things like the presentation of an award to an individual or group might call for a relaxation of the blocking of an audience member’s view to momentarily obtain a close-up grip and grin shot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are four marked exits two on each side of the room; the two eastern doors are double doors and the two western doors are single doors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">KOB’s Photojournalist Cornell placed her tripod in the jutted out part of the north aisle for a few moments as she worked different angles of the room to acquire needed images for producing the news package. Her being in the aisle was either ignored, not noticed, but certainly not commented upon, or any action taken to have her move for the blockage.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amongst photographers at events, there are unwritten rules: If you want to change positions, try to move by going behind fellow photographers, however, if one has to step in front of a video camera, check with photographer to see if the camera is running, and to check with still photographer before crossing. When running video, I like to be asked; but when I am doing stills, a word is sufficient and appreciated, but from my stand point, not necessary.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e. All recording devices must operate silently or at a decibel level not disruptive of the meeting; <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no decibel level stated for a comparison with an ambient decibel level standard to make a reasonable judgment of what is disruptive. This should be a scientific test, but sensitive ears and curiosity, are not the appropriate test. What is the proper percentage of the audio amplification speaker level is proper?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This rules disregards the First Amendments prohibition against, “abridging… the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievance.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to maintain the proper decorum required for conducting the business of the county while, at the same time allowing members of the media or general public access to audio and visual recordings of the proceedings of the county commission….<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before he wrote in his first draft, “the public is strictly prohibited from operating audio and/or visual recording devices within the Commission Chambers,” Freyburger makes clear he does not want any recording device in the room and if he cannot eliminate them, then he wants to direct where they “may” operate in a designated area as far from the commissioner’s table as possible.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fortunately the Torrance County Commission room appears fairly well lit, but some, trying to video or photograph might have problems.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Sandoval County’s Commission room, above, is lit to about the same level as is Torrance County’s, however, it also has a translucent glass block wall behind the dais that during the day, outdoor light overpowers the indoor ambient light. This situation requires additional light to balance the room. The results are not satisfactory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1971 the city of Albuquerque rewrote their charter, above, and changed from a Commission/City Manager, to a Council/Mayor, form of government.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The City Council continued to meet in the same room. These are the Councillors who served in 1977 as the third council.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When One Civic Plaza was built, the Albuquerque City Council/Bernalillo County Commission Government Chambers, above, were poorly lit and made photographing and video for cable access problematic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Government Access cable channel installed additional lighting, to provide the necessary illumination to video the meetings in the current Chambers, above.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The top picture was under the greatest influence of Incandescent light and thus appears reddish, while the lower picture of the law enforcement presenters at the same meeting were lit under the influence of all three types of lights and appears bluish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">g. All videotaping equipment must be focused on the Commission table;<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are some problems associated with this arrangement, particularly the concept of a free press, the right of those assembled peaceably to observe whatever is happening in a room cannot then be limited to videotaping equipment if any citizen can look about the room then any citizen with a recording device can also look about the room.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Commission Clerk Jones briefed the commissioners on the plans for the cameras to be mounted on either side of the room at about the point where the floor covering changes from tile to carpet, below. Such placement would contradict this rule against citizens, while allowing government a wider view and greater access.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trying to dictate coverage by placing blinders on the public is an anathema to freedom.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we're talking about putting somebody in a designated area … it's kind of like saying, I have not seen one photographer yet run on a football field when a play is going on to try and take pictures because they have the 'right' to be there. I have seen them in designated areas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His sports metaphor is almost perfect. The Commission room, above, being used here by the County Republican Party, has a playing field, it is even green, and it is distinctively marked off by a change from a tile floor to carpeting.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During my visits, those now covering the Torrance County Commission, have not “run onto" the carpeted area during a discussion to photograph up close.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being relegated to photograph from one angle makes no sense from a journalistic standpoint and though Freyburger has not thought it through, it is deadly to any political aspirations he might harbor, when viewers and readers of visual publications, are shown the same thing, or even worse not shown anything at all. The politician loses a critical link with the electorate, which will rightly discern that something is amiss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One only has to look at how the major campaigns or Presidential visits, above, go about providing for media coverage to understand the value associated with locations that afford opportunities for the creation of "great" visual images.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Throughout the state, where government meetings are regularly covered by the media, one can find in-house sound panels and outlets, above, in that one of the Print Media Galleries at the State Legislature to meet the Open Meetings dictate for reasonable accommodations.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This particular unit was used when New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry, officials from Sandia National Laboratories, and the U.S. Department of Energy, announced at a press conference at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, of the final transuranic waste shipment being removed from Sandia National Laboratories and transported to the Waste Isolation Pilot Project in Carlsbad, New Mexico.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Susan Montoya Bryant of Associated Press, upper left, holds her recorder as she photographs and reviews her pictures during New Mexico Attorney General Gary King’s June 24, 2011, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/11/never-let-them-see-you-sweat.html"><span style="color: #5dacdc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">press conference</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">. A print journalist, lower left, takes notes while holding his recorder under his pad during the January 10, 2009, U.S. Census press conference. Albuquerque Journal Photographer Dean Hanson, left, and Journal Staff Writer Dan Boyd, with his digital recorder at hand, reviews a picture on Hanson’s Nikon’s LCD screen to help determine who was in the photograph at a Gov. Martinez bill-signing ceremony.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Journalism schools are trying to teach what is now being demanded by media outlets, especially newspapers, that are trying to broaden their presence on the internet; by practicing what is called backpack journalists; all skills in one package.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are four major disciplines regarded for today’s media worker: the ability to write, to obtain audio and interview for radio or podcasts and video, the ability to capture video images, and to acquire still photographs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One can acquire an acceptable level of technical competence in each discipline, but to go into the field and bring back high-level material in all four disciplines is very problematic. Two skills are basic to all four, writing and interviewing. It is in the visual disciplines where the problems arise.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Theoretically, the technology within smartphones are capable of capturing all the media necessary for backpack journalists. The phones have audio recorders, digital still cameras, and video cameras; they also have keypads for writing. Applications to edit, compose, layout and then disseminate productions are available.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Video and still photographs are based on two entirely different philosophies, Video primarily is based on the camera being placed in a stationary position and allowing the world to pass in front of its lens, while still photography is based on the photographer continually moving slightly to improve the composure and focus of the subject.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Newspapers are not dying because of a lack of the ability of journalists to put out quality journalism day after day; newspapers are being strangled by their own bean counters and unrealistic and overly aggressive stockholders anticipated returns who totally disregard the facts that good journalism, and in particular good photography, will sell more product than penny pinching can save.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Kate Nash, above right, now of the Santa Fe </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/ContactUs/newsroom_contacts"><span style="color: #67aadc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">New Mexican</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">’s Capitol bureau and Peter St Cyr, above left, now the </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s2329191.shtml?cat=12387"><span style="color: #62abdc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">4 On Your Side</span></a></span><span style="color: #62abdc; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #62abdc; font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s2329191.shtml?cat=12387"><span style="color: #62abdc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">producer</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> at KOB TV, both were regular practitioners of backpack journalism, four years ago; neither is actively engaged in the concept today.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Television is looking more often for journalism school, multi-media trained practitioners of what TV news calls the one-man-band. A photojournalist, with emphasis on journalist; one who can capture images, interview, write, report, and edit a package for inclusion on the air.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the local market there are some highly skilled one-man-bands: KRQE TV 13' s Reporter </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1688769430"><span style="color: #67aadc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">A</span></a><a href="http://www.krqe.com/dpp/about_us/staff_bios/alex-tomlin-reporter"><span style="color: #67aadc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">lex Tomlin</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, above, KOAT TV’s Action 7 News Santa Fe Bureau Reporter </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.koat.com/tv/Santa-Fe-Bureau-Reporter/-/9155566/9524572/-/n6ps87z/-/index.html"><span style="color: #67aadc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Alana Greenfoge</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, below, and,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet, in the world of covering sports, camera technology has changed. Television routinely takes you inside a huddle at football games and gives audiences a view never before available. Cameras now are placed in what would be impossibly dangerous locations to cover auto racing, including: burying a camera in the racetrack surface, mounting cameras on bumpers, rooftops, and in drivers’ compartments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During a December 1970 public hearing of the Albuquerque City Commission members of the TV press, Journal Photographer Barry Aguilar, and myself had free range of the room and took advantage of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This meeting was years before the new County City Chambers was built, which has better lines of sight and a meeting can almost, but not quite be covered from a single location.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The above sign, at an Albuquerque City Council </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2007/05/open-meetings.html"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">meeting</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, was placed to restrain a citizen, Geraldine Amato, below, who was not photographing, and got into a physical confrontation with the Council President at an earlier meeting, from standing in this area, from where I usually photographed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I disregarded Pacheco and the sign and was told by the director of Council Services Laura Mason, I had to move. Not wanting to create a scene, at the moment, I moved – a little.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Albuquerque Photographer Toby Jorrin, below, escaped control of the press pen handlers during a Jan. 31, 2008, former President Bill Clinton’s campaign visit to UNM for his wife’s run for the Democratic Presidential nomination. A local Clinton campaign worker attempted to get Jorrin to return to the press pen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a classic, "What’s Wrong With This Picture?", because while the Clinton campaign worried about Jorrin’s independence, they ignore the women with her cell-phone camera. They also ignored my escape, in part because the campaign ran out of press passes and I slipped off to explore better vantage points blending into the crowd of citizens who had respectable equipment and telephoto lenses.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A history of unsuccessful efforts to restrict open coverage of government forums has littered the state’s public meeting rooms since former Senator Victor Marshall, right, pushed through an </span><a href="http://www.rcfp.org/new-mexico-open-government-guide/foreword"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">amendment</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to the Open Meeting Act in 1993.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">h. All videotaping shall be performed in such a manner as not to intimidate or otherwise harass members of the public who wish to address the Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In an interview with KOB Reporter Chris Ramirez Huffman, County Manager Ansley, above, said that County Department Heads who did not want to be photographed during Commission meetings could submit their reports in writing. Currently such reports are given orally, and then they stand for questions.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This attitude turns the burden of proof from the government employee, of providing actual provable actions of intimidation or harassment, as objective evidence, rather it allows subjective feelings of victimization to control.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rule of law is a photographer may take pictures in a public place and in particular of public servants doing work paid by taxpayers. Government employees have no expectation of privacy, so absent a physical assault by getting into the personal space of a public employee, they are subject to being photographed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The key words from the open meetings act are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though there are statutes that deal specifically with disruptions and disorderly conduct, in the presence of a law enforcement officer, in this case the </span><a href="http://www.sheriffheathwhite.us/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Torrance County Sheriff Heath White</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, left, or one of his Deputies, present during the Commission meetings, are duty bound to maintain peace and good order. When there is a disruption of the peace, law enforcement officer must establish probable cause and witness the violation of a misdemeanor crime in their presence to make an arrest. However, they may also take other action, verbally to assure the peace.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During my time in law enforcement, I have witnessed disruptions in courtrooms leading to the removal of disorderly participants. They were later brought before the court where the judge held them in contempt. Had I observed the same activity outside of a courtroom, I would have made an arrest and charged disorderly conduct for the action and or use of language constituting an assault. See definition below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At public meetings of commissions, councils, boards, and committees, I have seen chairs attempt to have participants removed under the pretext of a person being disruptive of the process. I use the word attempt because I have only on a couple of occasions seen an officer of the law escort a person from the room for what could legally been a criminal charge. More often I have observed a meeting chair become perturbed, frustrated, or angry at a particular participant for having said something or contradicted a member of the governmental panel then illegally ordered their removal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have observed law enforcement officers called to enforce ejections, then not take any enforcement action. Upon arriving, officers looked for a violation of law, as they may only make a misdemeanor arrest for a crime, which occurs in their immediate presence. Officers often see the action of a participant the chair describes as disruptive, but refuse to take any action, because they see no violation of law, yet their presence assures the continued maintenance of peace and good order.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The primary mission of the Torrance County Sheriff's Office is to coordinate with other law enforcement agencies within Torrance County and their efforts within the community to preserve the public peace, protect the rights of persons and property, prevent crime, and generally provide assistance to citizens in urgent situations….<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Torrance County Sheriff's Office must enforce the law in a fair and impartial manner, recognizing both the statutory and judicial limitations of Sheriff's authority and the constitutional rights of all persons. It is not the role of the office to legislate, render legal judgments, or punish.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">New Mexico crimes available to law enforcement in such situations include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">30-20-13. <a href="http://search.nmcompcomm.us/nmsu/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=main-hit-h.htm&2.0"><span style="color: #67aadc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Interference with members of staff, public officials or the general public; trespass; damage to property; misdemeanors; penalties</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> C. No person shall willfully refuse or fail to leave the property of or any building or other facility owned, operated or controlled by the state or any of its political subdivisions when requested to do so by a lawful custodian of the building, facility or property if the person is committing, threatens to commit or incites others to commit any act which would disrupt, impair, interfere with or obstruct the lawful mission, processes, procedures or functions of the property, building or facility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A. engaging in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud or otherwise disorderly conduct which tends to disturb the peace; or<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">B. maliciously disturbing, threatening or, in an insolent manner, intentionally touching any house occupied by any person.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">30-3-1. </span><a href="http://search.nmcompcomm.us/nmsu/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=main-hit-h.htm&2.0"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Assault</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A. an attempt to commit a battery upon the person of another;<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">B. any unlawful act, threat or menacing conduct which causes another person to reasonably believe that he<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">C. use of insulting language toward another impugning his honor, delicacy or reputation.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sudden interruption caused then Council President Vickie Perea to order the doors closed and suspend the meeting. The effect was to trap a fair number of the protesters in the room. With no exist available to them, they carried on their protest. Albuquerque Police Officer Tom Perea, above right, son of the Council President, happened to have drawn an assignment to guard the meeting. He, and the other officers who had been assigned on short notice, took no enforcement action. Once it became apparent that the protestors had intended to leave as soon as they had walked across the room, the exit was opened and they left.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The management of the largest arm of government, in providing the services, is a huge undertaking. At all levels of governments: federal, state, county, city municipal, and all other political subdivisions, the work of the executive is often dull and bureaucratic.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By constitutions and charters the executives are often simply to be figureheads, the stated duties are limited.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, President Theodore Roosevelt called the White House the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_pulpit"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bully Pulpit</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, not the pushy meaning of the word bully of today, but as a wonderful place to prosecute an elected official’s political agenda, which is now practiced as a high art form.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">President Obama, and his predecessors (except Jimmy Carter), back to John Kennedy, had "Official White House Photographers." Above, Chief Official White House Photographer and Director of the White House Photography Office </span><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/author/Pete%20Souza"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pete Souza</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and a White House videographer have intimate </span><a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/imagecache/gallery_img_full/image/image_file/_mg_7553.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/photo/2012/05/president-barack-obama-watches-graduates-toss-their-hats&usg=__NkN6YKQnKd4KqZ5zZwl3ZSZTJ0A=&h=436&w=654&sz=243&hl=en&start=21&zoom=1&tbnid=IxqIG-61jFjI7M:&tbnh=92&tbnw=138&ei=XafIT9K_Aqmh2QWft8zbDQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3DPresident%2BObama%2BSpeaks%2Bat%2Bthe%2BAir%2BForce%2BAcademy%2BCommencement%2BCeremony%25"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">access</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to all aspects of the President’s activities, formal and informal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rio Rancho resident, </span><a href="http://vanguardleaders.com/speakers/105-ericdraperbio.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eric Draper</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/01/bush_gives_fist.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">spent</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> eight years as Special Assistant to the President and White House Photographer for President George W. Bush.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Draper, above left, during a May 27, 2008, political </span><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2009/06/eric-draper.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stop</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in Albuquerque; to the right, he was a speaker at the September 1, 2011, Rio Grande Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, where he gave a </span><a href="http://www.nmspj.org/?p=1847"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">presentation</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of his White House </span><a href="http://www.ericdraperphotography.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">work</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Governor Susana Martinez makes several public appearances every month at various events. Above, </span><a href="http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/02/23/abqnewsseeker/gov-to-sign-business-tax-cuts-today.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">signing bills</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> with legislative sponsors Rep. </span><a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HDOYL"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David Doyle</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, R – Bernalillo and Sandoval Counties, </span><a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/_session.aspx?chamber=H&legtype=B&legno=%20184&year=12"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HB 184</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Construction Service" for Gross Receipts, and Rep. </span><a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HJAME"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conrad James</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, R – Bernalillo County. </span><a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/_session.aspx?chamber=H&legtype=B&legno=%20256&year=12"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HB 256</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Manufacturing Property Gross Receipts.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got to photograph inside Governor Gary Johnson’s office in 2001, during an interview by Catherine Boss for Swiss-based <a href="http://facts.ch/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">F@cts</span></a> magazine article, “Legalize it now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MacQuigg and I interviewed State Senate President Pro Tempore </span><a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SJENT"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tim Jennings</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, D – Chaves, Eddy, Lincoln, and Otero Counties, about webcasting and archiving all legislative meetings, he complained about public pressure being place on the Legislature, but not the Executive, Judicial branches, or the press.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MacQuigg </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/08/yeah-but.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">posted</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> August 13, 2010, “Yeah, But,,,”:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He argued that the Legislature shouldn't have to be candid, forthright, and honest with the people if the same requirement is not placed upon the Executive Branch, the Judicial Branch, and the Press.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Governor would argue that the executive function in setting policy is not done by vote or is required to be open to public scrutiny.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are occasions when an executive might wish they didn't have to be in the public view or the glare of television lights. Mayor Martin Chávez had to face such an indignity when he was found guilty of ethical violations before the City of Albuquerque </span><a href="http://www.cabq.gov/clerk/elections/board-of-ethics"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Board of Ethics and Campaign Practices</span></span></span><span style="color: #0027ec; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> during his second term in office.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chávez, center left, is seated with one of his four lawyers, University of New Mexico Law School Ethics Professor </span><a href="http://lawschool.unm.edu/faculty/sedillo-lopez/index.php"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Antoinette M. Sedillo-Lopez</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, her husband and another of Chávez’ lawyers Victor Lopez, a then former Assistant City Attorney, currently a Workers Compensation </span><a href="http://www.workerscomp.state.nm.us/about/judges.php"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judge</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and recently defeated Democratic primary </span><a href="http://www.judgevictorlopez.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">candidate</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for State Court of Appeals Judge is seated in the last row of the room.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During Chávez’ second term as mayor, the City made inspection and purchasing public records easier and cheaper, 10 cents a page, down from the state statutory allowable amount of a dollar per page.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I covered the May 23, 2012, Air Force Academy graduation ceremonies at Falcon Stadium where New Mexico's 3rd Congressional district Rep, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_81719153"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steve</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><a href="http://pearce.house.gov/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pearce</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> attended honoring the two New Mexico students he nominated, Ashley Olson, of Silver City, and James Garrett Tewaheftewa, of Los Lunas high school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congressman Pearce, above right, was at the end of the front row with: President Obama, </span><a href="http://www.defense.gov/bios/biographydetail.aspx?biographyid=92"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Air Force Chief of Staff</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_(United_States)"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gen</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_A._Schwartz"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Norton Schwartz</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and his wife Suzi, Colorado Governor </span><a href="http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/GovHickenlooper/CBON/1249674240451"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Hickenlooper</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and Colorado's </span><a href="http://polis.house.gov/District/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2nd Congressional district</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Rep. </span><a href="http://polis.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Jared_Polis_Biography_2_2_12.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jared Polis</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. He is preparing to take a </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.409996402357216.88731.180280568662135&type=3"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">picture</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of the cadets tossing their hats in the air when the class is dismissed by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadier_general_(United_States)"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brigadier General</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?id=13029"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Richard M. Clark</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, Commandant of Cadets, left, after administering the oath of office.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I thanked him for taking the time to be there for these cadets on such an important day in their lives," Pearce wrote responding by email, to the question, I asked of him; what had he said to the President.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A demonstration of the collegiality the Senate is noted for, is seen among three of the most powerful leaders of the upper chamber: Minority Floor Leader Sen. </span><a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SINGL"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stuart Ingle</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, left, R – Chaves, Curry, De Baca, and Roosevelt Counties and Majority Floor Leader Sen. </span><a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SSANC"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michael Sanchez</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, right, D – Valencia County talking with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. </span><a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SSMIT"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Arthur Smith</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, center, Hidalgo, Luna, and Sierra Counties at the close of the 2011 Legislative session about what the conference committee to resolve the driver's licenses was doing when the 12:00 deadline arrived. Smith reported the House indicated a willingness to move, but the Senate wasn't.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Political photo opportunities are tightly staged. Seldom is a photographer granted the fly on the wall access to either a candidate or politician, as </span><a href="http://www.ourwhitehouse.org/contribbios/walker.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diana Walker</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, above, who photographs for Time magazine had with then Democratic primary Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's visit to Albuquerque, or her </span><a href="http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/27/behind-the-cover-diana-walker-on-photographing-hillary-clinton/#1"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">photo essay</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of Clinton as Secretary of State.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also known as a part of opposition research, where campaigns or political parties try to discover every position statement, every word ever uttered, written or, in the case of a legislator, every vote cast, on every issue.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kush has held a number of positions from: </span><a href="http://www.bcgop.org/about/75/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bernalillo County Party</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'s executive director, he is currently on the executive board, as political director, to having been campaign director for Janice Arnold-Jones’ primary run two years ago. Prior to that Kush helped </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Christie"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris Christie</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">’s 2009 primary and general </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_gubernatorial_election,_2009"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">election</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trackers may be best known for capturing a comment Sen. George Allen, R – Virginia, made during a reelection campaign, when he </span><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0607/4483.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">called</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> a tracker a racially insensitive name.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The woman, upper left, is Lindsey Miller. She is a paid Democratic tracker who is following former GOP Rep. Heather Wilson during her Senate race.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zachary Ogaz, upper right, is employed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to follow and to video-record Republican New Mexico Congressional District 1 candidate Janice Arnold-Jones’ campaign appearances.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Former New Mexico GOP Executive Director Sergio Garcia, lower left, covered Lt. Governor Denish </span><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2010/12/its-about-time.html"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">announcing</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> a proposal for ethics reform in State Government, with Rep Al Park D – Bernalillo and University of New Mexico Law School Ethic Professor Antoinette Sedillo-López, on the steps of the State Supreme Court Building. Denish was campaigning for governor, as much as she was announcing a position as Lt. Gov.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Miller appeared at a small gathering of Arnold-Jones’ campaign volunteers and told the candidate that she was replacing Miller for this event. Miller said she had not heard Arnold-Jones’ stump speech, would she give for her camera.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arnold-Jones hit the bullet points and then engaged the male companion of Miller in a discussion of who he was and how he came to New Mexico, Miller realized that the two of them were making a really good image of Arnold-Jones campaigning and signaled for the man to get out of the picture. He didn't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My efforts with Arnold-Jones are as a long-term editorial documentation of her political efforts, now in its sixth year, and I grant her campaign access to my archives of her.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(10:45) There’s one guest here who’s not really my guest but Lindsey is here from the Democratic Party. She follows me around the state, it looks like she’s not using her camera, but I usually warn people if you don’t want to end up being a 30 second television commercial on behalf of the Democratic Party, I like to warn people. Lindsey is not with me, although we got to know each other a little bit. She obviously beat us here today because she did not have car trouble.</span><br />
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It would be nice if the Republicans, Democrats, TEA Party, third party operatives, and political action committees, would take note; as GOP leaning, news radio’ blog site, </span> <a href="http://newsnm.com/"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">News New Mexico</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, has lifted my work, the Democratic </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/NM01RawFootage"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NM01RawFootage</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> site has lifted images of mine to cover their posts, local blog, </span><a href="http://www.progressnownm.org/blog/"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Progress Now New Mexico</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and their spin off blog, </span><a href="http://wilsonwatch.org/"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wilson Watch</span></span></a><span style="color: #0027ec;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">have ripped off a couple of images, the </span><a href="http://www.teapartytribune.com/2012/03/03/heather-wilson-staff-voter-fraud/"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tea Party Tribune</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and </span><a href="http://www.publiusnm.com/2011/05/one-small-voice-hector-goes-off-the-reservation-and-mitch-could-be-trouble-for-barack/"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publius NM</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This </span><a href="http://articles.boston.com/2012-05-22/metro/31802700_1_tracker-elizabeth-warren-ethnic-slur"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">story</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> appeared in the </span><a href="http://www.boston.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boston Globe</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, May 22, 2012, by Stephanie Ebbert, Candidates wary as opposition cameras roll.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The political equivalent of paparazzi, trackers have been used for at least 16 years in Massachusetts, since the 1996 Weld-Kerry Senate race. But this campaign season, with the Brown vs. Warren contest emerging as one of the most closely watched in the country, two media-savvy candidates have found themselves dodging the ubiquitous cameras, even demanding they leave.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On March 3, 2012, in the CROWLEY POLITICAL REPORT Elections may come and go but politics never stops, editor </span><a href="http://www.crowleypoliticalreport.com/about-us.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brian E. Crowley</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> wrote a </span><a href="http://www.crowleypoliticalreport.com/2012/03/republican-adam-hasner-embraces-his-democratic-video-tracker.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">post</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> headlined, Republican Adam Hasner embraces his Democratic video tracker.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On August 11, 2011, </span><a href="http://www.americaspartynews.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">America’s Party News</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.aipnews.com/talk/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=16139&posts=2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">posted</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> an article by Steve Schulin “Video - Kansas City Councilman Skaggs assaults ‘tracker’ outside Democratic Party HQ” from their State Parties - America's Party of Missouri.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mirror in a single lens reflex camera, above with a bluish tint, allows a photographer to look through an eyepiece into a reflex prism, down onto a mirror, which is in the direct path of light captured through the lens, allowing for it to be focused, and to observe the image that will become a photograph once the shutter is triggered.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The moving mirror's trip up and out of the way prior to and during the exposure causes the distinctive sound. When the exposure is complete the mirror returns to its down position in cameras that have, "instant return mirrors".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Nikon was not my first choice, because at age 13, I didn't know anything about cameras, and all I could afford on my savings from throwing a weekly newspaper, the Air Force Times, on Amarillo Air Force Base, was a used $35 camera.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I would come to learn about Nikons; when 17, I bought a Nikon F with a Photomic T meter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Above, is my current system of a dozen of the 20 some Nikons I have owned and some of the 20 plus lenses. Staring at the bottom are four cameras from the 1960s - 70s era Nikon F film series. Next row up includes a Nikonos II, underwater camera, and a Nikon FE2. The third row up, are the digital Nikon D1, film Nikon F4, and F5. On the left tripod is a Nixon D2H; on the center and right tripods are both Nikon D2X models. The lenses run from 16mm to 800mm and include prime and zoom lenses. The zoom lenses cover a range from 17mm to 300mm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">From 1942 to 2001, out of 97 Pulitzer Prizes, counting both Spot News and Feature photography, 57 were won with a Nikon; 10 were for the next closest winning 35mm brand, Leica, most of them with Nikkor lenses; 5 wins with a Canon. Before 1962, the medium format Speed Graphic cameras dominated the photojournalism scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have photographed under almost every imaginable circumstance a photojournalist can be in; OK, so I haven’t shot a war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Except for the law of survival, and not withstanding the Geneva Convention; there are no rules in covering a war.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the summer and fall of 1969, while attending the New York Institute of Photography, I worked on personal project documenting the United Nations headquarters in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The General Assembly, above, has to be the best venue for photographing public meetings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The room is designed to be the world-class forum it is. The lighting is high intensity and even across the room. There are two floors for: UN interpreters, in-house television (that makes its feed available to any member nation upon request), to television news and still photographers. The facility rivals any professional sports press box. Every meeting room is similarly equipped. Photographers were able to move to several locations to be able to cover almost any angle, including from the back of the room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">United Nations' Staff Photographer <a href="http://theblueflyer.com/Blue%20Flyer%20html%20folder/Influence%2015%20Nagata.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Yutaka Nagata</span></span></a>, far left in front of the dais, introduced me to photographing public meetings by documenting diplomatic sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Nagata taught me that photographing for a large bureaucracy or government could prove frustrating and difficult.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I photographed in Albuquerque Municipal Court by arrangement with then Presiding Municipal Court Judge Paul T. Demos, above center, moments before court session. The picture was taken for a recruiting project for the Albuquerque Police Department circa 1978. He allowed me free movement to photograph inside the bar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Second Judicial District, Bernalillo County District Court Judge Richard Knowles, above left, presides over an <a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2007/01/goodbye-abqpac-hello-what-do-you-call.html"><span style="color: #62abdc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">appeal</span></a> of Vecinos Unidos De Nuevo Mexico (New Mexico Neighbors United) vs. Mayor Martin Chávez, ABQPAC, City of Albuquerque Ethics Board, complainants Andraes Valdez and Rose Tijernia. Attorney Tony Jeffries, right with his client, Valdez, rear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The case, captioned, State of New Mexico, ex rel. (N.M. Attorney General) Patricia A. Madrid and Sandoval Board of County Commissioners vs. Victoria Dunlap Sandoval County Clerk, in her official capacity, was brought before McDonald.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial;">The Attorney General changed the defendant's names on her complaint from Dunlap to Padilla. Padilla promised she would never issue a same sex license, and the case was dismissed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have never attended a Court of Appeals Session, either in Santa Fe, above, in the Supreme Court building or the Pamela B. Minzner Law Center, below, at the University of New Mexico Law Center.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If the parties in the case raise no objections, the courts are less stringent in applying their guidelines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Photographing the legislative process<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I recall being impressed by the work of Washington Post Photographer James Atherton, especially for is working portraits taken during the U.S. Senate Watergate Hearings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/james-atherton-news-photographer-captured-iconic-washington-events/2011/11/30/gIQAAHrWEO_story.html"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Atherton</span></a> passed away late last year and his work was featured in this <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/photojournalist-james-kw-atherton-dies/2011/11/30/gIQAvOFXEO_gallery.html"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">retrospective</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The four television networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS) broadcast one feed on a rotating basis, had set up the lighting at the Watergate Hearings. One seldom gets such good light to photograph under.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At the close of the 2012 Regular Session of the Legislature, members of the media surround Senate Minority Floor Leader <a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SINGL"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Stuart Ingle</span></a>, R – Chaves, Curry, De Baca, and Roosevelt Counties, asking the perennial question, what, if anything, was accomplished.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">January 21, 2010 then freelance: writer, radio, and television correspondent Peter St. Cyr, New Mexico Senate Republican Spokeswoman Diane Kinderwater, and Albuquerque Journal Photographer Morgan Petroski, watch Rep. <a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HCERV"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Joseph Cervantes</span></span></a> D – Dona Ana County presenting a bill he sponsored before the Senate Rules Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Four journalists, above, covering a Senate Rules Committee meeting are: Associate Press Political and Government Reporter Barry Massey, Albuquerque Journal Staff Writer Dan Boyd, then Santa Fe Reporter Staff Writer Corey Pein, and then New Mexico Independent Writer Matthew Reichbach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Photographing the legislature, County Commission, and City Council meetings, are very similar because their tasks are the same; to write legislation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Coverage in the Bernalillo County Commission/Albuquerque City Council chambers over the years, demonstrates the varied methods photographers have used. Clockwise, from the upper left, a photographer, I only saw once, covering Geraldine Amato. He too pictures from within the area between the public podium and the dais, though he did not block the view of any member of the panel, then stood in the aisle, again blocking no one's view. <a href="http://photos.abqjournal.com/about/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Albuquerque Journal Photographers</span></a>, Roberto Rosales, and Adolphe Pierre-Louis use telephoto lenses to seek possible images, from the north wall. The woman photographed a group receiving a Council proclamation. Journal photographer Jim Thompson prepares a camera during a meeting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">However, it is the size of the community and the interest in the local topics are what drive the amount of attention to any public board. The more controversial an issue, the more likely there will be greater attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The reality of continuous political campaigning has become a fact of life. Long gone is the era of the "<a href="http://www.henryfordestate.org/vagabonds.htm"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Vagabonds</span></span></a>" when between 1914-24, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, naturalist John Burroughs, and Thomas Edison invited others including sitting United States Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Warren G. Harding to go on an annual motoring and camping trip, where they would discuss business and government.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ford, Edison, Firestone and his son, Harvey, Jr., Ford, Burroughs, cotton-picking plant pathologist expert Professor R. J. DeLoach, and for a time Edward N. Hurley of the United States Shipping Board were engaged in the exact thing that now has a wide swath of the American electorate so upset – Corporate power directly involved in governmental power broking at the highest levels.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In later years, the wives of the industrial titans and presidents joined the activities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Seldom can one observe a chief executive involved in the hushed whispers usually reserved for the closed door atmosphere, but here is New Mexico Governor Martinez, above, speaking to a political confidant at a bill signing ceremony, not wishing to be overheard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When a Governor offers a State of the State address at the annual opening to a joint session of the Legislature, the media is out in force. No other event is likely to attract such a huge presence in the government drama.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Inaugurations are formal political events drawing media like magnets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Above, the January 1, 1971, New Mexico inauguration of Gov. Bruce King, Below, the second inauguration of President Richard Nixon, January 20, 1973.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Torrance County Manager Ansley grants an on-camera interview to KOAT TV's <a href="http://www.koat.com/tv/General-Assignment-Reporter/-/9155566/9526444/-/nq3rkc/-/index.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Todd Unger</span></span></a> and photographer Eric Williams, who has taken a job in Portland, Ore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Federal Executive Branch's <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/cabinet"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Cabinet</span></span></a> members, United States <a href="http://www.justice.gov/ag/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Attorney General</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"> </span><a href="http://www.justice.gov/ag/meet-ag.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Eric H. Holder, Jr</span></span></a>. of the <a href="http://www.justice.gov/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Department of Justice</span></span></a>, above center at the podium, with Department of <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/index.shtm"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Homeland Security</span></span></a> Secretary <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/structure/gc_1232568253959.shtm"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Janet A. Napolitano</span></span></a>, right, and the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/kerlikowske-bio"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">R. Gil Kerlikowske</span></span></a> as part of the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Executive Office of the President</span></span></a>, hold a press conference.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The State of New Mexico's Constitution calls their branches of government departments. It is a strange choice because within the Executive, the word department is also used to describe the organizations headed by governor appointed secretaries.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There are seven constitutionally elected offices in the State’s Executive Department:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Office of the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_81719215"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Governor Susana </span></span></a><a href="http://www.governor.state.nm.us/Meet_Governor_Martinez.aspx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Martinez</span></span></a>;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Office of the <a href="http://www.ltgov.state.nm.us/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Lt. Governor John Sanchez</span></span></a>, <a href="http://nmsos.sks.com/About_Us.aspx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Secretary of State Dianna J. Duran</span></span></a>, <a href="http://nmag.gov/office/Divisions/EO/kingbio.aspx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Attorney General Gary King</span></span></a>, above, <a href="http://www.saonm.org/about_hector_balderas"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">State Auditor Hector Balderas</span></span></a>, and <a href="http://www.nmsto.gov/files_uploads/2416.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">State Treasurer James B. Lewis</span></span></a>, below. I could not locate in my archives a picture of <a href="http://www.nmstatelands.org/Commissioner.aspx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">State Land Commissioner Ray Powell</span></span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The <a href="http://www.nmprc.state.nm.us/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Public Regulations Commission</span></span></a> is a five-person elected board and listed as part of the Executive Department.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There are 28 <a href="http://www.governor.state.nm.us/Appointments.aspx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Cabinets and Departments</span></span></a> listed in the Governor's administration, which include the Office of the State Engineer and the State Personnel Office.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Executive Branch Department also has a large number of: Commissions, Offices, Boards, Collaborative(s), Authority(s), Divisions, Councils, Bureaus, Associations, Programs, and Administration(s).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">During the 2010 Government Restructuring Task Force, a chart was compiled identifying some 380 plus different state-funded entities across all of state government.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There are <a href="http://ped.state.nm.us/ped/districtwebsites.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">89</span></span></a>: Public, Municipal, Consolidated, Independent, City, County, and Valley School Districts in New Mexico; all with elected school boards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then Public Education Department Secretary Veronica Garcia conducted an emergency meeting to mediate a dispute between Albuquerque Public School Superintendent Winston Brooks and NM <a href="http://sslc-nm.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Southwest Learning Center</span></span></a> Charter School’s founder <a href="http://www.sslc-nm.com/about/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Scott Glasrud</span></span></a>, which now has four school campuses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> “As Economic Development Cabinet Secretary, one of the greatest needs I hear from job creators is availability of highly trained and skilled workers,” <a href="http://www.nmnn.net/press/econdev020712.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">said</span></span></a> Barela. “If New Mexico is going to continue to be a prime location for aerospace, engineering and technology jobs, we will need high-performing schools like SAMS Academy to educate our children so they are able to compete with not only kids from around the country but around the globe for these good jobs.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Above, is a 1972 inter-agency press conference held by: the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s office, New Mexico State Police, Albuquerque Police, and Bernalillo County Sheriff's Departments following El Grito Del Norte newspaper reporter Antonio Cordova and Black Beret Rito Canales killings by officers from: State Police, Albuquerque Police, and Bernalillo County Sheriff's Departments, during an armed burglary of an I-25 construction site's dynamite storage shed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lesser political subdivisions, of the state, counties, municipalities, towns and villages, all are made up of many departments providing the entire range of service from: police, fire, and other emergency services to the most minor service government might provide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One such political subdivision is the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, above, taking public comments on use and distribution of water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then Albuquerque Public School Board President Martin Esquivel, right, using his cell phone to record a discussion when Ched MacQuigg was ejected from the August 25, 2010, APS Audit committee meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Albuquerque Police Department's Mayoral Protection Detail Sergeant Louie Sanchez photographs me photographing him while accompanying Mayor Chávez to the main library for an event with then Sen. Obama as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sanchez may not photograph me, or anyone else, for a police purpose unless he has reasonable suspicion that I was involved in, or about to, or have just committed a crime.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I had done none of those things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Department policy is to support the fundamental principles of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as it pertains to the rights of the news media and the public. The police department is committed to informing the community and the news media of events within the public domain that are handled by or involve the department.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Rio Rancho Police Department’s Public Information Officer <a href="http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2011/06/30/riorancho/public-safety-spokesman-retiring-after-23-years.html"><span style="color: #67aadc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">John Francis</span></a> uses his phone to photograph President Obama’s visit to the local High School.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The First Amendment's prohibition against, “abridging… the right of the people peaceably to assemble, all political gatherings, for that matter, ALL gatherings are based on this constitutionally protected point.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the events cited in this posting the words. “…or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,…” take precedence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">During the first session of the new Congress under the Constitution March 4, 1789, the <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/resolu02.asp"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">drafters</span></a> of what became the First Amendment, were intent on protecting political speech, the most objectionable form of expression they understood. However, they knew that even the most objectionable speech had to be protected, so that all other speech would also be protected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The U.S. Supreme Court has crafted an exception to the First Amendment, in the form of a: <a href="http://www.uscourts.gov/EducationalResources/ClassroomActivities/FirstAmendment/FreedomOfAssembly/Background.aspx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">time, place, and manner restriction</span></span></a> test to accommodate peaceable assembly. The exception cannot be based on content of the speech or behavior as long as the speech and behavior do not otherwise violate the law, such as disorderly conduct, fighting or rioting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If this post's series of pictures shows nothing else, it should demonstrate the wide variety of opportunities where cameras and recording devises saturate our culture and the perverse thinking and the lengths that government will go to get around the most basic right that. "We the People," have carved out for ourselves by prohibiting our public servants from trying to control our... thoughts, speech, writing, meeting and complaining.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The right to document what we see in public is not bound by age or occupation, as this young man takes a picture at a political rally for then Congressional candidate Patricia Madrid in 2006 while rubbing shoulders with Journal Photographer Roberto Rosales.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On May 14, 2012, United States Attorney General Eric Holder's, left, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation unit wrote a <a href="http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/documents/Sharp_ltr_5-14-12.pdf"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">letter</span></a> to the lawyers in the case of <a href="http://katzjustice.com/SharpDReply.pdf"><span style="color: #6ba9dc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Christopher Sharp v. Baltimore City Police Department, et. al.</span></a>, to guide them during an upcoming settlement conference before U.S. District Court Judge </span>Paul W. Grimm.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">… it is the United States’ position that any resolution to Mr. Sharp’s claims for injunctive relief should include policy and training requirements that are consistent with the important First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights at stake when individuals record police officers in the public discharge of their duties. These rights, subject to narrowly-defined restrictions, engender public confidence in our police departments, promote public access to information necessary to hold our governmental officers accountable, and ensure public and officer safety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In this letter the Department of Justice took an unprecedented position of outlying their belief of what a government policy they would consider to meet the civil rights of citizen photographers:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>F. Police departments should not place a higher burden on individuals to exercise their right to record police activity than they place on members of the press.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Supreme Court has established that “the press does not have a monopoly on either the First Amendment or the ability to enlighten.” <i>First Nat. Bank of Boston v. Bellotti</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, 435 U.S. 765, 782 (1978). Indeed, numerous courts have held that a private individual’s right to record is coextensive with that of the press. A private individual does not need “press credentials” to record police officers engaged in the public discharge of their duties. <i>See e.g., Glik</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, 655 F.3d at 83<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">(“The First Amendment right to gather news is, as the Court has often noted, not one that inures solely to the benefit of the news media; rather, the public’s right of access to information is coextensive with that of the press.”); <i>Lambert v. Polk County, Iowa</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, 723 F.Supp. 128, 133 (S.D. Iowa 1989) (“It is not just news organizations . . . who have First Amendment rights to make and display videotapes of events—all of us . . . have that right.”). The First Amendment “attempt[s] to secure ‘the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources,’” including the “promulgation of information and ideas by persons who do not themselves have access to publishing facilities-who wish to exercise their freedom of speech even though they are not members of the press.” <i>New York Times Co. v. Sullivan</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, 376 U.S. 254, 266 (1964).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This principal is particularly important in the current age where widespread access to recording devices and online media have provided private individuals with the capacity to gather and disseminate newsworthy information with an ease that rivals that of the traditional news media. <i>See</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <i>Glik</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, 655 F.3d at 84 (“[M]any of our images of current events come from bystanders with a ready cell phone or digital camera rather than a traditional film crew, and news stories are now just as likely to be broken by a blogger at her computer as a reporter at a major newspaper.”).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">BPD’s general order appropriately does not place a higher burden on individuals to exercise their right to record police activity than in (sic.) places on members of the press. Policies should not establish different guidelines for media and non-media individuals. BPD’s general order includes language that accomplishes this goal:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">“Members of the press and members of the general public enjoy the same rights in any area accessible to the general public.” <i>Id.</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> at 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">“No individual is required to display ‘press credentials’ in order to exercise his/her right to observe, photograph, or video record police activity taking place in an area accessible to, or within view of, the general public.” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;"><i>Id.</i></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">KOAT Reporter Mike Garofalo, Photographer Paul Hyso, uses his cell phone at the arrival of GOP presidential nominee John McCain and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, September 6, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">KOAT TV would impose a ban on Peter St. Cyr when he became their assignment editor in March 2010. He suspended his blog, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://wordcab.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #62abdc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">What's the Word</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;">He continued to report via his twitter account on news items until </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">after the August 11, 2010, Susana Martinez Education Reform Press conference, when, because he asked two questions, then Martinez Campaign Manager Ryan Cangiolosi shut down the questioning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">St. Cyr wasn’t outside the propriety of the unwritten rules of journalists at a press conference, but Cangiolosi decided he would only allow one question per journalist. MacQuigg had a question and had not been recognized by Martinez, until Cangiolosi shut down the press conference. Martinez gave MacQuigg a sympathetic look, but didn’t over rule her staff to take his question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He left KOAT in October 2010 and joined with <a href="http://veritasnm.com/who-we-are/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Bryant Furlow</span></a> in creating </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://veritasnm.com/"><span style="color: #62abdc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Veritas New Mexico</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Upon joining <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">KOB TV</span></a> to become the producer of <a href="http://www.kob.com/article/12387/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">4 on your side</span></a> St. Cyr stopped contributing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">His last posting on Veritas NM was June 30, 2011, “<span style="letter-spacing: -1pt;"><a href="http://veritasnm.com/2011/06/union-talks-continue-as-contracts-expire/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Union talks continue as contracts expire</span></a>.” The site went dormant in August 15, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Staying with Commissioner Freyburger’s sport’s metaphor, triptych pictures (3) are of Albuquerque Isotopes fans using cell phone cameras to capture images of, top, a Miss Albuquerque, who threw out the ceremonial “first pitch” posing with <a href="http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?pos=OF&sid=t342&t=p_pbp&pid=502335"><span style="color: #53aede; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bobby Tyler Henson</span><span style="color: #0046e8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">,</span></a> who caught the pitch; a man, middle, photographing his relative, participating in an on-field contest, between innings, and a fan, who slipped down to the front row to get a shot of a favorite player.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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may always be some clown, like Harry Canary, above, a “<a href="http://www.zooperstars.com/"><span style="color: #5dacdc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Zooperstar</span></a>” entertaining at a recent
Albuquerque Isotopes Baseball game, who took umbrage at being photographed and
retaliated. My friend and old police partner Rocky Nogales used his smartphone
to video the inflatable caricature of the late great <a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #5dacdc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Harry Caray</span></a>,
radio announcer for the Chicago Cubs. Canary honed in on me and sprayed
"silly string" onto my camera. Once I determined that he had not
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Torrance County Board of Commissioners, Commissioners Freyburger, and
Commission Clerk Jones, in particular, must tolerate a certain level of what
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Torrance County Board of Commissioners, Commissioners Freyburger, and Commission Clerk Jones, in particular, must tolerate a certain level of what they term a distraction in favor of the right to gather news.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If the Code of the West is to inform city folk of the noise, smells, and scarcity of services in the rural parts of Torrance County, and asks for an understanding and tolerance of such inconveniences, those propagating the code, should also recognize they are part of a Constitutional Republic and a State, which follow the rules of law; they apply to them also.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If Government and Commissioners don’t want the “intrusions of urban users” coming to visit, to remind them of, and to defend the Constitution, through a demonstration of how the exercise of the First Amendment looks, they only have to follow it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Torrance County Attorney Wallin was good to his word, the Commission did not implement a resolution prohibiting (or restricting) recording of their meetings.</span></div>
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