I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
The story gets weirder and weirder. According to Ashley Meeks of the Las Cruces Sun-News, the man who has been flying a Nazi flag over his house–in protest of what he says is the United States’ turn towards communism–is now being investigated by the Secret Service because of alleged threats of violence.
Meeks writes:
Alleged threats on Labor Day, that [Ken] Triplett “said that he was heavily armed and that if he had to, he would strap bombs to himself and go to Washington, D.C., to take care of the government,” reported by neighbors to Las Cruces police, got the attention of the Secret Service.
This wouldn’t be the first time that Triplett has been in trouble with the law for threatening to suicide bomb something. In 2007, the Sun-News reports, Triplett “threatened to suicide-bomb” a Border Patrol checkpoint on I-25. He also told Border Patrol agents he had a shotgun and would use it on them and waved the knife “in a fashion that appeared to the agents that Triplett was trained in knife-fighting.”
After the Border Patrol checkpoint incident, Triplett “was ordered to successfully complete both a mental health treatment program and anger management counseling and to not possess any firearms, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court.”
Triplett had previously claimed that he was a Green Beret in the U.S. Army which was disputed by the U.S. Army.
Today, the Sun-News reports that Triplett told a neighbor that he “sold ammunition to the Iraqis as a Blackwater employee.”
