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…
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Rep. Steve Pearce participated in the celebrations outside the White House following the news of Osama bin Laden’s death, the New Mexico congressman said in an op-ed sent to media throughout the state Monday.
Pearce said that he had just arrived in Washington, D.C., and was waiting for his bag when he read the news about bin Laden’s death on his BlackBerry. From there, he joined a “pulsing mass” of “about 500″ people outside the White House where, “people chanted ‘USA, USA!’”
Pearce described the scene:
The average age is 26 or so. The chants are fresh and edgy…the F-bomb abounds.
Handmade signs announce the news with unmistakable enthusiasm: “Sama bin gotten” “Justice has been done” “F yea we got him”
Jubilation. Freedom. Gratitude. The day of reckoning for our public enemy number one has arrived.
A light pole in the middle of the crowd is an obvious target. People try to shimmy up it. The crowd chants encouragement as they try, and groans in sympathy when they fail and slip back to the ground. Suddenly the crowd bursts into the National Anthem. A young man has reached the top of the pole and has draped a flag across the top.
Slate reporter Dave Weigel said on Twitter Sunday night, “Earlier I thought ‘that guy taking pictures looks like Rep. Steve Pearce.’ turns out he is.”
