WINDS - New Mexico Watchlist of Radical Grandmothers -
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Published on: 12/30/1998
Last Visited: 2/24/2003
The aforementioned "watchlist" does not exist--at least according to the official position of the New Mexico State Police--as expressed by Area Commander, Lieutenant Bill Bowers.
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Bowers.The WINDS has obtained a copy of that tape in which Bowers contacted the radio station seeking information on specific program guests who may have expressed opposition to certain UN activities.
"...You had some lady in there," Bowers said to Shinabery, "talking about the UN and the UN treaty down at the border that they're working on."
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Apparently familiar with the name, Bowers responded, "That couldn't have been [her].She's not that radical, is she?I know she doesn't like it, but she's not too far out there."
By that exchange it would seem that the New Mexico Department of Public Safety believes that people disagreeing with a UN/US treaty and other such activities are "that radical" and "too far out there."
Lt. Bowers told The WINDS that they were looking for a particular woman who was traveling around the country advocating violence.
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"Bowers was over at the golf course one morning having breakfast," Mike Shinabery told this reporter, "and some guy saw him sitting there and said to him, 'I want on that list.'
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"Bowers said, 'What?'
"'I want to be on your list,'" the man said."'All my friends are on it and when you haul 'em all away, I won't have any friends left.'
"The guy told me," added Shinabery, "that Bowers threw his newspaper down and said, 'This isn't funny anymore,' and got up and stomped out."
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Following the state police lieutenant's conversation with Shinabery, according to Grigg's article, Bowers contacted the radio station's owner, Dave Nicholson, a Phoenix resident.
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Bowers told this office that he had no interest in anyone except a particular female individual that had been traveling around advocating political violence.Bowers, according to the New American, told Nickolson "that he wanted to keep track of any local radicals."[ibid.] That, in itself, makes a lie of what Lt.Bowers told this office.
WHAT DOES THE U.S. AIR FORCE HAVE TO DO WITH THIS?
Not long after one of many radio guest appearances Jean Vallance made on Shinabery's program, she received a strange call from a military authority.
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Bowers asked what his subject was."Old Testament biblical prophecy," Shinabery replied, to which Bowers responded with what could only be described as disgusted apprehension, "Oh Jeez!
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Bowers, he told The WINDS that he contacted his source within the Otero County government he considers to be "extremely knowledgeable about this."