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CONTACT US OPINION | OTHER THOUGHTS PHONE: (605) 665-7811 (800) 743-2968 NEWS FAX: President Must (605) 665-1721 ADVERTISING FAX: (605) 665-0288 WEBSITE: www.yankton.net Rein In The NSA EMAIL ADDRESS: [email protected] SEATTLE TIMES (Dec. 27): President Barack Obama has a ——— clearly defined mission in 2014. Protect Americans from the SUBSCRIPTIONS/ wretched excesses of the National Security Agency. CIRCULATION: The NSA ostensibly was created to keep U.S. citizens from harm. Extension 112 Recently a panel of security and surveillance experts made it clear CLASSIFIED ADS: Americans must be shielded from unchecked invasions of privacy Extension 108 by the NSA. NEWS DEPARTMENT: The Affordable Care Act was cursed with all manner of computer The Rez Of The Story Extension 114 glitches, but the machinery to eavesdrop on millions of Americans SPORTS DEPARTMENT: hums along without credible judicial scrutiny or congressional over- Extension 106 sight. ADVERTISING OFFICE: No one is paying attention as the NSA vacuums up stunning Extension 122 A Life-Altering Movie amounts of telephone and online data every 90 days and stores it BUSINESS OFFICE: Extension 119 for five years, reported. BY VINCE TWO EAGLES some possible solutions. Unfortunately the How the information is used and who has access to it is not well NEW MEDIA: movie stimulated the more radical, fringe reac- Extension 136 understood. Tensions are even surfacing with foreign allies who Hau Mitakuepi (Greetings My Relatives), tionaries to violent encounters with authority have varying security links. COMPOSING DESK: The very popular British poet Alfred Ten- and distracted participants who were seeking Extension 129 The phone companies, and other data sources, turn over the in- nyson, who lived between 1809 and 1892, once more reasonable paths to justice at the time. formation on the broadest of directions from the NSA’s lap dog sur- wrote: “Tears, idle tears, I know not what they Folks like me who were young and somewhat *** veillance court. Is anyone acting on the basis of probable cause or mean, tears from the depths of some naive got caught up in the storm of some level of suspicion? No. divine despair rise in the heart, and anger and a call to action without a MANAGERS The panel of experts briefed Obama. One can hope he will ad- gather to the eyes, in looking on the clear understanding of the history that Gary L. Wood dress the concerns of a former national security adviser in Democ- happy autumn fields, and thinking of was unfolding. We blindly followed who Publisher rat and Republican administrations, privacy and constitutional the days that are no more.” we perceived to be leading Native peo- specialists, and a former deputy director of the CIA. Days that are no more can haunt ple down a path of escape from the op- Michele Schievelbein The panel recommends more than 40 changes, including a sepa- one or free on from the prison of the pression of the white-man’s Advertising Director ration of leadership roles between civilian and military cyber au- past if we are able to let them go emo- colonization. More on this in columns to Tonya Schild thorities. The president has already turned that down. tionally. Memories are all that we truly come. Business Manager The federal courts are of two minds. On Friday, a federal judge in have but they mean nothing if they About two weeks ago, on Dec. 12 as a New York found NSA data gathering to be legal and a valuable tool can’t be shared. matter of fact, a man born in Minneapo- Michael Hrycko Memories inform the present and lis on Aug. 10, 1931, educated at the U of Circulation Director against terrorism. Earlier this month, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., described the collection of telephone data as “almost Or- give perspective to the future I think. Vince , and Tera Schmidt wellian.” When I was in third grade I was TWO EAGLES finished up his studies at The U of South Classified Manager The trauma of 9/11 prepared Americans to accept some new, in- taken out of boarding school at Marty Dakota produced, directed and acted in tensive level of security surveillance in dangerous times. The nation Mission by my grandfather Fred Ze- his now famous 1971 classic movie Kelly Hertz phier Sr. Even though I was there for began his journey to the other world. Editor naively expected the newly created Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to scrutinize government requests to monitor telephone and only four short years, the damage had already Tom Laughlin died of complications from pneu- James D. Cimburek online traffic. been done by the constant attention being paid monia at Los Robles Hospital and Medical Canter Sports Editor Apparently the FISA court plays an essentially rigged and to the dogma of the Catholic Church. The dam- in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Beth Rye weighted role that only serves the government. age done was that I didn’t even identify myself as I wanted folks to not forget this man’s passing a Native person. I didn’t know what that was to New Media Director Obama must protect the country from internal security abuses. and the fact that — in his own pitiful and maybe say “I’m an Indian” or what any of that even not fully informed way — nevertheless told the Kathy Larson Congress has legislative powers of executive oversight and the meant until I moved to Pierre to live with my story, Hollywood style, of a returning Vietnam Composing Manager budget. Use both to rein in the NSA. mother, my brothers and sisters, and my step-fa- veteran who was having difficulty adjusting to The NSA has a mission, but the agency cannot be allowed to ig- ther. civilian life as were many veterans of that war Bernard Metivier nore basic rights and freedoms. District Manager Being an Indian was not such a cool thing to were. The main scene many people remember, as be then and neither was being poor — I was I certainly do, was when the principle character *** both. Being Indian was to be ashamed of who was able to display his martial arts prowess by you were. Shame was a constant, chronic condi- dispatching a dozen or more “bad guys” in the DAILY STAFF ON THIS DATE tion marked by low self-esteem, anger and re- city park. What young Native male didn’t have Melissa Bader sentment. Being afraid of the unpredictable, that as a fantasy for handling racism in their re- By The Associated Press dad, killing one soldier. British flights violent white man was also included in this sce- spective community after that? Derek Bartos Today is Thursday, Jan. 2, the sec- to Washington and Riyadh, Saudi Ara- ond day of 2014. There are 363 days bia, were canceled as a security pre- nario but began to change after I was invited to It opened the door to a life of activism, albeit Cassandra Brockmoller left in the year. caution. The NASA spacecraft go to go see a movie with some relatives. misguided initially, but the movie did its job in Rob Buckingham Today’s Highlights in History: On Stardust flew through the halo of the This movie proved to be life changing for me that respect. Standing up for one’s self is not al- Randy Dockendorf Jan. 2, 1974, President Richard Nixon distant comet Wild 2. and I suspect many other Native people. It ig- ways an easy thing to do. It inspired young white signed legislation requiring states to Five years ago: President nited the imagination, lifted up fallen spirits, people as well. In fact Tom Laughlin is quoted as Jeannine Economy limit highway speeds to 55 miles an George W. Bush branded Hamas Jeremy Hoeck hour as a way of conserving gasoline rocket attacks on Israel an “act of ter- gave permission to embrace the notion of free- saying in 1975 that “young people in this country dom from racist attitudes and resulting ill-treat- have only two heroes, and” — Nathan Johnson in the face of an OPEC oil embargo. ror” and outlined his own condition for (The 55 mph limit was effectively a cease-fire in Gaza. President-elect ment of Native people. It changed the Laughlin’s classic 1971 movie — “‘.’” Robert Nielsen phased out in 1987; federal speed lim- Barack Obama and his family arrived conversation from neglect and ignorance of Na- And now you know the rez of the story. Muriel Pratt its were abolished in 1995.) “Singing in Chicago after a holiday vacation in tive issues to some thoughtful discourse and Doksha (later) ... Jessie Priestley cowboy” star Tex Ritter died in Hawaii. AirTran Airways apologized to Nashville at age 68. nine Muslims kicked off a New Year’s Matt Robinson On this date: In 1492, Muham- Day flight to Florida. Actor John Tra- Cathy Sudbeck mad XII, the sultan of Granada, the volta’s 16-year-old son, Jett, died at Sally Whiting last Arab stronghold in Spain, surren- the family’s vacation home in the Ba- ACA: Patience, Not Defeatism dered to Spanish forces. hamas. Peyton Manning won a Brenda Willcuts In 1788, Georgia became the record-tying third Associated Press BY ROBERT B. REICH rates early in the program.” CHIP didn’t reach its Jackie Williams fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitu- NFL Most Valuable Player award. No. target level of enrollment for five years. Now it tion. 7 Utah finished a perfect season with Tribune Content Agency In 1893, the U.S. Postal Service is- a 31-17 upset of No. 4 Alabama in the enrolls nearly 90 percent of all eligible children. sued its first commemorative stamp to Sugar Bowl. Whatever happened to American can-do opti- Richard Nixon’s Supplemental Security In- *** honor the World’s Columbian Expedi- One year ago: The United Na- mism? Even before the Affordable Care Act cov- come program of 1974 — designed to standard- Published Daily tion and the quadricentennial of tions gave a grim new count of the ers its first beneficiary, the nattering nabobs of ize welfare benefits to the poor — was widely Christopher Columbus’ voyage. human cost of Syria’s civil war, saying Monday-Saturday negativism are out in full force. scorned at the time, and many states were reluc- In 1900, Secretary of State John the death toll had exceeded 60,000 in tant to sign up. Even two years after Periodicals postage Hay announced the “Open Door Pol- 21 months. Secretary of State Hillary “Tens of millions more Americans paid at Yankton, icy” to facilitate trade with China. Rodham Clinton left a New York hos- will lose their coverage and find that its launch, only about half of eligible South Dakota, under In 1921, the play that coined the pital, three days after doctors discov- new Obamacare plans have higher pre- recipients had enrolled. Today, more the act of March 3, term “robot,” “R.U.R.” (Rossum’s Uni- ered a blood clot in her head. No. 22 miums, larger deductibles and fewer than 8 million Americans are covered. 1979. versal Robots) by Karel Capek, was Louisville toppled No. 4 Florida, 33-23, doctors,” predicts Republican operative If mistakes are made implementing Weekly Dakotian first performed in Czechoslovakia. in the Sugar Bowl. Karl Rove. “Enrollment numbers will be the Affordable Care Act, the appropri- established June 6, In 1935, Bruno Hauptmann went Today’s Birthdays: Country musi- smaller than projected and budget out- ate response is to fix them. When on trial in Flemington, N.J., on cian Harold Bradley is 88. Former 1861. Yankton Daily charges of kidnapping and murdering House Speaker Dennis Hastert is 72. lays will be higher.” George W. Bush’s Medicare Part D Press and Dakotian the 20-month-old son of Charles and TV host Jack Hanna is 67. Actress Rove is joined by a chorus of con- drug benefit was launched, large num- established April 26, Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was Wendy Phillips is 62. Actress servative Cassandras, from Fox News to bers of low-income seniors had to be 1875. found guilty, and executed.) Gabrielle Carteris is 53. Movie director the editorial pages of the Wall Street switched from Medicaid. Many needed Postmaster: Send In 1942, the Philippine capital of Todd Haynes is 53. Retired MLB All- Journal, all warning that the new law their prescriptions filled before the address changes to Manila was captured by Japanese Star pitcher David Cone is 51. Actress will be a disaster. Robert switch had been completed, causing Yankton Daily Press forces during World War II. Tia Carrere is 47. Actor Cuba Gooding Robert Laszewski, president of loud complaints. The website for the & Dakotan, 319 Wal- In 1959, the Soviet Union Jr. is 46. Model Christy Turlington is REICH launched its space probe Luna 1, the 45. Actor Taye Diggs is 43. Rock mu- Health Policy and Strategy Associates, plan initially malfunctioned. Pharma- nut, Yankton, SD cies got the wrong information. Other 57078. first manmade object to fly past the sician Scott Underwood (Train) is 43. anticipates a shortage of doctors: moon, its apparent intended target. Rock singer Doug Robb (Hoobastank) “There just aren’t going to be enough of complications led even Republican *** In 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy of is 39. Actor Dax Shepard is 39. Ac- them.” Rep. John Boehner to call it “horrendous.” But Massachusetts launched his success- tress Paz Vega is 38. Country musi- Professor John Cochrane of the University of the transition was managed, and Medicare Part D MEMBERSHIPS ful bid for the presidency. cian Chris Hartman is 36. Ballroom Chicago predicts the individual mandate will “un- is now a fixture in the Medicare firmament. In 1971, 66 people were killed in a dancer Karina Smirnoff (TV: “Dancing If young people don’t sign up for the Afford- The Yankton Daily pileup of spectators leaving a soccer with the Stars”) is 36. Rock musician ravel” when “we see how sick the people are who Press & Dakotan is a match at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow, Jerry DePizzo Jr. (O.A.R.) is 35. signed up on exchanges, and if our government able Care Act in sufficient numbers and costs member of the Associ- Scotland. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kelton really is going to penalize voters for not buying rise too fast, other ways can be found to encour- ated Press, the Inland In 1981, police in Sheffield, Eng- Kessee (IMX) is 33. Actress Kate health insurance.” age their enrollment and control costs. If there Daily Press Associa- land, arrested Peter Sutcliffe, who Bosworth is 31. Actor Peter Gadiot The round-the-clock naysaying is having an aren’t enough doctors initially, medical staffs can tion and the South confessed to being the “Yorkshire Rip- (TV: “Once Upon a Time in Wonder- effect. Support for the law has plummeted to 35 be utilized more efficiently. If employers begin to Dakota Newspaper per,” the serial killer of 13 women. land”) is 29. Jazz singer-musician percent of those questioned in a recent CNN poll, drop their own insurance, incentives can be al- Association. The Asso- In 2006, 12 miners died in a Trombone Shorty is 28. methane gas explosion at the Sago Thought for Today: “It is good to a five-point drop in less than a month. Sixty-two tered so they don’t. ciated Press is entitled Mine in West Virginia, but one miner, have an end to journey towards; but it percent now say they oppose the law — a four- Why be defeatist before we begin? Even So- exclusively to use of all Randal McCloy Jr., was eventually is the journey that matters, in the end.” point increase since November. cial Security — the most popular of all govern- the local news printed rescued. — Ursula K. Le Guin, American au- Even liberal-leaning commentators are openly ment programs — had problems when it was in this newspaper. Ten years ago: Insurgents shot thor. worrying. On ABC’s “This Week,” Cokie Roberts launched in 1935. A full year later, Alf Landon, down a U.S. helicopter west of Bagh- *** responded to my view that the law eventually the Republican presidential candidate, called it would prove popular by warning of “a whole “a fraud on the workingman.” Former President SUBSCRIPTION FROM THE BIBLE other wave of reaction against it” if employers Herbert Hoover said it would imprison the eld- RATES* start dropping their insurance. erly in the equivalent of “a national zoo.” Ameri- Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not (Payable in advance) Some congressional Democrats are getting cans were slow to sign up. Not until the 1970s perceive it? Isaiah 43:19. Portals of Prayer, Concordia Publishing cold feet. West Virginia Sen. 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