A Life-Altering Movie Amounts of Telephone and Online Data Every 90 Days and Stores It BUSINESS OFFICE: Extension 119 for Five Years, the New York Times Reported
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Thursday, 1.2.14 views ON THE WEB: www.yankton.net RESS AKOTAN VIEWS PAGE: PAGE 4 P D [email protected] THE PRESS DAKOTAN THE DAKOTAS’ OLDEST NEWSPAPER | FOUNDED 1861 Yankton Media, Inc., 319 Walnut St., Yankton, SD 57078 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, The New York Times 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 Wisconsin, Marquette University 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, Ralph Nader 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 — “‘Billy Jack.’” 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.