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T HE P RESS D AKOTAN THE DAKOTAS’ OLDEST NEWSPAPER | FOUNDED 1861 Yankton Media, Inc., 319 Walnut St., Yankton, SD 57078 Monday, 1.6.14 ON THE WEB: www.yankton.net VIEWS PAGE: [email protected] PRESS DAKOTAN PAGE 4 views OPINION | OTHER THOUGHTS SD Juvenile Justice System Improving What is that to you? You follow Me! John 21:22. Portals of Prayer, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis FROM THE BIBLE By The Associated Press Today is Monday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2014. There are 359 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 6, 1994, in an incident that shook the world of figure skating, Nancy Ker- rigan was clubbed on the leg by an as- sailant at Detroit’s Cobo Arena; four men, including the ex-husband of Ker- rigan’s rival, Tonya Harding, went to prison for their roles in the attack. (Harding, who denied knowing about plans for the attack, received proba- tion after pleading guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution.) On this date: In 1540, England’s King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. (The marriage lasted about six months.) In 1759, George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were mar- ried in New Kent County, Va. In 1838, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail gave the first successful public demonstration of their telegraph, in Morristown, N.J. In 1912, New Mexico became the 47th state. In 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlined a goal of “Four Free- doms”: Freedom of speech and ex- pression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; free- dom from want; freedom from fear. In 1945, George Herbert Walker Bush married Barbara Pierce in Rye, N.Y. In 1950, Britain recognized the Communist government of China. In 1963, “Oliver!,” Lionel Bart’s musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel “Oliver Twist,” opened on Broadway. “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” premiered on NBC-TV. In 1974, year-round daylight sav- ing time began in the United States on a trial basis as a fuel-saving measure in response to the OPEC oil embargo. In 1987, the U.S. Senate voted 88- 4 to establish an eleven-member panel to hold public hearings on the Iran-Contra affair. In 1993, authorities rescued Jen- nifer Stolpa and her infant son, Clay- ton, after Jennifer’s husband, James, succeeded in reaching help, ending the family’s eight-day ordeal after be- coming lost in the snow-covered Ne- vada desert. Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, 75, died in Englewood, N.J.; ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev died in suburban Paris at age 54. Ten years ago: Thirteen children and two adults were killed in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province by a time-bomb concealed in an apple cart on a street regularly used by U.S. military patrols. A design consisting of two reflecting pools and a paved stone field was chosen for the World Trade Center memorial in New York. Mijailo Mijailovic confessed to the fatal stabbing of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh in Sept. 2003. Hit- ting star Paul Molitor and reliever Den- nis Eckersley were elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame. Five years ago: Congress opened for business at the dawn of a new Democratic era with vows to fix the crisis-ridden economy; Republi- cans pledged cooperation in Con- gress as well as with President-elect Barack Obama — to a point. Obama vowed to “bring a long-overdue sense of responsibility and accountability to Washington” and called the need for budget reform “an absolute necessity.” Cheryl Holdridge, one of the original Mouseketeers on “The Mickey Mouse Club,” died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 64. One year ago: President Barack Obama returned to Washington after a winter vacation in Hawaii that was interrupted by the “fiscal cliff” crisis. In his first public speech in six months, a defiant Syrian President Bashar Assad rallied a cheering crowd to fight the uprising against his authoritarian rule, dismissing any chance of dia- logue with what he called “murderous criminals.” The NHL and the players’ association agreed on a tentative pact to end a 113-day lockout. Today’s Birthdays: Pollster Louis Harris is 93. Retired MLB All-Star Ralph Branca is 88. Author E.L. Doc- torow is 83. Country musician Joey, the CowPolka King (Riders in the Sky) is 65. Former FBI director Louis Freeh is 64. Rock singer-musician Kim Wil- son (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) is 63. Singer Jett Williams is 61. Rock musician Malcolm Young (AC-DC) is 61. Actor-comedian Rowan Atkinson is 59. World Golf Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez is 57. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kathy Sledge is 55. TV chef Nigella Lawson is 54. Rhythm-and-blues singer Eric Williams (BLACKstreet) is 54. Movie composer A.R. Rahman is 48. Movie director John Singleton is 46. Actor Norman Reedus (TV: “The Walking Dead”) is 45. TV personality Julie Chen is 44. Actor Danny Pin- tauro (TV: “Who’s the Boss?”) is 38. Actress Rinko Kikuchi is 33. NBA player Gilbert Arenas is 32. Actress- comedian Kat McKinnon (TV: “Satur- day Night Live”) is 30. Rock singer Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) is 28. Thought for Today: “He threatens many that hath injured one.” — Ben Jonson, English dramatist and poet (1572-1637). ON THIS DATE MANAGERS Gary L. 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Of 99 bills he introduced, 14 became law. Not one of the senator’s 21 in 2012 and 2013 made it out of the Senate. But the courage of Adelstein, R-Rapid City, shouldn’t be misestimated. He clearly was a feminist. He defended legal- ized abortion. He tried to stop the practice of an aggrieved spouse or parent seeking compen- sation in court for abduction, enticement or se- duction. He wanted Medicaid benefits expanded to pregnant mothers. Likewise, he tried to raise more money for state and local governments through alcohol tax increases and a summer increase in sales tax. He championed ignition-interlock for con- victed drunk drivers. He occasionally brought legislation and res- olutions regarding Judaism. Once in the House he let loose after an anonymous note was left at his desk about being a Jew. That came after he paid for lights to better show a historic mural in the House chamber Those who truly understand Rapid City poli- tics know too his roles in city elections. Adelstein, 82, resigned on Dec. 30 from the Senate because of illness after surgery. With the 2014 session starting Jan. 14, Gov. Dennis Dau- gaard has little time to appoint a replacement. Republicans will still control the Senate, 27- 7. You likely heard or read how then-Gov. Bill Janklow called Adelstein in the spring of 2002 and suggested some financial oomph might make the difference for Mike Rounds in the Re- publican primary for governor. Rounds won the nomination. He was elected governor, twice. And you likely remember two years ago when Adelstein demanded state Attorney Gen- eral Marty Jackley investigate activities of Secretary of State Jason Gant and deputy Pat Powers. Adelstein introduced legis- lation in 2013 to make candi- dates for constitutional offices such as secretary of state sub- ject to primary elections, rather than continue to be nominated at political-party conventions. This was a direct shot at the process that led to Gant’s election. The bill failed but the dissent was planted. On Sept. 3, Sen. Shantel Krebs, R-Renner, filed paperwork to run for secretary of state. Gant soon announced he wouldn’t seek re-election in 2014. For years Adelstein also showed how politi- cal action committees funded largely by one man — him — could be used to steer large amounts of money to candidates. The Legislature adopted limits, but that merely led to multiple PACs relying on a wealthy contributor, such as those used by Re- publican Gordon Howie of Rapid City and De- mocrat Scott Heidepriem of Sioux Falls to fuel their 2010 campaigns for governor. Adelstein’s heavy emphasis on pro-choice legislation in 2005 led to rejection by Penning- ton County Republican voters in 2006. Elli Schwiesow took the nomination with 2,145 votes to his 1,971. Democrat Tom Katus rolled past Schwiesow in the general election 4,994 to 4,515. Adelstein came back in 2008. He won a three-way contest, polling 3,834 votes to edge Katus at 3,464 and Schwiesow at 3,683 running as an independent. Lesson learned: Adelstein didn’t have a chal- lenger in 2010 or 2012. He wasn’t a great legislator. But at times Stan Adelstein was good at politics — very good. EDITOR’S NOTE: Bill O’Reilly has retired his column as of the New Year. To replace him, we have picked up conservative columnist Michelle Malkin. ——— BY MICHELLE MALKIN © 2013, Creators.com Is President Obama sleeping well on his Hawaiian holiday? I can think of many families of American soldiers who might not be enjoying the same bliss right now. That’s because 2014 opens with alarming news that the Afghan government will free an estimated 650 prisoners from a Bagram detention fa- cility — including scores involved in deadly attacks on our men and women in uniform. The White House handed over control of the jihadi-clogged prison to the Afghan government last spring. Some 3,000 notorious Taliban and al- Qaeda killers call the jail home. Sur- prise, surprise: After the Obama administration supposedly secured “private as- surances” that no dangerous criminal opera- tives would be released, U.S. officials are now balking that the agreement has been broken. Everyone, put on your shocked faces. An anonymous U.S. official told the Wall Street Journal this week: “We are concerned that 88 people who have blood on their hands — Afghan and coalition blood — would be turned loose, but more important, that an agreement that we have with the Afghan gov- ernment is being violated.” The New York Times reports that Muslim terrorists who trained teen suicide bombers and planted IEDs at schools are among the lucky thugs slated for release. “These are guys that are tied directly to killing and trying to kill our forces and Afghan forces,” an American military official told the New York Times. “This is an issue of deep concern. It is serious.” Cue the “UNDERSTATEMENT” klieg lights. Members of Afghanistan’s own parliament are decrying the lax review process and danger- ous unilateral decisions of a “Bagram Inmates’ Assessment Committee” established by presi- dential decree. Afghan senator Dawood Hasas told the Afghanistan Times: “Among the re- leased prisoners from Bagram jail, many were murder convicts, and release of notorious pris- oners would not be in the national interests.” Who knows how many others will be freed to kill American soldiers again? President Hamid Karzai is busy pandering to Taliban forces in advance of the country’s spring elec- tion season. He is also stalling approval of a bi- lateral security deal with the U.S. and U.K. It’s a recipe for bloody recidivism. The new batch of freed jihadists will join a burgeoning population of other freed Taliban commanders who promptly returned to the battlefield. Last fall, Karzai freed senior Taliban leader Maulawi Ghu- lam Mohammad — who now commands some 400 insurgents and immediately launched sev- eral deadly attacks on security forces’ check- posts in the Badghis province. Mohammad joins Mullah Zakir, the Taliban’s top “surge commander,” who was released from Gitmo to Afghanistan custody and let loose by the Afghanistan government in 2007. He’s back at work, killing in the name of Allah without skipping a beat. Former Gitmo detainee Abu Su- fian bin Qumu, also released in 2007, has been named a possible lead plot- ter in the Benghazi attack. Karzai’s jail- emptying scheme comes as the Obama administration continues to widen the Gitmo revolving door for even more potential recidivists-to-be. In December alone, the White House returned Guantanamo detainees to Al- geria, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, and dis- patched three Uighur detainees to Slovakia. Question: Are the Taliban leaders detained and arrested last fall in connection with the deadly 9/14/12 attack on our Marines at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan on Karzai’s release list? Don’t forget that the infiltration of 15 jihadists disguised in U.S. combat fatigues took place three days after the 9/11 attack on our Benghazi consulate. Refresher: The Camp Bastion attack came exactly six months after a failed suicide bomb- ing that targeted then Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. The meticulously coordinated siege re- sulted in the deaths of Lt. Col. Christopher Raible and Sgt. Bradley Atwell, along with the most devastating loss of U.S. airpower since Vietnam. British commanders knew the airfield was insecure before 9/14/12. Leaders on both sides of the pond failed to coordinate their de- fenses. Three months before the raid, the Pen- tagon acknowledged, military officials had been warned of “uncontrolled access” that left “per- sonnel and equipment exposed.” The families of the fallen continue to fight for accountability on both sides of the pond, and to push for both the U.S. and U.K. to take meaningful remediation steps to secure coali- tion bases. It’s safe to say that “Freeing impris- oned Taliban and al Qaeda jihadists who targeted and killed American troops” wasn’t on any military family’s New Year’s wish list. As for the commander-in-chief? It’s back to the golf course. Fore! Michelle Malkin is the author of “Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies” (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is [email protected]. President Obama’s Afghanistan Mess Michelle MALKIN Capitol Notebook Adelstein: Smarts And Courage Adelstein RAPID CITY JOURNAL, Rapid City (Dec. 29): South Dakota has been making strides in recent years in changing its criminal justice system from one in which offenders are simply sentenced to jail or prison with the hope that they stay out of trouble when they are released. That doesn’t work in many cases, and the state’s prison cells are filling up with repeat offenders. Gov. Dennis Daugaard recognized that something needed to be done to more effectively rehabilitate offenders, and his justice re- form initiative that was passed in the 2013 legislative session was an effort to find alternatives to prison. What has failed in the adult justice system is being recognized as more of a problem in the juvenile justice system. A recent study found that South Dakota has the highest rate of incarcerating juve- nile offenders in the nation. According to the National Juvenile Justice Network and the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Effective Justice, South Dakota confined 489 juveniles for every 100,000 youth in 2011, a rate that was 2.6 times the national average of 195. The report said that while the juvenile confinement rate fell by 42 percent from 2001 to 2011 nationally, South Dakota’s rate dropped by just 5 percent for youth held in detention facilities. However, the state’s juvenile justice system is changing its ways by moving away from detaining low-risk juvenile offenders in order to prevent them from continuing criminal behavior. Pennington and Minnehaha counties have been leading the way, using a program that for the past two years is trying to keep juvenile offenders out of detention facilities. The Juvenile Deten- tion Alternatives Initiative, known as JDAI, has been so successful, that it is now being expanded to other communities. JDAI was begun with the help of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and has reduced the number of juveniles sent to Minnehaha and Pennington county detention centers by about half. “We’ve made great strides. The numbers are just phenomenal,” said Circuit Judge Jeff Davis of Rapid City, who wants to see the program expanded statewide. The program requires that juveniles be assessed when they are first arrested and detained. Those who are a low risk to public safety or are unlikely to flee are put into alternative programs in- stead of being locked up. Options include home detention, wear- ing an electronic bracelet, non-secure shelters or evening check-ins with officials. The study noted that South Dakota is improving its juvenile system by adopting four of six suggested reforms, including mini- mizing the use of secure detention, increasing community-based alternatives to incarceration, closing or downsizing confinement facilities and avoiding confinement for minor offenses. We supported the governor’s justice system reforms as a more effective and less costly alternative to building another prison. Ex- panding the JDAI program, which has been proven to be effective at rehabilitating offenders in the state’s largest counties, is the next step in reducing the number of repeat offenders. Juveniles who make a habit of being held in detention, almost certainly will repeat the process as adults. Expanding JDAI, if successful, should improve South Dakota’s ranking with how it treats juvenile offenders and, more impor- tantly, turn them away from criminal behaviors. n Share your thoughts with us. Write to the PRESS & DAKOTAN on a topic of the day or in response to an editorial or story. Write us at: Let- ters, 319 Walnut, Yankton, SD 57078, drop off at 319 Walnut in Yank- ton, fax to 665-1721 or email to [email protected]. SPEAK UP!
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What is that to you? You follow Me! John 21:22. Portals ofPrayer, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis
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By The Associated PressToday is Monday, Jan. 6, the sixth
day of 2014. There are 359 days leftin the year.
Today’s Highlight in History: OnJan. 6, 1994, in an incident that shookthe world of figure skating, Nancy Ker-rigan was clubbed on the leg by an as-sailant at Detroit’s Cobo Arena; fourmen, including the ex-husband of Ker-rigan’s rival, Tonya Harding, went toprison for their roles in the attack.(Harding, who denied knowing aboutplans for the attack, received proba-tion after pleading guilty to conspiracyto hinder prosecution.)
On this date: In 1540, England’sKing Henry VIII married his fourthwife, Anne of Cleves. (The marriagelasted about six months.)
In 1759, George Washington andMartha Dandridge Custis were mar-ried in New Kent County, Va.
In 1838, Samuel Morse and AlfredVail gave the first successful publicdemonstration of their telegraph, inMorristown, N.J.
In 1912, New Mexico became the47th state.
In 1919, the 26th president of theUnited States, Theodore Roosevelt,died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60.
In 1941, President Franklin D.Roosevelt, in his State of the Unionaddress, outlined a goal of “Four Free-doms”: Freedom of speech and ex-pression; the freedom of people toworship God in their own way; free-dom from want; freedom from fear.
In 1945, George Herbert WalkerBush married Barbara Pierce in Rye,N.Y.
In 1950, Britain recognized theCommunist government of China.
In 1963, “Oliver!,” Lionel Bart’smusical adaptation of the CharlesDickens novel “Oliver Twist,” openedon Broadway. “Mutual of Omaha’sWild Kingdom” premiered on NBC-TV.
In 1974, year-round daylight sav-ing time began in the United States ona trial basis as a fuel-saving measurein response to the OPEC oil embargo.
In 1987, the U.S. Senate voted 88-4 to establish an eleven-memberpanel to hold public hearings on theIran-Contra affair.
In 1993, authorities rescued Jen-nifer Stolpa and her infant son, Clay-ton, after Jennifer’s husband, James,succeeded in reaching help, endingthe family’s eight-day ordeal after be-coming lost in the snow-covered Ne-vada desert. Jazz trumpeter DizzyGillespie, 75, died in Englewood, N.J.;ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev died insuburban Paris at age 54.
Ten years ago: Thirteen childrenand two adults were killed inAfghanistan’s southern Kandaharprovince by a time-bomb concealed in
an apple cart on a street regularlyused by U.S. military patrols. A designconsisting of two reflecting pools anda paved stone field was chosen for theWorld Trade Center memorial in NewYork. Mijailo Mijailovic confessed tothe fatal stabbing of Swedish ForeignMinister Anna Lindh in Sept. 2003. Hit-ting star Paul Molitor and reliever Den-nis Eckersley were elected tobaseball’s Hall of Fame.
Five years ago: Congressopened for business at the dawn of anew Democratic era with vows to fixthe crisis-ridden economy; Republi-cans pledged cooperation in Con-gress as well as with President-electBarack Obama — to a point. Obamavowed to “bring a long-overdue senseof responsibility and accountability toWashington” and called the need forbudget reform “an absolute necessity.”Cheryl Holdridge, one of the originalMouseketeers on “The Mickey MouseClub,” died in Santa Monica, Calif., atage 64.
One year ago: President BarackObama returned to Washington aftera winter vacation in Hawaii that wasinterrupted by the “fiscal cliff” crisis. Inhis first public speech in six months, adefiant Syrian President BasharAssad rallied a cheering crowd to fightthe uprising against his authoritarianrule, dismissing any chance of dia-logue with what he called “murderouscriminals.” The NHL and the players’association agreed on a tentative pactto end a 113-day lockout.
Today’s Birthdays: Pollster LouisHarris is 93. Retired MLB All-StarRalph Branca is 88. Author E.L. Doc-torow is 83. Country musician Joey,the CowPolka King (Riders in the Sky)is 65. Former FBI director Louis Freehis 64. Rock singer-musician Kim Wil-son (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) is63. Singer Jett Williams is 61. Rockmusician Malcolm Young (AC-DC) is61. Actor-comedian Rowan Atkinsonis 59. World Golf Hall of Famer NancyLopez is 57. Rhythm-and-blues singerKathy Sledge is 55. TV chef NigellaLawson is 54. Rhythm-and-bluessinger Eric Williams (BLACKstreet) is54. Movie composer A.R. Rahman is48. Movie director John Singleton is46. Actor Norman Reedus (TV: “TheWalking Dead”) is 45. TV personalityJulie Chen is 44. Actor Danny Pin-tauro (TV: “Who’s the Boss?”) is 38.Actress Rinko Kikuchi is 33. NBAplayer Gilbert Arenas is 32. Actress-comedian Kat McKinnon (TV: “Satur-day Night Live”) is 30. Rock singerAlex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) is 28.
Thought for Today: “He threatensmany that hath injured one.” — BenJonson, English dramatist and poet(1572-1637).
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PIERRE — During 11 years Stan Adelsteinnever got much traction in the Legislature.
Of 99 bills he introduced, 14 became law.Not one of the senator’s 21 in 2012 and 2013made it out of the Senate.
But the courage of Adelstein, R-Rapid City,shouldn’t be misestimated.
He clearly was a feminist. He defended legal-ized abortion. He tried to stop the practice ofan aggrieved spouse or parent seeking compen-sation in court for abduction, enticement or se-duction. He wanted Medicaid benefitsexpanded to pregnant mothers.
Likewise, he tried to raise more money forstate and local governments through alcoholtax increases and a summer increase in salestax. He championed ignition-interlock for con-victed drunk drivers.
He occasionally brought legislation and res-olutions regarding Judaism. Once in the Househe let loose after an anonymous note was left athis desk about being a Jew. That came after hepaid for lights to better show a historic mural inthe House chamber
Those who truly understand Rapid City poli-tics know too his roles in city elections.
Adelstein, 82, resigned on Dec. 30 from theSenate because of illness after surgery. With the2014 session starting Jan. 14, Gov. Dennis Dau-gaard has little time to appoint a replacement.
Republicans will still control the Senate, 27-7.
You likely heard or read how then-Gov. BillJanklow called Adelstein in the spring of 2002and suggested some financial oomph mightmake the difference for Mike Rounds in the Re-publican primary for governor.
Rounds won the nomination. He was electedgovernor, twice.
And you likely remember two years agowhen Adelstein demanded state Attorney Gen-
eral Marty Jackley investigateactivities of Secretary of StateJason Gant and deputy PatPowers.
Adelstein introduced legis-lation in 2013 to make candi-dates for constitutional officessuch as secretary of state sub-ject to primary elections,rather than continue to benominated at political-party
conventions. This was a direct shot at theprocess that led to Gant’s election.
The bill failed but the dissent was planted.On Sept. 3, Sen. Shantel Krebs, R-Renner, filedpaperwork to run for secretary of state. Gantsoon announced he wouldn’t seek re-election in2014.
For years Adelstein also showed how politi-cal action committees funded largely by oneman — him — could be used to steer largeamounts of money to candidates.
The Legislature adopted limits, but thatmerely led to multiple PACs relying on awealthy contributor, such as those used by Re-publican Gordon Howie of Rapid City and De-mocrat Scott Heidepriem of Sioux Falls to fueltheir 2010 campaigns for governor.
Adelstein’s heavy emphasis on pro-choicelegislation in 2005 led to rejection by Penning-ton County Republican voters in 2006. ElliSchwiesow took the nomination with 2,145votes to his 1,971.
Democrat Tom Katus rolled past Schwiesowin the general election 4,994 to 4,515. Adelsteincame back in 2008. He won a three-way contest,polling 3,834 votes to edge Katus at 3,464 andSchwiesow at 3,683 running as an independent.
Lesson learned: Adelstein didn’t have a chal-lenger in 2010 or 2012.
He wasn’t a great legislator. But at timesStan Adelstein was good at politics — verygood.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bill O’Reilly has retired hiscolumn as of the New Year. To replace him, wehave picked up conservative columnistMichelle Malkin.
———BY MICHELLE MALKIN © 2013, Creators.com
Is President Obama sleeping well on hisHawaiian holiday? I can think of manyfamilies of American soldiers whomight not be enjoying the same blissright now. That’s because 2014 openswith alarming news that the Afghangovernment will free an estimated 650prisoners from a Bagram detention fa-cility — including scores involved indeadly attacks on our men andwomen in uniform.
The White House handed overcontrol of the jihadi-clogged prison tothe Afghan government last spring.Some 3,000 notorious Taliban and al-Qaeda killers call the jail home. Sur-prise, surprise: After the Obamaadministration supposedly secured “private as-surances” that no dangerous criminal opera-tives would be released, U.S. officials are nowbalking that the agreement has been broken.Everyone, put on your shocked faces.
An anonymous U.S. official told the WallStreet Journal this week: “We are concernedthat 88 people who have blood on their hands— Afghan and coalition blood — would beturned loose, but more important, that anagreement that we have with the Afghan gov-ernment is being violated.” The New York Timesreports that Muslim terrorists who trained teensuicide bombers and planted IEDs at schoolsare among the lucky thugs slated for release.“These are guys that are tied directly to killingand trying to kill our forces and Afghan forces,”an American military official told the New YorkTimes. “This is an issue of deep concern. It isserious.” Cue the “UNDERSTATEMENT” klieglights.
Members of Afghanistan’s own parliamentare decrying the lax review process and danger-ous unilateral decisions of a “Bagram Inmates’Assessment Committee” established by presi-dential decree. Afghan senator Dawood Hasastold the Afghanistan Times: “Among the re-leased prisoners from Bagram jail, many weremurder convicts, and release of notorious pris-oners would not be in the national interests.”
Who knows how many others will be freedto kill American soldiers again? PresidentHamid Karzai is busy pandering to Talibanforces in advance of the country’s spring elec-tion season. He is also stalling approval of a bi-lateral security deal with the U.S. and U.K. It’s arecipe for bloody recidivism. The new batch offreed jihadists will join a burgeoning population
of other freed Taliban commanders whopromptly returned to the battlefield. Last fall,Karzai freed senior Taliban leader Maulawi Ghu-lam Mohammad — who now commands some400 insurgents and immediately launched sev-eral deadly attacks on security forces’ check-posts in the Badghis province.
Mohammad joins Mullah Zakir, the Taliban’stop “surge commander,” who was released from
Gitmo to Afghanistan custody and letloose by the Afghanistan governmentin 2007. He’s back at work, killing inthe name of Allah without skipping abeat. Former Gitmo detainee Abu Su-fian bin Qumu, also released in 2007,has been named a possible lead plot-ter in the Benghazi attack. Karzai’s jail-emptying scheme comes as theObama administration continues towiden the Gitmo revolving door foreven more potential recidivists-to-be.In December alone, the White Housereturned Guantanamo detainees to Al-geria, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, and dis-patched three Uighur detainees toSlovakia.
Question: Are the Taliban leaders detainedand arrested last fall in connection with thedeadly 9/14/12 attack on our Marines at CampBastion in Afghanistan on Karzai’s release list?Don’t forget that the infiltration of 15 jihadistsdisguised in U.S. combat fatigues took placethree days after the 9/11 attack on our Benghaziconsulate.
Refresher: The Camp Bastion attack cameexactly six months after a failed suicide bomb-ing that targeted then Defense Secretary LeonPanetta. The meticulously coordinated siege re-sulted in the deaths of Lt. Col. ChristopherRaible and Sgt. Bradley Atwell, along with themost devastating loss of U.S. airpower sinceVietnam. British commanders knew the airfieldwas insecure before 9/14/12. Leaders on bothsides of the pond failed to coordinate their de-fenses. Three months before the raid, the Pen-tagon acknowledged, military officials had beenwarned of “uncontrolled access” that left “per-sonnel and equipment exposed.”
The families of the fallen continue to fightfor accountability on both sides of the pond,and to push for both the U.S. and U.K. to takemeaningful remediation steps to secure coali-tion bases. It’s safe to say that “Freeing impris-oned Taliban and al Qaeda jihadists whotargeted and killed American troops” wasn’t onany military family’s New Year’s wish list.
As for the commander-in-chief? It’s back tothe golf course. Fore!
Michelle Malkin is the author of “Culture ofCorruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats,Crooks and Cronies” (Regnery 2010). Her e-mailaddress is [email protected].
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RAPID CITY JOURNAL, Rapid City (Dec. 29): South Dakotahas been making strides in recent years in changing its criminaljustice system from one in which offenders are simply sentencedto jail or prison with the hope that they stay out of trouble whenthey are released. That doesn’t work in many cases, and thestate’s prison cells are filling up with repeat offenders.
Gov. Dennis Daugaard recognized that something needed to bedone to more effectively rehabilitate offenders, and his justice re-form initiative that was passed in the 2013 legislative session wasan effort to find alternatives to prison.
What has failed in the adult justice system is being recognizedas more of a problem in the juvenile justice system. A recent studyfound that South Dakota has the highest rate of incarcerating juve-nile offenders in the nation.
According to the National Juvenile Justice Network and theTexas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Effective Justice,South Dakota confined 489 juveniles for every 100,000 youth in2011, a rate that was 2.6 times the national average of 195.
The report said that while the juvenile confinement rate fell by42 percent from 2001 to 2011 nationally, South Dakota’s ratedropped by just 5 percent for youth held in detention facilities.
However, the state’s juvenile justice system is changing itsways by moving away from detaining low-risk juvenile offenders inorder to prevent them from continuing criminal behavior.
Pennington and Minnehaha counties have been leading theway, using a program that for the past two years is trying to keepjuvenile offenders out of detention facilities. The Juvenile Deten-tion Alternatives Initiative, known as JDAI, has been so successful,that it is now being expanded to other communities.
JDAI was begun with the help of the Annie E. Casey Foundationand has reduced the number of juveniles sent to Minnehaha andPennington county detention centers by about half.
“We’ve made great strides. The numbers are just phenomenal,”said Circuit Judge Jeff Davis of Rapid City, who wants to see theprogram expanded statewide.
The program requires that juveniles be assessed when they arefirst arrested and detained. Those who are a low risk to publicsafety or are unlikely to flee are put into alternative programs in-stead of being locked up. Options include home detention, wear-ing an electronic bracelet, non-secure shelters or eveningcheck-ins with officials.
The study noted that South Dakota is improving its juvenilesystem by adopting four of six suggested reforms, including mini-mizing the use of secure detention, increasing community-basedalternatives to incarceration, closing or downsizing confinementfacilities and avoiding confinement for minor offenses.
We supported the governor’s justice system reforms as a moreeffective and less costly alternative to building another prison. Ex-panding the JDAI program, which has been proven to be effectiveat rehabilitating offenders in the state’s largest counties, is thenext step in reducing the number of repeat offenders. Juvenileswho make a habit of being held in detention, almost certainly willrepeat the process as adults.
Expanding JDAI, if successful, should improve South Dakota’sranking with how it treats juvenile offenders and, more impor-tantly, turn them away from criminal behaviors.
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