A.M. Links: Shirley Temple Dead at 85, Internet Freedom Activists Planning Day of Protest, Immigration Reform Groups To Confront House Republicans

• Shirley
  Temple, the former child movie star who also served as U.S.
  ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, has died at the age of
  85.
• Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, who shot and killed a border patrol
  agent near the U.S.-Mexico border in 2010, was sentenced to
  thirty years in prison yesterday. Guns linked to
  Operation Fast and Furious were found at the site of the
  killing. 
• 
  China and Taiwan have held the first direct government talks
  since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
• 
  Immigration reform groups are to begin confronting House
  Republicans at public events in an attempt to shame them into
  engaging with immigration reform proposals.
• The wife of a cancer patient claims that her husband was
  
  humiliated by TSA agents who laughed at his diaper and
  strip-searched him.
• Internet freedom activists are planning a
  day of protest against the NSA. Thousands of websites are
  planning to display banners urging visitors to call members of
  Congress and voice their opposition to the FISA Improvements
  Act.

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