Marriages, or civil unions, are not the result of government programs, and should not be. Marriages, or civil unions, are the result of an individual's conviction and personal responsibility, neither of which can, or SHOULD BE mandated, legislated, or endorsed by government.

This proposed amendment, defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, to the Constitution,

is frivoulous

. This is not something that government should be involved in.

The 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Powers... reserved to the states... or the people: Until 1937, this amendment was used to keep Congress within limits in such things as regulation of commerce, enforcement of the fourteenth amendment, and laying and collecting taxes. Today, this protection has eroded. The Federal government exercises it's power through purse strings, by taking money from the people and corporations within the states and refusing to return it unless the states conform to Federal rules. By controlling money, the Federal government coerces obedience from the states in setting speed limits, defining crimes, setting criminal sentences and penalties, rasing drinking ages, and such things as wearing seat belts!!

Someone once said 'just because you don't have an interest in politics, doesn't mean that politics doesn't have an interest in you'.

A MUST READ!!!

http://www.rutherford.org/articles/oldspeak-Ronpaul.asp

U.S. Knew of Suicide Hijack Threat in 1995

Tuesday, March 05, 2002

FOX NEWS

U.S. law-enforcement authorities knew as early as 1995 that Middle Eastern men were training at American flight schools and had discussed crashing planes into federal buildings, but did not follow up on the information, according to documents and interviews with American and Filipino authorities.

The information came to light during Filipino police questioning of Ramzi Yousef and Abdul Hakin Murad, the two men arrested in 1995 after a chemical fire at a Manila apartment accidentally revealed a major terror plot with ties to Usama bin Laden.

Murad and Yousef, who also had ties to the New Jersey-based group of terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, are serving life sentences in the United States for an elaborate plot to blow up a dozen U.S. trans-Pacific airliners in one day.

But secret Filipino records, as well as police and intelligence personnel in that country who spoke to the Associated Press, indicate that Murad's intentions were even grander.

"Murad's idea is that he will board any American commercial aircraft pretending to be an ordinary passenger, then he will hijack said aircraft, control its cockpit and dive it at the CIA headquarters," one Filipino police report from 1995 said.

"There will be no bomb or any explosive that he will use in its execution. It is a suicidal mission that he is very much willing to execute," it continued.

The Filipino authorities said that they gave the information immediately to the FBI office in Manila, but that the Americans disregarded the hijacking plans to focus on the better-developed and more immediately threatening airliner-bombing plot.

"We shared that with the FBI," said Robert Delfin, chief of intelligence command for the Philippine National Police. "They may have mislooked (sic) and didn't appreciate the info coming from the Philippine police."



This, and the fact that no planes scrambled from Andrews AFB, only 15 miles away from Washington D.C.......Interesting stuff.

President Bush, reversing field, said Monday he will order an independent investigation into intelligence failures in Iraq and conferred with former chief weapons inspector David Kay. "I want to know all the facts," Bush said.

Sounds like a guy caught in a lie now looking for a scapegoat.

President Bush sent Congress a $2.4 trillion election-year budget on Monday featuring big increases for defense and homeland security and a pledge to cut this year's projected record deficit of $521 billion in half by 2009.

Liar liar pants on fire!