Gay Marriage Advocates Will See Issue On Ballot

They wanted the Supreme Court to remove the ban on gay marriage issue from the election this fall. Without comment the case went unheard meaning the issue heads to the voters. Passage of this issue could reinstate the State’s ban on gay marriage. Don’t hold your breath as it is unlikely to gain enough votes to pass it. But then again you never know with California.

With perhaps the last legal roadblock removed, it appears the fate of gay marriage in California will be up to the voters in November.The California Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by civil rights groups to remove a measure from the November ballot that would restore the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. Without comment, the justices unanimously refused to hear the legal challenge, filed last month by Equality California, a group opposed to Proposition 8.

The ballot measure would amend the state Constitution to confine marriage to a union between a man and a woman. Civil rights groups had argued that the measure was legally flawed and would conflict with the state Supreme Court’s ruling in May striking down California’s previous ban on same-sex marriage.

But the Supreme Court, which is ordinarily reluctant to tamper with ballot measures, declined to hear the case. Secretary of State Debra Bowen had urged the court to decide the matter by next month, when ballot materials must be sent out to the printer.

Proposition 8 supporters were quick to criticize gay marriage advocates for trying to kick the initiative off the ballot.

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Ramos and Compean - What was promised the Drug Dealer?

A lawsuit seeking just that information has filed by Judicial Watch. We know just how corrupt the government south of us can be. Just how far reaching is the drug money and who promised what for this testimony. The case smells and most people would suspect that there may be a motive deeper than “protecting” civil rights of drug dealers.

A lawsuit has been filed against the United States government by a watchdog group seeking information about what was promised and delivered to a now-confessed drug smuggler that allowed him to travel back and forth between the U.S. and Mexico after two border agents caught him bringing a third of a ton of drugs into the United States.

The case was filed by Judicial Watch, whose chief, Tom Fitton, told WND there are a lot of explanations needed in the case involving smuggler Oswald Aldrete-Davila and now-former U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.

Border Fire has this additional comment on the lawsuit and the goals.

(Incidentally, this is the second FOIA lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch related to the jailed Border Patrol agents. Click here for more information. )

Here’s essentially what we’re after in this lawsuit.
Information pertaining to government deals that were made with the government of Mexico to bring Aldrete-Davila to the U.S. to testify.

Any internal communications between the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department related to the decision to permit the lawful entry of Aldrete-Davila into the U.S. for medical treatment and for meetings with government prosecutors.

Any and all records of the Diplomatic Security Services (a branch of the State Department) related to the shooting incident.There is enormous public interest in this incident. Many people, myself included, suspect these Border Patrol Agents were railroaded by the government for simply doing their jobs. Given the controversy surrounding the case, the more the American people know, the better.

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Narcoterrorism - Jihad and Drugs to the South

Not a surprise. The fact that there is now “evidence” of this should only heighten the awareness of Americans that some still want to bring the war home.

According to a U.S. government intelligence report obtained by Proceso, Hamas, Hezbollah and other radical Islamic groups have become associates of the Mexican drug trafficking cartels: they are furnishing them weapons and helping them to distribute drugs in Europe and the Middle East. Ahead of time, DEA and Justice Department officials told this weekly that “in coming days” they will conduct an operation in the border area shared by Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay – where the radical Islamic groups have settled – that will show their ties with the Mexican drug traffickers.

Washington – Islamic terrorist groups are selling arms to Mexican drug trafficking cartels and collaborating with them in order to distribute narcotics in Europe and the Middle East.

This is one of the conclusions in the report titled “Accomplishments, Fiscal Year 2007,” done by the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC), an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice.

“Information from intelligence and investigations on narcoterrorism that we have carried out identifies ties between Mexican narcotics traffickers, [and] those of the Philippines and Colombia, with elements belonging to foreign organizations designated as terrorists by the [U.S.] Department of State,” the NDIC document indicates. Based on information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the NDIC document emphasized: “The results of 74 investigations of narcoterrorism that have been carried out by the Special Operations Division of the DEA document that Islamic groups present on the common border of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay launder money, sell arms and traffic drugs of the main Mexican criminal organizations.”

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