Jan 27, 2015 by Tim Brown
Talk about being upside down and bringing injustice upon those who are doing what is right while protecting the guilty! The activists at Center of Medical Progress, who exposed the atrocities of Planned Parenthood and its partners engaging in open murder of the unborn and selling the child’s body parts, have been indicted by a grand jury in Houston, Texas. However, there’s clearly an issue of impropriety and a conflict of interest in the matter, as a Planned Parenthood Board Member works in the office of the District Attorney that brought the indictment.
The Hill reports:
A grand jury convened to investigate whether a Houston Planned Parenthood clinic had sold the organs of aborted fetuses on Monday cleared the clinic and instead indicted the undercover videographers behind the allegations, surprising the officials who called for the probe and delighting supporters of the women’s health organization.
The Harris County grand jury indicted David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, both of California, on charges of tampering with a governmental record, a second-degree felony with a possible sentence of up to 20 years in prison. It also charged Daleiden, the leader of the videographers, with the same misdemeanor he had alleged – the purchase or sale of human organs, presumably because he had offered to buy in an attempt to provoke Planned Parenthood employees into saying they would sell.
Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson announced the indictments in a statement, noting the probe had lasted more than two months.
So, let’s get this straight America. Not only are we embracing the murder and dismemberment of the unborn to a level that even Islamic jihadists don’t rise, but we are now indicting those who exposed the ghoulish crimes of Planned Parenthood and their partners.
In addition, Daleiden is being charged with the very crime he was exposing? Seriously? How does this work? He can play the part, just like police do when they engage in drug busts, but have only the intention of exposing the crime and yet, he is the one charged with what these devils are engaged in? Why are the company executives shown in the videos not also being indicted for being willing to make the sale? If it’s wrong to make a purchase of baby parts, surely it is wrong to be selling them. The double standard of the DA’s office is right out in the open for all to see! This is an injustice!
In addition to the indictment, we have also learned of a conflict of interest in the DA’s office that the mainstream media is not reporting. A prosecutor in the Harris County District Attorney’s office also serves on the Board of Directors for Planned Parenthood.
LifeNews reports on the revelation made by Operation Rescue President Troy Newman:
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Lauren Reeder is a prosecutor in the Harris County District Attorney’s criminal family law division. She apparently notified District Attorney Devon Anderson of her role with Planned Parenthood last week. Reeder is listed as a non-compensated “Director” on the 990 Tax Form for 2014 filed by Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.
If you ask me, this has the Obama administration’s fingerprints all over it. They communicated they would go after the ones who were exposing the mass murder of America’s children.
“Today, we renew our call to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and District Attorney Devon Anderson to appoint an independent special prosecutor to investigate Planned Parenthood,” Newman told LifeNews. “There are too many questions about the independence of the Harris County District Attorney’s office with a Planned Parenthood board member on hand and given the failure of a previous grand jury under Anderson to indict a Houston abortion provider despite ample photographic evidence and eye-witness testimony of late-term babies being born alive and intentionally killed. The public needs to be assured that an impartial investigation will be conducted on the facts and not on a personal political agenda.”
Of course, Anderson’s office denied that Reeder has anything to do with this or that she would be involved in the investigation.
She told the Houston Chronicle that Reeder “will not be involved in any manner in this investigation. If at any time in the future, reliable and credible information is brought to my attention that would question our ability to continue to perform a fair, thorough and independent investigation of this matter due to her board membership, I will revisit the issue of seeking the appointment of an independent prosecutor and act accordingly.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton seems to side with the Center for Medical Progress.
“The fact remains that the videos exposed the horrific nature of abortion and the shameful disregard for human life of the abortion industry,” he said.
Then, Mr. Paxton, if you believe what you say, you should put the kibosh on this indictment and go after the real criminals in the matter.
Texas has attempted to stop funding for Planned Parenthood in the State.
It’s time the American people begin enforcing the Constitution and the law. We must fight against these hit men for hire and deal with them justly for the tens of millions of babies they have slaughtered on the altar of convenience.
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD INDICTMENT: PUNISHING THE PURSUER INSTEAD OF THE PERP
Jan 28, 2016 by ROBERT KNIGHT
If all else fails, shoot the messenger.
On Monday, a grand jury in Houston indicted two journalists who made the explosive undercover videos that feature Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of aborted babies’ body parts while sipping wine in a restaurant.
A felony charge of tampering with a government record was filed against Center for Medical Progress(CMP) founder David Daleiden and CMP employee Sandra Merritt. Mr. Daleiden also was charged with soliciting the purchase of human organs – as if he really intended to buy them.
The grand jury was initially formed to probe whether a Houston Planned Parenthood clinic was illegally selling unborn babies’ body parts. Instead, it indicted the people behind the sting.
The videos feature CMP employees posing as prospective purchasers of aborted baby organs discussing pricing with Planned Parenthood officials, one of whom jokes about desiring a Lamborghini.
By the grand jury’s reasoning, undercover police officers trying to bust drug dealers should be prosecuted for trying to buy drugs. Undercover reporters who get the goods on perps should be hauled in and charged with what the perps are doing.
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood, whose Houston clinic officials were featured in the video, and whose board of directors includes a prosecutor in the Harris County D.A.’s office, escaped any charges from the Harris County grand jury. It’s a federal felony to profit from the sale of fetal body parts.
After the videos were released last year, triggering a nationwide outrage, Planned Parenthood claimed the videos had been “heavily edited” to misrepresent them. They based this on a report that they themselves solicited.
Fusion GPS, misdescribed repeatedly in the media as an “independent” outfit, is an opposition research firm tied to the Democratic Party with “a history of harassing socially conservative Republican donors,” according to The Weekly Standard. On August 25, 2015, Fusion GPS released its 10-page report on the CMP videos.
The “analysis” was trumpeted high and low as proof that the videos are not worth viewing. Here’s a snippet that speaks volumes about what they did not find:
Fusion GPS analysts reviewed all four of the ‘full footage’ videos released by the Center for Medical Progress, totaling more than 12 hours of tape. This analysis did not reveal widespread evidence of substantive video manipulation but we did identify cuts, skips, missing tape, and changes in camera angle.
Changes in camera angle? Cuts? In other words, the undercover team used more than one camera and, as with any video product, edited the video to eliminate irrelevant material. Music was added, as in virtually any video product.
Here’s another revealing portion of the analysis:
While these analysts found no evidence that CMP inserted dialogue not spoken by Planned Parenthood staff, their review did conclude that CMP edited content out of the alleged ‘full footage’ videos and heavily edited the short videos so as to misrepresent statements made by Planned Parenthood representatives.
They simply cannot get around the fact that segments of intact dialogue reveal PP reps calmly discussing body part prices. There is no defensible context, nor did they edit out any clips of them later saying, “Just kidding.”
The whole thing is like someone capturing damning footage of a bunch of crooks sitting around planning a robbery. An analyst hired by the crooks finds that the final product, while accurate, was edited for effect and that therefore, there’s nothing to see here, folks. Imagine if Sixty Minutes and every other investigative documentary maker were subjected to this kind of analysis, with only raw footage allowed.
“The Center for Medical Progress uses the same undercover techniques that investigative journalists have used for decades in exercising our First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and of the press, and follows all applicable laws,” Mr. Daleiden said Monday.
He noted that “buying fetal tissue requires a seller as well. Planned Parenthood still cannot deny the admissions from their leadership about fetal organ sales captured on video for all the world to see.”
The indictment of the CMP videographers, who have been a thorn in the side of pro-abortionists in the Democratic Party (pardon the redundancy), is not the first time a video maker has been set up to absorb blame.
Following the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans on Sept. 11, 2012 at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, authorities arrested and jailed the man who made the anti-Muslim video that the Obama administration falsely blamed for the fatal attacks. Yes, it was all his fault, even though it was not.
In 1978, investigative reporters at the Chicago Sun-Times staged a massive sting operation by buying and operating the run-down Miracle Mirage bar and surreptitiously taping city officials taking bribes to ignore code violations.
Perhaps if the reporters had done this today, they’d find themselves arrested for the very crimes they were exposing.
Texas officials said that despite the grand jury’s actions, they will continue to investigate Planned Parenthood.
But there is something really rotten going on in Houston. Someone should make a video about it.
http://barbwire.com/2016/01/28/planned-parenthood-indictment-punishing-the-pursuer-instead-of-the-perp/
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