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| David Daleiden |
A grand jury here that was investigating allegations of misconduct against Planned Parenthood has instead indicted two anti-abortion activists who made videos of the organization.
In a statement, the Harris County district attorney, Devon Anderson, said Monday that the director of the Center for Medical Progress, David Daleiden, had been indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor count related to purchasing human organs.
Another center employee, Sandra Merritt, was indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record.
The Center for Medical Progress had covertly shot videos of Planned Parenthood officials discussing the provision of body parts from aborted fetuses for research. Mr. Daleiden, 26, had posed as a biotechnology representative to infiltrate Planned Parenthood affiliates and surreptitiously record his attempts to procure tissue for research.
Ms. Anderson said in the statement that grand jurors had cleared Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing. She did not specify in the statement what record or records were allegedly tampered with.
You know sometimes justice does prevail.
This is great news and I look forward to Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Carly Fiorina, Fox News, and many other conservatives to come out an apologize to the American people for misleading them about these videos.
Oh who am I kidding, these people will NEVER take responsibility for their actions.
And it's in TEXAS!!! How delicious is that???
ReplyDeleteGo Texas! Can I get a Hallelujah?!
ReplyDeleteHallelujah!!!
DeleteAnd, okay, this one time I can say..."You don't mess with Texas"!
Responsibility is for us unwashed masses. They can twist their bible around to justify any action they ever take.
ReplyDeleteYay!!!
ReplyDeleteBad Parents? Just another dead kid..
ReplyDeletehttp://www.adn.com/article/20160124/troopers-respond-reported-shooting-kokhanok
Just a Guy with a Gun:
Deletehttp://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2016/01/her_name_was_janese_talton_jackson_and_she_was_killed_because_she_said_no.html
As ong as the child was brought to full term then it doesn't matter if someone shoots it, according to the GOP.
DeleteJordan has so much to look forward to.
DeleteOT- This is good news in Alaska
ReplyDeletehttp://midnightsunak.com/2016/01/25/1483/
Why can't you c/p a few paragraphs? Not going to open a link I have no clue what it's about. Tired of this OT stuff that posters think is important enough to interrupt the current blog post for, but not important enough to actually IDENTIFY so readers have at least some inkling what it's about first!
DeleteAnd Carly Fiorina will stick to the false story to the end of her days. Propaganda over truth.
ReplyDeletePeople should flood her Facebook page with this news.
DeleteCarly, along with Huckabee, etc will blame it on a "liberal, activist judge".
DeletePeople ARE flooding her FB page! :D I (almost) feel badly for the non-paid "intern" who has been tasked with editing that disaster.
Deletehttps://www.facebook.com/CarlyFiorina/?fref=ts
You know there are RWNJs frantically scrambling to discredit this.
Delete5:42 pm. Ha ha. I wish them luck trying to pin this on a judge when it was a Texas grand jury. No judge in sight. And not a cali-for-ney grand jury, either, or one with New York values
DeleteDoes Carly actually have any children herself?
DeleteWhat's really crazy is that Devon Anderson is a Republican.
ReplyDelete5:26, there still are SOME people who actually believe in the LAW, regardless of their political leanings.
DeleteHowever, if I were going to question (i.e., doubt) her about this, I would wait to see how well she does go after them. She can still "Botch" the prosecution.
They'll never apologize to the American people, but you'd think if they had a scintilla of conscience, they'd apologize to the families and friends of those killed, injured, or traumatized by Robert Lewis Dear, who shot up the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood Clinic because "baby parts."
ReplyDeleteBristol Palin belongs in that hall of shame as well. She allowed her name to be used to promote those vile videos and to falsely rant about PP selling fetal tissue.
I was in Colo. springs that day. What a tragic nightmare. Thanks, Carly.
DeleteAfter they are found guilty in criminal court, it will be open season on them in civil court. In the end they won't have a penny left. With luck, any future money donated to them will be ceased through liens.
DeleteI'm doing the happy dance. Let's see the fundraising the pro life folks use this for, then watch them cuffed as their records are audited. Can't hurry Karma, but when it hits, it's a thing of beauty.
ReplyDeleteWait until Kamala Harris AG of Cali gets done with her investigation. I'm stocked Ng up on popcorn.
ReplyDeleteHopefully, Harris will finish her investigation before she leaves her post to be sworn in as a U.S. senator in 2017. I see her as the female version of Barack Obama and hope I live long enough to see her become president of the U.S..
DeleteSo many Republicans continue to make asses of themselves and yet still get elected. I don't understand.
ReplyDeleteLet me see if I can make it simple: They make asses of themselves so the asses in the masses will vote for them!
DeleteAnd that pro-life Christian Ted Cruz, running for President of only the part of the United States that agrees with his beliefs, is only delivering water to anti-abortion centers.
ReplyDeleteFuck you, Ted Cruz.
They can't add perjury to David Daleiden's counts? I hope Planned Parenthood sues for monetary compensation in civil court too.
May it all come to a head right before the elections and may more of these right wing nutjob liars and hypocrites be exposed as the trial continues.
Oh, and FUCK YOU TED CRUZ!
These people. Just like a certain someone, they will do anything and everything they want until they are forced not to by a court. Hang 'em high. I say make them an example and sue them out of existence.
ReplyDelete6:44, I would be willing to bet they will continue even after the courts order them to stop. We're dealing with fanatics here. They don't CARE about the courts!
DeleteAs for suing them out of existence? Nope. Not gonna happen. There are too damned many fanatics willing to THROW money at them to cover any fines or judgements. It's the MOVEMENT that needs to be forced to recognize this is a secular country and to do that, we have to have the non-fanatical religious population to speak out against them, too.
It's a good day. The basturds have caused much pain. I hope they pay dearly.
ReplyDeleteI want to see if the TRUTH gets as much traction in the news as the lies did.
ReplyDeleteThey should investigate the republicans in congress that pushed the lie and sanction them.
They can plausibly claim ignorance.
Delete8:17 - how? They can claim stupidity but not ignorance.
Deleteawwww.. the adorable and they love vibrant life.
ReplyDeleteahhh
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teach your children well
Right, teach Tripp that his 1/2 sister is 1/2 Black and it's o.k.
DeleteRe that collage photo from Scarah's FB page: The baby in the lower-right corner is *NOT* Sailor. It's some other kid taken from the photographer's site. Can you believe it? Had she even *SEEN* her newest grandchildren in person yet?
DeleteStanding and applauding.
ReplyDeleteMay they spend a significant part of the rest of their lives in jail, and be bankrupted by the settlement.
Cute babies. Who are the dads?
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Tripp is already getting the Clockwork Orange vibe.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/01/open-thread-definition-white-privilege
ReplyDeleteOpen Thread - Definition Of White Privilege?
"White privilege" is redundant, but incomplete. It's white MALE privilege.
DeleteSame SHOULD have happened to that puke James O'Keefe.
ReplyDeleteHis lying and scheming brought down another helpful organization for the downtrodden, ACORN.
Find his photo, and tell me he's not the reincarnation of Lee Harvey Oswald.
O'Keefe's resemblance to Oswald is eerie.Scary stuff.
DeleteI was very happy to read this unexpected news. But yes, it is Texas. So I can't be too optimistic. These assholes will never be found guilty. They'll get off.
ReplyDeleteSomeone here has been posting that Jordan has been seen skiing at Alyeska. Chuckie Heath posted the other day:"Taking the wife and kids down to Alyeska tomorrow to ski and unwind. It's been a long week. They say God never gives you anything you can't handle... but sometimes, He gets pretty close" The whole family buying Jordan's silence? Chuckie wants everyone to feel sorry for the family. Just regular people, when life gets tough you go to a ski resort. Sickening.
ReplyDeleteConservatives don't apologize. They know their lies about this are already accepted truth among the sheeple.
ReplyDeleteA poster on Crooks & Liars is saying the news outlets are reporting on this with Daleiden's claim that his activities were protected under .... the First Amendment rights of journalists (?) ... or something like that. Anyone know if that could actually hold any water? I was thinking "no" because ... when did he ever claim before this that he was a journalist? And then I thought that those protections only applied to those who were seeking to uncover the truth, and I think it is very clear they went in with intent to commit fraud and lie about what Planned Parenthood was doing. I'd love to hear what others know about this subject, 'cause I just sort of pulled that out of my backside.
ReplyDeleteWhat an idiot ! (ugh) that Candice Cameron on the View this morning was "uneasy" with this new development. She sputtered and was trying to explain to Whoopi that she "thinks this is wrong because they revealed these heinous practices" going on at Planned Parenthood - and should not be punished for it. IDIOT.
ReplyDeleteCalling Candice Cameron an idiot is a disservice to idiots, She is beneath contempt.
DeleteThe only good thing you can say about Candice Cameron is that she not quite as batshit crazy as her brother.
DeleteRepublicans got Americans to believe this crap, maybe because blogs like yours waste your time on a nothing like Palin instead of bringing attention to the real lies like this.
ReplyDeleteWhat an astute observation in this thread in particular.
Delete/sarcasm
Flipping around for the news last night, I mistakenly selected a video from FAUX, because it was reporting on this story. From the first words out of the anchor's mouth, I was stunned. He was *CONDEMNING* the grand jury for failing to indict PP for "selling baby parts" and for indicting the perpetrators of the fraud instead. No attempt whatsoever to present "news." He sounded like an evangelical preacher, asserting as fact that PP "sold fetal tissue," etc. etc. Then he turned to a couple of panelists who simply reiterated what he'd said. How shocked and upset they were that this terrible injustice occurred and the horrible, criminal Planned Parenthood "got off." What has happened to this country???
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