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A delicious twist

A Houston grand jury was convened to decide charges in the case of the faked Planned Parenthood videos. They came to an interesting decision.

A grand jury here that was investigating accusations of misconduct against Planned Parenthood has instead indicted two abortion opponents who made undercover videos of the organization.

Prosecutors in Harris County said one of the leaders of the Center for Medical Progress — an anti-abortion group that made secretly recorded videos purporting to show Planned Parenthood officials trying to illegally profit from the sale of fetal tissue — had been indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record, a felony, and on a misdemeanor charge related to purchasing human organs.

Planned Parenthood was cleared of all charges. Slimeball Daleiden who patched together misleading videos under false pretenses…well, he’s going to court.

Unfortunately, the article also features several blustering Texas Republicans declaring that they don’t care about the decision, they’re going to continue to ‘protect life’ by persecuting Planned Parenthood.

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Comments

  1. jaybee says

    Unfortunately, one of the “several blustering Texas Republicans ” is the Governor, so he can do more than bluster.

    Whenever political corruption comes up, people like to bring up the Chicago Machine, but Texas is just as bad.

  2. Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls says

    Unfortunately, the article also features several blustering Texas Republicans declaring that they don’t care about the decision, they’re going to continue to ‘protect life’ by persecuting Planned Parenthood.

    They don’t give a shit about the life of women, just things they pretend are babies. And those things won’t be until they are born, after which they don’t give a shit about them either. Hypocrites all around.

  3. F.O. says

    The hypocrisy is unbelievable.

    Italy had recently had the “Family Day” with the blessing of the Vatican and many government officials, in preparation to a proposed bills that would bring civil unions.

    Good day, greetings, I belong to a traditional family, husband, father, married in church.
    Today is the Family Day and I would like to know exactly what this celebration of mine and ours is about.
    Is there some fight happening to improve family life? Is there a protest happening for the cost and schedules of day cares?
    Is there an effort for public housing, for those families that do not have a house?
    Is there a discount on grocers?
    A present? A pennant?
    It’s our celebration IN WHAT SENSE?
    Oh, sorry, I got it: it’s a celebration in the sense that we go pissing on others.
    It’s a celebration only in the sense that making someone feel worse (someone who ALREADY brings kids to day care like us, someone who ALREADY exists and struggles like us… but at least this way does not have inheritance rights) we can feel strong and cool and proud of our misery in a indifferent State and a completely hypocrite moral.
    Greetings to all the families!

    https://www.facebook.com/errico.buonanno.9/posts/10153231667666126

  5. says

    @#1, jaybee

    Whenever political corruption comes up, people like to bring up the Chicago Machine, but Texas is just as bad.

    Chicago’s political machine is no worse than the machines in any other large city. On the other hand, the fact that the machine has been used to help cover up Chicago cops literally murdering people (and also, just incidentally, torturing suspects for decades, but that’s apparently water under the bridge) gives me pause.

  7. Athywren - This Thing Is Just A Thing says

    Huh. Who knew that lying to an entire country for ideological gain might have consequences?

  8. says

    Dear USA
    You have a problem and people like Huckabee are its embodiment. They no longer believe in laws or anything. They don’t even believe in changing laws. They believe in a war of them, the good guys, vs the Others, the bad guys, an therefore everything is allowed. Courts shouldn’t decide whether an actual crime took place an who committed it, but who “the good guy” is

  10. says

    I just got my regular please donate letter from PP, definitely time to send a few dollars their way again. I’m glad something went the right way for once, but this is the tiniest drop of water in a bucket full of poison.

  11. erichoug says

    What?! HAHAHA! Enjoy Huntsville, losers.

    Also, Gregg Abbott is a tool and an embarrassment to the great state of Texas. and Molly should be here to see this one.

  12. moarscienceplz says

    Unfortunately, I don’t think you can find 12 people in Houston who are clear-headed enough to vote to convict those slimeballs.

  13. joel says

    moar #12: I would agree with you but for one fact: the grand jury that indicted these slimeballs was also in Texas. Texas! Grand juries in NY or CA doing this would not be surprising, but Texas? The CMP must be even more egregious than we thought, and that gives me hope.

  16. says

    Cross posted from the Moments of Political Madness thread.

    Republican presidential candidates are nearly apoplectic at the jury’s decision to indict the videographers who produced and distributed deceptive videos about Planned Parenthood. The Republicans are clinging to their misinformation and their myths desperately.

    Carly Fiorina said:

    Yes, well, this is why it’s a fight for the character of our nation. We know for a fact that because of Planned Parenthood’s own announcement that they would no longer accept payments for what they call ‘fetal tissue,’ and they were in fact trafficking in baby body parts. So guess what? I’m not going to sit down and be quiet as I said at the March for Life. I will not sit down and be quiet, I know the value of life, we know what’s going on, and I will continue to stand for the character of this nation. Here’s what I know: Planned Parenthood has been trafficking in body parts. Planned Parenthood has been altering late-term abortion techniques to this specific purpose of harvesting body parts. In President Fiorina budget, there will not be a single dime for Planned Parenthood.

    Marco Rubio said:

    I’m disturbed. We’ll need to learn more, but I’m disturbed that while Planned Parenthood, who are the ones that were actually selling off these (body) parts were found having done nothing wrong, the people who tried to expose them are the ones that are now facing criminal charges.

    Mike Huckabee tweeted:

    Its a sick day in America when our govnt punishes those who expose evil w/ a cellphone—yet accommodates those who perform it with a scalpel.

    Ben Carson’s Communications Director Larry Ross said:

    He [Carson] is equally shocked that they instead decided to indict the individuals that exposed Planned Parenthood’s heinous and illegal activities. As President, he will use the full weight of his office to not only cut off all federal funding for this organization, but also prosecute them for crimes against the unborn.

  17. Saad says

    From Lynna’s #16 quoting Larry Ross:

    He [Carson] is equally shocked that they instead decided to indict the individuals that exposed Planned Parenthood’s heinous and illegal activities. As President, he will use the full weight of his office to not only cut off all federal funding for this organization, but also prosecute them for crimes against the unborn.

    President of what?

    (I saw the scene unfold…)

  18. Rich Woods says

    @The Vicar #5:

    (and also, just incidentally, torturing suspects for decades, but that’s apparently water under the bridge)

    If not also bodies under the bridge.