Posted on 01/26/2016 4:07:53 PM PST by Faith Presses On
Three years after David Daleiden launched his plot against Planned Parenthood, and six months after the release of his undercover videos triggered a national political tempest, the first criminal indictments were finally handed down Monday in connection with the sting.
...But in a surprise twist, it's Daleiden, not Planned Parenthood, on the business end of criminal charges.
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...At this point, Daleiden was nearing the end of a 30-month caper, which saw him train a team of undercover activists to help him infiltrate Planned Parenthood...
Daleiden and an associate breezed past the building's metal detector, and allegedly presented as identification a phony California drivers license with the name of an alias, Robert Sarkis. In normal cases, the use of a fake ID would not warrant felony charges; a grand jury would not, for example, throw the book at an underage kid using a phony government ID to pick up a six-pack of beer. But Texas state law includes a provision that elevates this transgression--knowingly using a fake government document--to a second-degree felony if "the intent is to defraud or harm another." The grand jury decided that Daleiden's goal was to do just that, by using his cover story to make a covert recording designed to damage Planned Parenthood's reputation.
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Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson began that investigation last August, according to a spokesman, collaborating with law enforcement on a probe with subpoena power that stretched well into the fall. In December, the case was referred to the grand jury--but by that time, the Planned Parenthood affiliate was no longer the target. The grand jury never even took a vote on whether to charge Planned Parenthood with a crime. Instead, it concluded that Daleiden and his associate, identified as Sandra Merritt, 62, should be indicted.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Many of the videos are online, both as a shortened version as well as full versions.
http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/cmp/investigative-footage/
“Since the case is so high profile, calling their bluff should blow up in PP’s faces.”
Yep. That’s what I think.
In their Satanic bloodlust to punish those who’ve exposed them, they’ve gone too far and will end up like Haman in the book of Esther.
This situation got too much attention for them to simply railroad Daleiden and Merritt and political charges.
All the people who think they’re criminals watch those videos and don’t see anything wrong with what PP is doing, and how they talk of doing things carefully so they can appear to meet the letter of the law. They sit there haggling over the prices and speak of doing the procedures differently in order to harvest organs, and also how to manipulate women in order to get them to donate their dead babies, but the left twists all that around in their minds.
The left has the mindset of the defense attorney who will stand up there and defend their well-off client no matter what the facts are.
I’m kind of surprised that Planned Parenthood would want any court case at all. Given that all the things they did will come out during the defendants discovery process.
I think they’re just using this for optics, like they’ve already declared themselves the victims and the CMP the criminals, and leverage to try to get the videos taken off the internet.
Same county that indicted Tom Delay.
“launched his plot “
Launched his plot?
Sounds like a terrorist.
We should be awarding him a Medal instead.
The person who can finally get media coverage on an actual baby being aborted will be the ultimate hero. That will change this country for the best.
Yes he and everyone who worked with him did an excellent job, and what’s come out about PP has shown what they’re really doing and really like.
Anyone with common sense can see them conspiring to get around laws, but because they’re political powerful Planned Parenthood, they’ve got powerful defenders on earth. But not in Heaven.
there was a female District Attorney in Texas a couple of years ago that was arrested for DUI and resisting arrest. Was that the one ? Did Houston’s mayor have any pull in choice of Grand Jury?
Now that Texas is indicting and rounding up everyone who has used a fake Driver’s License...
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