BREAKING: Harris Grand Jury Indicts Pair Behind Planned Parenthood Videos

[Hissyspit]

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Source: Associated Press / Houston Chronicle

@AP: BREAKING: Grand jury investigating Planned Parenthood indicts 2 anti-abortion activists who made videos.

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Harris Grand Jury Indicts Pair Behind Planned Parenthood Videos

Brian Rogers | January 25, 2016

A Harris County grand jury probe into Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast ended Monday with the indictments of two anti-abortion activists.

David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt were both indicted for tampering with a governmental record. An additional indictment for prohibition of the purchase and sale of human organs was issued for Daleiden, according to a release from the Harris County District Attorneys Office.

"We were called upon to investigate allegations of criminal conduct by Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast," said Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson. "As I stated at the outset of this investigation, we must go where the evidence leads us. All the evidence uncovered in the course of this investigation was presented to the grand jury. I respect their decision on this difficult case."

Daleiden and Merritt were involved in undercover videos that surfaced last year appearing to show a Planned Parenthood official discussing reimbursement fees associated with fetal tissue procurement and donation.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Harris-grand-jury-indicts-pair-behind-Planned-6782865.php

[randys1]

1. OMG, this is a GREAT day!

[busterbrown]

29. I’m sure Fox will be covering this all day..

Soup to nuts!!! My ass they will..

[Midnight Writer]

75. Actually, they are. And so are the hate radio hosts.

Of course, they are outraged that a "rogue prosecutor" has taken over our justice system to attack American values.

Even Marco Rubio is using this as an example of "America is heading in the wrong direction".

[rladdi]

77. Amazing pushback by the Conservatives. They are outraged, from Gov. Abbott of TX and Cruz and

Sen. Rubio. They refuse to believe the words of Grand Jury. I hope the Democrats use this to push back against the defunding of plann parenthood. Finally the Conservative got STUNG at their own hearing. Justice does pay 1% of the time.

[randys1]

80. I am reminded of what these asshats did to ACORN. An entity that was proven NEVER

to have done ANYTHING wrong and existed solely for the purpose of supporting poor people.

Well, poor Black people mostly, thus the need of righty to destroy it.

[wordpix]

83. Grand jury in TX no less, ha! Take THAT, extremists, sometimes there is justice

[Human101948]

2. Of course, wealthy right wing nuts will provide the best lawyers...

but I hope this ruins these a-holes.

[modrepub]

45. No way

These clowns did all the dirty lifting. Why would others open up their pocketbooks when they already got what they wanted?

[synergie]

66. Sure, but they taped themselves committing a felony.

[wordpix]

84. Trial by jury is good

This grand jury got it right, surprise!

[Iliyah]

3. Score one for PP

YAY

[Thinkingabout]

4. Now Carly can sit on her thumb on this one. Let's see if she

Apologizes. It is a good day for those who are truthful.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

7. LOL

She never answer to anyone or anything. A truly vile piece of crap.

[Kelvin Mace]

15. Shame she isn't one of them

[tecelote]

28. She should be an accessory after the fact.

She used it after it was known to be a fake.

She's guilty.

[wordpix]

85. I nearly died when she spoke about full grown fetuses

Being carved up on a table. I could not believe what she was saying, she sounded so deranged. She's guilty all right or stupid to accept such a story w/out vetting it thoroughly. Either way, get out of the race, already, your 15 min are up.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

44. Let's see if she Apologizes

Pigs will fly in great flocks first.

[47of74]

52. Yes and Satan will be ordering a whole fleet of these too

[wordpix]

86. Fishes, too, lol

[cannabis_flower]

50. Not on your life..

I went into the comments and there was all kind of ridiculous right-wing clap-trap about how PP is killing babies and that if these guys were guilty of buying fetuses, then PP must be selling them. Actually they tried to buy fetal tissue and were unsuccessful!

[leftynyc]

67. Should be the FIRST question

she's asked at the debate on Thursday.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

70. She's moved on to kidnapping preschoolers.

[MyOwnPeace]

71. Yes,

and if I was a parent of one of those children there would be HELL to pay!!!

How DARE the BITCH!!!!

[wordpix]

88. Exploitation of children, aren't there laws about that?

I would yell about that until she pays up and gives her millions to orphanages, schools, etc in poverty areas around the world. She is just a selfish b to continue this race. For what? Her ego?

[wordpix]

87. Lololol

[Helen Borg]

5. Take that, assholes!

and murderers

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. i believe that is what the prior poster referred to.

[roguevalley]

25. this is a good day. It also makes me feel worse for Acorn.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

43. talk about karma.

[LiberalArkie]

8. Link to Dallas news

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2016/01/harris-county-grand-jury-indicts-those-behind-planned-parenthood-undercover-video-operation.html/

[Solly Mack]

9. K&R

[PatrynXX]

10. Red state Texas?? :O jaw drop n/t

[kentauros]

56. Why?

I always find it odd how we liberals pride ourselves on how educated we are, and yet people still hang on to broad-brush descriptions of those places they (love to) hate.

Now, point out the "red" states on the following map:



The Purple Election Map

[nichomachus]

76. Any state that has an all GOP Congressional delegation, governor, etc.

And that went for Bush over and over. Those are the red states.

[kentauros]

91. I disagree with that definition.

Thus the map I posted.

[Zen Democrat]

62. Blue City Houston in Red State Texas

Always remember about Texas, the cities are Democratic: Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth and of course Austin. It's out on the prairies of West Texas and behind the pine curtain in Upper East Texas where there may not be one voting Democrat per hundred miles.

[wordpix]

89. Just visited blue town Bisbee AZ, a red state

It happens. How about Alpine, tx? Blue town?

[mysuzuki2]

11. It's just political and religious oppression by the Obama administration.

Anyway, that's what I predict the RWers will be saying. Wait for it, 1 - 2 - 3 ....

[CommonSenseDemocrat]

20. Devon Anderson is a Republican DA

[synergie]

65. When did facts ever matter to CONS?

[Control-Z]

12. I'm shocked by this.

It is exactly as it should be, though.

Big win, for the moment!!

[underpants]

13. So ironically funny

[wordpix]

90. I agree, ironic is the word

The r's got a rightful jolt.

[mcar]

14. Excellent news!

[DFW]

16. Go Cecile!!

As far as I'm concerned, name that idiot congressman from Utah, Chavetz, as a co-conspirator, as he or his people HAD to know that the video they tried to use as evidence against PP in that Congressional hearing was a lie.

[TheBlackAdder]

17. Hahaha! I wonder who your defense team will be? nt

.


Not so funny now is it, funny man?

.

[DesertRat]

18. This needs to be shared far and wide

[NCjack]

19. These people were indicted: "David Daleiden, president of the undercover anti-abortion

group The Center for Medical Progress, and Sandra Merritt, who was named as the founder and CEO of BioMax, the sham tissue procurement company created by the Center, were indicted ... " From The Dallas Morning News (link in #8 above).

[mountain grammy]

21. Score one for a grand jury, at least for now.

[stillwaiting]

22. Excellent news! May they get what they deserve. nt

[Duval]

23. Yay!! Thank you, Hissyspit.

[catbyte]

24. Sweet!

[Z_California]

47. ^^Exactly what I was thinking

We really need an English word for that.

[iandhr]

26. Good news everyone

[riversedge]

27. Houston Grand Jury Indicts CMP Head Instead of Planned Parenthood

Have Carly and or any GOP tweeted about this yet??




The Vicious Babushka ‏@viciousbabushka 10m10 minutes ago

Houston Grand Jury Indicts CMP Head Instead of Planned Parenthood #UniteBlue http://lgf.bz/1Un3Xtb


https://twitter.com/viciousbabushka/status/691753848847749120

[riversedge]

37. Inquiry was for crimes by Planned Parenthood, but "evidence" led to crimes by anti-abortion activist

Ari Melber Verified account
‏@AriMelber

TX prosecutor: Inquiry was for crimes by Planned Parenthood, but "evidence" led to crimes by anti-abortion activists

[kristopher]

41. This deserves its own OP in GD.

Would you do the honors?

[riversedge]

64. sorry so late. I will do that. It is important.

[Gothmog]

30. This is great news

[vkkv]

31. I hope common sense wins out over friggin' religious nutcases.. n/t ( that was plenty)

[sinkingfeeling]

32. Yahoo

[Hekate]

33. YESSSS!!!

[CanonRay]

34. Can we get this Grand Jury to look into the Malheur NWR occuption?

I know we can't just wishful thinking. Great day for justice and Planned Parenthood.

[stonecutter357]

35. K&R!

[markpkessinger]

36. LOL! Freeperville is having a collective meltdown over this!

I took a peek -- because I just had to.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3388391/posts

[Kingofalldems]

40. Looks like someone there wants a Bundy type response.

[47of74]

42. Thanks for checking for the rest of us.

So we don't have to.

[IamTheNoodle]

59. Sounds like a terrorist calling for violence...

To: fhayek
We should have stopped them from “living” - and, BTW, we still have the ability to do just that. It only requires the will to act.


108 posted on 1/25/2016, 9:09:17 PM by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3388425/posts?q=1&;page=101

[wordpix]

93. I would alert fbi about this if iwerent getting up at 430 am, inciting violence

Too tired now. Someone needs to do it, this freeper sounds like he's inciting to violence.

[wordpix]

92. Good, i just hope they don't round up a militia

to let that grand jury know who's boss. These people at Freeperland are unhinged

[markpkessinger]

94. And the richest irony of all is . . .

. . . that those folks who are complaining so bitterly about this grand jury decision are almost certainly among those who, not too long ago, scolded the rest of us about how we should "respect the grand jury process" in cases such as Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, et al.! Gotta love it!

[yellowcanine]

38. Excuse me, isn't that your own petard you are hoisted on?

[CharlotteVale]

39. Yesss!

[bermudat]

46. Harris County, Houston, Texas?!?!?!

[kentauros]

57. *sigh*

Yes, Harris County, of Houston, Texas.

We're not as red/backwards as everyone assumes:

[DirkGently]

48. And the charges are quite serious.

The organization alleged that Daleiden and others used aliases, obtained fake government I.D.s, and formed a fake tissue procurement company in an effort to gain access to private areas and record private conversations to be deceptively edited to create a false impression

Good.

[Scalded Nun]

49. Not exactly the outcome

Our great idiot governor was expecting when he ordered the investigation.

MSM is giving this about 15 seconds of coverage so far. So shocking.

[Jenny_92808]

51. Good!

Karma wins!

[Dawson Leery]

53. The Evangelicals and Roman Bishops must need a change of underwear after this.

They have been warned. Do NOT tamper/falsify to get what you want.

[47of74]

61. And hopefully Francis will tell them to get bent if they try to run and hide in the Vatican.

[qwlauren35]

54. Small cheer for justice

but SO much damage has been done. Will the indictment reverse the damage. Nope. Not even a little.

So, all of you who are cheering, consider making a donation to Planned Parenthood. http://www.plannedparenthood.org/donate‎



It's tax deductible.

[immoderate]

55. This makes me happy!

--imm

[niyad]

58. well, that is a tiny bit of good news.

[Sunlei]

60. fake government I.Ds,thats a serious crime. 8 years this went on. started /w Mccain/Palin era?

someone must have helped fund them, 8 years of a fake medical business and all the traveling cost a fortune.

[NewJeffCT]

72. Don't forget that other guy

(Name escapes me now) - but, he made up the doctored videos that led to the downfall of ACORN. James O'Keefe maybe? They can't win by discussing the issues, so they have to go for lies & deceit to win.

[SunSeeker]

63. Karma!

[CrispyQ]

68. It will take years to undo the harm this video did to PP.

The lies told will stay in people's minds.

I especially loathe Carley Fiorina for her part in perpetuating the lies. I expect this from repub men, but another woman? Fuck you, Fiorina, may choke on your dinner in front of your family & land face first in your plate you lying sack of shit.

[Judi Lynn]

69. Outstanding. Thank you, so much. n/t

[NewJeffCT]

73. Now, let's see if this indictment

can stick better than the indictments against Tom DeLay and Rick Perry.

[shenmue]

74. Yes!

[NastyRiffraff]

78. Oh, this is wonderful!

Schadenfreud, indeed! Exploding Republican heads...I love it!

[Dovidoff]

79. Good

Down go the sleaze balls.

[MosheFeingold]

81. Here to piss on Cheerios

Because the weather is bleak and that's my mood.

First, I don't think this is a great move, for the same reason I didn't like the civil suit -- it gives these turds both the opportunity for discovery (and very broad subpoena power in a criminal case) -- and a platform from which to scream their nonsense.

Second, I don't like it because what is good for the goose is good for the gander. This is a political hot button. I am loathe to get the criminal system involved in marginal cases because: (1) it's chilling to political speech; (2) it feeds the wingnut theory that the government is out to get them and (3) the Republicans will be on the look out to do this kind of stuff to Democrats in revenge.

This is not to defend the video-taping asshats. This is just thinking long term.

[Little Tich]

82. Good news... n/t