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niyad

(113,259 posts)
Wed Jul 27, 2016, 01:45 PM Jul 2016

All Charges Dropped Against ‘Journalists’ Who Made Up Planned Parenthood ‘Baby Parts’ Story

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All Charges Dropped Against ‘Journalists’ Who Made Up Planned Parenthood ‘Baby Parts’ Story


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Abortion Industrial Complex strikes again!
Kid Zoom and I just watched 2001. Haha, “Bell System”

It’s been just over a year since last summer’s Great Big Fake Controversy broke, in which some lying liars claimed Planned Parenthood was supposedly selling baby human fetus parts at the local Fetus Locker. Except for how it was all a lot of hooey, as investigation after investigation found, no wrongdoing by Planned parenthood in any of the ninety jillion states that looked into it (more precisely, that would be 12 state investigations, plus another four by Congress). And despite the fact that there was no “there” there, a bunch of states and even Congress decided to punish Planned Parenthood for what it had been falsely accused of, and tried to cut its funding. Plus, a deranged good guy with a gun murdered three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood to stop the baby parts sales that were never happening in the first place.
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Sadly, a Texas judge ruined their plans for martyrdom and dropped the last remaining charges against the pair Tuesday:
District Judge Brock Thomas dismissed the tampering with government records charges against David Daleiden, 27, and Sandra Merritt, 63, at the request of the Harris County prosecutor’s office, which determined that the grand jury had exceeded its authority by investigating the activists after clearing Planned Parenthood of wrongdoing.
“The grand jury took the investigation where the facts led it, however Texas law limits what can be investigated after a grand jury extension order is issued,” Dist. Atty. Devon Anderson said in a statement. “In light of this and after careful research and review, this office dismissed the indictments.”

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Let us once again note the charges were dismissed based on a technicality involving when the grand jury indicted the fraudsters. It was not based in their First Amendment rights as “journalists” or their guilt or innocence. And while it’s true that congressional Republicans will probably “investigate” Planned Parenthood as many times as they “investigated” Benghazi, they haven’t turned up one iota of evidence that the organization has broken any laws.
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Even though Daleiden lucked out Tuesday, his “Center for Medical Progress” still faces lawsuits filed by the National Abortion Federation and by Planned Parenthood. Nonetheless, the outcome of the Texas case is expected to result in Daleiden and Merritt receiving some kind of award from some wingnut organization in recognition of their complete vindication, as well as renewed calls to halt Planned Parenthood’s nonexistent trafficking in under-the table Fetus McNuggets.

Read more at http://wonkette.com/604722/all-charges-dropped-against-journalists-who-made-up-planned-parenthood-baby-parts-story#o2HXx5lAxF03VDTp.99

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All Charges Dropped Against ‘Journalists’ Who Made Up Planned Parenthood ‘Baby Parts’ Story (Original Post) niyad Jul 2016 OP
Libel, incitement, fraud are okay now, I guess shenmue Jul 2016 #1
no, there are lawsuits going on. this was strictly a legal technicality, about the grand jury niyad Jul 2016 #2
The way I read it, they exceeded their marybourg Jul 2016 #3
they exceeded both. and I believe that you are correct. it does not impact the ongoing niyad Jul 2016 #4

niyad

(113,259 posts)
2. no, there are lawsuits going on. this was strictly a legal technicality, about the grand jury
Wed Jul 27, 2016, 01:56 PM
Jul 2016

exceeding time limits.

marybourg

(12,620 posts)
3. The way I read it, they exceeded their
Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:59 PM
Jul 2016
authority, not their time, by indicting the "filmmaker", instead of the subject of the investigation -- Planned Parenthood! Still, it gave most of us a certain amount of pleasure when it happened!

I'm guessing (without reading the actual decision), that this would have no effect on a future indictment (not that I'm really expecting one) and none on a possible civil action.

niyad

(113,259 posts)
4. they exceeded both. and I believe that you are correct. it does not impact the ongoing
Wed Jul 27, 2016, 09:19 PM
Jul 2016

lawsuits.

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