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Planned Parenthood Director caught on tape selling aborted baby parts

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Commodore, Jul 14, 2015.

  1. JeffB

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    What these criminals did was undermine our Democracy. We cannot tolerate this kind of propaganda. Not punishing them to the full extent of the law just leaves things open for the next hucksters to come along and gin-up a controversy to push an agenda or turn an election.
     
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  2. Dubious

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    They probably should be charged as accessories to murder before the fact; expect the State to go hard.
    *not a lawyer
     
  3. rocketsjudoka

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    There's nothing wrong with adversarial or aggressive journalism but in this case they didn't follow any journalistic ethics. Any status they have as journalists is very questionable considering how misleading their reporting, if it can be called that, was.

    This would be a very different argument if they factually reported the story, even with a bias. That they heavily doctored it and conflated it with material that wasn't part of the story to paint a false picture is a big part of the problem.
     
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  4. Bobbythegreat

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    Blow the whistle, face the repercussions.
     
  5. larsv8

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    What whistle? There was nothing illegal here.

    Break the law, go to jail.
     
  6. Dubious

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    Snowden?

    Because this thread is about people creating a lie with reckless disregard for the consequences.
     
  7. Amiga

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    I would said... creating a lie with regard for reckless consequences.
     
  8. FranchiseBlade

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    This wasn't about blowing any whistles. The jurors who sit on the grand jury are not the power structure trying to prevent whistle blowers.

    The investigation started out investigating the claims of selling body parts, but the evidence lead to the propagandists being indicted.

    That was because of the evidence not an attempt to stop whistle blowing.
     
  9. Dubious

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    Samantha Allen

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    Texas DA: ‘I’m Pro-Life, But the Law Is the Law’
    A Texas DA shut down anti-abortion conspiracy theorists in a statement Wednesday.

    It didn’t take long after Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson announced the indictment of anti-Planned Parenthood videomakers David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt for the conspiracy theories to swirl.
    It also didn’t take long for Anderson to shut all of them down. In a two-minute video statement posted Wednesday night, Anderson vehemently rebuts the idea that her office was ideologically predisposed to punish the pro-lifers.
    “Anyone who pays attention knows that I’m pro-life,” Anderson said. “I believe abortion is wrong. But my personal belief does not relieve me of my obligation to follow the law.”

    more...
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ter_page&account=thedailybeast&medium=twitter
     
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  10. Rashmon

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    If only our Governor, Attorney General, and legislators had the same integrity to follow the law. Kudos to Ms. Anderson.
     
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  11. ipaman

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    Nice job. I'm guessing she hasn't been in the politic game long enough to become corrupt like the rest of these weasels.
     
  12. Commodore

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    of course

    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Planned Parenthood videographers win big in court <a href="https://t.co/poPKU3mu4f">https://t.co/poPKU3mu4f</a></p>&mdash; Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) <a href="https://twitter.com/HoustonChron/status/757997431594291200">July 26, 2016</a></blockquote>
    <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
     
  13. Deckard

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    They should be making a trip to jail. The assholes got lucky.
     
  14. DFWRocket

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    people using fake ID's usually just get fined
     
  15. Commodore

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    Yawn... this was initially reported, debated, and debunked back in 2014. Funny how social media warriors will trot out things overtime as "news". reckon there are people on political forums like this one that don't know or don't care...
     
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    I assumed there was more to this story...what's the actual situation?
     
  18. CometsWin

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    We're outraged out right now with your phoney baloney. Come back later with your hard hitting journalistic pieces from the professionals of outrage and we'll reconsider our outrage.
     
  19. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    the right doesn't care about the truth.
     

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