Pro-Life Activists Ordered to pay $2.4M to Planned Parenthood for Undercover Investigation

From Christianpost.com

David Daleiden, a defendant in an indictment stemming from a Planned Parenthood video he helped produce, speaks to the media after appearing in court at the Harris County Courthouse on February 4, 2016, in Houston, Texas. Daleiden is facing an indictment on a misdemeanor count of purchasing human organs, and along with defendant Sandra Merritt, is charged with tampering with a governmental record. | Eric Kayne/Getty Images

An appeals court panel has ruled that David Daleiden and other pro-life activists must pay a $2.4 million judgment to Planned Parenthood Federation of America for carrying out an undercover investigation and secretly filming abortion providers discussing the harvesting of babies’ body parts. 

At issue in the litigation was the pro-life activists’ use of fake IDs and their recording of conversations that were meant to be confidential, which a lower court concluded violated various laws, including conspiracy, breach of contracts, conspiracy, fraud, fraudulent and unlawful business practices, trespass, RICO, and various federal and state wiretapping laws.

In a unanimous decision released last Friday, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit mostly upheld a lower court ruling against the pro-life activists, who also describe themselves as citizen journalists. 

Circuit Judge Ronald M. Gould authored the panel opinion, rejecting the arguments of the pro-life activists that their actions were protected by the First Amendment and journalistic practices. 

“Invoking journalism and the First Amendment does not shield individuals from liability for violations of laws applicable to all members of society. None of the laws Appellants violated was aimed specifically at journalists or those holding a particular viewpoint,” wrote Gould. 

“The two categories of compensatory damages permitted by the district court, infiltration damages and security damages, were awarded by the jury to reimburse Planned Parenthood for losses caused by Appellants’ violations of generally applicable laws.”

Gould also argued that the panel decision “does not impose a new burden on journalists or undercover investigations using lawful means.”

“From the beginning of their scheme, Appellants engaged in illegal conduct—including forging signatures, creating and procuring fake driver’s licenses, and breaching contracts—that the jury found so objectionable as to award Planned Parenthood punitive damages,” he continued. 

“In affirming Planned Parenthood’s compensatory damages from Appellants’ First Amendment challenge, we simply reaffirm the established principle that the pursuit of journalism does not give a license to break laws of general applicability.”

Gould did reverse the lower court decision finding the pro-life activists guilty of violating the Federal Wiretap Act, noting that it “requires that the criminal or tortious purpose be independent of and separate from the purpose of the recording.”

“Planned Parenthood runs afoul of this requirement by reusing the same criminal purpose—furthering the civil RICO scheme to destroy Planned Parenthood—as both the purpose of the civil RICO claim and the independent criminal or tortious purpose,” said Gould. 

“Planned Parenthood’s argument is circular: according to Planned Parenthood, the civil RICO conspiracy is furthered by the recordings, and the recordings themselves further the ongoing civil RICO conspiracy. Such reasoning is not permitted by [the Act].”

By overturning the federal wiretap part of the verdict, around $100,000 of the over $2.4 million in compensatory damages will be removed. 

Daleiden’s group, the Center for Medical Progress, posted a statement last week on their website denouncing the panel’s opinion.

“A Ninth Circuit panel decided with this ruling today that protecting Planned Parenthood’s barbaric practices of partial-birth abortion and trafficking of aborted fetuses for government-sponsored experiments is more important than protecting the First Amendment rights of journalists and of the public,” CMP stated. 

“In order to do this, the panel had to contradict its own precedents about undercover reporting on any other topic, disregard other Circuits’ en banc findings of wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood, and bless the increasing weaponization of the justice system against pro-life speech.”

CMP went on to vow that its citizen journalists will appeal the panel decision, adding that the “tide of history is turning against the panel’s obsolete pro-abortion exceptionalism.”

In 2015, Daleiden and CMP garnered national headlines when they released a series of undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood officials violating various laws, namely discussing the sale of aborted baby body parts, including organs, tissue and limbs.

For its part, Planned Parenthood and pro-choice activists have denied the CMP’s claims, arguing that the videos were selectively edited and unlawfully recorded. However, CMP released the full-length, unedited videos when this story broke in 2015, which were covered by The Christian Post and other news outlets.  Source

“Woe to those who call evil good
    and good evil,
who put darkness for light
    and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
    and sweet for bitter” (Isaiah 5:20).

MARANATHA!!

Globalists making final push for depopulated one-world order: How do we resist?

From leohohmann.com

Are you still trying to make sense of all the insanity in the world, or maybe trying to help a friend or family member make sense of it?

  • Drag queens in schools, libraries, even churches and other settings targeting children and families. 
  • The seemingly unhinged attacks on everything that is good and necessary for a healthy society and the celebration of everything that is evil.
  • Food prices rising out of control, with whispers of famine on the horizon (See herehere and here).
  • The suicidal war on so-called “fossil fuels” like coal, oil and natural gas, when it’s becoming obvious (look at Europe) that no nation can survive without them.
  • The fact that the U.S.-led NATO and Russia-China are on a collision course toward World War III, with both sides threatening nuclear strikes.

For answers, consider reading and sharing my post from back on May 26, “Globalists have entered the kill phase of the Great Reset.”

A relatively small entourage of self-appointed globalist elites are using engineered famine, engineered pandemics, vaccines, and World War III to accomplish their long-stated goal of depopulation.

That’s why we call them global predators. These globalists are in the final phase, the kill phase, of destroying the post-World War II liberal world order, which must be accomplished before they can implement a new world order based on a cashless digital economy tied to a digital ID that tracks every person and assigns them a social credit score. 

Before you can “build back better,” you must eliminate every trace of the old world order. Burn it all down. Destroy families. Destroy economies. Destroy currencies. Make people suffer.

And the most critical component of their deconstruction plan is depopulation.

Everything you see going on in geo-politics today is meant to drive depopulation. From LGBTQ mania (they don’t reproduce) and food shortages to endless genetically engineered viruses and the fanatical religious fervor for ever-expanding abortion rights, and the introduction of deadly “vaccines” — it all points toward one thing – more death.

And now we have found yet another smoking gun comment from a key globalist figure, Dennis Meadows.

Meadows authored the 1972 book Limits to Growth, which was endorsed by the Club of Rome and is still sold on its website today. The Club of Rome was the originator of the goals contained in United Nations Agenda 21 Sustainable Development, and chief among those goals was the need for fewer human beings on planet Earth. Meadows argued in his book for a drastic depopulation program.

Two years later, in 1974, Henry Kissinger authored the Kissinger Report, which followed up on the same theme put forth by Meadows, advocating a systematic reduction of the population of Third World countries through the introduction of birth control (including abortion), fomenting civil wars and orchestrated famine. Now those same strategic weapons are being turned inward on the United States and the West, with the addition of poisonous medical treatments disguised as “vaccines.”

Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab and all of the global predators of today are committed to this same agenda.

That’s why Schwab told us last year that “nobody is safe unless everyone is vaccinated.” On its face, such a statement makes no sense. Why would no one be safe unless everyone is vaccinated? If it’s a true vaccine, each individual who receives it should be inoculated, right? Until you understand that these vaccines were never intended to save lives but to destroy them, you can’t make sense of what these psychopaths are saying. It’s not about your health, it’s about killing some and making others sterile. That’s why they say you MUST get them. To refuse them makes you no better than a criminal. No other vaccine has ever been marketed with that kind of all-or-nothing bravado.

Bill Gates, in his 2010 TED Talk, also revealed his overriding agenda when he said the key to achieving “net zero” carbon emissions, was depopulation. 

Gates said:

“So you’ve got a thing on the left, CO2, that you want to get to zero, and that’s going to be based on the number of people, the services each person is using on average, the energy, on average, for each service, and the CO2 being put out per unit of energy. So let’s look at each one of these, and see how we can get this down to zero. Probably, one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty near to zero.
“First, we’ve got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent.”

So it’s not like we needed another confession, another confirmation, from yet another globalist insider. We already had Kissinger, Gates, Schwab, King Charles and many others. But in case you did need another, here is Dennis Meadows spilling his guts and shedding crocodile tears while saying how badly he wants the vast majority of us dead.

It’s truly amazing how these monsters speak in such warm and friendly tones as they’re telling their fellow human beings they need to die.

Meadows says the world’s population needs to be reduced from 7.5 billion down to 1 billion, but he “hopes” that we will all just agree to somehow be eliminated without becoming violent!
He knows damn well there’s no way to achieve that level of depopulation, we’re talking 87 percent, without spilling a lot of blood, on top of the blood that’s already being spilled on a daily basis through abortion and Big Pharma poisons. 

As horrific as the abortion and Big Pharma industries have become, they can’t, on their own, get the global population down to 1 billion. They must trigger the next Great War. The preliminary phase of that war was kicked off when they released the deadly mRNA “vaccines” and pressured everyone to get them. It’s very telling that China isn’t giving its people the mRNA shots.
 
No, they are keeping their population strong while watching the Western nations weaken themselves. When we are sufficiently weakened by repeated jabs, look for China to make its move. Russia will draw us into war first, in Ukraine, and when enough of our military is deployed over there, that’s when China will make its move against Taiwan and possibly more.

They know the U.S., even before the shots were introduced and mandated on our military, was not prepared to fight on two fronts.

The runup to World War III will be gradual, collapsing our already weakened economy in the process. But civil war could break out sooner than world war, as it seems the U.S. deep state is already laying a narrative to accuse somebody, either the Russians or the Republicans, of somehow stealing the November 8 midterm elections. 

So while many are predicting nuclear holocaust and World War III, I’m of the belief that civil war and economic collapse could come first.

Regardless of the order, most Americans today, unlike in the Great Depression, lack the resourcefulness and the skills to survive during an extended period of extreme economic hardship.
A friend who is an Iraq War veteran once told me that the one thing he learned in a war zone was that folks you thought were friends could turn on you overnight if it meant taking something you have in order to feed their starving children.

In the meantime, remember that we are the resistance to the Great Reset (aka global slave state). No politician, police force, no military unit is going to ride to our rescue. We defeat them through prayer, networking together and dedicated civil disobedience.

What do I mean by civil disobedience? Everything you hear the establishment “authorities” telling us to do through their mouthpieces in the mainstream media, do the opposite.
They say that to save grandma you must get another shot. Refuse.

They say cover your face with a mask. Refuse.
They say that to save the planet it’s time to trade in your gasoline-fueled car for an electric car. Refuse.
They say it’s better to buy things online, so buy in person whenever possible.
They say it’s more sustainable to eat bugs for protein. Refuse.
They say it’s time to give up control over your thermostat. Refuse.
They say it’s time to give up your right to defend yourself and your family with firearms and only the “authorities” should have guns. Refuse and take responsibility for your own security.
They say burning wood is bad, so fill your woodshed and burn baby burn.
They say it’s time to sell your land in the country and move into a smart city. Refuse.
They say it’s time to trade paper dollars for digital dollars. Refuse.
They say it’s time to get that digital health passport on your cellphone. Refuse.

Above all, refuse to remain silent. Speak truth to power in whatever circles you run.
You get the picture. We must become the refusniks of the 21st century. 
Refuse their techno-totalitarian digital dark age, where they have told us that we will own nothing, not even our own bodies, and somehow learn to like it.

So prepare accordingly. And pray for a breakthrough that will get the world off this collision course it’s currently on, where both sides seem to want war.

And remember: We are not each other’s enemy. Your Democrat neighbor is not your enemy.
The enemy is the globalist predators driving a wedge between you and your neighbor. Because they are so few, they can only win if they divide us off from each other and get us to start killing each other. Don’t take the bait. Help your neighbors. Love your neighbors. 

The fact is, these elites know they can never fully control 7.5 billion people. They need fewer of us and what better way to eliminate the freedom fighters – those who’ve adopted a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual warrior mentality – than to poison them with vaccines and send them to the front lines of the next big war.

Fear not. Our God laughs at the futility of those who think themselves greater than He, the one and only, the Almighty.

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