CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT EXPLAINS WHY TRUMP WON'T BE INVITED TO SPEAK

University President on Why Trump Not Invited: ‘I Refuse to Let Desire to Win Trump Moral Compass’

BY HEATHER CLARK

SEE: http://christiannews.net/2016/01/28/university-president-on-why-trump-not-invited-i-refuse-to-let-desire-to-win-trump-moral-compass/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

BARTLESVILLE, Okla. — The president of a university in Oklahoma has released a post about why he will not be the next professing Christian university president to invite Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to address students.

Dr. Everett Piper of Oklahoma Wesleyan University expressed his thoughts this week on the university website in response to local media inquiring whether he, like Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr., would welcome Trump to have the podium.

“My answer has been simple and brief. No, I will not,” he wrote.

Piper said that at his university, unless the event is a debate, speakers need to align with biblical principles and be in step with the school’s mission.

“In selecting speakers for Oklahoma Wesleyan, party affiliation and political positions do not matter. Personal conduct, public statements, theological integrity and moral consistency do,” he explained, stating that he believes he owes it to students and faculty to screen prospective speakers in such a manner.

“In short, unless it is an open debate where different sides of the issue will be presented, we choose speakers who generally promote our university’s mission and who do not stand in opposition, either in word or deed, to what we claim to hold dear as a Christian community,” Piper outlined.

Piper said that he does not believe that Trump meets that qualification, and discounted pragmatic assertions that one must support Trump out of a desire to keep Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders out of the White House. He remarked that while others assert that Christians shouldn’t criticize those on “our side,” he disagrees that Trump is in step with Christianity.

“Anyone who calls women ‘pigs,’ ‘ugly,’ ‘fat’ and ‘pieces of [expletive]’ is not on my side,” Piper said. “Anyone who has been on the cover of Playboy and proud of it, who brags of his sexual history with multiple women and who owns strip clubs in his casinos is not on my side.”

“Anyone who believes the government can wrest control of the definition of marriage from the church is not on my side,” he continued. “Anyone who ignores the separation of powers and boasts of making the executive branch even more imperial is not on my side.”

The university president then contrasted Trump’s beliefs with his own.

“I believe in conserving the dignity of life. I believe in conserving respect for women. I believe in conserving the Constitution. I believe in conserving private property, religious liberty and human freedom,” Piper wrote. “I believe in morality more than I do in money. I hold to principles more than I yearn for power. I trust my Creator more than I do human character.”

“I refuse to let my desire to win ‘trump’ my moral compass,” he continued. “I will not sell my soul or my university’s to a political process that values victory more than virtue. No, Donald Trump will not be speaking at Oklahoma Wesleyan University.”

Piper likewise made headlines last month over a separate blog post entitled “This Is Not a Daycare. It’s a University,” which he penned after a student complained that a sermon during the chapel service on 1 Corinthians 13 made him feel bad because it convicted him about not loving others as Scripture commands.

“I have a message for this young man and all others who care to listen. That feeling of discomfort you have after listening to a sermon is called a conscience,” Piper wrote. “The goal of many a good sermon is to get you to confess your sins—not coddle you in your selfishness.”

“Oklahoma Wesleyan is .. a place to learn: to learn that life isn’t about you, but about others; that the bad feeling you have while listening to a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to repent of everything that’s wrong with you rather than blame others for everything that’s wrong with them,” he said. “This is a place where you will quickly learn that you need to grow up.”

ISLAM'S LAW OF DHIMMI: "PROTECTED PERSONS" AS LONG AS THEY SUBMIT TO ISLAM & PAY PENALTY TAXES

ISLAM'S LAW OF DHIMMI 

BY DAVID CLOUD

SEE: 

http://www.wayoflife.org/index_files/islams_law_of_dhimmi.html;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes

The following is excerpted from THE BIBLE AND ISLAM. In light of today’s news events, we do well to ask what the Bible says about Islam. Islam controls a large part of the world and is on a jihadic rampage that hasn’t been seen in hundreds of years. This far-reaching book describes Islam’s beginning and history, the doctrine of Allah, the Quran, Islam and salvation, the three stages of jihad, the Koran’s doctrine of abrogation, Islam and Judaism, Islam and Christianity, Sharia law, jihad and world conquest, Islam and the slave trade, Islam as a judgment on apostate Christianity and apostate Israel, Islam’s divisions and internecine hatred (Sunni vs. Shiite, etc.), Islam as a preparation for the Antichrist, the Antichrist and the Middle East problem, and Muslim nations in prophecy. The book explains what is happening in the Middle East, and where these events will ultimately lead. 160 pages. Available in print and as a free eBook from www.wayoflife.org.________________


Under Muslim rule, non-Muslims are called dhimmis and are treated differently than Muslims. Dhimmi means “protected person,” but the protection is dubious, to say the least. 
According to the Quran, dhimmi especially applies to “People of the Book,” referring to Jews and Christians, who were treated somewhat differently than idolaters. 

A dhimmi is allowed to live in Muslim territory in exchange for submission and payment of a heavy jizya tax. The Quran says: “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” (Quran 9:29). 

Exercise of the dhimmi law has varied from place to place and time to time, both in history and at the present. For example, in the late ninth century, Tariqu al-Hakim, the sixth Fatimid caliph in Egypt, required all Christians to wear a four-pound cross around their necks and Jews to wear a four-pound carving of a calf (for having worshiped the golden calf) (Rodney Stark, God’s Battalions, p. 90).

Sometimes Christian dhimmis have been allowed to keep their churches (but not build new ones or repair old ones), but they have always been forbidden to evangelize. For a Muslim to declare faith in Christ is apostasy, which is an unforgivable sin and punishable by death under sharia law.


After the Muslims conquered Syria in the seventh century, the dhimmis had to wear special identifying clothing and clip the fronts of their hair. They were not allowed to own weapons, ride on saddles, display crosses or Bibles, or hold public religious ceremonies. They had to take in any Muslim traveler and give him three days’ food and lodging (Trifkovic, The Sword of the Prophet, p. 105). 

Even the most minor infraction of the dhimmi rules “left the door open for the resumption of jihad.” 

In practice, dhimmis have been treated in whatever way the ruling Muslims see fit, and they have had no judicial recourse. They are at the “mercy” of their masters, but history tells us that more often than not, the Muslim masters were like the Babylonians, of whom Jeremiah said, “they are cruel, and have no mercy” (Jer. 6:23).

The dhimmi law is enforced with great rigor today by the Islamic State. The following is a description of what is happening under Islamic State rule in Syria, as told by Christian refugees who fled to Jordan. “Their village was occupied by rebel forces, who proceeded to announce that they were now under an Islamic emirate and were subject to sharia law. The Christian residents were offered four choices: (1) renounce the ‘idolatry’ of Christianity and convert to Islam; (2) pay a heavy tribute (jizya) to the Muslims for the privilege of keeping their heads and their Christian faith; (3) be killed; (4) flee for their lives, leaving all their belongings behind. Some Christians were killed, some fled, some tried to pay the jizya and found it too heavy a burden to bear after the rebels kept increasing the amount they had to pay, and some were unable to flee or pay, so they converted to Islam to save themselves. The scenario reported by Syrian refugees is a re-enactment of the historic fate of Christians across the Middle East” (“A Conversation with Christian Syrian Refugees,” Religious Freedom Coalition, June 1, 2013).__

PROJECT VERITAS VIDEO: COMMON CORE CORRUPTION~CURRICULUM PUBLISHER BID RIGGING SCANDAL

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COMMON CORE CORRUPTION

Hidden Cam: Common Core Insider Reveals Info About LA Bid Rigging Scandal

FORCED VACCINATION BILL IN VIRGINIA MOVING FAST~WILL ELIMINATE RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS

FORCED VACCINATION BILL IN VIRGINIA MOVING FAST~WILL ELIMINATE RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS 

"If the state can tag, track down and force individuals

to be injected with biologicals of known

 and unknown toxicity today, then there

 will be no limit on which individual freedoms 

the state can take away

                                       in the name of the greater good tomorrow." 

                                        - Barbara Loe Fisher

BY BARBARA LOE FISHER

SEE: www.nvic.org; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Breaking News: A public hearing on this bill (HB1342) has been just scheduled by the House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee (Subcommittee #2) for tomorrow, Jan. 28, 2016 at 8:30 a.m. to about noon in the State Capitol General Assembly Building, Room D, (1000 Bank St, entrance at North 9th St. & East Broad St.  - 1st floor) Richmond, VA. Public testimony (3 minutes) is allowed.

 

The most oppressive forced vaccination bill introduced in any state is being sponsored by an attorney and co-sponsored by an obstetrician for the purpose of eliminating the religious belief vaccine exemption for all children attending daycare and schools in the state, including homeschooled children. The bill (HB1342) would additionally prohibit state licensed doctors and nurse practitioners from exercising professional judgment and delaying administration of or granting a child a medical exemption that does not conform with narrow federal vaccine contraindication guidelines.

 

31 Doses of 12 Federally Recommended Vaccines, No Exemptions

 

Current Virginia law requires minor children attending public or private day care centers or schools, as well as homeschooled children, to receive up to 31 doses of 12 federally recommended vaccines administered according to the CDC childhood vaccine schedule unless parents submit (1) a statement from a state licensed physician or nurse practitioner that one or more required vaccines would be detrimental to the health of the child or (2) a signed affidavit from the parent that one or more of the required vaccines conflicts with religious tenets or practices.

 

In order to grant a child a medical vaccine exemption, HB1342 would force doctors and nurse practitioners to adhere to narrow federal vaccine contraindications that exclude 99.99 percent of children from vaccine exemptions, and it would force parents to violate their conscience by denying a religious belief vaccine exemption, including in cases where a child has already suffered a vaccine reaction, has been disabled or has a sibling who has been injured or died after being vaccinated.

 

Only 1 percent of VA Children Have Vaccine Exemptions Now

 

The Bill of Rights of the Virginia Constitution, as well the Virginia 1786 Act for Religious Freedom, the Virginia 2007 Religious Freedom Act and the Virginia 2013 Parental Rights Act contain strong language protecting the exercise of freedom of conscience, religious beliefs and parental rights. According to the CDC, Virginia ranks in the top third of states with high kindergarten vaccination rates for DTaP, MMR and varicella zoster shots and only 1.1% of children have medical or religious vaccine exemptions.

 

Bill Could Become Law Within Six Weeks

 

The bill was introduced on Jan. 21 and was immediately referred to the Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee. It could become law within six weeks. If you are a Virginia resident and want to protect vaccine exemptions, immediately go to the NVIC Advocacy Portal and become a registered Portal user and read the full Virginia Action Alert on HB1342, and find out how to take action today. You will also be able to stay up to date on the bill's status and what you can do each step of the way. The Portal will put you in immediate electronic contact with your own Virginia state legislators and the Governor so you can make your voice heard.

 

   Read and download a referenced NVIC Briefing Paper on Virginia HB 1342 and make comment here.

SENATOR CHRISTOPHER MURPHY SAYS PRESIDENT CAN DECLARE INTERNATIONAL MARTIAL LAW UNDER NEW AUMF~COMPLETE RE-WRITE OF CONSTITUTIONAL WAR CLAUSE

OUTRAGE FOISTED ON AMERICANS:
OBAMA TO RECEIVE AUTHORIZATION FOR THE USE OF MILITARY FORCE (BASED ON PERCEIVED THREATS, NOT JUST PRESENCE OF ENEMIES)
COMPLETE RE-WRITE OF CONSTITUTIONAL WAR CLAUSE STRIPS CONGRESS OF ITS AUTHORITY
SENATOR CHRISTOPHER MURPHY SAYS PRESIDENT CAN DECLARE INTERNATIONAL MARTIAL LAW 
UNDER NEW AUMF.

OBAMA USURPS U.S. WAR POWERS

Senator Warns Of Martial Law Bill Introduced!

Published on Jan 27, 2016

A new bill making its way through Congress contains “dangerous and unprecedented” language that could be considered a “declaration of international martial law,” a US senator warned last Thursday. http://www.infowars.com/senator-warns...

Red Alert! Martial Law 2016

VIDEO: SENATOR WARNS AUMF BILL IS “DECLARATION OF INTERNATIONAL MARTIAL LAW”

“This resolution is a total rewrite of the War Powers clause of the Constitution"

BY ADAN SALAZAR

SEE: http://www.infowars.com/video-senator-warns-aumf-bill-is-declaration-of-international-martial-law/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

A new bill making its way through Congress contains “dangerous and unprecedented” language that could be considered a “declaration of international martial law,” a US senator warned last Thursday.

“This resolution is a total rewrite of the War Powers clause of the Constitution. Let’s be clear about that,” Democrat Senator Chris Murphy said on the Senate floor last week in regards to S.J. Res. 29, a bill purporting to give the sitting US president the power to declare war on ISIS.

“It is essentially a declaration of international martial law,” Murphy said.

Speaking out against the fast-track authorization for the use of military force bill proposed by Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Murphy explained the resolution would permanently hand over war-making authority to the office of the president.

“A sweeping transfer of military power to the president that will allow him or her to send US troops almost anywhere in the world for any reason with absolutely no limitations,” Sen. Murphy described, adding that Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution “vests in Congress the responsibility to declare war.”

RELATED: SENATE READY TO GIVE OBAMA AUTHORITY TO DECLARE “INTERNATIONAL MARTIAL LAW”

“While the ink is still wet on this resolution… it’s safe to say that this resolution is the wrong way to authorize war against ISIS,” Murphy said. “The language of this resolution is dangerous and it is unprecedented.”

“[The American people] certainly don’t want Congress to hand over the power to the president to send our troops into any country anywhere in the world for almost any reason. And that’s what this resolution would do.”

Murphy went on: “It gives the power to the president without consulting Congress to deploy US forces in anyone of the 61 countries where ISIS has a single sympathizer.”

The Senator from Connecticut also warned the bill could possibly give the president the power to deploy troops on US soil:

“Well as we’ve seen here in the United States, the threat of ISIS is present in virtually every corner in the world. Thus this resolution would give the president total absolute carte blanche to send our young soldiers to any corner of the world without consulting Congress.”

Senator Murphy’s comments were echoed on Sunday by former Congressman Ron Paul, who said the new resolution would make the “Iraq War authorization of 2002 look like a walk in the park.”

“Let’s be clear: If Senate Majority Leader McConnell succeeds in passing this open-ended war authorization, the US Constitution will be all but a dead letter,” Dr. Paul wrote.

The bill currently has four co-sponsors, Sen. Daniel Coats, Sen. Joni Ernst, Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen Orrin Hatch.
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Republicans Want To Give Obama Martial Law Powers

Published on Jan 29, 2016

“This resolution is a total rewrite of the War Powers clause of the Constitution. Let’s be clear about that,” Democrat Senator Chris Murphy said on the Senate floor last week in regards to S.J. Res. 29, a bill purporting to give the sitting US president the power to declare war on ISIS.

“It is essentially a declaration of international martial law,” Murphy said. http://www.infowars.com/video-senator...

Speakin

POPE FRANCIS MEETS IRAN'S PRESIDENT AT VATICAN TO "BOOST" NUKE DEAL & MIDEAST PEACE~PERSECUTION, TORTURE OF SAEED ABEDINI, CHRISTIANS & OTHERS IGNORED

IRAN: 

"ROGUE REGIME WITH GENOCIDAL ASPIRATIONS"; 

NO HINDRANCE FOR POPE WHO OPERATES IN FEAR, COWARDICE & APPEASEMENT

FRANCIS & ROUHANI PLAY UP TO EACH OTHER;

POPE GREETS IRAN'S ROUHANI WHO PRETENDS HE'S A REASONABLE, MODERATE LEADER IN SPITE OF JIHADIST PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS & OTHER RELIGIOUS MINORITIES

MUSLIM "SENSITIVITIES" RESPECTED DESPITE JIHADISM
SEE: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/italy-covers-up-naked-statues-bans-wine-for-visit-of-iranian-president-rouhani

ARE THEY JUST INTERFAITH BROTHERS WITH MANY COMMONALITIES?

POPE FRANCIS MEETS IRAN'S PRESIDENT TO "BOOST" NUKE DEAL & MIDEAST PEACE 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/pope-francis-meets-irans-president-to-boost-nuke-deal-mideast-peace; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

“If we want peace in the Middle East, Iran and Iranian Islam have a vital role to play,” said the Rev. Bernardo Cervellera. Good to see the Pope giving his blessing to a rogue regime with genocidal aspirations. It is a wise move and perfectly in line with the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch’s robust defense of Islam in the face of Muslim persecution of Christians. Cowardice, appeasement and fear are the hallmarks of the contemporary Catholic Church, and apparently requirements for the clergy. Jump on board and cower.

“Pope Francis meets Iran’s president to boost nuke deal, Mideast peace,” by Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service, January 26, 2016 (thanks to Steve):

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met for talks on Tuesday (Jan. 26) — the first such encounter since 1999 — in a private meeting in which the pontiff pressed Rouhani on fostering Middle East peace and countering terrorism and arms trafficking.

The 39-minute meeting in the apostolic palace also touched on the landmark deal on Iran’s nuclear capacity that has been praised by the pontiff, and the two leaders discussed the situation of the church in Iran and inter-religious dialogue.

“I ask you to pray for me. It’s been a pleasure and I wish you well in your work,” Rouhani said at the end of their talks, addressing the pope in Farsi through a female translator.

“I thank you for this visit and I hope for peace,” Francis said in Italian, aided throughout the appointment by a Farsi-speaking translator.

In a statement issued after the meeting, the Vatican described the talks as “cordial” and said “common spiritual values emerged” in the discussions.

The Vatican said Francis and Rouhani discussed religious freedom and “the important role that Iran is called upon to fulfill, along with other countries in the region, to promote suitable political solutions to the problems afflicting the Middle East, (and) to counter the spread of terrorism and arms trafficking.”

The Vatican visit was a key stop on a four-day visit to Italy and France by Rouhani that had been postponed after the November terror attack in Paris. The tour is seen as part of the effort by Rouhani and Iranian moderates to revive relations with the West and open Iran to business opportunities.

Francis can help promote the “thaw in diplomatic relations between Iran and other countries,” much as he did with Cuba and the U.S., the Rev. Bernardo Cervellera, editor of the Rome-based Asia News, told The Wall Street Journal. “If we want peace in the Middle East, Iran and Iranian Islam have a vital role to play.”

Estimates on the number of Christians in Iran vary between 100,000 and 300,000, and the number of Catholics is pegged at about 20,000.

Christians are a recognized religious minority and have certain rights, but they face strict limitations as well.

The release this month of an Iranian-American evangelical Christian pastor, Saeed Abedini, after more than three years in jail in Iran, allegedly for trying to set up house churches, underscored the religious freedom and human rights problems that have been flagged by the U.S. State Department.

Rouhani was joined at the Vatican on Tuesday by his foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, along with two representatives from the Iranian Embassy to the Holy See. The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and Foreign Minister Paul Gallagher were also present.

In an exchange of gifts, Francis presented his guest with a medallion of St. Martin of Tours, a fourth-century French bishop depicted giving his cloak to a beggar. The pope told Rouhani it was a symbol of brotherhood.

Francis also gave him an English-language copy of his landmark 2015 encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’.” Noting that the papal letter had not been translated into Farsi, the pontiff also offered Rouhani a copy in Arabic.

The president in turn gave his host a rug hand-woven in Qom, a Shiite holy city in Iran, and a large book by artist Mahmoud Farshchian.

Rouhani arrived at the Vatican late in the morning for the one-on-one with the pope, a day after arriving in the Italian capital for high-level diplomatic and business talks.

The impetus for the European tour was the historic agreement signed last year by Tehran and six world powers, including the U.S., that requires it to curtail its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.

Francis cited the deal as one of the key achievements of 2015 “which give solid hope for the future,” along with the Paris climate change deal.

“I think first of the so-called Iran nuclear deal, which I hope will contribute to creating a climate of detente in the region,” the pope told the Holy See diplomatic corps earlier this month….

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VISIT OF ROUHANI TO VATICAN ONE DAY BEFORE HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

SEE: http://www.timesofisrael.com/rome-jewish-community-pans-rouhani-visit/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Rome Jewish community pans Rouhani visit; 

Leaders say Iranian president unwelcome, citing ‘constant calls for the destruction of Israel’

Rome’s Jewish community sharply criticized a visit by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, particularly as the timing came just ahead of the January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In a statement, the Jewish community leadership underscored Rouhani’s positions of a clear “Holocaust denial and revisionist nature.”

It cited the “constant calls for the destruction of Israel” and manifestations such as Tehran’s “contest for anti-Semitic and Holocaust revisionist cartoons.”

These, it said, as well as his government’s “lack of respect for civil rights, constant increase of the death penalty, restrictions on freedom of the press” made Rouhani’s official visit to Rome “unwelcome.”

Rouhani is on a four-day visit to Italy and France to bolster its international role following the implementation of the accord with the United States and five other states to curb its nuclear activities and end economic sanctions.

On Tuesday, Rouhani met with Pope Francis in the Vatican.

A Vatican statement said that at the 40-minute audience at the Vatican Tuesday “common spiritual values emerged and reference was made to the good state of relations between the Holy See and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the life of the Church in the country and the action of the Holy See to favor the promotion of the dignity of the human person and religious freedom.”

It said the two discussed “the conclusion and application of the Nuclear Accord and the important role that Iran is called upon to fulfill, along with other countries in the region, to promote suitable political solutions to the problems afflicting the Middle East, to counter the spread of terrorism and arms trafficking.”

The statement also said the two leaders “highlighted the importance of inter-religious dialogue and the responsibility of religious communities in promoting reconciliation, tolerance and peace.”

At a meeting with Italian and Iranian business leaders, Rouhani said his county had “no intention of attacking or invading any other country” and “no intention of interfering in the affairs of any other country.” He added, “A lack of development creates the conditions for extremism, unemployment recruits soldiers for terrorism.”

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani leafs through a book he gave to Pope Francis as a gift, during their private audience at the Vatican,Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, Pool)

 

TEXAS GRAND JURY INDICTS MAN WHO RECORDED SECRET VIDEOS OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S SALE OF BABY PARTS

Texas Grand Jury Indicts Man Who Recorded Planned Parenthood Baby Body Parts Videos

SEE: http://christiannews.net/2016/01/25/texas-grand-jury-indicts-man-who-recorded-planned-parenthood-baby-body-parts-videos/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes

AUSTIN, Texas (Associated Press) — A Houston grand jury investigating undercover footage of Planned Parenthood found no wrongdoing Monday by the abortion provider and instead indicted anti-abortion activists involved in making the videos that provoked outrage among Republican leaders nationwide.

David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, was indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor count related to purchasing human organs. Another activist, Sandra Merritt, was also indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record. It’s the first time anyone in the group has been charged criminally since the videos started surfacing last year.

In a statement announcing the indictment, Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson didn’t provide details on the charges, including what record or records were allegedly tampered with and why Daleiden faces a charge related to buying human organs. Anderson’s office said it could not provide details until the documents charging Daleiden and Merritt were formally made public, which was expected later Monday.


FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20160125_ap_54d1cc76510045129460a3858abb1a91.html

SHOCK: Indictments in Planned Parenthood Investigation

Published on Jan 26, 2016


A Harris County grand jury investigating allegations that a Planned Parenthood clinic in Houston illegally sold the tissue of aborted fetuses has cleared the organization of wrongdoing and instead indicted two anti-abortion activists behind the undercover videos that sparked the probe.





Government, Defying All Logic, Ignores Baby Butchers – Goes after Those Who Expose Them

SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/government-defying-all-logic-ignores-baby-butchers-goes-after-those-who-expose-them/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:




The lead attorney for one of the undercover pro-life reporters indicted this week in the aftermath of last year’s exposing of Planned Parenthood says prosecutors are pursuing bogus charges, Planned Parenthood officials are the obvious criminals and America is reaching a “scary” point where politics determine the outcome of the justice system.

On Monday, a Harris County, Texas, grand jury elected not to indict Planned Parenthood for allegedly selling organs and other body parts of aborted babies. Instead, the members returned a felony indictment of tampering with a government record against Center for Medical Progress President David Daleiden and his colleague, Sandra S. Merritt. If convicted, they could each spend as much as 20 years in prison.

“These two individuals will be exonerated. There’s no question about that,” said Liberty Counsel Chairman Mathew Staver, who is lead counsel for Merritt. “They’ll have their day in court. We look forward to that.”

Since news of the indictment began to spread, pro-life supporters launched the Twitter hashtag #IStandWithDavid to show their support.

Daleiden was charged with an additional misdemeanor of trying to purchase organs from aborted babies.

According to the indictment, the felony tampering charge accuses Daleiden and Merritt of fabricating California driver’s licenses to gain entry to the Houston Planned Parenthood facility.

Staver said the statute is being badly misapplied in this case.

“They were using journalistic tactics like lots of journalists do,” Staver said. “It’s not just David and Sandra. This is something that has been done by journalists for a long time.”





In addition, he said there is an explicit exception to the law.

“If you take a driver’s license and you tamper with it and make it look like it’s valid for you because you have had your driver’s license revoked for a DUI or whatever, and you then present that as your driver’s license to the police officer knowing that you really have no driver’s license, that is what’s covered by this situation,” he explained.

As a result, Staver is supremely confident both defendants will be cleared.

“This indictment really goes beyond what the statute words say, and certainly the intent of the statute,” he said. “That’s why I think this will be thrown out at the end of the day.”

Staver said the misdemeanor charge against Daleiden may be even more bogus.

“That’s even more outrageous because he’s purchasing what from whom, and the seller doesn’t get anything to that effect? If someone’s going to purchase something, you have to have a seller selling something, and it’s illegal to sell body parts,” Staver said.

He said Daleiden has even stronger ground in that he had no intent to actually buy any body parts from aborted babies. He said no one would videotape their activities and then disseminate it far and wide if they believed it was criminal.

Staver believes the absence of charges against Planned Parenthood is the greatest travesty of all in this case.

“It’s obvious what they’re doing. They’re on video. It’s multiple times, multiple people, high-ranking Planned Parenthood individuals. They’re talking callously about aborting baby body parts. They’re talking about preserving certain fetal organs intact because they can get higher prices for them. Then they’re talking about selling these body parts, so it’s pretty obvious,” Staver said.

He continued, “Planned Parenthood is the one that has committed criminal acts here. They’re the ones that should be indicted and having to reveal to the rest of the public the inner workings of Planned Parenthood, this brutal, barbarous kind of activity that Planned Parenthood is doing and being funded by state and federal tax dollars in the process.”

So how did this happen? Staver sees two potential issues, beginning with the grand jury process itself.

“[A grand jury] is basically giving one side of a story without the other side represented,” he said. “Certainly we need to respect the grand jury’s process, but I do know there are situations where grand juries don’t get all the information, and they are going on information that is being presented to them, which is a very narrow slice of the pie. That’s why prosecutors need to be so ethically above board.”

That last point leads to Staver’s second major concern. While Harris County District Attorney Davon Anderson is a Republican who calls herself pro-life, one of her assistant prosecutors most certainly is not.

LifeNews revealed that Lauren Reeder, a prosecutor in Anderson’s office, is listed as an unpaid director for the Houston Planned Parenthood clinic in question on the facility’s most recent 990 tax form from 2014.

“The district attorney or the assistant district attorney has a lot of power in either giving evidence to give one side or withholding evidence to not give the other side,” Staver said.

In the big picture, Staver fears America is entering a “very scary” phase in which politics and ideology matter more than the law in resolving hot-button cases.

“When you get into two different particular areas, abortion and the issue of homosexuality and same-sex marriage, it seems all the common sense, all the logic, all the rules of procedure, frankly, the rule of law just gets tossed to the side and you have these outrageous, shocking situations,” he said.

“What’s driving it? It’s not the rule of law. It’s ideology and it’s politics and it should have nothing to do with judicial proceedings. When you ultimately mix ideology and politics with the judiciary, you’re really messing up the system that the founders envisioned. All of us should be concerned about that because [we] all lose our liberty,” said Staver, noting that those who cheer today’s decisions could find the winds blowing against them soon.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/attorney-for-indicted-pro-life-reporter-its-outrageous/#SXogbrUVYilWDl26.99

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Planned Parenthood Board Member Works in Office of D.A. Who Prosecuted Pro-Life Investigator

BY HEATHER CLARK

SEE: http://christiannews.net/2016/01/27/planned-parenthood-board-member-works-in-office-of-d-a-who-prosecuted-pro-life-investigator/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes


HOUSTON, Texas — A member of the board of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast works in the office of the district attorney who pursued the prosecution of a pro-life investigator before a grand jury, while the abortion giant went free.

David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) was indicted on Monday by a grand jury in Houston on a felony charge of “tampering with a governmental record” for creating a fake driver’s license in conducting his undercover investigation, as well as a misdemeanor count related to the purchasing of human tissue.

Daleiden, 27, had posed as a representative of a fetal tissue procurement company in order to engage in discussions with Planned Parenthood officials as a potential buyer of bodily organs. He recorded the interactions, conducted at various locations across the country, as part of his “human capital” investigative series that was released in July.



Sandra Merritt, 62, was also charged with tampering with a governmental record for likewise printing the license, which was used to obtain access to Planned Parenthood gathering in Houston.

While Daleiden and Merritt were charged for seeking to buy fetal tissue, Planned Parenthood was not charged for agreeing to obtain compensation for the body parts of aborted babies, nor outlining that it had been doing so with other scientific companies nationwide. Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards announced after several of the videos were released that the organization would cease accepting compensation for fetal organs following outrage over the matter.

“The Center for Medical Progress uses the same undercover techniques that investigative journalists have used for decades in exercising our First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and of the press, and follows all applicable laws,” Daleiden said in a statement.

“We respect the processes of the Harris County district attorney, and note that buying fetal tissue requires a seller as well,” he noted. “Planned Parenthood still cannot deny the admissions from their leadership about fetal organ sales captured on video for all the world to see.”

There have also been concerns following the discovery that a prosecutor in the Harris County district attorney’s Division of Criminal Family Law also serves as a director on the board of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.

According to reports, Lauren Reeder told District Attorney Devon Anderson earlier this year about her work with the abortion giant in order to be “transparent.” However, she also said that she didn’t see a conflict of interest in the situation.

“I don’t think there’s any conflict in my dual roles in two separate organizations,” Reeder told reporters.

Anderson said that Reeder would not be involved with the case.

“She will not be involved in any manner in this investigation,” she told the Houston Chronicle. “If at any time in the future, reliable and credible information is brought to my attention that would question our ability to continue to perform a fair, thorough and independent investigation of this matter due to her board membership, I will revisit the issue of seeking the appointment of an independent prosecutor and act accordingly.”

Some still find the situation to be ironic.

“Daleiden is being charged with the very crime he was exposing? Seriously?” writes Tim Brown with Freedom Outpost. “He can play the part, just like police do when they engage in drug busts, but have only the intention of exposing the crime and yet, he is the one charged with what these devils are engaged in?”

“Why are the company executives shown in the videos not also being indicted for being willing to make the sale? If it’s wrong to make a purchase of baby parts, surely it is wrong to be selling them,” he said. “The double standard of the DA’s office is right out in the open for all to see! This is an injustice!”

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Jury That Prosecuted Pro-Life Investigator Never Voted on Charging Planned Parenthood

SEE: http://christiannews.net/2016/01/29/jury-that-prosecuted-pro-life-investigator-never-voted-on-charging-planned-parenthood/