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Talk about shooting the messengers! Or at the very least, taking aim at them. A Houston grand jury investigated the activities exposed in the undercover videos from the Center for Medical Progress that showed Planned Parenthood executives haggling over the price of bodies and organs from abortions in their clinics, and decided to punish … the people who exposed it. David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt from CMP face misdemeanor charges relating to the sale of fetal tissue and tampering with government records:

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"A Houston grand jury that was investigating accusations of criminal misconduct against Planned Parenthood on Monday instead indicted the leader of an anti-abortion group that recorded covert videos of the organization’s employees.

Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson said David Daleiden, the director of the Center for Medical Progress, faces a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor count related to buying human tissue.

Sandra Merritt, one of Daleiden’s employees, was also indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record."

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The indictment was curious silent on how exactly CMP manipulated government records, according to the Washington Post. The other charge appears to be based on the cover used by CMP to do their reporting — claiming they wanted to traffic in fetal tissue. If so, that’s a rather curious application of the law, since it was clearly not CMP’s intent to facilitate such sales but to expose them.

On top of that, this technique gets used by law enforcement and journalists every day. Would Chris Hansen face indictment for trafficking in child sex for his excellent series of stings that captured numerous pedophiles? Do narcotics officers face charges in Houston for offering to buy or sell drugs in order to catch criminals in the act?

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Indicting the messengers might be a pretty good indication of a lack of “independent investigation.” This looks like a cooked process, not dissimilar to Travis County grand jury actions over the past decade or so. Live Action’s Lila Rose demanded a special prosecutor:

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"David Daleiden and his team have done a tremendous public service by exposing the horrific crimes against humanity that Planned Parenthood hides behind closed doors. CMP’s investigation forced Planned Parenthood, a tax-funded billion dollar corporation, to admit it was harvesting and selling aborted baby parts.

“The district attorney’s office was asked months ago about recusing itself from this case because one of its prosecutors serves as a board member of the Planned Parenthood affiliate involved in the case. It is unacceptable that the office did not recuse itself to eliminate any and all questions of potential bias. A special prosecutor should be appointed now to review this entire investigation.”

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/01/26/ho...icts-activists/ (emphasis added)

This would be almost Kafqaseque if it were not such a clear example of the misuse of selective prosecutorial power and an attempt to intimidate based on politics. Personally it also deeply saddens me since when I first moved to Texas I settled in Houston, a city I love. A lesbian mayor who seeks to silence her critics and a prosecutor who seeks to punish those who expose an evil. What has happened to that once great city?