Apparently it’s pay-up time for Xavier Beccerra, California’s new attorney general. Last week Beccerra, who just so happened to have received thousands in campaign contributions from Planned Parenthood (in 2012 and 2014), leveled 15 felony counts against David Daleiden, the pro-life activist who exposed the abortion provider’s illegal peddling of fetal parts.
 
 
This is clearly a case of political favoritism – and blatant persecution. Because when it comes to the law, as Jenna Ellis at the Federalist explains, CA prosecutors simply don’t have a case against Planned Parenthood whistleblowers.
 
Daleiden and co-worker Sandra Meritt (both with The Center for Medical Progress), are charged with invasion of privacy and conspiracy; neither allegation is legitimate according to Ellis, a constitutional law and criminal defense attorney, and a law professor at Colorado Christian University. Although Planned Parenthood personnel weren’t aware that their conversations were being recorded by undercover journalists, that doesn’t constitute a breach of law because they were representing a corporation ~

(T)he Ninth Circuit, whose jurisdiction includes California, has repeatedly affirmed that privacy is an individual right that cannot be asserted by a corporation. The Ninth Circuit recently held, “This common-sense notion that privacy is an aspect of one’s personal life is reflected in the law,” in a case that contemplated very similar facts: undercover journalists posing as were invited into the laboratories and administrative offices of a medical company and recorded the conversations without the company’s consent.
 
The Ninth Circuit noted that because the conversation did not involve any details about the doctor’s private and personal affairs, there was no reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of the business conversation, even behind closed doors.

Furthermore, several meetings actually took place in restaurants, where no expectation of privacy could be assumed.
 
Beccerra must have just thrown the conspiracy charge out there to make Daleiden and Meritt sound like nefarious criminals; it’s nonsensical ~

(“Conspiracy”) requires conspiring to commit an act that is criminal. For example, you might “conspire” with a friend to throw a surprise birthday party. You and your friend would not be charged with criminal conspiracy because a surprise party is not a criminal act. If there was no underlying criminal conduct in recording Planned Parenthood, then there was no criminal conspiracy.

 
If you recall, this is not the first time Daleiden has been been unfairly targeted by aggressive progressives hellbent on eliminating any threat to their sacrament of abortion. The previous California Attorney General, Kamala Harris, shamelessly pandering to Planned Parenthood, actually raided his home last April. And in Texas, as I posted last year ~

Rather than prosecute Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast for exchanging human organs for “valuable consideration”, which just so happens to be a felony under both federal and Texas state law, a Houston grand jury decided in late January that David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress (the non-profit organization responsible for the revealing series of videos published last year) should be indicted instead!

He (and Meritt) was vindicated in both these cases – and will be again. But it’s a sad commentary of the sorry state of journalism in America today that this story is getting so little coverage in the mainstream media. As Matt Walsh reminds us, the fourth estate should actually have a glimmer of integrity ~

They are supposed to shine light into the darkness — the problem is that they usually focus on shining light into the light, or they turn the light off and just make up politically convenient stories about what’s happening in the darkness. Daleiden and his compatriots actually went into the darkness and turned on their flashlights. And now we’re seeing why that does take guts, and why most of the cowards who call themselves journalists would never consider doing it themselves. The forces that operate in the darkness don’t like to be exposed, and they have the means to punish any who attempt to do so. The media, most of the time, is aligned with these insidious forces. Daleiden went up against them, and now they’re trying to eat him alive for it.

But David Daleiden is fearless and won’t be intimidated by pro-abortion politicians trying to bully him into shutting up and going away. The Center for Medical Progress just released the following video last Wednesday.
It’s truly shocking to see this woman casually laughing and joking as she talks about ending the lives of tiny humans. You decide who really needs to be prosecuted for breaking the law ~
 

 
 
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Related:
11 Takeaways From Hearing On Baby Parts Trafficking
CA A.G. Harris sics Goon Squad on Daleiden
Turning justice on its head ~ Apparently catching Planned Parenthood in the act of selling embryonic parts for profit is a greater crime than illegally selling embryonic parts for profit.
Attorney General Who Charged David Daleiden With 15 Felonies Received Thousands From Planned Parenthood
This is what persecution looks like. All decent Americans should be infuriated