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As Groups Fight To Suppress Videos . . . Abortion Shocker Shows “Good Germans” Now “Good Democrats”

August 9, 2015 Frontpage No Comments

By DEXTER DUGGAN

Amid the continuing release of gruesome Planned Parenthood abortion videos by the pro-life Center for Medical Progress, one photo had a power all its own.
It showed stricken-looking men seated in a theater, some wide-eyed or shame-faced, some holding their hands to their heads, one apparently wiping away tears.
This photo at the Patheos website accompanied an article by Fr. Dwight Longenecker on the fifth CMP video, released August 4, which included what looked like a casserole dish from the freezer at a Houston mega-center abortuary, full of freshly killed baby parts including an arm torn away near the shoulder.
Here’s a twin from the freezer, 20 weeks old.
Longenecker wrote: “The Planned Parenthood workers are seen laughing and chatting away about livers, lungs, limbs, eyeballs and ‘intact fetal cadavers’ — which get top dollar because the researcher can then dissect them and harvest completely intact organs, limbs, brains, and virtually every part of the child.”
The stricken-looking men in the theater, however, weren’t in Houston. They were Germans captured by the Allied forces in the mid-1940s, being made to watch films of the victims in their National Socialist government’s concentration camps.
If they hadn’t been sure what went on in the camps before, they knew now.
“If Germans were made to watch films from the concentration camps, every American should have to watch” the CMP videos, Longenecker wrote.
The Germans didn’t look uniquely evil or wicked, just guys you might have run into on the street. But their society had dissolved morally.
In the fourth and fifth CMP sting videos, in Denver and Houston respectively, young, clean-cut technicians in their blue scrubs work in the labs whose role is processing the routinely cruelly killed, innocent babies’ bodies. These PP young people look no more evil than the National Socialist troops.
But their U.S. society has been dissolved morally, in large part because of arrogant, unaccountable judges inventing lawless laws, and powerful, biased media pro-abortionists who have gone out of their way for decades to facilitate these abominations.
Meanwhile, courts in Los Angeles and San Francisco considered pro-abortionists’ requests to forbid the release of some additional videos.
As in earlier videos, a Houston PP executive casually talks about altering the abortion method in order to obtain more desirable baby parts. This constitutes a crime.
Director of Research Melissa Farrell said, “If we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, we can make it part of the budget that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this. It’s all just a matter of line items.”
In two previous videos, Denver PP executive Dr. Savita Ginde also spoke of getting multiple sales from an infant. “I think a per-item thing works a little better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it,” Ginde said.
If we could fill theaters today to make people face evidence of this criminal world, the audience would have to include many newspaper and television executives who anesthetize their consciences while doing their utmost to keep the rest of the nation in ignorance so the bestial legalized crimes continue.
Oh yes, the executives know full well that hundreds of millions of Americans would rise up against the horror if they were informed of the details, so the executives conceal it — specifically so that the slaughter they worship can continue.
Executives should have to watch videos until their hard-shelled consciences finally crack open to repentance.
This would certainly include Andrew Rosenthal, editorial-page editor of The New York Times, and Dean Baquet, Times executive editor. Their paper has been a fierce fighter in the forefront of the pro-abortion crusade, to mislead other major media into following its lead.
Even though the Times seems to present a pretty united front to the outside world, by now there might be some heavy discussions going on internally at the newspaper about the embarrassment of acting like PP’s own public-relations department.
Meanwhile, the liberal Democrat politicians with media-dulled consciences who do PP’s bidding had started to sound awfully strange by early August.
Imagine that word had spread in the U.S. that the face of a huge, fiery dragon was seen every night for weeks on the moon. Wouldn’t just about everyone have taken at least a curious look?
But three weeks after the first CMP video was released, many fiery Democrat defenders of permissive abortion hadn’t bothered to look at any of the videos that motivated constituents to besiege the politicians to defund PP.
The conservative Weekly Standard reported August 3 that Democrat U.S. senators who had just voted against defunding PP hadn’t seen them. The magazine’s reporter John McCormack wrote that when he asked New York’s Sen. Charles Schumer about this at the elevator, Schumer simply told an aide, “Shut the door.”
A person could almost think of the comic Nazi Sgt. Schultz in the old Hogan’s Heroes television series, desperate to exonerate himself of any responsibility: “I know nothing. I see nothing.”
Day after day, White House press secretary Josh Earnest would tell reporters that he didn’t know if Barack Obama — the grim, unrelenting pro-abortion radical — had seen the videos. Besides which, PP assured Obama the videos were “fraudulent.” Still, one would imagine Earnest himself had taken at least a few peeks because he kept getting questions about them.
Liberal CNN host Chris Cuomo made what seemed a safe assumption when he questioned Earnest the morning of August 3 about PP’s ethics. Earnest regurgitated his standard defense of PP’s “highest ethical standards in the industry.” (What industry? The abortion industry?)
Cuomo pressed ahead: “You saw the videos though, Josh. You saw the videos. No high ethical standards at play there. Base stuff, ugly stuff.”
After replying that the Center for Medical Progress is an anti-PP organization that released the videos “not because of news value but because of shock value,” Earnest added the astounding disclosure that he still hadn’t seen them. Anyway, Earnest continued, the videos have been criticized for being distorted to mislead the public.
While PP’s defenders are getting pretty worn out saying the videos mislead, they’re merely left complaining about “editing,” even though the entire footage is available for anyone wanting to view it online, if they’re not satisfied with seeing highlights.
Even PP’s defenders haven’t said something like the plain words out of the PP executives’ mouths are dubbed in, or that the executives are phonies who don’t actually work at PP, or that the officials are just rehearsing some script for their neighborhood amateur theater.
One remarkable thing to remember is that no major news-media organization bothered to investigate this widespread, shocking abuse, nor state health board, nor legal-compliance body. It was some tech-savvy pro-lifers with a conscience. And a sense of outrage about the massive cover-up.
Just like Philadelphia butcher Kermit Gosnell, MD, had been free to harm women and kill babies year after year without being investigated — until authorities raided his abortuary because they correctly suspected he was a drug dealer.
If only the public could adopt the role of journalists and grill major-media propagandists who’ve spent decades smearing pro-lifers when not ignoring them, and praising pro-abortionists when not covering up for them.
On July 30, radio talk host Hugh Hewitt got a little inquisitive with guest Mark Oppenheimer, who contributes to The New York Times, Time magazine, and other media outlets. Hewitt said the videos are “one step away from Auschwitz” and reveal “evil people.” The fourth video had just been released.
Hewitt asked if Oppenheimer, who writes about topics including ethics, morals, and religion, had seen the videos.
“No,” said Oppenheimer. In a small voice, quickly, “No, no, no.” Why not? “I’m busy.”
The radio host said he was “shocked” at this because the videos go to the core of the issue. “I have a lot on my plate,” Oppenheimer said. Hewitt asked where he stood on the issue. “Yeah, I am pro-choice,” said Oppenheimer.
Later the same day, July 30, radio host Mark Levin referred to the “Nazi-like” practices in the videos, adding that he’s not an activist on the issue but is becoming so.
Mentioning a new attempt in Los Angeles Superior Court to prevent CMP from releasing more videos about the baby-parts procurement company StemExpress, Levin, an attorney, said that sometimes disobedience is needed. He didn’t elaborate on that thought, although he’d already said the Superior Court judge lacked authority to block the videos.
On July 31 the Washington Examiner reported that CMP leader David Daleiden told CNN that StemExpress wanted videos mentioning it blocked because its executives admitted “‘they sometimes get fully intact fetuses shipped to their laboratory’ from the Planned Parenthood abortion clinics that supply them.”
This could be evidence of born-alive infants, Daleiden was quoted. “So that’s why they’re trying to suppress the videotape, and they’re very scared of it.”
The Examiner said, “Harvesting organs from born-alive infants would be evidence of an illegal operation, as partial-birth abortion was outlawed in November 2003.”

No Confidence

Charles LiMandri, a Southern California pro-life attorney in the Los Angeles case, told The Wanderer in an August 3 telephone interview that his office would file a motion the following day saying StemExpress is “trying to chill [Daleiden’s] speech” and “stop people from exercising their constitutional rights.”
The court is scheduled to act August 19.
Regarding the ability to use unseen video and audio recording equipment, LiMandri said, “Thank God for technology” these days enabling CMP “to get the word out about their atrocities . . . bringing to light the horror of what we’re actually dealing with. . . .
“I hope people are getting the real sense that we’re talking about a [preborn] stage we were all at in our life,” where “someone could have torn us apart,” too, he said.
A second attack in court on CMP occurred in San Francisco, where a federal judge issued an emergency restraining order on July 31, then extended it to August 27, to consider whether to permanently prohibit CMP from releasing videos concerning a separate group, the National Abortion Federation (NAF).
The judge, William Orrick, appointed by Barack Obama, is strongly pro-abortion and reportedly bundled campaign contributions for Obama.
Although LiMandri isn’t involved in the San Francisco case, he said Orrick’s reputation shows he’s not qualified to handle it.
“To answer your question honestly,” LiMandri told The Wanderer, “I have no confidence he would be fair and impartial.”
LiMandri said the NAF says it knows Daleiden attended its conferences in Baltimore and San Francisco and thinks something “disturbing was said at a conference. . . . I don’t know what it is they’re afraid of.”

Growing Public Outrage

The American Center for Law and Justice, based in Washington, D.C., represents CMP in the federal-court case. Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for ACLJ, issued a statement saying:
“The fact of the matter is the abortion industry doesn’t want the American public to see the evil it is perpetrating. It is scared, running to court in an attempt to intimidate and silence the truth about big abortion’s murder and sale of aborted babies’ body parts.”
Saying the San Francisco case is “just the beginning of a lengthy legal battle to defend the constitutional rights of our clients,” Sekulow said Orrick’s temporary restraining order represents “an invalid prior restraint in violation of defendants’ freedoms of speech and the press.”
Sekulow said ACLJ’s brief contends: “NAF has done nothing to prove a clear and present danger or a serious and imminent threat to a protected compelling interest attributable to defendants’ investigative journalism, which strives to inform the public of likely criminal wrongdoing.”
The Wanderer asked ACLJ spokesman Gene Kapp on August 4 if he knew whether Orrick would be asked to step aside from the case, given his unsuitability.
“I have not heard anything about that,” Kapp replied. “Our legal team has just started this case. We’ve got a whole plate full” in order to begin.
Asked about any NAF footage that CMP may have shot, Kapp said he didn’t know if there actually is such footage.
If public outrage continues to build over revelations in the CMP videos, perhaps judges won’t dare try to kill the public’s right to know.

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