Fr. Dwight Longenecker on David Daleiden

Discussion in 'The Spirit of the USA' started by sparrow, Jun 19, 2019.

  1. sparrow

    sparrow Powers

    Pro Life Warrior Fined $195,000
    June 14, 2019 by Fr. Dwight Longenecker


    David Daleiden is a courageous pro life campaigner. For three years he ran an undercover operation to expose Planned Parenthood’s sickening business of selling body parts from aborted babies to research labs.

    He set up the Center for Medical Progress as a front to infiltrate the Planned Parenthood abortion regime. Posing as a potential buyer, he met with Planned Parenthood executives and dickered with them about prices for livers, hearts, brains and other body parts from aborted babies. He recorded the meetings. And published the videos on YouTube.

    The shocking films show calloused Planned Parenthood executives calmly discussing how they perform abortions with the intention of salvaging particular body parts. The gruesome videos reveal not only the details of how they tear the unborn child apart, but also what prices they expect for the most valuable organs.

    David was immediately hit with legal action. He has already won a suit brought against him by StemExpress, one of the companies that trades in fetal body parts. David and his legal team also defeated an outrageous lawsuit by Planned Parenthood in Texas.

    In California, Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation are pursuing two federal lawsuits against Daleiden in San Francisco federal court. The judge in the case is William Orrick III. Orrick founded, ran and funded a Planned Parenthood clinic in San Francisco. Orrick should step down from hearing this case. He’s biased. He has refused to do so. His fellow judges should hold him to the responsibility to recuse himself. They have turned a blind eye.

    Part of the legal proceedings against Daleiden included a gag order. Judge Orrick forbade him to publish some of the most damning videos of Planned Parenthood’s top executives.

    Then Planned Parenthood, with their allies in government, launched another attack. The California Attorney General Kamala Harris (who is now a senator and Democratic presidential contender) prosecuted David under a state law which forbids the recording and publication of confidential conversations.

    In a recent statement Daleiden points out, “Not a single other undercover journalist has ever been prosecuted under the California video recording law, and they record and publish hidden camera stings on a weekly basis. My case is the first and only one, because it is Kamala Harris’s politically-motivated attack on my First Amendment rights to benefit her friends and donors at Planned Parenthood.”

    To put it simply, Planned Parenthood’s cronies in the California Attorney General’s office are trying to use the secret, unreleased videos that Judge Orrick banned from publication as the evidence to prosecute Daleiden. They claim the videos breached the rule of recording and publishing confidential conversations.

    The videos were not confidential. They were all recorded in public places. Bystanders could easily have overheard the conversations. When the lawsuit was brought against him, Daleiden’s legal team went into action and filed the banned videos as evidence. The films proved Daleiden’s conversations with the baby body parts merchants were not confidential and did not break the law.

    That upset Judge Orrick, Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation folks. They decided that Daleiden’s legal team violated the judge’s gagging order about the videos when they submitted them as evidence in their case.

    Consider this for a moment: The same videos the judge banned—the videos that are being used to prosecute Daleiden for recording confidential conversations—are not being allowed as evidence for Daleiden’s defense!

    Because Daleiden’s legal team submitted the videos as evidence Judge Orrick has slapped Daleiden with a fine of $195,000 for contempt of court. Daleiden’s team appealed the decision, but the notoriously biased and liberal 9th Circuit declined to hear the appeal until the end of the lawsuits.

    The fine stands. Therefore Daleiden and his team have set up a Go Fund Me account to raise the outrageous sum of $195,000 to pay up. You can learn more about the case and contribute to the cause here.

    Daleiden’s case is a perfect example of how persecution of Christians is already taking place in America. In other tyrannical regimes the police turn up at three in the morning. People disappear. In the United States the persecution is through social media, pressure to conform at work, threats by mainstream media, lawsuits, legal action, fines and financial ruin.

    To learn more about David Daleiden’s work, jump over to Center for Medical Progress. To help fund his legal defense donate here. Visit David’s website to learn more about the man. To watch videos about David and his work go here.

    Read Dwight Longenecker’s blog, listen to his podcasts, browse his books and be in touch at dwightlongenecker.com
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  2. Tanker

    Tanker Powers

    Land of the free......except if you disagree with the agenda. God Bless David and his team and families. He is on the front lines.
     
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  3. TinNM

    TinNM Guest

  4. sparrow

    sparrow Powers

    Wow.. guess I'd have to read the book to find out what is going on. I don't consider The Remnant to be part of the 'mad trads' and I hope Fr did not mean them. Maybe Michael Matt jumped to conclusions? If so he reacted rather nasty-like. We Catholics need to stick together not lash out. :unsure:
     
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  5. HeavenlyHosts

    HeavenlyHosts Powers

    I’m glad this thread was bumped. The Lord has put it on my heart to pray and do more regarding these abortion sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance. I’m so weak when it comes to fasting. This article gives ways to help.
     
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  6. Beth B

    Beth B Beth Marie


    Fasting is my weakness as well…and I hate that in myself.
    I’m headed to adoration in a few minutes. I’ll be praying for everyone here at MOG and their intentions….God willing…especially those who are enduring personal suffering or for their family members who are.
     
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  7. HeavenlyHosts

    HeavenlyHosts Powers

    Thank you, :notworthy:
     
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  8. TinNM

    TinNM Guest

    I posted this under the Life News area, actually, if one discusses abortion, some big news lately and we should pray!

    Life News | Page 2 | Mother of God (motheofgod.com) So, this is a bit of a cross-posting. I hope that is okay.

    They have some of these "waiting-periods" in Europe, at least, on the books, so Tennessee can enforce this 2-day waiting period.

    (Reuters) - The full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, split largely along partisan lines, on Thursday revived a 2015 Tennessee law requiring a 48-hour waiting period for abortions, reversing a lower court decision blocking the law.

    Circuit Judge Amul Thapar wrote in the 9-7 majority opinion that the law was constitutional because it did not place a "substantial obstacle" in the way of a "large fraction" of women seeking abortions before fetal viability.

    Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery called the decision "gratifying" and "a reasoned analysis of the law."​
    So, actually, a bit of a victory, Praise to God.

    But the big news and I'm sure others have heard about it, there does seem to be some sort of "Roe-v.Wade" bill making it's way to the SCOTUS; that the SCOTUS will hear.
    Supreme Court told Roe v. Wade's viability standard 'outdated' | Politics News | The Christian Post

    ...

    As the U.S. Supreme Court is slated to hear a major challenge to Roe v. Wade, a lawyer writing on behalf of the Catholic Association Foundation and three medical doctors filed the brief in support of the state of Mississippi in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization last month.

    In this case, billed by pro-life advocates as a “landmark opportunity” to chip away at the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, the state of Mississippi is asking the justices to reverse a lower court decision finding that its 15-week abortion ban is unconstitutional.

    So, this is actually a "big" deal, they are talking about it in religious outlets, notably Catholic radio.... I guess, I should pray over this.

    A bit of a chance, some of Roe can be reversed.
     
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  9. Shay Lowry

    Shay Lowry New Member

    This breaks my heart,killing babies and then making money of their poor body parts. No different that the nazi*s in ww2.totally evil.
     
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  10. sparrow

    sparrow Powers

    :cry:
     
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  11. RoryRory

    RoryRory Perseverance

    Thank you!
     
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  12. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    We will see. I certainly pray that it will be weakened but given the state of our court system and the Freemasons residing within it I won't be holding my breath or be surprised if nothing comes of it.
     
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  13. AED

    AED Powers

    Thank you Beth.
     
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  14. Bernadette

    Bernadette Archangels


    You are not alone! Most of us have difficulty fasting and I need to start again also. With the stress of work and the world food seems to be the only comfort, at least for me, lol! But one way to fast if you're going to attempt it again may be to fast for a 24 hr period, like from 6 pm to 6 pm. That way you're eating both days but have accomplished a 24 hr fast, I find it easier of my brain, plus ~8 of those hours is spent sleeping, just one thing I try when jumping back on the fasting train.

    God Bless!
     
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  15. TinNM

    TinNM Guest

    Absolutely.
     
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  16. Beth B

    Beth B Beth Marie

    Bernadette, that is a very good solution! Thank you…I’ll try it!
     
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  17. AED

    AED Powers

    Yes I am thinking the same thing.
     
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