Is there anything more questionable than the State cracking down on whistle blowers who are looking to blow the lid off someone else’s questionable activity?
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Planned Parenthood has faced a number of stings in the past from the pro-life group Live Action, but none had been as controversial as those released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP).
The CMP video showed their undercover journalists posing as representatives of a non-existent company called Biomax Procurement Services who were looking to purchase fetal tissue. It took thirty months and thousands of hours of footage before their project was completed.
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You all know what happened next. The video footage made headlines that Planned Parenthood is selling “baby parts,” and they predictably claimed that the video footage was deceptively edited. Unfortunately for them, a forensic analysis of the video quickly blew that claim out of the water.
To quote from a report by the independent digital security and forensics firm Coalfire: “Coalfire’s analysis of the recorded media files contained on the flash drive indicates that the video recordings are authentic and show no evidence of manipulation or editing.”
Liberals aren’t trying to prevent people from filming within Planned Parenthoods because they’re afraid of a deceptive hit-piece hitting the news – they’re afraid of another actual controversy. The State of California isn’t interested with the contents of those controversial videos, but they certainly don’t want any more of them, as Louder With Crowder reported:
California Senate passed a Planned Parenthood-backed bill that makes it a crime for investigative journalists and others to secretly record and distribute undercover footage of conversations of abortion workers.
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The bill was amended Tuesday to exclude media outlets from prosecution if they only distribute footage. However, if they record the undercover footage themselves, they can be prosecuted.
Lila Rose, president and founder of Live Action [said]: “When the public funds half of Planned Parenthood’s operations, it has a right to know that its money isn’t being used to break the law or commit abuses, and governments should be taking steps to make things more transparent, not less. If this bill becomes law in California, Planned Parenthood could attempt to pass similar bans all over the country.”
Think they’d ever ban undercover footage in businesses that liberals traditionally have opposed as political talking points; such as Walmart, Monsanto, or Koch Industries?
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Something tells me they’d have a sudden change of heart if a bill came on their desks asking them to ban filming of workers at those businesses.
