And, on the ground, a re-enforcement that words matter.  Baby killer and baby parts can register in homicidal actions of the often emotionally labile fanatic and extremist.

With the release of their Bullschitt videos last summer, David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt deliberately set into motion an appalling chain of events which:

• Unfairly maligned Planned Parenthood, a respected and much-needed health care organization;
  
• Placed that organization under undue legal scrutiny by the State of Texas and the Harris County D.A.'s office; and
  
• Allowed opportunistic Republican congressional leaders, who were themselves long seeking any excuse to do Planned Parenthood harm, to site that organization in their crosshairs.

At the very least, Daleiden and Merritt got themselves ensnared in a "sting" of their own making, and are hardly the victims here.

To equate their actions with underage college kids trying to score some booze is really unfair to that couple's own victims, which is every woman in America who depends upon Planned Parenthood for her health care and reproductive needs, as well as those providers who've paid a steep price -- and in some instances, the ultimate price -- for trying to deliver that care.

I do appreciate your having subsequently noted to CST that Daleiden and Merritt "are not nice people," even if that's somewhat of an understatement in my opinion. But let's please retain some proper perspective here regarding what has actually transpired in this case, and not try to reframe it into something it's clearly not.

Don't look now, but it may be that another cheerleader for the Robert Dears of the world is showing his bias..

Now for your answer.

And what exactly do you mean, that indicting these two bozos on felony charges is "a political act"? Look at the evidence here. They clearly used phony California driver's licenses to gain access to Planned Parenthood executives and per Texas law, use of a fake ID from another state constitutes a second degree felony. Therefore, it would be your own pointed refusal to even consider their indictment under that law which would constitute a political act, not vice versa.

Deal with it -- and while at it, lose the double standard. Because methinks it's very highly doubtful that you'd be feeling the same way, were David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt from "Democracy Now" rather than the Center for Medical Progress, and they were convincing Aamon and Cliven Bundy en camera to traffic in automatic weaponry with members of the Michigan Militia and Sinaloa Cartel.