Phill Kline just can't get over Planned Parenthood. The lawsuit he just filed against PP includes accusations that they have performed illegal late-term abortions and committed other criminal activities.
AG Paul Morrison looked into Kline's previous charges and determined they were without merit. I imagine a judge or jury will find the same this time. But it will cost PP lots of money to fight the suit, which will please Kline and the other anti-choice storm troopers who keep attacking the clinic and trying to prevent it from providing family planning services. PP also provides vital healthcare services to poor women who couldn't afford them otherwise. Slimeball Kline strikes again.
Kline says he doesn't plan to run for DA. (He knows he'd be tossed out on his head or other end by enraged Johnson Countians. They'd rather vote for a mangy, emphysemic dog than for Kline.) It's obvious, though, that he's running for something. Probably head of Operation Rescue or some similar nutbag organization that will pay him hundreds of thousands a year to continue his anti-woman campaign at the national level. Which proves that anyone -- any idiot and/or crank -- can make a bundle in this great nation of abundant opportunity, if he or she hitches his or her wagon to the Religious Right.
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It is a SLAPP suit - take taxpayer's money (*aren't these conservatives anti-tax?*) and harass a private, public health organization to starve them of operating capital.
What next? Phill sues Trojans?
By the way, its not a "suit".
They are CRIMINAL CHARGES!
FELONIES.
Dear Troll Goldstein:
It matters not that you want to characterize the charges as felonies - they may be misdemeanors or civil actions, too (a DA may bring civil charges, too....or does "civil forfeiture" mean nothing to you?).
The central issue in this matter is: does a person holding the office of a County District Attorney (who is charged with upholding the law of the state) violate his oath where he makes a purely political decision to indict individuals and an organization for criminal and civil offenses?
Let's not forget that Paul Morrison had already investigated PP and had decided not to file charges. What changed, but the DA?
My prediction: the case will proceed forward, with charges being dismissed piecemeal until Phil leaves office and his successor files an entry of nolle prosequi. Nolle prosequi may be made at any time after charges are brought and before a verdict is returned or a plea entered.
Meanwhile, PP must expend large amounts of time, if not money, to defend against this rogue agent of unbridled government excess.
May Phill spend the rest of his live defending himself from 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 suits (in his professional and personal capacities - remember that Phill is so crazy that he drove Paul Morrison into the Democratic party) - nobody will help Phill once he's out of power.
Morrison was elected because PP ran a smear campaign against Kline. Of course he's not going to continue to pursue the charges.
If a public health organization covers up for child rapists, there should be charges, regardless of whether you agree with them politically. It's that simple.
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