In a disgusting display of abusive political retribution, 25-30 FBI agents with guns drawn raided the home of a father of seven over disputed charges that were dropped by the state of Pennsylvania but picked up for apparently political purposes by the vengeful and disgraceful Garland DOJ.
Mark Houck was indicted for alleged violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE). The FACE Act makes it a federal offense to interfere with access to abortion (and other) clinics.
The National Law Review reports:
According to court documents, Mark Houck, 48, of Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, is alleged to have twice assaulted a man because he was a volunteer reproductive health clinic escort. The two-count indictment charges Houck with a violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which makes it a federal crime to use force with the intent to injure, intimidate, and interfere with anyone because that person is a provider of reproductive health care.The charges stem from two separate incidents on Oct. 13, 2021, where Houck assaulted the victim, identified in the indictment as “B.L.,” because B.L. was a volunteer escort at the reproductive health care clinic.If convicted of the offenses, Houck faces up to a maximum of 11 years in prison, three years of supervised release and fines of up to $350,000.The FBI Philadelphia Field Office investigated the case. Trial Attorney Sanjay Patel of the Civil Rights Division and Assistant U.S. Attorney Anita Eve for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania are prosecuting the case.
According to Houck’s wife and various other sources who know the family, the incident in question is not what it appears. Houck has reportedly been providing sidewalk counseling to women outside abortion centers for years without incident, and it was only when Houck’s then 12-year-old son was allegedly accosted by a volunteer abortion escort spewing profanities and insults that Houck shoved him away from his son, and the 72-year-old escort fell back. This reportedly happened twice on the same day in October 2021. The escort attempted to sue Houck and failed, and the charges were dropped in PA . . . only to be picked up by Garland’s corrupt DOJ.
The details of the terrifying raid as told by Houck’s wife are very problematic. There is no justification for this level of manpower and intimidation to serve a warrant on a family man who poses no threat to anyone.
According to his wife Ryan-Marie, who spoke with LifeSiteNews, he also drives two hours south to Philadelphia every Wednesday to sidewalk counsel for six to eight hours at two different abortion centers.Ryan-Marie, who is a homeschooling mother, described how the SWAT team of 25 to 30 FBI agents swarmed their property with around 15 vehicles at 7:05 a.m. this morning. Having quickly surrounded the house with rifles in firing position, “they started pounding on the door and yelling for us to open it.”Before opening the door, she explained, her husband tried to calm them, saying, “‘Please, I’m going to open the door, but, please, my children are in the home. I have seven babies in the house.’ But they just kept pounding and screaming,” she said.When he opened the door, “they had big, huge rifles pointed at Mark and pointed at me and kind of pointed throughout the house,” Ryan-Marie described.When they came in, they ordered the kids to stay upstairs. “Our staircase is open, so [the kids] were all at the top of the stairs which faces the front door, and I was on the stairs as well, coming down.”“The kids were all just screaming. It was all just very scary and traumatic,” she explained.After asking them why they were at the house, the agents said they were there to arrest Mark. When Ryan-Marie asked for their warrant, “they said that they were going to take him whether they had a warrant or not.”When Ryan-Marie protested, saying that is kidnapping, “you can’t just come to a person’s house and kidnap them at gunpoint,” they agreed to get the warrant for her from one of their vehicles.At this point, Mark asked her to get him a sweatshirt and his rosaries, but when she returned, they already had loaded him into a vehicle.They provided the first page of the warrant and said they were taking him to “the federal building in downtown Philadelphia.”“After they had taken Mark, and the kids were all screaming that he was their best friend, the [FBI agents on her porch] kind of softened a bit. I think they realized what was happening. Or maybe they actually looked at the warrant,” Ryan-Marie explained. “They looked pretty ashamed at what had just happened.”As a result, the homeschool mother said her kids were “really sad and stressed. So, I’ve already reached out to some psychiatrists or psychologists to try and help us through this. I don’t really know what’s going to come of it when you see guns pointed at your dad and your mom in your house when you first wake up in the morning,” she lamented.. . . . On several occasions when Mark went to sidewalk counsel last year, he took his eldest son, who was only 12 at the time, she explained. For “weeks and weeks,” a “pro-abortion protester” would speak to the boy saying “crude … inappropriate and disgusting things,” such as “you’re dad’s a fag,” and other statements that were too vulgar for her to convey.Repeatedly, Mark would tell this pro-abortion man that he did not have permission to speak to his son and please refrain from doing so. And “he kept doing it and kind of came into [the son’s] personal space” obscenely ridiculing his father. At this point, “Mark shoved him away from his child, and the guy fell back.”“He didn’t have any injuries or anything, but he tried to sue Mark,” and the case was thrown out of court in the early summer.
The alleged statement that the FBI doesn’t need a warrant to take a man from his own home at gunpoint is very worrying and needs to be investigated immediately.
The FBI has done this repeatedly to families across the nation in their ever-expanding search for “domestic terrorists” and “insurrectionists” who have done nothing wrong or who are engaging in their First Amendment-protected rights, and if the FBI is engaging in these actions with this air of arrogant lawlessness and disregard for American citizens’ Constitutional rights, it must be stopped and all involved investigated and, if founded, indicted.
The FBI is being deliberately weaponized against conservatives and anyone who does not support Biden, Democrats, or their evil, unAmerican, tyrannical leftist worldview.
Note the sentence immediately after the highlight above: Biden says his condemnation of MAGA Republicans as enemies of the state and threats to the “soul” of our nation includes those Americans “who have a different view of how the institutions should function.” Read that again. It’s important.
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