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Posted on 09/26/2022 5:27:27 PM PDT by george76
New information confirms that a massive FBI raid on the home of a pro-life family in Pennsylvania and the arrest of a father of seven children was based on a bogus charge that a court had already dismissed.
As LifeNews reported, Joe Biden’s FBI has raided the home of a well-known pro-life advocate and arrested him in front of his crying children on a bogus charge that had already been thrown out of court. Biden’s administration is coming under fire for weaponizing the FBI and Department of Justice to target pro-life conservatives.
Mark Houck, a father of seven, is frequently seen sidewalk counseling in front of Philadelphia abortion businesses to help women choose pro-life alternatives.
However, because a federal law protects access to abortion businesses, Houck was charged with violating it after a minor altercation.
In September 2021, Houck was involved in an incident outside a Philadelphia abortion business where a pro-abortion clinic escort had repeatedly bullied and intimidated his 12-year-old son who was with him to help sidewalk counsel and encourage women to choose pro-life alternatives. After multiple verbal assaults and the abortion activist getting into his son’s face, Houck pushed him away and he fell.
According to a new CNA report, the incident was so minor that charges were never pressed and a court ultimately dismissed a complaint the abortion activist filed.
Houck, who regularly prays the rosary outside the clinic, maintains he was defending his 12-year-old son from the escort’s verbal harassment, a family spokesman, Brian Middleton, told CNA on Sunday. The man fell when Houck pushed him away, Middleton said.
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The altercation was captured on a video the Houcks are in the process of locating, Middleton added. As of Sunday the family had not yet hired a lawyer but they expect to do so on Monday, he said.
When both the city police and the district attorney declined to file charges against Houck, the escort filed a private criminal complaint in Philadelphia municipal court, Middleton said. The case was dismissed in July when the man repeatedly didn’t show up in court, Middleton said.
Just days later, Houck received a “target letter” from the U.S. Attorney’s Office informing him that he was the focus of a federal criminal probe into the same incident, Middleton said.
Through his attorney at the time, Houck tried to contact the U.S. Attorney’s Office to discuss the case but never received a response, Middleton said.
“The next time they heard anything was Friday morning,” he said.
As National Review reports, “Houck also described an incident in which her husband “shoved” a pro-abortion man away from his 12-year-old son after the man entered “the son’s personal space” and refused to stop hurling “crude… inappropriate and disgusting” comments at the Houcks. The man did not sustain any injuries, but did try to sue Houck.”
Now, likely as a way of intimidating pro-life Americans in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and subsequent abortion bans in many states, the DOJ decided now was a good time to target Houck, raid his home and arrest him in front of his distressed children.
According to his wife, 25-30 armed FBI agents raided their home at 7:05 a.m. His wife said they entered the home and pointed rifles at them as their kids began screaming. His wife and kids watched and they arrested Mark. Per National Review:
On Friday morning, Houck’s rural home was raided by 25 to 30 armed FBI agents, who pounded on the door and yelled at the family to open it, his wife said.
Mark Houck pleaded with the FBI agents before opening the door, telling them “please, I’m going to open the door, but, please, my children are in the home. I have seven babies in the house.”
The agents continued to yell, and when the door was opened, they pointed their guns at the Houcks while instructing the children to go upstairs, according to Ryan-Marie. “The kids were all just screaming. It was all just very scary and traumatic,” she said.
The FBI agents proceeded to put Houck into a vehicle and when his wife asked if they had a warrant, she said that they replied that “they were going to take him whether they had a warrant or not.”
After she accused them of kidnapping her husband, they presented her with the first page of the warrant, she said, which showed he was charged with violations of the FACE Act, due to an alleged “ATTACK OF A PATIENT ESCORT.”
Biden’s Justice Department is now charging Houck with violating the FACE Act and Houck is now facing a maximum sentence of 11 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and fines of up to $350,000 for merely defending his son from being attacked.
However, Houck never blocked access to the abortion center, which is what the law is designed to stop, and the incident was nothing more than a minor scuffle.
The Houck family is now panicked about what will happen to Mark from here. A GiveSendGo has been set up to help raise funds to support them and to assist with Mark’s legal defense.
Mark Houck was taken to “the federal building in downtown Philadelphia,” his wife told the outlet.
As a result of the incident, the children were “really sad and stressed,” Ryan-Marie said. “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.”
its a provocation
they want to start something
false flag or otherwise
dont take the bait
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Pro-Life Advocate Mark Houck Offered to Talk to FBI 3 Months Ago, It Raided His Family Anyway..
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“Death’s Head” Democrats in action.
That’s one budget that congress needs to cut.
Whatever the merits of the case, a God-fearing family man presumably without prior arrests shouldn’t require a SWAT team. A notice to appear would be sufficient, like they are doing with the 10,000 migrants that cross over every day.
How long until they resort to Weaver tactics?
These were almost certainly the same 20-30 agents sent to investigate the garage door pull.
It is the “White Supremacy Team” looking for an actual example of white supremacy.
Offered to Talk to
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They didnt want to talk
They wanted to terrorize,
traumatize his kids , his wife , and him
In to political correctness
Isn’t that the exact definition of terrorism ?
To use force to obtain political change ?
Doesn’t that make the FBI literal terrorists ?
They are going to push someone, to the edge and they will react.
Of course, this is what they want.
Just be ready for all eventualities.
People need to be jailed.
The fbi and practically all other 3 letter agencies are the enemy, folks. Yes, it has come to this.
We are going to have to start putting cameras at least outside our houses now.
Because having a recording of that kind of statement makes civil rights lawyers very happy.
The guy was just being invited to offer testimony in his own inquiry. This arrest is merely the state holding to a tight schedule. It’s a Harry Buttle thing.
Maybe all that you’ve written is true. On the other hand, maybe it’s time we stop looking at the FBI as some elite law enforcement and investigative organization and entertain the possibility that they’re just inept and incompetent - like most government agencies. Actually, all of is could be true, as they’re not mutually exclusive.
People like this need to be imprisoned for long terms in places like Leavenworth.
Bongino was blowing his top about this today, thank God that someone with sufficient range is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
“possibility that they’re just inept and incompetent”
But their incompetence is always against conservatives.
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