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Did the FBI Finally Go Too Far?
American Thinker ^ | 26 Sep, 2022 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 09/26/2022 4:35:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber

On reading about the Saturday arrest of pro-life activist Mark Houck, I thought the author at this alternative site had to be exaggerating. It struck me as beyond belief that two dozen or so armed FBI agents would swarm the house of a Catholic father of seven, rifles drawn, and arrest him in front of his weeping children for anything short of murder.

I have had to recalibrate my belief system. The “crime” fell quite a bit short of murder. On October 13, 2021, Houck brought his 12-year-old son with him for his weekly sidewalk counseling outside of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Philadelphia. A volunteer escort at the abortion clinic reportedly called Houck’s son a “fag” among other insults and threatened him. Houck pushed the man away from his son, and the man fell. Houck, the founder of an organization that promotes Christian virtue among men, was not charged with a crime.

However petty the incident, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, had Houck seized at gunpoint nearly a year later and bragged about the arrest. Said PR hack Jennifer Crandall in a press release, Houck “assaulted a man because he was a volunteer reproductive health care clinic escort.”

Before proceeding, this sentence needs parsing. The most problematic word is “because.” Houck has had hundreds of opportunities to assault escorts if their offense in his eyes was to be an escort. Although the press release claims two incidents on that same day with the man, Houck had no prior or subsequent altercations.

Then there is the Orwellian phrase “reproductive health care clinic escort.” Ms. Crandall is somehow fusing the “reproductive rights” euphemism favored by abortion activists with the function of the escort, whose mission, of course, is to assure that no reproduction takes place on his watch.

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To: MtnClimber

The blame goes to the occupant of the oval office who has ordered a crackdown on anyone who dares question the wisdom of sending millions of babies to their deaths.

He ordered it, and he fully supports what is happening.


21 posted on 09/26/2022 4:55:35 AM PDT by I want the USA back (I trust the government as much as I trust Bill Gates' mosquitoes. )
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To: joma89
"Did the FBI finally go too far?"

Hmmmm.... let's ponder that question.


22 posted on 09/26/2022 4:56:08 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: chopperk
If it goes through, the 87,000 new IRS agents will be recruited and selected according to their "wokeness."

They will be given lists of small businesses and GOP donors in their assigned counties, and their tacit instructions will be to bankrupt, ruin and destroy them.

Making cases and recovering money won't be their goal, just destroying conservative businesses and leaders.

"Lawfare" to the Nth degree.


23 posted on 09/26/2022 4:59:30 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: ProudDeplorable
Find me the man and I’ll find the crime.

A conservative Jay Walks... Throw away due process and the keys to the jail.

A leftists conspires with the Chinese to take down the American republic... Look the other way...

24 posted on 09/26/2022 5:00:06 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: MtnClimber

Didn’t the FIB deny this ? There should be pictures


25 posted on 09/26/2022 5:12:07 AM PDT by griswold3 (There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs. – Thomas Sowell)
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To: MtnClimber

It is only “too far” if they are held accountable and punished.

Most likely, we will have endless hearings, strongly worded letters and nothing changes.


26 posted on 09/26/2022 5:16:18 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: MtnClimber

The FBI has failed the American People for decades. If we can get President Trump back in office, I sincerely hope that he disbands the FBI and indicts the partisan hacks who wrecked the FBI from within.


27 posted on 09/26/2022 5:23:32 AM PDT by Chainmail (Harrassment, to be effective, must be continuous.)
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To: MtnClimber

Administration Response: Yes, they are Brownshirts, but they are OUR Brownshirts, so what’s the problem?


28 posted on 09/26/2022 5:32:11 AM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 43 degrees)
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To: MtnClimber

According to Wiki, Jacqueline Romero is the granddaughter of Spanish immigrants. In otherwords she is an anchor baby.


29 posted on 09/26/2022 5:36:26 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci: You had one job and you failed!)
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To: MtnClimber
Mr. Houck was sued by the man he 'assaulted', it is my understanding that the case was dismissed by the Judge as being frivolous.

I do not know this for a fact, but I would suspect that the reaction to the 'push' was worthy of an award for acting.

30 posted on 09/26/2022 5:37:57 AM PDT by Michael.SF. ( The problem today: people are more concerned about feelings than responsibility)
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To: MtnClimber

35 guys is only a lot if it’s against a guy in his pajamas with sleep in his eyes.


31 posted on 09/26/2022 5:53:32 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: MtnClimber

To the left, anything anyone does while doing the bidding of the left is not too far.


32 posted on 09/26/2022 5:56:16 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: MtnClimber

They’ve been going too far for many years and will continue to do so, with their power to intimidate anyone who opposes them.


33 posted on 09/26/2022 6:11:59 AM PDT by kenmcg (t)
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To: Travis McGee

They dress like soldiers. During the Hoover era they would have been fired in the spot for looking so unprofessional. No two look alike… bums.


34 posted on 09/26/2022 6:21:04 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: MtnClimber

Let’s ask Hannity first before we jump to any conclusions.


35 posted on 09/26/2022 6:23:23 AM PDT by stevio
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To: Chainmail
If we can get President Trump back in office, I sincerely hope that he disbands the FBI and indicts the partisan hacks who wrecked the FBI from within.

Trump would first need to have own choices at the DOJ, CIA and other agencies - but McConnell and the deep-state didn't allow it in 2016, and they won't allow it in 2024.

36 posted on 09/26/2022 6:56:07 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Travis McGee

Until Bonzo and Xiden came along, FBI agents dressed in suits and looked intelligent. These days, they dress like thugs that flunked out of Aunt Teefah boot camp and act that way. Those jerks don’t look like any FBI guys that I know.


37 posted on 09/26/2022 6:57:57 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Josef Bidenov is out to take out your children. Keep them protected from Bidenov goons.)
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To: MtnClimber

The FBLie has been going too far for 30 years.


38 posted on 09/26/2022 6:58:08 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It’s been a downward spiral for 20 years, since Mueller.

Each generation of training cadres is sloppier.

At this point, the recruits run the process, because the “old white men” who outrank them are too afraid to say anything about it.

So the radicals run the joint. Similar to the dynamic during the Cultural Revolution in Russia.


39 posted on 09/26/2022 7:00:14 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: stevio

He does MMA.


40 posted on 09/26/2022 7:01:00 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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