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Pro-Life Father Targeted by Biden's DOJ Takes Action
Townhall.com ^ | 10 November A.D. 2023 | Madeline Leesman

Posted on 11/10/2023 9:14:44 AM PST by lightman

Catholic pro-life father Mark Houck, who was targeted by the Biden administration and acquitted of charges against him, filed a lawsuit, along with his wife, against the FBI and DOJ for malicious and retaliatory prosecution, abuse of process, false arrest, and assault. Advertisement

"These government agents intentionally sought to assault Mr. Houck and deprive him of his Fourth Amendment rights by using excessive force to arrest him on non-violent charges when he had not threatened law enforcement, did not own a gun, and had offered to turn himself into authorities if indicted," the lawsuit, filed by law firm Graves Garrett LLC, read, according to a report from Fox News.

In an interview with CatholicVote, Houck said that he believes his lawsuit will “put an end to the unjust persecutions” by the Biden administration.

“I think if the DOJ gets hit hard enough and there’s a big enough black eye against them, then they’re going to cease and desist from coming after pro-life people and people of faith,” he said. “The government can’t do this to its people.”

In the interview, Houck emphasized that no one could “put a price on the long-term damage” his persecution had on his family. “You cannot put a price on that innocence. The stuff that my wife and I have invested in our children for the last 15 years – in their protection, in their safety, in their innocence by homeschooling them, by protecting them, by teaching them – all of that was taken away in an instant.” Recommended Of Course, the FBI Would Rather Go After These People Than Terrorists Matt Vespa Advertisement

“We don’t know the long-term effects of this. What’s the two-year-old going to say in five years? What’s the four-year-old going to say in ten years? How are they gonna feel around law enforcement?” he added. “There’s no amount that is going to make me feel like there’s accountability.”

According to several reports, Ryan-Marie Houck experienced three miscarriages due to the stress from the event. Doctors have since diagnosed her with infertility.

In January, Townhall reported how Mark Houck was found not guilty of federal charges alleging he violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act over an incident outside an abortion clinic in Philadelphia in October 2021.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the FACE prohibits violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain or provide reproductive health services.

As Townhall reported, Houck, 48, was accused of shoving a Planned Parenthood abortion escort named Bruce Love in 2021. As a result, Houck was charged with two counts of violating the FACE Act over the alleged “attack of a patient escort.” Reportedly, Houck claimed that the pro-abortion volunteer was verbally harassing his 12-year-old son. Advertisement

In September, Houck was arrested at his home in front of his wife and children by 30 FBI agents.

Ryan-Marie, told LifeSiteNews that a SWAT team of 25 to 30 agents in 15 vehicles surrounded their home in Pennsylvania, with rifles at 7 a.m. Though a U.S. district court previously tossed out the case.

“They started pounding on the door and yelling for us to open it,” Ryan-Marie said, adding that the rifles were “kind of pointed throughout the house.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: doj; fbi; phildelphia; prolife

What Xoe Buy-DUNG calls the face of "domestic terrorism"

1 posted on 11/10/2023 9:14:44 AM PST by lightman
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

2 posted on 11/10/2023 9:17:19 AM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Can’t sue city hall. FBI-what’s the difference?

Trump as POTUS won’t even be able to get any of them fired.
Will congress downsize the organization?
Hint: that new HQ will get built.


3 posted on 11/10/2023 9:20:33 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: lightman

The KGB’s job was to enforce political and ideological orthodoxy, particularly within the Party itself and with targeted arrest and suppression in public to make examples of people

I can’t see a difference with 2023 FBI, can you?


4 posted on 11/10/2023 9:29:13 AM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

No, I see no difference at all.


5 posted on 11/10/2023 9:36:29 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: PGR88

I wish that the people involved could be sued individually for their actions. Maybe that would make them think that maybe the person giving the orders (and chain of command) should be the ones that should SWAT raided. Suing the government is just suing taxpayers.


6 posted on 11/10/2023 9:38:05 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: lightman
In an interview with CatholicVote, Houck said that he believes his lawsuit will “put an end to the unjust persecutions” by the Biden administration.

“I think if the DOJ gets hit hard enough and there’s a big enough black eye against them, then they’re going to cease and desist from coming after pro-life people and people of faith,” he said. “The government can’t do this to its people.”

In principle, yes. But the idea that the Biden administration will stop doing this is simply wishful thinking.

7 posted on 11/10/2023 9:41:26 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: 17th Miss Regt
A comment to me on a previous FBI abuse thread:

Is any FBI goon really willing to take a bullet and end up having someone else raising his kids and banging his wife? I doubt that very much.

Apparently there are some.

8 posted on 11/10/2023 10:09:33 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: lightman
“The government can’t do this to its people employers.”

Fixed it.

9 posted on 11/10/2023 10:18:16 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: MtnClimber
Is any FBI goon really willing to take a bullet and end up having someone else raising his kids and banging his wife? I doubt that very much.

Apparently there are some.

Their honor is their loyaly.

10 posted on 11/10/2023 10:30:16 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: 17th Miss Regt
Their honor is their loyaly.

That is why they are now being recruited at gay pride festivals. Their honor is corrupted sufficiently to be loyal to stinking communists.

11 posted on 11/10/2023 10:38:31 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Albion Wilde

“The government can’t do this to its people employers.”
Fixed it.


Thank you that statement bothered me too. We don’t belong to them.


12 posted on 11/10/2023 10:43:50 AM PST by chuckb87
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To: MtnClimber

Well, if they are willing.......

It would only be Fitting, Karma, Fate that their willingness leads to their eventual demise.

I can’t understand how ANY of these agents can reconcile with God in good conscience how they treated an innocent American and feel nothing about it.


13 posted on 11/10/2023 10:50:51 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: lightman
Ryan-Marie, told LifeSiteNews that a SWAT team of 25 to 30 agents in 15 vehicles surrounded their home in Pennsylvania, with rifles at 7 a.m. Though a U.S. district court previously tossed out the case.

For the crime of defending yourself. In America. Under obiden.

14 posted on 11/10/2023 10:54:35 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: OHPatriot
I can’t understand how ANY of these agents can reconcile with God in good conscience how they treated an innocent American and feel nothing about it.

They are recruiting at gay pride events so they must be staffing primarily with people who are majority atheists with a resentment against society.

15 posted on 11/10/2023 11:01:53 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: lightman
”In your face” is our communist masters' favorite tool to rattle the chains of tyranny that they have wrapped around our necks...

No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican serfs will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...

16 posted on 11/10/2023 4:04:29 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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17 posted on 11/11/2023 7:44:14 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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