The latest outrage is a midnight armed raid on a pro-life Catholic activist on phony federal charges associated with an abortion clinic protest
An FBI SWAT team did a heavily armed night raid at the home of a Catholic pro-life activist targetted by a local TV station in an inaccurate TV repori about a confrontation at a local abortion clinic while his screaming infant children looked on
The FBI's first response to the arrested man's wife and the mother of the crying children waken from their sleep in their beds at their home was >>> "We don't need a warrant."
According to the report on Breitbart News: "....Mark Houck, the founder and president of The King’s Men – a group that helps men overcome pornography addiction – was arrested at his rural Pennsylvania home on Friday for allegedly violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act during his regular sidewalk counseling outside of an abortion clinic in 2021.,,, Houck’s wife, Ryan-Marie, said that around 25 to 30 fully-armored FBI agents stormed their property early Friday morning, aiming their rifles as the children screamed in horror...."
Biden is only trying to preserve our democracy.
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ReplyDeleteTrump is going to prison. That gives him time to really write his own book. He can call it My Struggle.
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ReplyDeleteSunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” program, California Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff said that former President Donald Trump's claim that a president can declassify information by merely thinking about it showed how dangerous Trump is to the national security of the United States.
ReplyDeleteIn reality, the California Democrat's remarks showed how dangerous Schiff can be to our system of government, with an elected president functioning as the chief executive officer and ex-officio the top classification officer in the national security apparatus of the United States.
There has never been a dispute on a Presidents authority to declassify till now. Why is everything happening now?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous @ 5:50 PM, imagine being alive in 2022 and still shocked by people with pink hair.
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6:54, POTUSes don't and can't declassify just by "thinking" about it or privately waving hands. Nor can they run off with govt-owned documents and say "mine! mine!"
ReplyDeleteMark Houck had no problem bringing his 12-year-old "infant" son to anti-abortion harassments.
ReplyDelete1033, sure "POTUSes" do and can declassify their own stuff and take it with them when they want to. Don't believe everything the Democrats and the MSM and Wyoming Senator Barrasshole tell you.
ReplyDeleteRESPONSE; UPDATE & BACKFILL: THE "GOVERNMENT SAYS 'NOTHING TO SEE HERE --- NOWADAYS, IT'S ALL ROUTINE'" EDITION
ReplyDeleteTO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 10:30 AM" & OTHERS
>>> THIS STORY HAS BROKEN ON FOX NEWS, THE NY POST AND ON THE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICES <<<
THERE ARE LOTS OF DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED AND WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS CASE---AND THE FBI & DOJ HAVE DONE A LOT OF TALKING ABOUT IT---BUT NOT TO ANY HOSTILE REPORTERS ASKING POINTED QUESTIONS---THE FBI AND DOJ HAVE ALSO NOT INTERVIEWED THE DEFENDANT>>>EVEN THOUGH THE DEFENDENT OFFERED TO SPEAK TO THE FBI BEFORE THE ARREST AND SHOW THEM EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE
The Catholic pro-life activist that was arrested Friday at his rural Pennsylvania home and charged with physically assaulting a Planned Parenthood "clinic escort" last year was named "Mark Houck." He is 48 yoa, and he is from Kintnersville, Pennsylvania. Among other ministries, he is the co-founder and president of "The King’s Men," which is a Catholic ministry dedicated to the spiritual mentoring of young Catholic men.
Houck’s wife, Ryan-Marie, had told the Catholic News Agency that “a 25-man SWAT team came to my house in about 15 cars and started beating on our door.... [And] they said they were going to break in if [we] didn’t open up.... Then they had about five guns pointed at my husband, me and mostly my children....”
After Ryan-Marie Houck had made her statement to the press, a spokesperson for the FBI’s Philadelphia office denied that any FBI SWAT team was involved. Accprding to the FBI's response to Fox News Digital: “Inaccurate claims are being made regarding the arrest of Mark Houck. There was no SWAT team or [any FBI] SWAT operator involved. FBI agents knocked on Mr. Houck’s front door, identified themselves as FBI agents, and asked him to exit the residence. He did so and was arrested on the basis of the indictment without incident.” The FBI spokesperson did not respond to a follow-up question from Fox News Digital about the accuracy of reports that up to 25 agents had been involved in the arrest.
Commenting on the Houck case, another FBI spokesperson, Jacqueline Maguire, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia division said this >>> “Simply put, violence is never the answer.... Violating the FACE Act by committing physical assault is a serious crime for which the FBI will work to hold perpetrators accountable.”
According to a Merrick Garland underling in the local U.S. Attorney's Office, it os a federal crime "... to use force to injure, intimidate, or interfere with someone because that person is a reproductive health care provider...." According to Garland's DOJ team on the Hauck case, Mark Houck assaulted a 72-year-old man, who was identified in the indictment as “BL,” outside the Planned Parenthood Elizabeth Black Health Center in Philadelphia on Oct. 13, 2021.
Houck’s wife has said that her husband drove two hours to Philadelphia every Wednesday to speak outside abortion clinics for about six to eight hours, sometimes bringing their 12-year-old son with him. She claims that on one occasion, her husband scolded a man who had entered their son’s personal space and said obscene things about the boy's father. She told the reporters that in the past, the same man made complaints to the local police and prosecutors, who didn prosecute the matter and then the man had sued her husband, but the Philadelphia District Court dismissed the case. When the Houcks had found out about the DOJ-FBI interest in the case, they even offered to come in to discuss the matter and bring excu;patory evidence with them. However, the FBI-DOJ team had other plans, including an arrest in the night, so the Houck's were never called in.
FURTHER UPDATE & BACKFILL: THE "GOVERNMENT CONTINUES SAYING --- '... NOTHING TO SEE HERE --- AND WE ARE NOT AS BAD AS THEY ARE SAYING WE ARE' ---" EDITION
ReplyDeleteAPPARENTLY SURPRISED BY THE GROWING FUROR OVER THE AFTERHOURS HOUSE ARREST OF PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST MARK HOUCK --- THE DOJ SUNDDENLY WANTS TO DOWNPLAY THE CASE
The Pennsylvania pro-life activist, Mark Houck has pleaded not guilty to federal charges alleging that he used force to interfere with a reproductive health care provider, after local law enforcement and prosecutors had refused to pursue the case, and a state court threw out the case when it was brought forward personally by the alleged victim as the complaining witness.
Now, the DOJ is alleging that >>> in October of 2021, Mark Houck "forcefully shoved" a Planned Parenthood "volunteer" named Bruce Love, thus violating "The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act," which bars the use of force to interfere with or coerce reproductive health providers.
Earlier today, Houck pleaded not guilty on the two counts based upon that incident.
Peter Breen, Mark Houck's attorney, asserted to the court that the complainung witness, Mr. Love, was "extremely aggressive," and it was Love himself that started it all by "harassing" Houck's son; and that was an intrinsic part of the alleged incident.
Attorney Breen further criticized the DOJ's decision to wait almost a full year before pursuing the current federal charges against his client, calling the effort a "political prosecution." "If ]Houck] was truly a danger to the community, they wouldn't have waited a year to prosecute.... Serious questions need to be asked of the attorney general. What was he thinking? Why did they do this obscene show of force against a peaceful pillar of the community?"
Breen's reference to an "obscene show of force" is clearly a reference to the FBI's act of arresting Mark Houck at his home >>> during which, his wife claims, nearly 30 agents arrived at the family's home and forcefully arrested him at gunpoint.
The FBI has puashed back againsrt that account, insisting that the family and their attorney has inflated the number of agents present and significantly exaggerated their conduct during the arrest.
The characterizations of Houck's arrest as a midnite armed raid and calling his prosecution "political" overreach by the DOJ has come amid a growing storm of whistleblower complaints against the DOJ and FBI alleging similar misconduct in other instances.
Special Agent Stephen M. Friend, just one of many FBI whistleblowers, has alleged that the FBI violated the rights of January 6th defendants during its investigative process, manipulated crime statistics related to domestic terrorism, and misused armed SWAT teams to conduct low level and unopposed arrests to terrorize opponents of the current regime in Washington.
The whistleblower lawyers and some GOP lawmakers alike have expressed their concern that the DOJ is working very hard to silence whistleblowers and bury concerns of institutional FBI misconduct by suspending agents or blocking their security clearances.