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FBI raids home of Catholic pro-life speaker, author with guns drawn as his terrified kids watch
LifeSite News, Sep 23, 2022

BUCKS COUNTY, Pennsylvania (LifeSiteNews) – A well-known pro-life author, sidewalk counselor, and father of seven was the latest victim of a U.S. Department of Justice-sponsored SWAT raid and arrest — for supposed “FACE Act” violations — at his rural home as his children looked on “screaming.”

Mark Houck is the founder and president of The King’s Men, which promotes healing for victims of pornography addiction and promotes Christian virtues among men in the United States and Europe.

According to his wife Ryan-Marie, who spoke with LifeSiteNews, he also drives two hours south to Philadelphia every Wednesday to sidewalk council for six to eight hours at two different abortion centers.

Ryan-Marie, who is a homeschool mother, explained 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.

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The warrant charged Mark with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, due to a claimed “ATTACK OF A PATIENT ESCORT.”

Ryan-Marie stated this charge comes from an incident that had already been thrown out of the District Court in Philadelphia but was somehow picked up by Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice.


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🧵THREAD: The Biden DOJ is being fully weaponized against his political enemies.

The most horrific case yet might be the story of a Catholic activist from my hometown who had 30 FBI agents sent to his house yesterday to arrest him in front of his wife and seven children.

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This event happened almost a year ago.  First, Houck was sued by the alleged 'victim'.  It was only after that lawsuit got tossed that Merrick Garland's 'Justice' [sic] Department got involved.  Think about that.  11½ months after the alleged assault, 30 FBI agents show up at this guy's house to charge him with a federal crime that never took place.
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Pro-Life Activist Arrested After SWAT Team Raids Home with Guns Drawn in Front of ‘Screaming’ Children
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/pro-life-activist-arrested-after-swat-team-raids-home-with-guns-drawn-in-front-of-screaming-children/

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You would think they would have simply had a couple of agents arrested him at the clinic site instead of sending 30 agents to his house almost a year later.
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FBI raids home of Catholic pro-life speaker, author with guns drawn as his terrified kids watch
LifeSite News, Sep 23, 2022

BUCKS COUNTY, Pennsylvania (LifeSiteNews) – A well-known pro-life author, sidewalk counselor, and father of seven was the latest victim of a U.S. Department of Justice-sponsored SWAT raid and arrest — for supposed “FACE Act” violations — at his rural home as his children looked on “screaming.”

Mark Houck is the founder and president of The King’s Men, which promotes healing for victims of pornography addiction and promotes Christian virtues among men in the United States and Europe.

According to his wife Ryan-Marie, who spoke with LifeSiteNews, he also drives two hours south to Philadelphia every Wednesday to sidewalk council for six to eight hours at two different abortion centers.

Ryan-Marie, who is a homeschool mother, explained 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.

[...]


The warrant charged Mark with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, due to a claimed “ATTACK OF A PATIENT ESCORT.”

Ryan-Marie stated this charge comes from an incident that had already been thrown out of the District Court in Philadelphia but was somehow picked up by Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice.


More:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/fbi-raids-home-of-catholic-pro-life-speaker-author-with-guns-drawn-as-his-terrified-kids-watch/
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This event happened almost a year ago.  First, Houck was sued by the alleged 'victim'.  It was only after that lawsuit got tossed that Merrick Garland's 'Justice' [sic] Department got involved.  Think about that.  11½ months after the alleged assault, 30 FBI agents show up at this guy's house to charge him with a federal crime that never took place.
Consider: civil lawsuits rely on a preponderance of evidence, and not the standard of 'beyond a reasonable doubt' that criminal cases do. When the lawsuit failed to reach he lower evidentiary standard of the civil courts, the criminal case should be moot.
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Report: FBI SWAT Raids Home of Catholic Pro-Life Activist as ‘Screaming’ Children Watch

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The FBI subjected a Catholic pro-life activist’s children to a fully-armored SWAT raid this week under the order of the DOJ.

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. Speaking with LifeSiteNews, 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.

“They started pounding on the door and yelling for us to open it,” Ryan-Marie said of the raid.

Prior to opening the door, Mark allegedly tried to reason with the agents to calm them down for the sake of his children. “Please, I’m going to open the door, but, please, my children are in the home. I have seven babies in the house,” Houck allegedly told the agents.

The FBI agents allegedly “just kept pounding and screaming,” according to Ryan-Marie.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/24/report-fbi-swat-raids-home-of-catholic-pro-life-activist-as-screaming-children-watch/
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Report: FBI SWAT Raids Home of Catholic Pro-Life Activist as ‘Screaming’ Children Watch

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The FBI subjected a Catholic pro-life activist’s children to a fully-armored SWAT raid this week under the order of the DOJ.

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. Speaking with LifeSiteNews, 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.

“They started pounding on the door and yelling for us to open it,” Ryan-Marie said of the raid.

Prior to opening the door, Mark allegedly tried to reason with the agents to calm them down for the sake of his children. “Please, I’m going to open the door, but, please, my children are in the home. I have seven babies in the house,” Houck allegedly told the agents.

The FBI agents allegedly “just kept pounding and screaming,” according to Ryan-Marie.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/24/report-fbi-swat-raids-home-of-catholic-pro-life-activist-as-screaming-children-watch/

Conducted in this manner with only ONE intent...

to get some 70-something American to go full 'Howard Beale' while hopefully wearing a MAGA hat.

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The Biden Administration is using Federal law enforcement agencies to harass, intimidate and silence their political opposition.

What are we prepared to do about it?

Yes, I am aware that part of their strategy is to provoke violent responses, so that such government efforts can be publicly justified and reinforced.

Accordingly, we must keep our powder dry. But make damn sure you have some on hand.

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Because this time: it does.
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Yes, I am aware that part of their strategy is to provoke violent responses, so that such government efforts can be publicly justified and reinforced.
Exactly. Had this fellow tried to protect his wife and children, the FBI would have executed all nine of them, thus protecting America from yet another right-wing extremist insurrectionist.
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Andy wrote:
"The Biden Administration is using Federal law enforcement agencies to harass, intimidate and silence their political opposition.
What are we prepared to do about it?
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And VOTE as if your freedom depended on it.
Because this time: it does."


Sorry Andy.
You're a bright light in the forum, but on this, you're livin' in times that simply don't exist no mo'.

Wait until November 8, and then January 3, and see how things change.
My prediction:
Not very much.

I'll ask one more time:
Is it time yet for that New Continental Congress ?

Consider some words from a document that came to exist as a result of the first one:
"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance."

"He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us."

"...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security"

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I am unable to find a single story from Oct 2021 that backs up the new claims being made now.  The 'newly discovered facts' are that the assault victim was escorting women into the clinic which is covered under federal statute.  Yet none of this was reported 11 months ago.  Is there a police report available?
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FBI Denies Sending SWAT Team to Arrest Catholic Pro-Life Activist Mark Houck

Paul Bois 25 Sep 2022

The FBI has denied sending a swat team of 25-30 agents to arrest Catholic pro-life activist Mark Houck for allegedly shoving an escort outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic last year.

Outrage ensued among conservatives throughout the weekend when it was reported that the FBI subjected Houck’s children to a fully armored SWAT raid last week under the order of the Department of Justice (DOJ).

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. Speaking with LifeSiteNews, 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.

“They started pounding on the door and yelling for us to open it,” Ryan-Marie said of the raid.

Prior to opening the door, Mark allegedly tried to reason with the agents to calm them down for the sake of his children. “Please, I’m going to open the door, but, please, my children are in the home. I have seven babies in the house,” Houck allegedly told the agents.

The FBI agents allegedly “just kept pounding and screaming,” according to Ryan-Marie.

“They had big, huge rifles pointed at Mark and pointed at me and kind of pointed throughout the house,” Ryan-Marie said of the moment that her husband opened the door for the agents.

“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,” she said. “The kids were all just screaming. It was all just very scary and traumatic.”

In a statement to Fox News on Sunday, a spokesperson with the FBI Philadelphia field office denied that a SWAT Team had been used to apprehend Mark Houck.

“There are inaccurate claims being made regarding the arrest of Mark Houck. No SWAT Team or SWAT operators were 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 taken into custody without incident pursuant to an indictment,” the FBI said.

The FBI did not deny that up to 25-30 armored agents were on the scene or that Houck’s children witnessed the agents pointing rifles at their father and mother to arrest him for allegedly shoving someone in front of an abortion clinic.

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Semantics. 30 heavily armed agents look, walk and quack like a SWAT team to the average civilian.
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Semantics. 30 heavily armed agents look, walk and quack like a SWAT team to the average civilian.
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Clearly these people are a threat to the civilized world!

The FBI has denied sending a swat team of 25-30 agents to arrest Catholic pro-life activist Mark Houck for allegedly shoving an escort outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic last year.

Meanwhile, actual admitted known murders are let go in a couple of hours with no bail.



Trust me on this ... Shannon Brandt/BLM/Antifa will never be "raided" by anybody.
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You cannot "COEXIST" with people who want to kill you.
If they kill their own with no conscience, there is nothing to stop them from killing you.
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When protesting the arrest Shannon Brandt said, "Hey wait a minute, I have a job!"
Yea, sure you do. This murderous thug thought that killing a guy was nothing. 'I have to get to work.'
After a hard day of killing teenagers who disagree with me, I go to work. I doubt the murder thing will play well on his resume'.
You cannot "COEXIST" with people who want to kill you.
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Semantics. 30 heavily armed agents look, walk and quack like a SWAT team to the average civilian.
Platoon strength armed force.

Enough to cause concern, especially with that many waving firearms, jizzed up on adrenaline and seven kids in the house.
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Not sure people have fully digested what it means that the FBI just sent 30 agents to the home a man because he stands in front of abortion clinics and tells scared young women they have options other than killing the baby.
Are you getting what that means and where we are?
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30 FBI agents didn’t show up at a man’s home for a shoving match with a dude at a clinic. You can’t possibly be serious with that. That’s a local matter and a misdemeanor at best.
They went to his home to make an example of him to anyone thinking of opposing The System.
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Too many for the goon squad...must be the goon platoon. :shrug: :whistle:
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FBI says wife is lying about terrifying SWAT claim describing pro-life activist husband’s arrest
September 26, 2022 | Melissa Fine

The Friday raid and arrest of Catholic father of seven and pro-life activist Mark Houck, 48, by the FBI at his home in Pennsylvania has sparked a social media fire under conservatives who claim the use of a SWAT team is yet another example of the Biden administration’s weaponizing of the Justice Department.

But the FBI is now pushing back against what it calls “inaccurate claims” surrounding the incident.

As BizPac Review reported, Houck, who co-founded The King’s Men, a Catholic ministry for which Houck serves as president, had his house raided for allegedly pushing a 72-year-old pro-abortion man for repeatedly harassing his 12-year-old son while Houck offered sidewalk counseling outside a Planned Parenthood clinic last year.

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