Quote: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.

They provided the first page of the warrant and said they were taking him to “the federal building in downtown Philadelphia.”

“After they had taken Mark, and the kids were all screaming that he was their best friend, the [FBI agents on her porch] kind of softened a bit. I think they realized what was happening. Or maybe they actually looked at the warrant,” Ryan-Marie explained. “They looked pretty ashamed at what had just happened.”

As a result, the homeschool mother said her kids were “really sad and stressed. So, I’ve already reached out to some psychiatrists or psychologists to try and help us through this. 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,” she lamented.

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.

On several occasions when Mark went to sidewalk counsel last year, he took his eldest son, who was only 12 at the time, she explained. For “weeks and weeks,” a “pro-abortion protester” would speak to the boy saying “crude … inappropriate and disgusting things,” such as “you’re dad’s a fag,” and other statements that were too vulgar for her to convey.

Repeatedly, Mark would tell this pro-abortion man that he did not have permission to speak to his son and please refrain from doing so. And “he kept doing it and kind of came into [the son’s] personal space” obscenely ridiculing his father. At this point, “Mark shoved him away from his child, and the guy fell back.”

“He didn’t have any injuries or anything, but he tried to sue Mark,” and the case was thrown out of court in the early summer.

Since the Biden administration has taken power in January 2021, Garland’s Department of Justice and the FBI have committed dozens of SWAT team raids that have been characterized as a political “weaponization” of the federal agencies against pro-lifers, Trump supporters, conservative Christians, and medical freedom advocates.

For example, in contrast to left-wing rioters who caused enormous damage in cities across the nation in 2020, and the vandals who have attacked dozens of pro-life centers this year with little or no legal ramifications, the Department of Justice implemented the harshest of consequences for those they identified as having anything to do with the disturbance at the Capital on January 6, 2021. These actions have included early morning SWAT team arrests, ransacked homes, confiscation of property, indefinite pre-trial solitary confinement without bail in a dedicated D.C. prison, significant physical abuse, and the violation of the Constitutional right to a speedy trial.

In March, the FBI rounded up 10 pro-life activists, including Joan Andrews Bell, with SWAT team raids that serve to intimidate and humiliate the accused through an exercise of excessive force.

A surfaced video of one of these raids shows armed agents holding pro-lifers at gunpoint and ordering them to put their hands up, drop to their knees and scoot backward out their front door in the middle of the night. The pro-lifers are respectful and compliant throughout.

After the FBI’s unprecedented August 8 raid on President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called it “another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents.”

Soon after Joe Biden’s September 1 speech where he declared war on conservative Christians, dozens of Trump allies had their homes raided by the FBI, which Steve Bannon referred to as “a Gestapo tactic,” and said it was “all about intimidation.”

In response to the raid on the Houck residence this morning, however, local pro-life advocates don’t seem to be intimidated, but energized. In addition to sponsoring a fundraiser for this family, they will be holding a prayer rally at the “Philadelphia Women’s Center” abortion facility at 777 Appletree St. from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, September 24. All are invited to come and pray peacefully and make a financial donation as well.

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Sue the living **** out of them. If anyone thinks this is appropriate then get bent.



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This whole story is typical craziness these days.

With that said, if people were saying such things to my child, I wouldn’t keep bringing him along on these protests. If this guy is like many abortion protestors, he probably had signs or was saying that the people going into the clinic were murderers. Protestors themselves can be quite nasty.

If your kid got called names, that’s a shame, but you could have left him home if there was a possibility your own words were leading to a physical confrontation. It’s undoubtedly a situation that could lead to that, entirely the protestors own doing too…

Just a thought.

With all of that said, it certainly doesn’t seem like an FBI swat team level situation from the information given. That’s meant to intimidate others like him most likely.

More info from the give send go page:

Quote:At 7am on Friday, September 23, 20 SWAT team members burst into the home of Mark Houck, founder of The King's Men - an organization that forms men to act as leaders and protectors in their families and communities, especially in the fight to end abortion. These agents had guns drawn and shields up in the faces of Mark, his wife, and their seven young children. Mark was handcuffed in front of his family and arrested.

Mark's "crime" was protecting his son from an aggressive Planned Parenthood escort in downtown Philadelphia.

Last year, Mark and his son were praying in front of the PP at 12th and Locust. When one of the escorts began harassing Mark's son they walked down the street away from the entrance to the building. The escort followed them, and when he continued yelling at Mark's son, Mark pushed him away.

It's all on video.

But that hasn't stopped Planned Parenthood and the Biden Administration. With no prior warning, and in spite of the fact that Mark is represented by an attorney, Biden's Justice Department sent a fully armed SWAT team into a home full of young children at daybreak, to arrest a father for protecting his son.

Planned Parenthood its pro-abortion allies want to send a message of fear to the pro-life community of Pennsylvania. But we have a different message to share:

We will not back down, we will not stop fighting to protect the lives of Pennsylvania's unborn children, and we WILL NOT TOLERATE the harassment of our leaders by a corrupt and politicized justice system.

#policestate

This sh*tbird right here is waiting on TaintTonic to come on here and tell us again how its cool what the DOJ is doing.

(09-24-2022 06:24 PM)Todor Wrote:  This whole story is typical craziness these days.

With that said, if people were saying such things to my child, I wouldn’t keep bringing him along on these protests. If this guy is like many abortion protestors, he probably had signs or was saying that the people going into the clinic were murderers. Protestors themselves can be quite nasty.

If your kid got called names, that’s a shame, but you could have left him home if there was a possibility your own words were leading to a physical confrontation. It’s undoubtedly a situation that could lead to that, entirely the protestors own doing too…

Just a thought.

With all of that said, it certainly doesn’t seem like an FBI swat team level situation from the information given. That’s meant to intimidate others like him most likely.

It doesn't seem?

What in the literal **** are you smoking.

It absolutely 100% does not warrant the federal ******* swat teams to go into his home with weapons drawn.

This is 3rd world banana republic insanity and if it doesn't stop immediately, it will be stopped by other means.

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(09-24-2022 07:18 PM)maximus Wrote:  

(09-24-2022 06:24 PM)Todor Wrote:  This whole story is typical craziness these days.

With that said, if people were saying such things to my child, I wouldn’t keep bringing him along on these protests. If this guy is like many abortion protestors, he probably had signs or was saying that the people going into the clinic were murderers. Protestors themselves can be quite nasty.

If your kid got called names, that’s a shame, but you could have left him home if there was a possibility your own words were leading to a physical confrontation. It’s undoubtedly a situation that could lead to that, entirely the protestors own doing too…

Just a thought.

With all of that said, it certainly doesn’t seem like an FBI swat team level situation from the information given. That’s meant to intimidate others like him most likely.

It doesn't seem?

What in the literal **** are you smoking.

It absolutely 100% does not warrant the federal ******* swat teams to go into his home with weapons drawn.

This is 3rd world banana republic insanity and if it doesn't stop immediately, it will be stopped by other means.

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I think he meant that it didn't deserve a swat team reaction.

It’s all fine. I’m sure they followed procedure.

The Biden* Administration is pulling out all stops to try to get a reaction by the conservative right. They REALLY want a reaction so the Depends-Wearer-in-Chief can then rant in a speech about how violent MAGA Republicans are and how he now must shut down America through the election "to insure decent citizens are not harmed or assaulted exercising their right to vote".

The next step is to order all voting to be via mail.

So we can expect MORE of this illegal, third world BULLS HIT all the way through election night.

If they do not get a reaction, you can rest assured they will create a reaction.

(09-24-2022 06:56 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  This sh*tbird right here is waiting on TaintTonic to come on here and tell us again how its cool what the DOJ is doing.

It's all cool because they had a warrant, that's what he would say.

Biden Junta Secret Police.

At some point, Biden’s gestapo will end up running into a group of ‘crazy’ people who try to defend themselves against this nonsense and we’ll have yet another tragedy on our hands.

Even if true, why do we need 20 heavily armed jackboots showing up to a minister’s home because he prevented access to a clinic?

(09-24-2022 06:42 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  #policestate

* biden brownshirts

(09-24-2022 06:56 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  This sh*tbird right here is waiting on TaintTonic to come on here and tell us again how its cool what the DOJ is doing.

I'm thinking he won't touch this.

(09-25-2022 12:33 AM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(09-24-2022 06:56 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  This sh*tbird right here is waiting on TaintTonic to come on here and tell us again how its cool what the DOJ is doing.

I'm thinking he won't touch this.

There well could be a bad act here. But all that I have seen comes from a few blog posts on it. But they seem to have a very serious slant and bias attached to them.

The stories between the FBI press release and the person being charged kind of diverge significantly about the underlying incident.

If the ministers story about him being accosted is more of the truth than the account where there was a verbal altercation without the added issues that the minister put in his account, then there is a big issue of whether the assault on the elderly abortion clinic worker is justified or not.

And no, I don’t think lifesitehome would be the best place to get unbiased accounts. Nor is RedState which I am a regular reader of. Just saying. At the same time I dont put full faith in the FBI release on the event either.

Sorry to disappoint you UstatePolytech.

Glad to see your Beavis mode is operating on full glory.

(09-25-2022 06:16 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(09-25-2022 12:33 AM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(09-24-2022 06:56 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  This sh*tbird right here is waiting on TaintTonic to come on here and tell us again how its cool what the DOJ is doing.

I'm thinking he won't touch this.

If the ministers story about him being accosted is more of the truth than the account where there was a verbal altercation without the added issues that the minister put in his account, then there is a big issue of whether the assault on the elderly abortion clinic worker is justified or not.

By all means, please teach us how on earth that justified the FEDS getting involved making it an FBI case, much less one that warrants a home raid with an armed swat team in a home full of small children.

There is an obvious cluster of cases like this just in recent weeks, to deny a clear pattern here is emerging is totally insane.

There was a time not long ago when everyone on all sides, MOST OF ALL THOSE ON THE LEFT would be saying that is crazy what the heck is going on with the feds and the FBI?

The sudden overnight blind trust the left has for the FEDS, the FBI and CIA is one of single most mind blowing things I have ever seen in my lifetime.

(09-25-2022 06:16 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(09-25-2022 12:33 AM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(09-24-2022 06:56 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  This sh*tbird right here is waiting on TaintTonic to come on here and tell us again how its cool what the DOJ is doing.

I'm thinking he won't touch this.

There well could be a bad act here. But all that I have seen comes from a few blog posts on it. But they seem to have a very serious slant and bias attached to them.

The stories between the FBI press release and the person being charged kind of diverge significantly about the underlying incident.

If the ministers story about him being accosted is more of the truth than the account where there was a verbal altercation without the added issues that the minister put in his account, then there is a big issue of whether the assault on the elderly abortion clinic worker is justified or not.

And no, I don’t think lifesitehome would be the best place to get unbiased accounts. Nor is RedState which I am a regular reader of. Just saying. At the same time I dont put full faith in the FBI release on the event either.

Sorry to disappoint you UstatePolytech.

Glad to see your Beavis mode is operating on full glory.

Rather than calling it out for what it is you issue an ambiguous remark like your opening sentence.

To summarize, it's fine that the freakin FBI swat team showed up with 25-30 heavily armed agents to serve a warrant rather than sending a local patrol car for what should have been a routine process.

You're out of your mind, if you don't understand that the DOJ and FBI have been weaponized then there's just no help for you. Your views appear to be naively rooted in how criminal law is SUPPOSED to be conducted while not realizing the rule of law in this country has been severely subverted over the last two years. Unless you're part of the ruling class or the elites it has all but been cast aside.

Maybe you just take civil cases like bankruptcy or debt collections, what type law do you practice anyway, I'm genuinely curious.

(09-25-2022 06:16 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(09-25-2022 12:33 AM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(09-24-2022 06:56 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  This sh*tbird right here is waiting on TaintTonic to come on here and tell us again how its cool what the DOJ is doing.

I'm thinking he won't touch this.

There well could be a bad act here. But all that I have seen comes from a few blog posts on it. But they seem to have a very serious slant and bias attached to them.

The stories between the FBI press release and the person being charged kind of diverge significantly about the underlying incident.

If the ministers story about him being accosted is more of the truth than the account where there was a verbal altercation without the added issues that the minister put in his account, then there is a big issue of whether the assault on the elderly abortion clinic worker is justified or not.

And no, I don’t think lifesitehome would be the best place to get unbiased accounts. Nor is RedState which I am a regular reader of. Just saying. At the same time I dont put full faith in the FBI release on the event either.

Sorry to disappoint you UstatePolytech.

Glad to see your Beavis mode is operating on full glory.

You could have accomplished the same message by simply saying "derpity derp derp."

Explain to me again why this non-crime of self defense required the FBI/DOJ to raid his house and take him into custody.