Mark Houck. Photo courtesy “National Catholic Register”
A number of conservative and pro-life groups have been upset about the reported treatment of a pro-life leader who was taken into custody by FBI in another “strong arm” tactic to intimidate conservative and God-fearing Americans. It should be obvious that this tactic is now being employed by government leaders from Washington.
According to reports by his wife, Ryan-Marie, to Life Site News, pro-life activist Mark Houck’s family was terrorized by a SWAT team of FBI agents early on September 23 who stormed their property in rural Pennsylvania aiming high-powered rifles at them as their children screamed in horror. This was featured in Breitbart News on September 25 2022, and also on the Mark Levin Show.
Mark Houck is the founder and president of The King’s Men—a group dedicated to helping men become better husbands, fathers and leaders. The warrant for Houck’s arrest stated that he violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act in 2021 outside of a Planned Parenthood Clinic where abortions are performed. Houck pled not guilty of the charges when facing a judge on September 27.
Ryan-Marie stated: “They started pounding on the door and yelling for us to open it.” Her husband said he told agents through the door, “Please. I’m going to open the door, but, please, my children are in the home. I have seven babies in the house.”
Ryan-Marie said agents “just kept pounding and screaming…They had big, huge rifles pointed at Mark and pointed at me and kind of pointed throughout the house… Our kids were all at the top of the stairs… and all just screaming. It was all just very scary and traumatic.”
Ryan Marie told Catholic News Agency that a “SWAT team of about 25 came to my house with about 15 vehicles and started pounding on our door” and that they had “about five guns pointed at my husband, myself and basically at my kids.”
Mark Houck went readily with agents who took him in. Even the FBI in their response statement said that they did have 25 agents with guns and that Houck was no problem taking in, but they denied that it was a “SWAT Team or that they threatened anyone.”
The arrest stemmed from an incident at a Planned Parenthood Clinic in which the plaintiff, a volunteer who escorts patients inside, accused Houck of knocking him down in front of the clinic. According to Houck, the man had been harassing Houck’s son who accompanied him on a regular protest vigil to the clinic. Houck said the man was verbally assaulting his son and he stepped in to defend him, shoving the volunteer away from him. The volunteer then fell to the ground.
The FBI actions seem to be in-line with other current activities of the highest national law enforcement such as the forceful invasion of former President Trump’s Mar-E-Lago estate in Florida. Reports also show that one likely motive in that home invasion was to procure sought-after evidence to be used in a legal case against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party in the Russia Hoax trial of Trump—certainly an illegal and invasive use of such force. The current round of questioning and interrogation of January 6 “defendants” also seems to run against normal American practice.
In the case of Mark Houck, would a simply phone call have sufficed to ask Houck to “come downtown” for questioning?
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