 Attorney General Merrick Garland reportedly sent 25-30 heavily-armed FBI agents to arrest a Catholic pro-life speaker for allegedly shoving a pro-abortion activist who got in his son's face.
From LifeSiteNews, "FBI raids home of Catholic pro-life speaker, author with guns drawn as his terrified kids watch":
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 counsel for six to eight hours at two different abortion centers.
Ryan-Marie, who is a homeschooling mother, described how 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. The FBI responded to the report on Sunday by telling Fox News it wasn't a "SWAT team" but instead "agents."
From Breitbart:
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. FBI whistleblower Special Agent Steve Friend, who served on an FBI SWAT team, was retaliated against last week for blowing the whistle on the FBI inflating the threat of "white extremists" and refusing to take part in heavily-armed raids of Jan 6 protesters who walked through the Capitol and faced mere misdemeanor offenses.
The FBI took a knee during the Black Lives Matter riots but they're more than happy to abuse the hell out of MAGA grandmas and white Christians.
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