The FBI raided the home of a Catholic activist in Pennsylvania, arresting the man and leaving his wife with his traumatized and screaming children. The arrest, allegedly, because the man violated a Clinton-era law while engaging in street activism.
Christian activist Mark Houck was arrested at his rural home, according to LifeSiteNews, when 15 vehicles, including a SWAT team, stormed the residence with his family inside at 7:05 a.m. yesterday.
Recounting that the couple knew there were police outside, Houck’s wife Ryan-Marie told the outlet that “they started pounding on the door and yelling for us to open it.”
She explained that her husband attempted to calm the men, telling them “‘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,” reported LifeSiteNews.
FBI raids home of Catholic pro-life speaker, author with guns drawn as his terrified kids watch… The DOJ is out of control. We need more conscientious objectors. https://t.co/GiBmOcfuJp
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) September 24, 2022
When Houck opened the door, federal police stormed the room with rifles drawn, leaving the couple’s children “just screaming” in a panic Ryan-Marie described as “scary and traumatic” for the kids.
Ryan-Marie asserts that the FBI originally refused to let her see the warrant, but eventually retrieved the first page of the document from their vehicle after she accused the men of “kidnapping” her husband at gunpoint.
LifeSiteNews explains that the arrest related to Houck’s Christian activism, but that separate state level charges had already been dropped.
Joe Biden’s Department of Justice, under Merrick Garland, decided to bring their own charges against Houck and raided him with guns drawn, the outlet explained.
Republican Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano released a statement condemning “The continued weaponization of the FBI and persecution by Joe Biden’s DOJ” as “an outrage” and promised that “As Governor, I will not allow the police state of Biden to enforce his persecution against his political enemies on sacred PA soil.”
Mark Houck was arrested yesterday for assaulting a 72 year-old man escorting a patient into a Planned Parenthood clinic. MAGA Gov cand Mastriano says: “As Gov, I will not allow the police state of Biden to enforce his persecution against his political enemies on sacred PA soil.” pic.twitter.com/DKfUZ4d1Sk
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) September 24, 2022
The law enforcement action comes as a growing number of conservatives fear that the FBI and Department of Justice are being used by Democrats as political weapons to hurt 45th President Donald Trump and his supporters.
FBI whistleblowers are compounding this fear, with one whistleblower recently telling the New York Post that the agency has become totally politicized and obsessed with the January 6 protests. He accused the agency of ignoring child sex crimes to focus on rooting out Trump supporters who attended the protest.
Chucky Margolis
September 24, 2022 at 4:31 pm
So Dan, get off your ast and call the guard and find those agents then arrest them.
Sandra Lee Smith
September 24, 2022 at 8:46 pm
He won’t. But the AG needs to file suit. This is just tyrannical TERRORISM, for political reasons… what you find in places like China, Venezuela, the USSR, Pol Pot’s Cambodia! it’s unconstitutional & anti-constitutional, just plain EVIL, so not a syllable fromthe instigatorsabout “protecting our democracy” EVER AGAIN! Y’ALL are the terrorisets & destroyers!
THOMAS
September 24, 2022 at 6:35 pm
The ones within the DOJ that are in the most need of arresting are Garland and Wray because they are calling the shots of who gets arrested and for what ! I say Fuh-Q to Biden and his entire administration ! This is what happens when a FRAUDULENT Piece of SHIT gets installed into our White House … ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE !
Recce1
September 24, 2022 at 8:53 pm
What crime was committed? Was it the State or Federal government that dropped the charges? Very VITAl questions.
What about about the FBI tactics?
Why show up as SWAT teams when there’s no need? Two agents in dark suits and dark glasses wired for security to backup would be sufficient in this type of situation, that of Juiliani’s office and that of Roger Stone’s home.
Or did they show up as armed troops to terrorize these people and those who hold the same view to portray them as Deplorable domestic terrorists? Didn’t they show up at the former President’s home in like manner?
Secondly, why are they so often not show the accused the COMPLETE warrant BEFORE entering or searching? Isn’t that required under the 4th Amendment?
Howard
September 26, 2022 at 1:10 pm
One of these people being harassed by the Gestapo tactics of the Biden Administration are going to bring a class action suit against the FBI, DOJ, etc., get it up to the Supreme court and not only win millions but shut down these unheard tactics. I grew up in the best country in the world and now I live in one of the worse.
Philly Phlake
September 24, 2022 at 9:45 pm
Why the outrage? Citizens of PA show that they approve of this as Fetterman is leading in the polls. PA voted Biden. Citizens get the government that they deserve.
carol
September 24, 2022 at 10:47 pm
Get biden, the crooked dictator out of the white house..vote republican so we can get rid of garland, wray and all the law breaking dems~
porterv
September 24, 2022 at 11:58 pm
The FBI makes the Gestapo and the Stasi look like good guys. Flush the FBI.
Ernst
September 25, 2022 at 2:40 am
The Department of Justice (What a misnomer!) and its FBI have become like the Stassi, MVD, or Gestapo. As crazy as it sounds, the US government should be prosecuted under the RICO Act.
Jamarcus
September 25, 2022 at 8:43 am
Pray for the Destruction of the Bdn Regime !!
AMEN
Gerald Ladd
September 25, 2022 at 10:37 am
Welcome to Biden’s Marxist America!
Susan Satava
September 25, 2022 at 4:19 pm
That’s the whole point: To make everyone traumatized and uncomfortable, the point being control. Biden Inc. DOJ is gunning for every “MAGA” Republican, fed charges being 10x heavier than state. It will backfire.