BUCKS COUNTY, Pennsylvania – 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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Nothing should surprise us at this point, and while it’s not surprising to see the American Cheka blatantly attack Christians for their religious beliefs, it is still certainly shocking. More so than the persecution of the J6’ers in my mind. While their treatment has been subhuman and inhumane, you could at least understand the lefty perspective no matter how wrong it might be.
This has no such veneer of legality, particularly as the DA dismissed the case. This is nothing less then an attack on Christianity and the American church itself. The federal government of these United States of America has openly declared war on followers of Christ.
For now these raids will remain peaceful if you are. Very shortly it won’t matter whether you were peaceful or not.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 KJV
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
All of this is going on and not a damn thing is being done to stop it. Where are the armed second amendment patriots, oh, right, they really don’t exist.
Pussy patriots: I have a gun to stop the tyrannical govt. Me: Why haven’t you used it? PP: Govt said it was illegal, so I turned it in for a juicy burger and two booster shots.
Meanwhile Chinese spies overrun Los Alamos…why there’s almost a pattern emerging… well at least the Catholics are off the streets…ZOG hates Catholics..
A ‘Significant Threat To National Security’: China Has Been Embedding Scientists At Los Alamos For Decades
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/significant-threat-national-security-china-has-been-embedding-scientists-los-alamos
Every FBI agent HAS to go to the holocaust museum …of course, because Federal law, bruh..
fags gonna’ fag.
Are Catholics Christian though?
Are you not an cock swallowing idiot , though?
No, they worship Ishtar after renaming her mary.
I remember decades ago in Stockton Ca, the swat team, not fib did something similar but forgot to identify themselves as LE and the first guy through the door received a deer rifle round through his heart. Some day that may happen again to these turds that dont understand peoples CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
“They looked pretty ashamed at what had just happened.” And they appear to know SHAME??!! Wow, I would never expect that from govt’s dogs.
A letter, oh that should solve it. Tyrants are always known to back down when asked.
and yet he did…
Maybe its strongly worded….. “Please stop, or I’ll ask again! Call my bluff. Do it, I dares you!”
Tom Wolf is the governor of Pennsylvania
The 2A is just about the only one left and it is under extreme stress.
The problem is that the first ones to stand up are going to be made an example of, big time.
Yes, they are currently being held without bail in the District of Corruption jail for misdemeanors.
Not if they are backed by a few million patriots doing the same damn thing all over the country.
Easy to say the 2A is the answer, but how many are willing to be killed and make no mistake they will kill anyone of us.
The federal government would easily overwhelm a single shooter at his home with numbers or they’ll just burn the house down with your family inside or shoot an RPG through the window and call it a day.
If conservatives were serious we’d have organized by now and set up networks to protect one another. Instead we’re all still playing by the rules set up by those who don’t.
You go ahead and set up a network. It seemed to work quite well in MI a couple years ago. Organized resistance will not work as you cannot organize anything without the FIB infiltrating it.
It will take 10,000 individuals acting alone to slow this stuff down and even that may not be enough to make a dent.
Sooner or later they are going to go one step too far and a grass roots resistance will rise up. I know what my red line is, do you know yours?
I’m not saying people wouldn’t get caught, but the idea of a one-man army is ridiculous.
Successfully resistances historically don’t start grassroots style.
Sorry BTK, thats how it’s done. 350 million one man armies.
Try, at best, 3 million.
All defeated via overwhelming firepower one at a time over the course of a decade.
In a surveillance state, it is difficult to organize more than 2 or 3 people without being infiltrated.
A better idea is for people who make things work to gum up the works and make the system grind to a halt. Notice a gear box that is making noise, ignore it and let it fail, then take extra time to repair it. Do this 100 times a day and pretty soon, nothing is happening in the country
I’ve been saying forever the grid is their friend not ours. Why do we continue to allow them to kill us with it. It’s rhetorical so don’t answer. They are going to pull the plug on us soon anyway but in the meantime they are using it to become permenantly entrenched like the bolshies and Stalin.
EXCERPT:
In his book, To Build a Castle, Vladimir Bukovsky provides one of the finest descriptions of institution-jamming ever recorded. He organized it.
What you are about to read is like nothing you have ever read. I have spent over 45 years studying bureaucracies in theory and practice. I have seen nothing to match it.
Bukovsky spent well over a decade in the Soviet gulag concentration camp system in the 1960s and 1970s. He was arrested and sentenced in spite of specific civil rights protections provided by the Soviet Constitution – a document which was never respected by the Soviet bureaucracy. But once in prison, he learned to make life miserable for the director of his camp.
He learned that written complaints had to be responded to officially within a month. This administrative rule governing the camps was for “Western consumption,” but it was nevertheless a rule. Any camp administrator who failed to honor it risked the possibility of punishment, should a superior (or ambitious subordinate) decide to pressure him for any reason. In short, any failure to “do it by the book” could be used against him later on.
Bukovsky became an assembly-line producer of official protests. By the end of his career as a “zek,” he had taught hundreds of other inmates to follow his lead. By following certain procedures that were specified by the complaint system, Bukovsky’s protesting army began to disrupt the whole Soviet bureaucracy.
Except you getting fired, repeatedly.
You see why I’ve been fired often! lol These are the best days at work. Home early!!
“it is difficult to organize more than 2 or 3 people without being infiltrated.”
Yet somehow this crowd managed it:
Should have been more specific. It is difficult for any group on the right to organize without being infiltrated.
How it should work.
They show up with guns and surround a house.
All the neighbors show up with guns and surround them.
Then disarm them, take their masks off, photograph them and send them home naked, bloody and on foot the first time only.
If they do it again send them to hell.
The target sends out a message alert flash mob style.
Drop trees across each end of the road to box them in.
Set up concealed riflemen.
Wear masks to prevent covid
That would be interesting.
We’re almost at that level of fury, but not quite.
We’ll be there soon. But by then, the game will begin to change somewhat.
The minds behind this thing are always ahead of the curve. They know how to steer what’s coming.
This incident and the pillow guy incident of boxing in his vehicle publicly in broad daylight are meant to be highly visible to send a clear message of government intimidation and fear to their political opponents.
Straight up banana republic tactics by the government goon squad.
It will be a while before we get to that point, but I would suggest when we see them surround a house, we snipe a few of them, then disappear into the woods. A couple of these incidents and the fibbies might stop and think about their strategy. Certainly the guys on the ground might not be so gung ho to bust a citizen.
Hit n runs
Right?!?…..that it hasn’t happened yet is kind of interesting……it seems to me the idea of “death on my feet before life on my knees”‘ is something not taken seriously …….like a lot of things….
Cowards will never fight back. Seems most would now sooner die on their knees than on their feet fighting for their freedom.
That’s why this is story of allowed injustice, and tyranny. He missed an opportunity of one man armies. How would the story read if this turned out to be a mutually agreed upon suicidal bloodbath?
Note, yesterday had to remind a youth( victim of brainwashing) that using his knife leads to a mutually agreed upon bloodbath. Hooray Canada!
Use it and the stress will cease.
This shit has got to stop.
It is not going to stop on its own and they are going to continue to push against any who do not line up behind them.
The United States of America is done, along with the Constitution that established it.
It WILL stop if Trump wins in 2024.
The FBI has a Federal problem [?] with Free Speech on an abortion issue ? Slash their funding !!!!!
Call SanFranNan and I fell confident she will do something about it.
Republicans have been promising to defund Planned Abortion of America for 40 years and they are still sucking at the givernment teat to the tune of 1/2 billion a year.
There is another possible explanation as to why they show up so heavily armed with 15-20 agents: they know their opsec sucks ass (it does), and they are terrified of walking into an ambush.
This makes these raids unsustainable. 15-20 agents to round up each one of us? This is an overt admission they have already lost, and they know it.
It is Darth Cheney’s Shock & Awe, one dissident at a time. It is all designed to make you cower in fear they will come to your door next. “Oh how we suffered…”
It’s the use of overwhelming force in the predawn hours to disorient, intimidate and bulldoze you into submission and captivity.
It’s fine when you are going after real robbers, rapists and murderers.
Not political opponents.
At 7am if I saw 5 of 6 vehicles discharging men with plate and rifles in front of my house I’d start laughing at the absurdity of it. Meet them at tbe door laughing at them. Fear is their currency. Deny it to them.
They do it for the headlines. Imagine the reporting if “My client met them at the door laughing his ass off at the obvious absurdity of 20 armed agents wearing body armor raiding his suburban home. It’s pathetic.” Of course, with front door camera video to back it up. The FBI would instantly be the laughing stock it deserves to be, and the raids would stop immediately.
Has anyone besides me noticed how the mall shootings stopped after the 22 year old crushed that kid with a rifle? As long as the narrative is “BE AFRAID! GUNS ARE BAD, MKAY?” the shootings will continue. When the narrative shifted to “Armed citizen stops attack and saves lives” the attacks stopped, because that is not the story they want being told.
The point I am trying to make here is this: full-throated tyranny has never been attempted before against a heavily armed and comparably wealthy citizenry. They are struggling with it, and they realize fear is their only real weapon. And they are effing terrified of us. Isn’t that obvious by now?
The fear pumps have been running at 110% for years: BLM, covid, inflation, famine, nuclear war, crime, 87000 irs agents. It’s all deliberate and coordinated, and we can see that it is.
This.
“Trigger Pullers” will skew 2/3 not ok with what’s going on (i.e. “conservative”) in any organization. But they need to go to work to feed their families. At this point those who haven’t realized they’ve been contributing to the problem and quit have instead developed a robust cognitive dissidence, as demonstrated above.
The institutions are irredeemably corrupted for this very reason.
Saw it firsthand in the high levels of JSOC during our closing months in AFG. Nobody, at any level, was ever at a high enough level to challenge the lawfulness of orders or wisdom of policy. “We’re in the business of operations, not policy-making” was the oft-repeated mantra. So some, like me, quit. And now the others are still there serving as the action arm of murderous sociopaths without any voices of dissent around. They feel really bad every time they do a murder for the man, but they keep showing up to work each day regardless.
At some point they will be targeted as individuals. They can run but they can’t hide.
Hide in the hills! The stupid army drones will never find me. Just turn the road signs as you pass. If you run into resistance, be prepared with scissors cardboard and a marker to put anti Russian slogans on the side of your newly cut out ak. Kindergarten Kids Camp out. Don’t forget your Denver Go bag. Not even FBI as you say will get away from this. No one can.
“Unintended Consequences” by Ross may help you understand where we may be headed and options that might be used. The Irish Republican Army is another example.
I hope it does not develop to this point, but entities such as the old Chicago Mafia show that pressure applied at the correct level tends to provide results from those remaining in power.
The reason I have to respect for order followers. They’ll do whatever they’re told for a paycheck without assuming any responsibility for their actions. ‘Just following orders’, ‘I don’t make the rules I just enforce them’ said every death squad and concentration camp officer.
People inherently know the difference between right and wrong, to knowingly violate someone else’s rights because it’s convenient for you…no excuses.
Is it too late to become a flag burner? How about 100 flags?
Maybe it’s time here too
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https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/italians-rip-down-flag-at-eu-headquarters-in-rome/
No, stop, bad strategy.
The state can make trials as cheap or as expensive as they like. They can even do this on a case by case basis. Half the time, the charges exist not in hopes of achieving a prosecution, but to financially ruin the opposition. The statists have a good idea of how much money their victims can raise, and set prices accordingly.
This strategy of getting together to fund an expensive legal defense against every last spurious accusation just results in a tax on being right wing, and a corresponding transfer of wealth to statists. It takes political capital to level charges against a person. Rallying together like this merely extends their attack range to encompass everyone who funds the victim.
And, life is not infinitely more precious than money. If the victim can’t afford his own defense, then we can’t either. Winning trials by throwing unmeasured amounts of wealth at the problem just results in a chain of pyrrhic victories.
We need to stop paying for the right to a fair trial. Stop hiring lawyers, especially for people who aren’t you. Innocence should not be a product bought at market, and being charged with a crime you didn’t commit should not cost one single cent. If you cannot win the trial without bribing the state, the trial is already lost.
The guy is against pornography addiction? Hunter must’ve ordered the raid.
These communist bastards want to kill you.
The Us vs Them 4th Turning is heating up.
20 FBI agents because he blocked access to an abortion clinic a year ago?
A measured response if not a timely one.
Let’s review this for what it is- a demonstration of raw power and force against a very soft target with multiple children in order to frighten others who may be parents from standing up for what they believe to be right.
For them to do something of this magnitude over something that involved no harm to another (he did not assault or murder anyone) there has to be a motivation. What would cause such an overreaction?
If they were simply enforcing the law this could easily and more readily been accomplished by passing down orders for an arrest by local authorities and then picking him up while in custody. This was a message and it was meant to be perceived as a threat. Such messages are rarely delivered by those confident in their authority. This is the kind of signal you send when you fear that people aren’t taking you seriously. And this wasn’t done on a local level, i.e. the Omaha FBI office, but much further up the DOJ food chain.
They appear fearful of a backlash and this is their means of messaging the public in advance.
It is almost time for Good Men to do bad things to bad people….
Ew Catholic
But they told us Merrick Garland was a moderate when they tried to install him on the Supreme Court!
I’ve cooled down since first learning of this situation. However, I still want to burn that flag.
And now that group of Strong Honest and Handsome FBI guys can go to his neighbours house and repeat. New opportunity for a one man army. Or not.
Sounds like the feds were hoping for another Waco type scenario. If they had asked this guy to go the station so they could arrest him, he would ask what time is good for you and his wife would have brought cookies.