Authored by Allan Stein via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
A pro-life advocate and father of seven will appear in federal court in Philadelphia on Sept. 27 to face charges that he violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) outside a Pennsylvania abortion clinic nearly a year ago.
Mark Houck, a Catholic pro-life speaker and author from Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, is accused of twice physically assaulting a patient escort at a Planned Parenthood clinic during an altercation in October 2021.
On Sept. 23, a heavily armed Justice Department SWAT team arrested the 48-year-old Houck at his home at gunpoint, placing him in handcuffs while his terrified wife and children looked on.
Houck became the latest target of President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice solely to “intimidate people of faith and pro-life Americans,” said Peter Breen, an attorney at the Thomas Moore Society, a national non-profit law firm representing Houck in the case.
“Mark Houck is innocent of these lawless charges, and we intend to prove that in court,” Breen said in a Sept. 26 statement.
About 20 heavily armed FBI agents stormed Houck’s home at daybreak on Sept. 23, pointing guns at his head and then arresting him in front of his wife Ryan-Marie and their young children.
He faces two counts of physically assaulting the patient escort.
In June, Thomas Moore Society attorneys notified the DOJ that the FACE Act does not cover one-on-one altercations like the one involving Houck, which they claimed was initiated by an abortion supporter harassing Houck’s son.
The attorneys also advised that Houck would appear in court voluntarily to face any charges against him.
“Rather than accepting Mark Houck’s offer to appear voluntarily, the Biden Department of Justice chose to make an unnecessary show of potentially deadly force, sending 20 heavily armed federal agents to the Houck residence at dawn this past Friday,” Breen said in the statement.
“In threatening form, after nearly breaking down the family’s front door, at least five agents pointed guns at Mark’s head and arrested him in front of his wife and seven young children, who were terrified that their husband and father would be shot dead before their eyes.”
Donations continued to pour in for the Houck family via the Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo, which totaled $137,000 as of Sept. 25.
Mark Houck faces up to 11 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and fines of up to $350,000 if convicted.
In June 2019, Thomas Moore Society attorneys won a similar case in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, establishing that a one-off altercation cannot form the basis for a FACE Act complaint.
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We just have to vote harder, bruh…
What’s the difference in these two pictures?
They are the same picture.
Drumpf is not your friend, Drumpf is not a rebuplican and never was one, he is a trojan douche
Dank meme.
So defending your son from a escort whore is now a federal crime in clown world.
Thinking the wrong thoughts or posting a mean meme are now federal crimes in clown world. The Dept. of Just Us will send a heavily armed swat team to take you out if so much as twitch when they point their M-4 at your head.
I think they’re just picking the low hanging fruit because the fib are cowards!they think by picking up “soft targets”will make the “harder targets”think twice…..
The world has changed my friend…..
This is the straw that broke the camels back. I am going to exit the system.
I was wondering if the Thomas Moore attorneys would be handling this. By the way the agents acted you would have thought this poor guy was a cop killer. The DOJ keeps pulling these stunts. One wonders when it will backfire on them.
They want it to “backfire”. The real state is trying to provoke civil unrest, but those stubborn Christian Americans just don’t want to cooperate. It is hard to crack down on non-events.
Slapping both cheeks of a manufactured martyr gains attention and makes a stupid bully a bit more brazen. They will find many aren’t receptive to being slapped around and will quickly tire of the abuse.
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Do I make myself clear ya homophobe-pedophobe goody two shoes TPBers???
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I used to think Iran was a fucked up place until I saw sniper teams protecting pedophile men dressed as women twerking for toddlers in libraries.
On this day… the last American hero.
On this day Sept. 28, 1870…
Confederate General Robert E. Lee suffered a stroke.
On the 28th of September, 1870, after laborious attention to his duties during the early part of the day, General Lee attended, in the afternoon, a meeting of the Vestry of Grace Church, of which he was a member. Over this meeting he presided, and it was afterward remembered that his last public act was to contribute the sum of fifty-five dollars to some good object, the requisite amount to effect which was thus made up.
After the meeting, General Lee returned to his home, and, when tea was served, took his place at the table to say grace, as was his habit, as it had been in camp throughout the war. His lips opened, but no sound issued from them, and he sank back in his chair, and “bowed down, looking very strange and speaking incoherently.”, and was taken to his bed.
The painful intelligence immediately became known throughout Lexington, and the utmost grief and consternation were visible upon every face. It was hoped, at first, that the attack would not prove serious, and that General Lee would soon be able to resume his duties. But this hope was soon dissipated. The skillful physicians who hastened to his bedside pronounced his malady congestion of the brain, and, from the appearance of the patient, who lay in a species of coma, the attack was evidently of the most alarming character.
He died on October 12, 1870.
God help us. And speaking of God, it’s the Thomas MORE Society, named after St. Thomas More, who was decapitated by the degenerate King Henry VIII for fidelity to the Catholic Church.
look at that wanna be Race Bannon in the pic, probably checked his shit out in the mirror before going out to raid this guys home thinking how tacticool he looks, what a piece of shit
I hope Bandit bites him in the ass.
BTW, was Hadji ever deported?
The articles fails to mention that the State already cleared him of the assault charges, thus the DOJ is committing felony color of law harassment.
And all I hear on the radio and elsewhere is how the “rank and file”are mere pawns of the higher ups and are “just taking orders”and are “just trying to protect their pensions for their families”and other nonsense.
Just burns me up that the dollar is more important than blowing some innocent old ladies brains out because somebody told you to.Your not human,your a souless monster!
You will rue the day you did nothing to stand in the way of evil.Your feeding the alligator hoping to be the last one eaten.Good luck with that…..