Lord, hear our prayer:
Posted on 09/26/2022 11:01:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Friday mornings are usually the cheeriest time of the week, just hours away from the weekend. Alas for pro-life advocate Mark Houck and his family, last Friday was anything but joyous. At 7 A.M., the father of seven was awakened by a SWAT team of heavily armed FBI agents.
Mark's wife, Ryan-Marie, said she pleaded with the FBI agents to be calm, owing to the presence of the couple's seven young children.
The "kids were screaming. It was all just very scary and traumatic." Alas, those pleas fell on deaf ears. Ryan-Marie recounts the raid as follows:
A "SWAT team of about 25 came to my house with about 15 vehicles and started pounding on our door."
"They said they were going to break in if he didn't open it. And then they had about five guns pointed at my husband, myself, and basically at my kids[.]"
The "kids were screaming. It was all just very scary and traumatic."
The FBI 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, "You can't just come to a person's house and kidnap them at gunpoint," the FBI agreed to get the warrant from one of their vehicles.
Mark asked her to get him his sweatshirt and rosaries, but after she returned, they already had loaded him into a vehicle. They provided Ryan-Marie with the first page of the warrant and said they were taking Mark to "the federal building in downtown Philadelphia."
So what was Mark's crime that merited an emergency raid and arrest by armed FBI agents?
Was he plotting a terror attack or assassination on U.S. soil later that day?
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Was he a serial killer who was on the prowl for his next potential victim?
Was he in possession of weapons of mass destruction?
As the Iron Lady Thatcher once said: "No. No. No."
Federal court documents revealed that Mark was arrested on the charge that on two occasions, he assaulted a 72-year-old volunteer at the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Philadelphia. The incident occurred on Oct. 13, 2021, almost a year ago. If the matter was of such urgency and importance, why did they not act sooner?
Ryan-Marie said the district court in Philadelphia investigated and dismissed the charge earlier this year.
Ryan-Marie says Mark often spoke outside abortion clinics and occasionally took their 12-year-old son along. On one occasion, a man "came into [the son's] personal space," prompting Mark, in a bid to protect his son, to have "shoved him away." She said the man suffered no injuries, yet he tried to sue Mark. His case was thrown out, according to Houck's lawyer, because he repeatedly failed to show up in court.
After his Friday arrest, Mark appeared before the U.S. Eastern District Court in Pennsylvania. The Eastern District of Pennsylvania U.S. Attorney's Office wrote in its Friday press release that Mark was indicted for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which "makes it a federal crime to use force with the intent to injure, intimidate, and interfere with anyone because that person is a provider of reproductive health care."
the solution is ... baseball bats to the heads of all lefties ...
In contrast, BLM rioters who caused considerable damage to property and lives across cities in 2020 faced little or no legal ramifications. The same is true for thugs who vandalized churches and pregnancy centers and hoodlums who tossed a Molotov cocktail into pro-life offices. The FBI doesn't seem concerned about the Supreme Court leaker who compromised the integrity of the highest court in the nation.
The FBI is functioning like secret police in a totalitarian state.
This what "The process is the punishment" really means. The Democrats consider that they control the system sufficiently to employ the FBI as officially sanctioned government terrorists. This isn't a case of pushing the envelope, it's a case of consolidating gains already made.
The difference between defunding the police and defunding the FBI is that the police already have oversight and the FBI has nothing but accomplices.
“The federal building in downtown Philadelphia” is what terrifies me about this.
That isn’t a dmv office.
Adam Kokesh was taken there. It’s an off-the-books type of facility that answers to no one.
What I’m also thinking about this is that they spent an awful lot of effort to get this guy. Money isn’t important. In fact, the more the merrier. It’s the paperwork. There are scores of people forced into extra work.
As a swat operator of you’re told to have the gun at the ready, then you also have a while lot of thinking that you may get shot.
What did the coordinator tell the swat staff they would be up against?
A few items I believe we aren’t being told.... which is reasonable. The media NEVER gets full details so they can see what witnesses or participants will say being given no information to lead them or be able to separate fact from imagination.
I would wager these SWAT teams under the FIB are lacking names and badge numbers.
There is no more reforming the FBI than there is reforming a metastatic cancer.
The FIB was brought into this world with a 1908 EO, and no later than 2024, it will be taken out of this world by EO.
RE: The FIB was brought into this world with a 1908 EO, and no later than 2024, it will be taken out of this world by EO.
Are you saying that the FBI ( or something similar ) as an organization is absolutely unecessary in this country?
The FBI is functioning like secret police in a totalitarian state.
It is customary for such secret police to target dissenters with surveillance and unannounced raids. Prolonged detention without a reason is common with habeas corpus rights violated. The media function as stenographers for the state. The law is enforced selectively — dissenters are punished for the pettiest of infractions, while serious crimes of loyalists are ignored. There are classified dossiers on persons of importance. Those who dare to challenge the status quo are reminded of their past indiscretions or secrets or crimes.
Effectively, political opposition is outlawed. This is exactly what FBI is doing.
The FIB is just the military arm of the DoJustUs.
DOJ needs reformation following a yuge purge.
Lord, hear our prayer:
FBI flunky: We didn’t send 25-50 heavily armed SWAT.
Reporter: Who did you send?
FBI: Er...25-50 heavily armed agents; but not SWAT, dammit!
The Bureau of Panty Sniffers apparently does its own “swatting” without actually using SWAT. This saves private citizens the trouble of harassing their enemies.
Has God forsaken this country? Seems so. 😕
Everyone who joins these evil institutions joins their souls to destruction, no matter whether their personal task is innocent or not.
Those within these institutions should leave them and expose them, as a matter of greater moral good.
Life in prison is better than a single instant in hell. Prison is a terrible thing but it does not mark the soul for eternity.
Abolish, not reform.
I would have thought the murder of Randy Weaver’s son and wife were the last straw.
I would have thought the incineration of 76 people, most of then children, in Waco were the last straw.
I would have thought the murder of Lavoy Finicum were the last straw.
I’m sure there are a lot more. The FBI has been a rogue agency killing Americans at will without consequences for a long, LONG, LONG time.
Those were all “last straws”.
I wonder what the next straw will be.
RE: Abolish, not reform.
Never to be replaced?
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