The FBI subjected a Catholic pro-life activist’s kids to a fully-armored SWAT raid this week below the order of the DOJ.
Mark Houck, the founder and president of The King’s Males – a gaggle that helps males overcome pornography habit – was arrested at his rural Pennsylvania residence on Friday for allegedly violating the Freedom of Entry to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act throughout his common sidewalk counseling exterior of an abortion clinic in 2021. Talking with LifeSiteNews, Houck’s spouse, Ryan-Marie, mentioned that round 25 to 30 fully-armored FBI brokers stormed their property early Friday morning, aiming their rifles as the youngsters screamed in horror.
“They began pounding on the door and yelling for us to open it,” Ryan-Marie mentioned of the raid.
Mark Houck (arrested Friday) and Ryan-Marie Houck with their seven kids. Houck Household
Previous to opening the door, Mark allegedly tried to cause with the brokers to calm them down for the sake of his kids. “Please, I’m going to open the door, however, please, my kids are within the residence. I’ve seven infants in the home,” Houck allegedly informed the brokers.
The FBI brokers allegedly “simply saved pounding and screaming,” in line with Ryan-Marie.
“They’d large, large rifles pointed at Mark and pointed at me and form of pointed all through the home,” Ryan-Marie mentioned of the second that her husband opened the door for the brokers.
“Our staircase is open, so [the kids] have been all on the high of the steps which faces the entrance door, and I used to be on the steps as effectively, coming down,” she mentioned. “The youngsters have been all simply screaming. It was all simply very scary and traumatic.”
Ryan-Marie then demanded that the brokers current an arrest warrant earlier than taking her husband, however they allegedly mentioned that they’d “take him whether or not they had a warrant or not.”
“You may’t simply come to an individual’s home and kidnap them at gunpoint,” she allegedly protested.
The brokers agreed and went to retrieve the warrant. When Mark requested that she seize his rosary and sweatshirt, the brokers had already loaded him into the automobile upon her return. She informed LifeSiteNews:
After that they had taken Mark, and the youngsters have been all screaming that he was their greatest good friend, the [FBI agents on her porch] form of softened a bit. I feel they realized what was taking place. Or perhaps they really regarded on the warrant. They regarded fairly ashamed at what had simply occurred.
Ryan-Marie mentioned her kids have been “actually unhappy and burdened” on account of the raid and that she has already “reached out to some psychiatrists or psychologists to attempt to assist us by way of this.”
“I don’t actually know what’s going to come back of it while you see weapons pointed at your dad and your mother in your own home while you first get up within the morning,” she informed the outlet.
In line with Ryan-Marie, the costs have been from an incident wherein he shoved a pro-abortion activist who had been harassing his 12-year-old son in entrance of an abortion clinic throughout certainly one of his sidewalk counseling classes. The costs have been reportedly “thrown out of the District Courtroom in Philadelphia” earlier this yr solely to later be picked up by Merrick Garland’s Division of Justice. Per LifeSiteNews:
On a number of events when Mark went to sidewalk counsel final yr, he took his eldest son, who was solely 12 on the time, she defined. For “weeks and weeks,” a “pro-abortion protester” would communicate to the boy saying “crude … inappropriate and disgusting issues,” comparable to “you’re dad’s a fag,” and different statements that have been too vulgar for her to convey.
Repeatedly, Mark would inform this pro-abortion man that he didn’t have permission to talk to his son and please chorus from doing so. And “he saved doing it and form of got here into [the son’s] private house” obscenely ridiculing his father. At this level, “Mark shoved him away from his baby, and the man fell again.”
“He didn’t have any accidents or something, however he tried to sue Mark,” and the case was thrown out of courtroom within the early summer season.
Native stories conveyed a special story, charging that Houck shoved the person, a 72-year-old, on two events, the second of which required “medical consideration.” WHTM reported:
Within the first incident, the person was making an attempt to escort two sufferers exiting the clinic when Houck forcefully shoved him to the bottom. Within the second incident, Houck allegedly confronted the person and shoved him to the bottom in entrance of the Deliberate Parenthood middle, inflicting accidents that required medical consideration.
The report didn’t point out Ryan-Marie’s declare that the case had been thrown out of District Courtroom previous to the Division of Justice selecting up the costs.
The FACE Act makes it a federal crime to intimidate, injure, or intervene with anybody making an attempt to supply abortion entry. U.S. Legal professional Jacqueline C. Romero mentioned:
Assault is at all times a severe offense, and below the FACE Act, if the sufferer is focused due to their affiliation with a reproductive healthcare clinic, it’s a federal crime. Our Workplace and the Division of Justice are dedicated to prosecuting crimes which threaten the security and rights of all people.
“Put merely, violence isn’t the reply,” mentioned Jacqueline Maguire, Particular Agent in Cost of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division. “Violating the FACE Act by committing a bodily assault is a severe crime for which the FBI will work to carry offenders accountable.”
Houck might resist 11 years in jail and fines as much as $350,000 if discovered responsible.
