https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/f...tm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=catholic FBI raids home of Catholic pro-life speaker, author with guns drawn as his terrified kids watch ‘The kids were all just screaming. It was all just very scary and traumatic,’ Ryan-Marie Houck described. BUCKS COUNTY, Pennsylvania (LifeSiteNews) – 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 counsel for six to eight hours at two different abortion centers. Ryan-Marie, who is a homeschooling mother, described how 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.”
Mark 13:9-13 9 “Watch out for yourselves. They will hand you over to the courts. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will be arraigned before governors and kings because of me, as a witness before them. 10 But the gospel must first be preached to all nations.a]">[a] 11 When they lead you away and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say. But say whatever will be given to you at that hour. For it will not be you who are speaking but the holy Spirit. 12 Brother will hand over brother to death, and the father his child; children will rise up against parents and have them put to death. 13 You will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
It is the FBI who is now the terrorist. I wish the FBI had responded as quickly to the Pregnancy Centers which suffered damage by "Jane's Revenge". O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!
It is so hard to believe this is really happening and in America, The Land of the Free of all places. For those of us who are not American, well if they pulling these stunts there, it's coming to a place near us very soon. Unbelievable.
Roll on the mid terms... I find it hard to see how any Catholic could in good conscience give support to the present crew in charge.
Imagine being an FBI Agent who is a Catholic being asked to take part in something like that. How could you?
Absolutely horrific. This administration will stop at nothing to preserve their culture of death and abuse of children. Mario is right, the FBI are terrorists. I would like to know who ordered the raid on this poor family. American citizens are grave danger.
Maybe I am being paranoid but I have a feeling we are all on a 'hit list' because they know all about us from the data collected from our internet and phone activity. Down the line we might all be getting that knock on the door.
Yes, we are, all of us, on some kind of list. Being a Real Catholic moves you way up that list. Being a certain kind of Catholic, like Biden, Pelosi or Pope Francis means you are controlling the lists. It is our fellow Catholics who hate us the most. Just as for Patriot Americans the folks who hate them the most are their fellow Americans. It is like some kind of crazy family thing. A kind of unspoken Schism/Civil War. The Church at the moment is effectively in Schism, it just has not come right out in the open yet. In the same way the USA is in a State of unspoken Civil War. We see these things occurring right across the planet, maybe in different ways, but essentially the same thing. The Sheep and the Goats moving apart and eyeing each other up for a show down.
FBI Arrest of Pro-Life Catholic Dad Ignites Firestorm of Blowback CV NEWS FEED // Since a large SWAT team arrested a pro-life Catholic leader at his Pennsylvania home on Friday, the Biden administration’s Department of Justice and FBI have been facing a growing backlash from lawmakers, journalists, and Catholic bishops. In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, stated Monday that “you have a lot to answer for” if the reports about the arrest are true: Not only did your office turn a local dispute into a national case, but the FBI reportedly executed the search warrant in as extreme a manner as one can imagine. Reports state that the FBI sent as many as 20 to 25 agents to conduct the arrest. And the FBI allegedly arrest Houck at gunpoint early in the morning in front of his seven children. The FBI admitted, in a statement, that as many as 20 agents were present with their guns drawn. As Houck’s wife said, when they saw 20 or more agents arrest their father at gunpoint, “the kids were all just screaming.” Hawley went on to point out that the arrest was “especially shocking given that your office has so far turned a blind eye to the epidemic of violence across the country by pro-abortion extremists against pregnancy resource centers, houses of worship, and pro-life Americans – violent acts that are prohibited by the very same law under which you are charging Mark Houck.” “I believe you [Garland] must testify, under oath, before the Senate Judiciary Committee about your selective use and apparent political weaponization of the FACE Act,” Hawley wrote. “I want to know from Merrick Garland directly why Biden’s DOJ is arresting Catholic protesters like terrorists – complete with SWAT-style tactics – while letting actual terrorist acts like firebombings go unpunished,” Hawley tweeted: The corruption & abuse of law is out of control. Come January, the new Republican Congress must launch a thorough, public investigation of DOJ & the FBI – from their targeting of parents to religious protestors to political opponents. What Biden is doing is wrong. And dangerous. To read more: FBI Arrest of Pro-Life Catholic Dad Ignites Firestorm of Blowback - CatholicVote org
Unfortunately sternly worded letters rarely change things. It is disgusting what my government has engaged in, and the FBI is simply the terrorist wing of a certain political party. They don't even try to hide it anymore.
Saw this written in chalk on back of a jeep on the way to work this morning and how fitting it is for this thread. Exodus 14:14 [14] The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.
One thing to point out in the Exodus 14:14 message. The Israelites were in so much fear as the Egyptian chariots were hot on their pursuit. Right after Moses said this, he was told to hold up his staff and the waters parted. No matter how bad the storm gets, God has got our backs! We truly must trust in Him and let Him fight for us!!
Meanwhile, the FBI choses NOT to prosecute those who firebombed a pro-life pregnancy center. Corrupticrats everywhere. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/f...-abortion-backers-continues-to-go-unpunished/
Again-coming to your neighborhood soon- FBI Arrests Father of 11 in Front of His Children for Pro-Life Work LAWNEWS ‘Guns Pointed at Me’: FBI Arrests Father of 11 in Front of His Children for Pro-Life Work Mary Margaret Olohan / @MaryMargOlohan / October 07, 2022 Paul Vaughn says that FBI came to the door of his home, "guns pointed at the door, banging on the house, yelling and screaming, 'Open up. FBI,' that kind of thing." (Photo: Screenshot of video provided by Paul Vaughn) The Federal Bureau of Investigation this week arrested a pro-life father of 11 children, charging him with “conspiracy against rights secured by the FACE Act, and committing FACE Act violations.” Paul Vaughn of Centerville, Tennessee, told The Daily Signal in a Friday phone interview that FBI came to the door of his home, “guns pointed at the door, banging on the house, yelling and screaming, ‘Open up. FBI,’ that kind of thing. When I opened the door and saw the guns pointed at me, I asked them what they wanted, who they were looking for, and they said they wanted me.” “I had kids in the yard walking out to get in the car to go to school, I was about to take them to school, and other kids in the house,” he continued. “So seeing that the easiest path to de-escalation was me in handcuffs, I stepped outside and put an end to the ranting and the banging and the yelling.” After the FBI put him in handcuffs and in the car, he said, his wife came outside. She had been in the back of the house with their 18-month-old baby. Video provided to The Daily Signal by Vaughn, taken by his wife, shows FBI agents outside the family’s home. Vaughn’s wife follows them, videotaping their conversation. “I wanna know why you were banging on my door with a gun,” she says. “Are you not going to tell me anything?” “No, we are not,” one agent replies, while another adds, “I tried.” “No, you didn’t!” she shouts back. “You did not try.” The FBI did not immediately respond to requests for comment for this story.
