{"id":6527,"date":"2022-09-28T13:52:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=6527"},"modified":"2022-09-28T13:52:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:52:54","slug":"22-lawmakers-demand-merrick-garland-explain-exactly-why-the-fbis-swat-team-raided-pro-life-activist-mark-houck-why-was-excessive-force-used-by-the-fbi-against-an-american-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=6527","title":{"rendered":"22 Lawmakers Demand Merrick Garland Explain Exactly Why The FBI\u2019s SWAT Team Raided Pro-Life Activist Mark Houck: Why Was \u2018Excessive\u2019 Force Used By the FBI Against An American Citizen\u2019 In Local Matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

GOP lawmakers are demanding Attorney General Merrick Garland justify why the FBI deployed dozens of fully-armed agents to raid Catholic pro-life activist Mark Houck as his \u201cscreaming\u201d children watched the feds drag their father off to jail.<\/p>\n

The FBI must have an \u201cextraordinary reason\u201d for apprehending Houck and ransacking his home as his children watched in horror, an open letter signed spearheaded by Rep. Chip Roy, R- Tx., contends.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is much to learn about the extent of the FBI\u2019s operations in this case, apparently since state-level charges were apparently dismissed by local authorities in Philadelphia,\u201d the letter states. \u201cSurely, the FBI must have an extraordinary reason for showing up at the home of an American family, allegedly with roughly 25 heavily armed federal agents, and arresting a father in front of his seven children<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the moment, it appears to be an extraordinary overreach for political ends.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawmakers are demanding Garland provide address the conspicuous circumstances surrounding Houck\u2019s arrest by Sept. 30.<\/p>\n

Garland must publicly disclose the rationale behind the \u201cexcessive level of force used by the FBI in this case, and why the force of federal law enforcement was once again used against an American citizen in what should be a state and local matter,\u201d the letter states.<\/p>\n

As the Gateway Pundit has reported<\/a>, Houck is a father of seven and a well-known pro-life author. He is also the founder and president of the King\u2019s Men, an organization dedicated to helping men become better husbands, fathers, and leaders and promotes Christian values. The group also promotes therapy for recovering pornography addicts.<\/p>\n

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Mark Houck seen with his children<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Houck was arrested by the FBI at his rural Pennsylvania home on Sept. 23 for allegedly violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act while protecting his son from crude actions leveled by an abortion activist who was escorting women into a Planned Parenthood clinic. Ryan-Marie, his wife and a home school mother, claims the FBI\u2019s SWAT team surrounded their property with 15 vehicles at 7:05 am. Swarming the house with rifles in firing position, the FBI \u201cstarted pounding on the door and yelling at us to open it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FBI maintains the arresting officers were not part of a SWAT team.<\/p>\n

In 2021, the 72-year-old abortion escort allegedly insistently harassed Houck\u2019s 12 -year old son while accompanying him during sidewalk counsel in front of an abortion clinic last year. After weeks of agitation, Houck ultimately shoved the abortion escort.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor \u2018weeks and weeks,\u2019 a \u2018pro-abortion protester\u201d would speak to the boy saying \u2018crude \u2026 inappropriate and disgusting things,\u2019 such as \u2018you\u2019re dad\u2019s a fag,\u2019 and other statements that were too vulgar for her to convey,\u201d Lie Site News reports. \u201c<\/a>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 \u201che kept doing it and kind of came into [the son\u2019s] personal space\u201d obscenely ridiculing his father. At this point, \u201cMark shoved him away from his child, and the guy fell back.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t have any injuries or anything, but he tried to sue Mark,\u201d and the case was thrown out of court in the early summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FBI\u2019s intervention in the dispute is another example of the Biden administration\u2019s politicization of the Justice Department, GOP Rep. Chip Roy warns.<\/p>\n\n

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAttorney General Merrick Garland oversees an increasingly politicized FBI that seems hell-bent on making examples of average American citizens who don\u2019t align politically with the administration,\u201d Roy told<\/a> Fox News.\u00a0\u201cGiven what we know about it thus far that is what the case of the raid on Mark Houck\u2019s home appears to be. And the FBI should immediately answer for its apparent use of a 25-30 person SWAT team with guns drawn to target Mark Houck, a pro-life father of seven, for allegedly shoving a guy in front of an abortion clinic (while he maintains he was defending his 12-year-old son).<\/p>\n

\u201cCongress owes the American people transparent accountability for any and all wrongdoing by the FBI and Garland\u2019s DOJ. Even further, the FBI needs a complete and total overhaul, and we should return primary law enforcement power to the states and to get the Bureau out of the business of politics once and for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The letter was also signed by Reps. W. Gregory Steube of Florida, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Louie Gohmert of Texas, Matt Rosendale of Montana, Bill Posey of Florida, Mary Miller of Illinois, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Randy Weber of Texas, Ronny Jackson of Texas, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Dan Bishop of North Carolina, Jody Hice of Georgia, Bob Good of Virginia, Jeff Duncan of South Carolina, and Paul Gosar of Arizona.<\/p>\n

Six senators also signed the letter, including Sens.\u00a0Steve Daines of Montana, James Risch of Idaho, Roger Marshall of Kansas, Mike Braun of Indiana, James Lankford of Oklahoma, and Mike Crapo of Idaho.<\/p>\n

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If found guilty, Houck faces a prison sentence of up to 11 years and fines up to $350,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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