The FBI vs. Mark Houck, intimidation edition

It's disturbing to hear that Mark Houck, the pro-life activist who was arrested at gunpoint last week, was the subject of the FBI's intimidation tactics. According to this article, "Breen said his team contacted the DOJ and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in June to inform them they had no case based on controlling precedent but if they decided to indict, defense would present Houck willingly in response to a summons. Breen said the next notice he received was that his client was in custody."

The FBI denies that they sent out a SWAT team to Houck's rural Pennsylvania home. They issued a statement, which read "FBI agents knocked on Mr. Houck's front door, identified themselves as FBI agents, and asked him to exit the residence. He did so and was taken into custody without incident pursuant to an indictment." Whether this is true is essentially irrelevant. Mr. Houck's attorney had already told the FBI that "defense would present Houck willingly in response to a summons."

At that point, there wasn't a need for the FBI to show up at Mr. Houck's home. Still, that's what the FBI did. I trust Houck's wife's account of what happened. I don't trust the FBI's statement.

This is FBI intimidation. It's one thing to have a significant physical presence when taking down a drug kingpin. It isn't needed to arrest a pro-life activist.

This hints that the NSBA letter, where it was suggested that parents attending school board meetings should be considered "domestic terrorists", was the start of the Biden administration's intimidation campaign. The Biden administration's war against parents and people of faith is well-documented. Newt's analysis is that he trusts Houck's wife, not the FBI:

Then there's this:

FBI agents questioned a pro-life prayer supporter outside a Planned Parenthood abortion facility Tuesday in St. Paul, Minn., after a complaint that he had interfered with a client’s access to the facility.

Brian Gibson, president of Pro-Life Action Ministries, shared with LifeSiteNews that this prayer supporter explained to the agents that his interference with access to the Planned Parenthood facility "could not be possible. This prayer supporter comes almost every day to pray, while kneeling, for hours on end," Gibson shared in an email on Wednesday. "He kneels on the public sidewalk near a tree cut-out, where no one can walk, at least 30 feet from the entrance driveway to Planned Parenthood."

Clearly, these are intimidation tactics. That's proof that the FBI didn't 'read the room' properly. These tactics only stiffen the pro-life advocates' resolve.