Biden’s FBI persecuted a pro-lifer, now he’s fighting back
Timothy P. Carney
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Joe Biden’s Justice Department launched a crusade against pro-lifers, and now one of its targets is fighting back.
Mark Houck, hauled off by a platoon of Biden’s armed federal agents while his children watched, was acquitted in January of the flimsy charges the DOJ brought against him. Now Houck, a father of seven, is suing the DOJ for “malicious and retaliatory prosecution.”
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It’s pretty hard to see the whole thing as anything other than a political prosecution intended to silence and intimidate pro-lifers, and to satisfy the powerful abortion lobby.
Houck was with his oldest son, praying down the block from a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, when Planned Parenthood volunteer Bruce Love came down the block and began harassing Houck and his son. Houck told Love to return to the clinic entrance he was supposedly manning, but Love kept harassing the Houcks. When Love wouldn’t leave them alone and began coming at Houck again, Houck gave him a single shove that knocked Love to the ground.
The local and state police didn’t believe this deserved charges, and so Love pressed private charges. The state court dismissed those charges.
So how did Biden’s armed troopers show up a year later at Houck’s door?
First, recall that Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned on prosecuting pro-lifers, which she had done as attorney general in California.
Then note that in the summer of 2022, Biden’s Justice Department created an abortion-access task force. Basically, it seems, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland created an infrastructure whereby the policing power of the U.S. would be directed against every pro-lifer possible.
DOJ basically searched for every incident that could theoretically be covered by the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act — except for those dozens of cases of firebombing and vandalizing pro-life pregnancy centers.
Love’s frivolous civil complaint against Houck may have been the thinnest possible thread on which to hang a federal indictment, but it had to do with abortion, so Biden’s DOJ pursued it.
Houck’s complaint against the DOJ says the department deprived him of his rights “by using excessive force to arrest him on non-violent charges when he had not threatened law enforcement, did not own a gun, and had offered to turn himself into authorities if indicted.”
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Mary Margaret Olohan at the Daily Signal has the story of the suit, including a good video on the arrest. You can also watch the surveillance video that Planned Parenthood and Biden’s DOJ submitted in the trial — it clearly shows Love harassing Houck and his juvenile son.
This could be the first step of accountability for Biden and Garland’s politicized Justice Department.