FBI in another heavy handed raid

Red States:

It’s getting to be a thing now — the questionable FBI raid with political overtones — under the Biden Administration. That’s a frightening thing to say. How quickly we have gotten there under Biden, where law enforcement is politicized.

The latest victim of the armed FBI agents raiding people’s homes first thing in the morning for things that don’t seem to justify it is Mark Houck, founder, and president of “The King’s Men,” a group that promotes healing for victims of pornography addiction and promotes Christian virtues among men in the United States and Europe. He’s also a pro-life activist and on Wednesdays, he sidewalk counsels people in front of a Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia.

According to Mark Houck’s wife, Ryan-Marie, 25-30 agents surrounded their house, pounded on the door, yelling with guns drawn at 7:05 a.m. on Friday.
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According to the official press release about the arrest, the DOJ claims Houck, shoved a man to the ground twice in front of a Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia. They claim there were “injuries that required medical attention” without saying what they were.

Mark Houck is now facing a maximum sentence of 11 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and fines of up to $350,000.

In a non-federal prosecution, if you shoved someone and there were no real injuries, if it was prosecuted at all, it would probably be a misdemeanor, with no real time, assuming you had no prior record. Normally, this is the kind of federal raid that you would get if you were a drug dealer, not an author who allegedly shoved someone who was saying inappropriate things to his son.

But now we’ve seen that even a former president isn’t safe from this kind of excessive FBI approach and that even something that was relatively minor a year ago can get you armed FBI on your doorstep — if you’re just coincidentally of the wrong political persuasion. This is scary stuff. We’re still waiting on the raids for the firebombings from leftists of the crisis pregnancy centers.

Some blasted the two-tiered approach that we’re seeing once again.
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This does not even sound like a federal case.  At worst it is a simple assault that resulted from the aggressive behavior of the alleged victim. 

See, also:

In raid on home with seven children, FBI again acts dangerously thuggish

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