Today’s blacklisted American found innocent of federal trumped up charges
The Houck Family: Targets of FBI harassment and arrest.
Back in September 2022 I wrote an essay entitled “The rising federal Gestapo” in which I described the numerous recent stories of the Biden administration using the FBI and the Department of Justice as weapons to harass its political opponents, either by conducting armed raids on their homes and persons, or by trumping up false charges against them.
Mark Houck, the father in the picture the right, was one of those under attack. Not only was his home raided by an FBI SWAT team, terrifying his children, but Houck was arrested on a trumped up charge of physically attacking a worker at an abortion clinic, a charge that had other courts had already dismissed as spurious.
The good news yesterday is that Houck has been found innocent of that trumped up charge.
At first it appeared the jury was deadlocked, but that changed instantly when one juror was replaced with an alternate. Within an hour the not-guilty verdict was in, strongly suggesting that juror had had a political ax to grind and was refusing to follow the facts of the case or the judge’s instructions.
As I wrote in that September essay,
In the past two years the effort by Democrats to portray Republicans criminals and traitors, merely because they disagree with Democratic Party policy, has become normalized. To Democrats today, if you are a Republican you are a fascist, an insurrectionist, a traitor, a criminal, and evil. Your rights are voided and they have the right to arrest you, at any time.
The Biden administration tried to void Mark Houck’s rights. It failed in court. Was this vicious effort however a failure? I say no, because 1) the Biden administration remains free to continue this abuse of power and 2) conservatives have now been put on notice that, at any moment, their lives could be torn apart by these thugs.
In fact, this short post is only posted to give an update on a previous column. It is not today’s daily blacklist column, which will follow shortly and will give perfect example of how the abusive power-hungry in our culture now routinely abuse their power against any who oppose them.
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The Houck Family: Targets of FBI harassment and arrest.
Back in September 2022 I wrote an essay entitled “The rising federal Gestapo” in which I described the numerous recent stories of the Biden administration using the FBI and the Department of Justice as weapons to harass its political opponents, either by conducting armed raids on their homes and persons, or by trumping up false charges against them.
Mark Houck, the father in the picture the right, was one of those under attack. Not only was his home raided by an FBI SWAT team, terrifying his children, but Houck was arrested on a trumped up charge of physically attacking a worker at an abortion clinic, a charge that had other courts had already dismissed as spurious.
The good news yesterday is that Houck has been found innocent of that trumped up charge.
At first it appeared the jury was deadlocked, but that changed instantly when one juror was replaced with an alternate. Within an hour the not-guilty verdict was in, strongly suggesting that juror had had a political ax to grind and was refusing to follow the facts of the case or the judge’s instructions.
As I wrote in that September essay,
In the past two years the effort by Democrats to portray Republicans criminals and traitors, merely because they disagree with Democratic Party policy, has become normalized. To Democrats today, if you are a Republican you are a fascist, an insurrectionist, a traitor, a criminal, and evil. Your rights are voided and they have the right to arrest you, at any time.
The Biden administration tried to void Mark Houck’s rights. It failed in court. Was this vicious effort however a failure? I say no, because 1) the Biden administration remains free to continue this abuse of power and 2) conservatives have now been put on notice that, at any moment, their lives could be torn apart by these thugs.
In fact, this short post is only posted to give an update on a previous column. It is not today’s daily blacklist column, which will follow shortly and will give perfect example of how the abusive power-hungry in our culture now routinely abuse their power against any who oppose them.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
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A clear victory for this man and his family.
This is good to see.
He was interviewed on Bannon’s Warroom today. Clearly a man of great faith.
While it may have been a “victory” in court, the fed-dot-gov has made it very clear:
The process WILL BE the punishment.
How much money was wasted on this effort, between the huge staffs of government lawyer-parasites, and the monies that had to be paid to honest defenders to represent them in court?
How many people will be deterred from speaking out with their conscience by this chilling action of the government on free speech?
What was the lost opportunity cost to the government (as though they cared about it) in terms of their utter failures to prosecute actual criminals? How many people will be murdered, raped, and robbed as a direct result of them wasting their time on thought-crime?
We’ll never know, and that’s how our government likes it.
Hello,
Long time daily reader, rare poster. But this article is interesting, and I hope it gets legs.
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2023/01/30/university-removes-slave-owning-benefactors-name-his-family-demands-their-51-million-back-n696482
I think legal action could be taken (IMO only-not a lawyer). It would be great to have this come a trend Could also be posted under blacklisted.
Dave: In the queue already, but thank you!
“He was interviewed on Bannon’s Warroom today. Clearly a man of great faith.”
– Concerned
Here are the two videos from Bannon’s Warroom today.
The first 15 minute video Mark Houck talks about his work for 20 years that he’s prayed the rosary at abortion clinics and counseled women with no problem. He describes the event where an abortion worker was talking to Houck’s son using vulgarity and after repeatedly asking him to stop Houck pushed him. The video ends describing over 20 state and federal police coming to his house in swat gear at 6:45 in the morning.
The second 12 minute video Mark Houck talks about the time after his arrest at the U.S. Marshalls office
Must Watch – Mark Houck Recounts the Story of His Fight Against Evil Enterprise and the DOJ
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/01/31/must-watch-mark-houck-recounts-the-story-of-his-fight-against-evil-enterprise-and-the-doj/
I’m not that familiar with the Canadian courts, but it seems that the individual has fewer right than in the US. The right to bear arms would be a good example. Here is an article regarding unemployment benefits being denied to the unvaccinated.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/02/02/canadian-court-govt-justified-in-denying-unemployment-benefits-to-unvaccinated-man/