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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Conscious Choice does more however. In telling the tragic history of the Virginia colony and the rise of slavery there, Zimmerman lays out the proper path for creating healthy societies in places like the Moon and Mars.
“Zimmerman’s ground-breaking history provides every future generation the basic framework for establishing new societies on other worlds. We would be wise to heed what he says.” —Robert Zubrin, founder of founder of the Mars Society.
All editions are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all book vendors, with the ebook priced at $5.99 before discount. The ebook can also be purchased direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit, in which case you don't support the big tech companies and I get a bigger cut much sooner.
Autographed printed copies are also available at discount directly from me (hardback $24.95; paperback $14.95; Shipping cost for either: $5.00). Just email me at zimmerman @ nasw dot org.
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.
Now available in hardback and paperback as well as ebook!
From the press release: In this ground-breaking new history of early America, historian Robert Zimmerman not only exposes the lie behind The New York Times 1619 Project that falsely claims slavery is central to the history of the United States, he also provides profound lessons about the nature of human societies, lessons important for Americans today as well as for all future settlers on Mars and elsewhere in space.
Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space, is a riveting page-turning story that documents how slavery slowly became pervasive in the southern British colonies of North America, colonies founded by a people and culture that not only did not allow slavery but in every way were hostile to the practice.
Conscious Choice does more however. In telling the tragic history of the Virginia colony and the rise of slavery there, Zimmerman lays out the proper path for creating healthy societies in places like the Moon and Mars.
“Zimmerman’s ground-breaking history provides every future generation the basic framework for establishing new societies on other worlds. We would be wise to heed what he says.” —Robert Zubrin, founder of founder of the Mars Society.
All editions are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all book vendors, with the ebook priced at $5.99 before discount. The ebook can also be purchased direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit, in which case you don't support the big tech companies and I get a bigger cut much sooner.
Autographed printed copies are also available at discount directly from me (hardback $24.95; paperback $14.95; Shipping cost for either: $5.00). Just email me at zimmerman @ nasw dot org.
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/