by Elle Purnell at The Federalist
Aconcerned wife’s report of dozens of armed FBI agents descending on her Pennsylvania home Friday to drag her husband, a pro-life Catholic speaker, away in handcuffs in front of their weeping children should have been a sensational national story. But it’s been four days now, and not a single one of the big corporate media outlets has deigned to mention the FBI’s raid on the home of Mark Houck and his family. That’s not a coincidence.
“They had big, huge rifles pointed at Mark and pointed at me and kind of pointed throughout the house,” Mark’s wife, Ryan-Marie Houck, alleged in an interview with LifeSiteNews. What dangerous behavior made Mark a target of such a forceful FBI raid? He is accused of violating the FACE Act (a federal law used to limit the acceptable actions of pro-lifers in front of abortion facilities) because he pushed away a pro-abortion man who was repeatedly harassing Houck’s 12-year-old son, his wife said. A district court threw out the case against him earlier this year, but the FBI picked it up as Attorney General Merrick Garland continues his war on political opponents of the Biden administration’s agenda. Houck could face up to 11 years in prison if convicted.
Where is the outrage from the corporate press, which loves to paint itself as a chief crusader against authoritarian behavior (real or imagined) when it’s politically expedient? There is none, and it’s a safe bet that’s because this time, they’re cheering the crackdown.
A Tuesday morning search for Houck’s name revealed zero results in the past month on the pages of The New York Times. Search “FBI” results over the past week on the NYT website, and you won’t find anything about its raid on the Houck family, either.
CNN just got an overhaul to make its news coverage balanced, right? (Wrong.) That propaganda outlet returns no results about Houck either:…
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