JOE BIDEN USES FBI AND DOJ TO HARASS CITIZENS!
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"This is how they will destroy America from within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion of millions of migrants. They have nothing but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human traffickers. These people have no intention of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
Biden Admin. Tramples on Peaceful Pro-Life Protesters’ Civil Liberties
Weaponizing the FBI to arrest pro-lifers in armed home raids.
The FBI has targeted peaceful pro-life protesters for arrest, using heavy-handed tactics that should shock the conscience of every freedom-loving American.
In one such case, about twenty armed FBI agents conducted a dawn raid on September 23rd at the home of a pro-life advocate, Mark Houck, who is the father of seven children. Mr. Houck is being charged with violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (the FACE Act) outside of a Pennsylvania abortion facility in October 2021. FACE Act violations carry a prison term of up to eleven years. The Thomas More Society is defending Mr. Houck in court.
Thomas More Society’s Vice President and Senior Counsel Peter Breen said that the Biden Department of Justice had rejected Mr. Houck’s offer to appear in court voluntarily to answer the charges. Instead, the Department of Justice dispatched the FBI’s storm agents to Mr. Houck’s home to arrest him at gunpoint.
“Rather than accepting Mark Houck’s offer to appear voluntarily, the Biden Department of Justice chose to make a show of potentially deadly force, sending twenty heavily armed federal agents to the Houck residence at dawn,” Mr. Breen said. “In threatening form, after nearly breaking down the family’s front door, at least five agents pointed guns at Mark and arrested him in front of his wife and seven young children, who were terrified that their husband and father would be shot dead before their eyes.”
The incident leading to Mr. Houck’s arrest occurred during the course of Mr. Houck’s presence outside of an abortion clinic to pray and offer pro-life counseling support to women considering an abortion. He was accompanied by his 12-year-old son. An overly aggressive pro-abortion activist, who was serving as an escort for women seeking to enter the abortion facility, targeted the boy repeatedly with “vulgar verbal attacks,” according to the Thomas More Society.
Mr. Houck did what any good dad would do. He defended his son. First, he repeatedly asked the pro-abortion activist to stop the abuse. Only after the pro-abortion activist ignored Mr. Houck’s calls to back off did the father shove the activist away from his son’s face. The pro-abortionist clearly instigated the altercation and refused to stop harassing Mr. Houck’s 12-year-old boy despite being repeatedly asked to do so.
The Biden Department of Justice never should have brought a federal case against Mr. Houck in the first place. Mr. Houck did not shove the pro-abortion activist away from his son for the purpose of interfering with the activist’s provision of reproductive health services. Mr. Houck’s shove occurred solely in defense of his son after his attempts to de-escalate the tense situation failed to stop the pro-abortionist’s harassment.
The Biden Department of Justice ignored a highly relevant 2019 decision by a federal district court in Pennsylvania that limited the scope of a legally defensible charge of a FACE Act violation. Federal District Court Judge Chad F. Kenney ruled that a peaceful pro-life advocate had a First Amendment right to provide witness and sidewalk counseling outside an abortion facility.
Judge Kenney also played down the significance, for FACE Act purposes, of the alleged use of force that arose out of “a mutual argument” regarding how the defendant was exercising what he believed to be his constitutional rights. The opinion stated that “the Court does not find that Plaintiff has shown a reasonable probability of eventual success in proving that Defendant Sulpizio violated FACE by using force to intentionally injure or intimidate or attempt to injure or intimidate a person because that person is providing reproductive health services.”
The same finding should apply to Mr. Houck. He did not shove the pro-abortion activist because the activist was providing reproductive health services. Mr. Houck acted solely in defense of his son who was being harassed by the pro-abortionist.
Moreover, the pro-abortion activist’s attempt to have Mr. Houck charged at the state level with assault and battery because Mr. Houck shoved the pro-abortionist away from his son went nowhere. The authorities did not press charges. When the pro-abortionist tried to bring the charges himself, his case was thrown out of court.
In short, the Biden Department of Justice ignored both the law and the facts in Mr. Houck’s case and ran roughshod over his civil liberties. The only reason for the FBI to haul Mr. Houck away at gunpoint in a dawn raid at his home was to send an intimidating message to other peaceful pro-life protesters to remain silent or else.
The Biden administration’s egregious abuse of power against Mr. Houck is not simply a one-off case. On October 5th, armed FBI agents arrested Paul Vaughn, President of Tennessee Personhood, at his home. The Thomas More Society is defending Mr. Vaughn against spurious charges of “conspiracy against rights secured by the FACE Act.” The charges are focused on an alleged blockade at an abortion clinic’s entry doors, including allegedly preventing a patient and an employee from entering.
According to the Thomas More Society, Mr. Vaughn was recording a protest by pro-life advocates “sitting in a hallway outside of the abortion clinic singing Christian hymns, reading scripture, and praying.” Mr. Vaughn was also “serving as a liaison between life advocates and the police to ensure the safety of all involved. No one was hurt, and no property was damaged during the pro-life witness.”
Even if there were acts of civil disobedience at the protest, since when does engaging peacefully in such acts, much less simply recording them, justify the punishment that is possible under the FACE Act – 11 years in prison and fines of up to $250,000?
The Biden administration is weaponizing the FBI to go after the administration’s opponents, including peaceful pro-life protesters. The Biden Department of Justice does not even make a pretense of applying the law in an even-handed fashion. We have yet to see them display a mere fraction of the zeal that it has shown in persecuting pro-life advocates when it comes to pursuing the pro-abortion militants who have firebombed and vandalized pro-life pregnancy resource centers.
THE BIG SECRET DEMOCRATS DO NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW:
Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens.
THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY
Jesse Watters: The people responsible won’t talk
The main objective of “political animals” like Obama and the Clintons is to get elected; it’s not to fix a broken America, nor to protect her. There are people who govern and there are people who campaign; Obama and the Clintons are the latter. Just look at the huge Republican electoral gains under Obama and the Clintons. It’s amazing that Democrats who still care about their party still support the very people who have brought it down.
Many Democrats understand that the welfare checks for foreign children will encourage more illegal immigration, he said:
They know what’s going on. But they know that they can’t say what their true goal is, which is actual open borders with open, uncontrolled migration both ways. And this is a step toward getting rid of borders.
“It’s a globalist mindset and it welcomes anything that moves toward open borders,” he concluded. NEIL MUNRO
Joe Biden, the corrupt, unaccomplished 47-year career
politician, with a reputation of having been a
proud segregationist, an unabashed plagiarist and liar,
a resolute tale-teller, and a serial flip-flopper, is pretending to
head up a radical social-democratic ticket for President of the
United States that includes as his running mate the ambitious, disagreeable junior senator from California: Kamala Harris.
Onward Christian Cowards
Let’s get right to the point: Where are all the splashy full-page ad campaigns from purported Christian “leaders” condemning the moral degeneracy of this Biden administration?
Or does being a “prophetic witness” to the “political class” only gain renewed interest in elite evangelical sectors when the person occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has an “R” next to his name?
For context, let’s rewind back to 2017.
Shortly after Donald Trump assumed office, he issued an executive order that suspended travel into the United States from seven countries and paused most refugee resettlements for 120 days. The order was largely temporary, and its goal was to give officials time to improve the security process of vetting those coming from nations that were hotbeds of Islamic terrorism.
This executive order was smeared in the press as a “Muslim ban,” even though most Muslim territories were excluded from the list and even though President Obama signed something similar during his presidency, but without the comparable media meltdowns.
What a difference that “R” makes!
That difference is not just for D.C. journalists either. It’s for many evangelicals as well, who are all too eager to “punch right” and “coddle left” in their ongoing effort to curry favor with the left-wing gatekeepers of America’s cultural institutions.
To wit, after the President announced his directive, the humanitarian organization World Relief organized high-profile evangelicals to scold both Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in the pages of the Washington Post for allegedly betraying Christian principles.
The “open letter” advertisement began this way:
“As Christian pastors and leaders, we are deeply concerned by the recently announced moratorium on refugee resettlement. Our care for the oppressed and suffering is rooted in the call of Jesus to ‘love our neighbor as we love ourselves.’ In the story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), Jesus makes it clear that our ‘neighbor’ includes the stranger and anyone fleeing persecution and violence, regardless of their faith or country.”
This ad wasn’t exactly well thought out, because a few lines later the authors conceded that we “live in a dangerous world and affirm the crucial role of government in protecting us from harm and in setting the terms on refugee admissions,” which, of course, was the entire purpose of the moratorium. Still, they concluded that “compassion and security can coexist,” and petitioned the White House to scrap the executive order.
The “open letter” was headlined by, among others, influential theologian Tim Keller, bestselling author Max Lucado, disgraced Willow Creek pastor Bill Hybels, Leith Anderson of the National Association of Evangelicals, and Ed Stetzer, who is a dean at Wheaton College and director of the school’s Billy Graham center.
Stetzer, for his part, bragged to the Washington Post that this “is a surprising list of prominent evangelicals who care enough about this issue to use their leadership platform to speak out, even when many evangelicals have deep fears and concerns about refugees entering this country.”
Whatever.
If these folks want to put their names to a cause that they believe in, okay. I have no objection to that. Like me, they’re American citizens and can exercise their free speech as they see fit. Plus, the Church shouldn’t be an “appendage” to any political party and, as such, we must stand up for godly values, especially within the corridors of political power. Ambitious media campaigns directed at politicians should always be on the table.
What I do object to is the relative silence from these same folks today, who were ready to call down the wrath of God on Donald Trump for briefly restricting travel to the United States until better security mechanisms were in place, but who haven’t found that same energetic “conviction” to push back at the Biden administration as this current White House champions the castration of kids.
Seriously, where are all the “open letters” in the Washington Post, New York Times, and other “legacy” media outlets decrying the left’s transgenderism craze, where children are having perfectly healthy body parts whacked off because they’ve been told that they were “misgendered” at birth?
Where is Ed Stetzer’s “surprising list of prominent evangelicals” using their “leadership platforms to speak out” against this stomach-churning evil?
Christians of good faith can disagree on how many refugees should be admitted each year and can likewise differ on how to handle immigration in general. On these topics, believers can exercise their freedom of conscience because there are overlapping biblical factors at play, such as kindness to the “stranger” (Leviticus 19:33-34) but also the civil government’s explicit authority to keep the peace and maintain a civilized society for its people (Romans 13:1-6), which the signatories themselves acknowledged.
At the same time, there is absolutely zero freedom of conscience afforded to believers as it pertains to transgender ideology. In fact, other than abortion, it’s hard to think of a public policy more inimical to God’s created order than cutting off the destiny, literally, of our next generation, leaving them unable to fulfill the cultural mandate to be “fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it,” as it states in Genesis 1:28.
And yet, here we are.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently published a document called “Gender-Affirming Care and Young People,” wherein they explicitly sanction “puberty blockers,” “hormone therapy,” and “surgeries” for minors, which include, in their words, top surgery -- “to create male-typical chest shape or enhance breasts” -- and bottom surgery -- “surgery on genitals or reproductive organs.”
HHS calls these gruesome procedures “crucial to overall health and well-being” of adolescents whose “gender identity and or expression is different from their sex assigned at birth,” and considers attempts to “restrict” or “challenge” their transgender activism a “civil rights” violation. The HHS Office for Civil Rights has even promised to investigate any medical facility that receives taxpayer funding and refuses to go along with their demonic agenda.
I’ll ask the question again: Where are all the hard-hitting PR crusades from professed evangelical “thought leaders” denouncing the Biden White House for spearheading such a moral atrocity?
Have they been kidnapped?
Nah. They’re still around. Their courage, however, only makes a comeback when they support cheesy left-wing propaganda like “compassion and security can coexist,” while remaining impotent on verbalizing a forceful response to a matter that has far deeper worldview significance than how many runaways from Yemen we accept each year.
The truth is that this overzealous accommodation to liberal constituencies and causes is by design.
It’s easy to earn sympathetic coverage as a “Christian” within the secular press if the person is using his influence to reinforce a progressive narrative, which is why “gospel” screeds that toe the culture’s line on racism, big government, climate change, open borders, genderism, and more are rewarded with gobs of glowing ink, as was the case with the refugee “open letter” mentioned above.
There is zero political risk involved when attacking conservative ideas and voices, which are already marginalized by the “mainstream” media. Congrats, fellas, you’ve joined a very full chorus!
So what are the next steps?
Well, to paraphrase Wheaton’s Ed Stetzer, let us pray that God grant these “prominent evangelicals” the spiritual stones to use their “leadership platforms to speak out” against the evil of our day.
Jason Mattera is a New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated journalist. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
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ROME — The leader of the U.S. Bishops’ pro-life office has blasted President Joe Biden for his abortion “extremism,” urging him to radically change course.
Baltimore Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, responded publicly Tuesday to Mr. Biden’s declaration that his top legislative priority after the midterm elections will be to codify a national right to abortion.
“The President is gravely wrong to continue to seek every possible avenue to facilitate abortion, instead of using his power to increase support and care to mothers in challenging situations,” Archbishop Lori asserted in his statement.
“This single-minded extremism must end, and we implore President Biden to recognize the humanity in preborn children and the genuine life-giving care needed by women in this country,” he added.
President Biden, who self-identifies as Catholic despite flouting core Church teachings, has proven to be the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history, going far beyond the policies and agitation of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Last year, Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumann exhorted President Biden to act like the “devout Catholic” he says he is by opposing the evil of the procedure.
“He likes to call himself a devout Catholic. I would urge him to begin to act like one, especially on the life issues,” Archbishop Naumann said. “And to let his faith really inform his conscience and the decisions that he’s making, not the platform of his party.”
Right now, the Biden administration is “looking for every opportunity to expand abortion,” he added.
In 2021, Catholic League President Bill Donohue noted that Biden has a “rocky” relationship with the U.S. bishops, which is only getting worse.
“It’s time for President Biden to stop living a lie,” Dr. Donohue noted, in reference to Biden’s continued participation in Catholic sacraments while overtly promoting abortion on demand and other injustices.
In his essay, Donohue cited nine U.S. bishops who have been highly critical of Biden’s situation, several of whom have insisted the president should cease receiving Holy Communion at Mass until he repents of his abortion position.
In his statement Tuesday, Archbishop Lori said that the U.S. bishops “deal daily with the tragic impacts of abortion” and know that “abortion is a violent act which ends the life of preborn children and wounds untold numbers of women.”
“The Catholic Church wishes to continue in our work with our government and leaders to protect the right to life of every human being and to ensure that pregnant and parenting mothers are fully supported in the care of their children before and after birth,” he stated.
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