In an effort to provide timely updates, I’m going to post a series of “catch up” posts so everyone is on the same page from the time of the arrest in October until now.
These documents are the charges against me and the indictment handed down by a sealed and now redacted grand jury.
Below are some stills from the morning of October 5th when the 4 heavily armed FBI agents showed up at my front door. When the media or politicians use the phrase, “the weaponization of the DOJ or FBI” this is what it looks like up close and in person. Note: There is no photo of the guns pointed at me when I opened the front door and surrender myself peacefully.
When the media or politicians use the phrase, “the weaponization of the DOJ or FBI”
this is what it looks like up close and in person.
To add context to the photos, these were taken after I had been detained. I am in the back seat of the SUV with the open door. My wife was quick enough to pick up her phone as she came from the back of the house and recorded the video these still shots were captured from.
During my arrest, three of my children were being held in the side yard by the agent in the lower pictures. They were told by the agent “they were here to arrest their daddy”. As the children cried, he restrained them from going back into their home as he stood with an automatic weapon across his chest and a holstered sidearm…
This is the driveway my children ride their bikes on. This is our home that was violated by federal agents. This was heavy handed and it was intentionally so. Here is how I come to that conclusion:
The DOJ/FBI never reached out to interview me regarding the events in question.
There was never a phone call or any notification there was an issue from this event.
The event took place 18 months earlier, under a completely different federal administration.
I was never charged by local authorities and broke no laws at all.
I have lived in this community for over 16 years and run a local business.
There was no risk of flight or danger to anyone involved in this case.
There is no history of violence or criminal activity of any kind.
The government has recently performed the same type of heavy handed arrest against other peaceful prolife leaders.
The only reason the federal team came in like they did was to instill fear in the heart of you. The purpose is to silent any dissent to the aggressive pro-abortion narrative this administration adheres to. They know they can’t “take away free speech”, but if they make everyone afraid to speak, they have accomplished the same thing.
The agents onsite were under orders which they followed. Just like their Nazi counter parts in WWII Germany, they were “only following orders”. We will get to the bottom of who gave the orders and more details about why in the future.
But for now pray for the lead agent, Stirling, and his team. God has his eye on them and one day they will have to answer for the orders they follow. Pray that God’s grace may be sufficient for them. Pray they may see the moral lines they are crossing in time. Pray they may understand that every little breach of conscience scares the conscience until it becomes useless to its designed purpose. A scared and worn conscience leaves the owner acting like an animal instead of the otherwise good men they were created to be.
I think this article from Mary Margaret Olohan at the Daily Signal captures the general terror of the day for my family.