On January 24, Tyler W. Massengill was arrested for allegedly starting a fire at a Peoria, IL Planned Parenthood abortion clinic on January 15. The Department of Justice’s press release includes the criminal complaint, written by FBI Special Agent, Ronald Stout. According to fire officials, the fire caused approximately $150,000 of damage—though Planned Parenthood claims one million dollars’ worth of damage was done. Massengill was seen in federal court on January 25 and, if convicted, could face 5 to 40 years in prison. CompassCare CEO notes that Massengill has suspicious similarities to Caleb Freestone and Amber Smith-Stewart, the indicted Jane’s Revenge activists with Antifa and Antifa-like connections.
Q&A:
- Tyler W. Massengill was arrested on charges of arson at a Peoria, IL Planned Parenthood. What do we know so far?
Answer: The Department of Justice’s press release includes the criminal complaint, written by FBI Special Agent, Ronald Stout. According to fire officials, the fire caused approximately $150,000 of damage—though Planned Parenthood claimsone million dollars’ worth of damage was done. Massengill was seen in federal court on January 25 and, if convicted, could face 5 to 40 years in prison.
- Massengill is not pro-life. How do we know this?
Answer: The extensive past criminal actions of Tyler Massengill—and the arson of Planned Parenthood if convicted—prove that he is not pro-life, but crazy. What makes a person pro-life is their belief that all people are made in the Image of God and are equally valuable, worthy of blessing and protection. Massengill’s history speaks for itself: he does not value human life.
- Is there any similarity between this case and the attempted arson of a Planned Parenthood in Kalamazoo, MI in 2022?
Answer: I congratulate the Peoria Police for their top-notch investigative work in this case, making an arrest in 9 days. On August 31, 2022, a Planned Parenthood in Kalamazoo, MI was the victim of an attempted arson. Four days later, through the coordination of local police and the FBI, an arrest was made. Yet, after 78 attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers with many cases of arson and death threats, only two indictments have been made, neither of which related to the cases of arson.
- What does the arrest of Massengill say about the FBI’s priorities in attacks on “reproductive health” facilities?
Answer: What the situation in Peoria and Kalamazoo show is that the FBI has the tools, skill, and manpower to bring these criminals to justice when it is politically favorable. They threw pro-life people a bone with the indictment of two pro-abortion extremists on January 18, but are robbing us of the ability to pursue justice.
- Has the FBI investigated links between the attack on Planned Parenthood and other Jane’s Revenge attacks on pro-life organizations?
Answer: We are unsure at this time. Massengill has suspicious similarities to Caleb Freestone and Amber Smith-Stewart, the indicted Jane’s Revenge activists with Antifa and Antifa-like connections. Could it be Massengill or the person who convinced him to carry out the attack is one of the ‘known and unknown’ co-conspirators listed in the DOJ’s indictment of Caleb Freestone?
- You mentioned that the FBI is robbing you of justice. How so?
Answer: CompassCare’s window to file a civil suit against the pro-abortion terrorists who firebombed our Buffalo medical office closes on June 7, 2023. CompassCare was forced to file a lawsuit against the Amherst Police Department for refusing to return CompassCare’s extensive video surveillance footage of the two arsonists, denying the private investigators and attorneys provided by the Thomas More Society the ability to seek justice through a civil lawsuit.
- How soon do you expect an arrest in the case of the firebombing of CompassCare’s medical office in Buffalo?
Answer: If we can’t file a civil suit ourselves, we don’t expect to see these terrorists brought to justice. The FBI has solved 100% of the real cases of violence against abortionists while creating a false narrative of violence against abortionists through trumped-up FACE Act charges against peaceful pro-life people. However, the FBI is denying justice in nearly 100% of the cases of ongoing terroristic violence against pro-life people.
Rev. Jim Harden, CompassCare CEO:
Rev. James R. Harden, M.Div. is the CEO of CompassCare Pregnancy Services and lives outside of Rochester, NY with his wife and ten children. Rev. Harden pioneered the first measurable and repeatable medical model in the pregnancy center movement, helping hundreds of centers nationwide become more effective at reaching more women and saving more babies from abortion. He has written extensively on medical ethics, executive leadership, and pro-life strategy. Recently CompassCare’s pro-life medical office in Buffalo, NY was firebombed.
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