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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Man Who Perfected Online Threats Against Abortion Providers Just Died
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/05/neal_horsley_of_nuremberg_files_died_true_threats_case_reconsidered_by_supreme.htmlHorsley was the anti-abortion extremist responsible for assembling the infamous Nuremberg Files website. The website was ultimately the subject of a lengthy legal battle testing the line between free speech and a true threat, a legal boundary the Supreme Court is currently reconsidering.
Horsleys website, created in 1997, listed roughly 200, as the website called them, abortionists. These abortion providers were listed in three different fonts, as described by the sites legend: Black font (working); Greyed-out Name (wounded); Strikethrough (fatality). In addition to this list, the website included the abortion providers personal information, such as their home addresses, phone numbers, and photographs.
The website, donned with blood-dripping graphics, both celebrated providers deaths and, with a wink and a nod, encouraged others to harm the remaining providers on the list so that more names could be crossed off.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum. End of post.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Once in awhile I had to hold my nose and glance at his site to make sure my father's name and address weren't on there...
LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)I remember this terrorist well. On days like today I wish I believed in Hell....
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)world wide wally
(21,744 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)One down.
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)That POS lived far too long.
Freddie
(9,267 posts)Hot where he's going.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent the family a nice letter saying I approved of it.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)One hopes he suffered.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)I think it was.
Paladin
(28,265 posts)liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)nt
Orrex
(63,216 posts)To help the flowers grow, of course.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)H2O Man
(73,559 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)A small net gain for humanity.
Not kidding about the mule:
I forgot to post about this last week. You may remember Neal Horsley when he famously admitted his love of farm animals with Alan Colmes a few years ago.
"Is it true?" Colmes asked.
"Hey, Alan, if you want to accuse me of having sex when I was a fool, I did everything that crossed my mind that looked like I..."
AC: "You had sex with animals?"
NH: "Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule."
AC: "I'm not so sure that that is so."
See http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/neal-horsley-mule-loving-republican-can