(Posted from Underground Examiner)
Neal Horsley may have had sex with a mule before Jesus set him on the straight and narrow, but he is now all devotion to the Lord's work. Lest you doubt his commitment, his wife has divorced him and his children (except for a daughter) want nothing to do with him. He's an outcast in Georgia, too extreme, even for the Pro-Life groups, but he has hundreds of admirers across the country.
He was fired when he made national headlines for setting up the Nuremberg Files site that listed the addresses and phone numbers of abortion doctors, and crossed off their names as they were killed. The efforts to shut him down went all the way to the Supreme Court.
He now has to support himself through freelance work as a contractor under the table. He has friends, he says, but when it comes to hitting the pavement to preach against the murder of unborn babies, he doesn't get any takers.
We can't imagine why:
Though he traveled in the same circles as many of the people who went to jail for murder, he says he learned as an anti-war activist during Vietnam that those tactics wouldn't work, and wants to change the nation via the electoral process. And then secede. That's the only way, he says, to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The candidate for Governor for the Creator's Rights Party says, people have to be willing to die. The idea is to take over a state, then hole up and wait for the United States army to come for a kind of Alamo last stand.
It sounds like the sort of hyperbolic bloviations we hear so often from talk radio and cable news, and I've always wondered how seriously to take these people.. So we ask him if he has any children in the military.
"I have a son who was a Sergeant in the Army," he says.
We ask him if you won the election, and you seceded, what would you do if the United States government sent your son to stop you? Would you be willing to kill your own son? Because that's what we're talking about if you start another Civil War -- brother against brother. That's when he relates the following story.
One day, he's in his room arguing with his son (his family tries to talk him out of his extreme positions), and finally loses it. "He literally attacked me," Horsley says. "He weighs 220 lbs like a Bulldog and said 'Don’t say another word!'"
The second time his son slammed him down, when Horsley got up, he had a pocket knife out. "My son looks at me and says, 'So, it’s life or death, huh?' and I said, 'Yeah, life or death son. Don’t come back until you’re ready to apologize to me.' The point is, I was one foot from killing my own son, or hurting him really, really bad. If he would have attacked me again, I would have stuck him. Or cut him or sliced him or done something to stop him. That's the point, you hypothetical has literally already been worked out with me, and that’s what makes me different from the other candidates for Governor. They understand I’m not like no politician they have looked at, ever. I am prepared to do a John Brown. I’m not prepared to do an Abe Lincoln and talk out both sides of my mouth and try to get a majority together. I’m looking for the people who are prepared to go with me and take over the foundry, then set up shop and prepare to fight to the death. I’ll do it."
This story puts in perspective the kind of people Rick Perry iis stoking for petty partisan politics. Riling up extremist elements to tear apart the Union seems far more dangerous than anything the Dixie Chicks ever said in the UK. This is, after all, the same crowd crossing off the names of abortion doctors. (He has a list up today of those "aborted" doctors.) We don't need to doubt their sincerity because his circle has killed before.
I ask him again if he's really ready to sacrifice his own family, as many did back during the Civil War. Is Roe v. Wade worth a repeat of the bloodiest American war?
He tells me to read Matthew 10. "Your own family are going to be your greatest enemy because unless you love me more than you love your father, your son, your wife, your daughter, you’re not fit to be my disciple. That's why there’s a real rift of estrangement in my family," he says. "I contend this is really about people’s ability to believe in God. When it comes to that place, when your're talking about God’s plan to protect himself, then the lives of people become, really, almost irrelevant... in the degree that they result in Him being glorified. That's the nature of the truth."
More on Neal Horsley here. More on secession here.