{"id":5653,"date":"2010-03-12T10:02:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=5653"},"modified":"2010-03-12T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:02:46","slug":"one-missing-item-of-background-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/03\/12\/one-missing-item-of-background-information\/","title":{"rendered":"One Missing Item of background information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the associated press,<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100311\/ap_en_mu\/us_video_threat_arrest\"> a pretty big item of omission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Georgia man who posted a video of himself on the Internet holding a sign that said &#8220;<span id=\"lw_1268354992_0\">Elton John<\/span> must die&#8221; has been arrested for making <span id=\"lw_1268354992_1\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\">terroristic threats<\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Neal Horsley, 65, was arrested early Wednesday in Carrollton, about 50 miles west of <span id=\"lw_1268354992_3\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\">Atlanta<\/span>, said Atlanta Police Sgt. Curtis Davenport. He would not say who Horsley is accused of threatening, but Horsley&#8217;s son, Nathan, said he thought the arrest was connected to the video about the musician.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 Now skip forward to the background information on who Horsley is &#8212; a scary guy to be sure.<\/p>\n<p><em>Horsley founded the Creator&#8217;s Rights Party and has declared himself a candidate in the 2010 governor&#8217;s race. He kicked off his campaign July 4, 2008 in downtown Carrollton, wearing a placard showing the head of an <span id=\"lw_1268354992_5\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\">aborted fetus<\/span> while singing an anti-abortion song.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The <span id=\"lw_1268354992_6\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\">state ethics commission<\/span>, which oversees election filings, has no record of Horsley&#8217;s campaign.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He previously gained notoriety in the late 1990s for his role in establishing a Web site that published the names and addresses of doctors who performed abortions. Planned Parenthood officials called the site a &#8220;hit list for terrorists.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span id=\"lw_1268354992_7\">Fulton County jail records<\/span> showed Horsley also faces charges of criminal defamation and disseminating <span id=\"lw_1268354992_8\">terroristic threats<\/span> over the Internet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One thing missing.\u00c2\u00a0 I almost don&#8217;t want to bring it up, but&#8230;<br \/>\nNeal Horsley did three hours of national radio on his sexual encounters with barnyard animals.<\/p>\n<p>The associated press missed the boat on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the associated press, a pretty big item of omission. A Georgia man who posted a video of himself on the Internet holding a sign that said &#8220;Elton John must die&#8221; has been arrested for making terroristic threats. Neal Horsley, 65, was arrested early Wednesday in Carrollton, about 50 miles west of Atlanta, said Atlanta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5654,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653\/revisions\/5654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}