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Never met him to my knowledge. �Saw him hundreds of times. �A normal looking fella.
However, he circulated images of aborted fetuses. �Did those images make me nauseous? �Yep.
Did those images make me want to slug the man responsible for putting them in my face? �Nope.
I am a lifelong resident of Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia. �Both of my parents were raised here. �The guy holding up signs of aborted fetuses, Neal Horsley, sometimes did so near the very window�where my grandfather�s office sat in the Peoples� Bank. �The pictures were horrific. �Shock and awe comes to mind.
Neal Horsley was a national figure in the fight against abortion. �His�website�(FYI: Look at your OWN risk) was the bookmark for anti-abortion extremism.�It listed no fewer than 200 medical providers performing abortions in the United States. �When I say listed, I mean it gave you their names, phone numbers, home addresses, and pictures. �The website also included some of those grisly images of aborted fetuses that I mentioned earlier. �Neal Horsley was also from Carroll County, Georgia.
The words most synonymous with abortion are bomb and Rudolph. �Did Horsley�s website fuel anything to do with those words? �I don�t know, but it is likely. �After all, his website celebrated the deaths of abortion providers and arguably pushed for more to be exterminated.
Neal Horsley, a man from a small Southern town, caused an abortion stir nationwide, �Enough so that a group of�Plaintiffs from Oregon sued him and argued that his website was not protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. �After hearing the case, a jury awarded the defendant abortion providers and others $109 million. �The case was appealed all the way to the United States Supreme Court,�which let the verdict stand. �Again, a regular guy from a small town caused this fight.
Neal Horsley died on April 13. �He never did rid the world of abortions. �Unfortunately, his website lives on as does the presence of thousands of anti-abortion extremists.
Our country has arguably been stuck in neutral for much of the 2000�s. �Since 9/11, this great Nation has been increasingly divided along party lines, racial lines, and socioeconomic lines. �It seems that everything revolves around Democrat/Republican, Black/White, Rich/Poor, Muslim/Christian, etc. �It begs the question, �Is America becoming a nation of extremists?�
With the availability of endless information online (both reputable and�disreputable), there is fuel to fan any fire.�I don�t agree with any of Neal Horsley�s views. �Yet, I can�t help but wonder whether Neal Horsley was a trendsetter in online drama manufacturing. �His website was created in 1997, which was the toddler years of the internet. �It still exists today. �I am no internet historian, but that site has to be one of the first.
Did Neal Horsley notice what award-winning business author, Rohit Bhargava,�calls the �Non-Obvious?� �Maybe it is not best to remember him as a staunch opponent of abortion. �Rather, maybe he was a godfather of internet opinion publishing. �Maybe his goal was to create a nation of extreme views outside of abortion. �His opinion was controversial. �But his opinion reached across the United States. �All from the small town of Carrollton, Georgia.
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