Neal Horsley explains: "Why I Am Suing Wikipedia " Dateline March 28, 2006 Wikipedia, the online "encyclopedia," has for at least two years contained an extensive article about me. For those of you not familiar with Wikipedia, it is becoming a primary Internet research source, accessed by millions of people looking for the "facts" concerning all aspects of reality. Search Wikipedia for Neal Horsley and you will see the article. The article contains a libelous accusation that I advocate terrorism. Obviously such an accusation at a time when this nation is fighting a War Against Terrorism can lead to fatal consequences, not only for myself but for those near me. I have tried over the last few months to get the Wikipedia organization to delete the libelous accusation. The Wikipedia staff ignored me. Yesterday I posted the following statement in the "Discussion" section of the article: "The content of this article is not only patently false on numerous details of fact (for example I was born in Bremen not Bowdon, Georgia; I was in the USAF, not the Army), but contains libel per se when it accuses me of advocating terrorism. I have on two occasions contacted Wikipedia and told them to remove the libelous statement. I have been ignored. It is a matter of public record that in the recent past, I spent over three years suing Planned Parenthood, NOW, and Geraldo Rivera when they libelously accused me of assassinating the abortionist Barnett Slepian. Even though I lost, it cost the various parties well over $1,000,000 to deal with the litigation. Wikipedia and the authors of the libelous statements on this "encyclopedia" should prepare to deal with the same process unless they retract the libelous accusation that I have advocated terrorism. I will give them (whether the "them" be Wikipedia staff or the lying author of the article about me) two weeks to get that statement out of this article. If it is still there in two weeks from March 27, 2006, I will initiate a defamation complaint in federal court. Neal Horsley Whether Wikipedia is allowed to contain patently false libel per se against me will determine whether others can be so treated. Given Wikipedia's growing influence in this world, unless Wikipedia is forced to monitor its content for factual accuracy, the online "encyclopedia" becomes a dangerous tool of confusion disseminating falsehoods across the globe. The Spirit of Truth moves to combat such vessels, and those who follow Him help. One way you can help is to email all your local news outlets about the threatened litigation against Wikipedia. Over the past year or so there has been a fairly extensive media coverage of Wikipedia and the news media--local, national and international--will be interested in what is happening here. While they will probably not cover this phase of the story, they will certainly want to know what is happening. I don't have a current world media email list, so your help in contacting your local media will provide that service. I will keep you posted as this situation progresses. Neal ==================== Found on the web. -Cberlet

They will cost money. And that money might be a lot. On 3/28/06, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:

On Mar 29, 2006, at 12:41 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: I haven't found any yet, but haven't looked that hard. I had never heard of the guy before, which I find quite agreeable. I think his advocacy is based on inference, not direct evidence of advocacy statements. He does things which an advocate of terrorism would do, but does not say he advocates terrorism in so many words. This sort of proof was once used in prosecuting the leaders of the Communist Party USA but the thinking was rejected by Yates v. United States. We have a brief article on that. I think though, in terms of choice of plaintiff, he would make a good one. I would hate us to be so chickenshit that we could not truthfully say that this is a very bad man. Fred

Noble savage? Fred On Mar 29, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:

On 30/03/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote: No trace of 'Horsley' on any emails that have reached WikiEN-l (or gone into moderation on WikiEN-l) since I've been a list admin (almost a couple of years now) - unless the Gmail spam filter's picked them up. Also no messages to Wikipedia-l in that time either. ~Mark Ryan

There were also none in any of the OTRS queues I monitor until March 29 when he sent one mail to info-en. He hasn't mailed the Board at all. Angela.

I note someone's already removed the word 'terrorism' from the article. Correctly so, IMO. -Matt

On 3/29/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence(a)gmail.com> wrote: Dunno about you, but being threatened by a guy who's proud that he cost the other side $1,000,000 in a lawsuit that he lost works very well with me. The word "terrorist" (even if it was true) is not worth a million big ones to us. Steve

On 3/29/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence(a)gmail.com> wrote: Sure. But then, I avoid edit wars too. :) Yep. Totally agree with that policy in general. Well, *we* should definitely do that. What the Foundation does in the face of continued threats is, of course, up to them ;) Steve