Neil Horsley - Waagner Incident

Waagner Incident

In 2001, self-described militant Clayton Waagner, an armed bank robber who had escaped from an Illinois prison, showed up at Horsley's home brandishing a gun. Horsley alleges that Waagner told him that he was stalking and planned to kill 42 abortion clinic workers who were profiled on the website, and presented evidence that he was the author of hundreds of phony anthrax letters that had been sent to abortion clinics and elected officials. Going to the media after his meeting with Waagner brought more attention to Horsley and his website. Waagner was arrested in December 2001, and is now serving a lengthy prison sentence.

Although Horsley claims he advocated an alternative route of campaigning for secession, he does not doubt that many of those in his circle who resorted to violence were led by God to do so to show it was not an effective means for bringing about an end to Roe v. Wade. He calls those who engaged in violence terrorists, but also says that terrorism is a sanctioned means of achieving God's law, and a tactic explicitly supported in scripture.