His filings and his posts. That he wrote them is a matter of record. What they claimed, a court found false.
7 October 2022 · Filed in the protection order case
He wrote a declaration of war across the order protecting his ex-wife and children
Seventeen days after a court found he had committed domestic violence against his ex-wife,
their two small children and her mother, he took the protection order and wrote across
every one of its nine pages in marker. Then he signed it, dated it, and
filed it with the court as an exhibit.
Page by page, what he wrote:
on the warning page, over the notice about firearms — "GO FUCK
YOURSELF"
on the face of the order — "GO FUCK YOURSELF HARD"
across the court's findings of fact — "USE AS SANDPAPER"
across the stay-away and no-contact provisions — "ALL ORDERS FROM THIS COURT
ARE RESCINDED"
across the page ordering him to surrender his firearms and ammunition —
"MOLON LABE", the Greek for come and take them
across the custody and parenting provisions — "STAND YOUR GROUND"
across the judge's signature — "DO NOT FIRE UNLESS FIRED UPON"
across the notice to respondent — "BUT IF THEY WANT TO HAVE A WAR."
across the certificate of service — "LET IT BEGIN HERE", signed
"William E. Horner, Citizen 3, 10/7/2022."
The last four are a single quotation, split across four pages. They are the orders Captain
John Parker is said to have given his militia at Lexington Green on 19 April 1775:
"Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they mean to have a war, let it
begin here." They are the words that open the American Revolutionary War, and he wrote
them onto a court order protecting a woman and two children under the age of six.
The face page. He wrote on all nine.
The black box is our redaction — it covers the two children's names and
every date of birth on the form. Nothing else has been altered.
Open all nine pages
The covering motion he attached it to is captioned "Respondent's Invitation for
This Court to Fuck Off." It "respectfully invites this Cou[rt] to go Fuck
Itself," declares that "all orders from this Court are hereby rescinded under Minute
Man Patriot Act protocol," and warns that "All force employed by this court will
be met with equal and opposing force."
The certificate of service records that he sent it to the petitioner's attorney — and to
an email address he identified as belonging to the Director of the FBI.
Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, Division of Domestic Relations ·
No. DV-22-391235
He told the Chief Justice of Ohio that no officer would take him alive
In the memorandum asking the Supreme Court of Ohio to hear his appeal, he wrote that all
court orders were "rescinded under my authority as a Minuteman of the United State
Intelligence Community," that "no warrants will be honored, no child support paid,
no protection orders recognized," and that his freedom would be
defended
"through all necessary force, up to and including lethal force should your
officers escalate to that level, and under no circumstances will any officer of your
government take me into custody alive. All actions are taken under and protected by
the Second Amendment of the US Constitution under the power of a well-regulated militia's
right to keep and bear arms…"
He then set out the Chief Justice's "options," the third of which was to "Shoot a
codeword Minuteman in service of his duties," adding: "be advised, while I NEVER
shoot first, I do shoot back, have advanced paramilitary training… I strongly urge you to not
put live ammunition into the field."
Seven months later he emailed the trial judge's staff attorney and opposing counsel under
the subject line "Little bitches," copying the judge himself, and attached
links to two of his videos titled "Why the 2nd Amendment Exists." In the
same message he wrote: "I'm emulating Jesus in this theatrical production."
Memorandum in support of jurisdiction, Supreme Court of Ohio No. 2022-1075 —
filed as an exhibit in No. CV-22-969917. The Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal on
8 November 2022. The email is an exhibit to the summary judgment motion of 19 May 2023.
He told her he would put her and their children on the street
In a video he posted himself, titled "Hypocrisy Part 2 of 2," he addressed his
ex-wife directly. From the auto-generated transcript, at 10:17 to 10:34:
"it's like I forgive you if you confess and complain that if you do not we are
proceeding to federal court and like I will bankrupt your mother and you'll be on the
street — you and the children will be on the street because like your honor and like I
recognize as a father's like what father wants their child to be on the street and our fathers
don't want their children to be on the street"
His victims' lawyers opened their motion for summary judgment and sanctions by describing
him as a man with "a stated goal to 'bankrupt you [Allison] and your mother
[Cathy]'" — and cited this passage for it.
Transcript is YouTube's automatic captioning, which supplies no punctuation.
A single dash has been inserted where the sentence turns; no words have been altered, added or
removed. Plaintiffs' Motion for
Summary Judgment and Sanctions, 19 May 2023, p. 1 and n.2, quoting Hypocrisy Part 2 of 2
at 10:18–10:24, transcript at Exhibit 1(A) · No. CV-22-969917
See also. A court later ordered him to pay $1,064,234.75 to the two women named in this video.
He sent postcards, postmarked Knoxville, Tennessee, to households throughout the street
where his ex-wife, her mother and the children lived. The court found the cards accused them
of criminal conduct, gave their home address, named the children, and directed readers to his
website. One carried a scriptural quotation about "the whole armour of God."
The court found the accusations false: the children were living with
their mother under a custody order the court itself had made, and no agency had ever charged
or investigated either woman for anything.
Findings of fact, No. CV-22-969917, 26 February 2024. The cards themselves
are not reproduced here — see the note at the foot of this page.
The fundraising page the court ordered removed was posted under the name "John
Baptist." Its title indicated it had already been taken down once and reposted.
He ran the same campaign on LinkedIn under his own name — where his
profile described him as an investment real estate broker, data scientist and "White Hat
Hacker" — and on YouTube. The court found he had posted in excess of 20 hours of
video, most of it repeating accusations of criminal conduct that the court found
false, together with "threats, or other inflammatory statements" directed
at them.
Findings of fact and permanent injunction, No. CV-22-969917
They took down the eighteenth channel. He built the nineteenth that day.
A sworn affidavit by the plaintiffs' counsel records that she identified and visited
nineteen separate YouTube channels created by him. The eighteenth was
removed on 18 May 2023; another appeared the same day.
When his website was removed he built a second. When his fundraising page was removed he
reposted it. Counsel also recorded that YouTube repeatedly asked for a copy of the court's
order before it would act.
This is counsel's sworn statement, not a finding of the court. The
court's own finding was that he posted in excess of 20 hours of video. No. CV-22-969917
The expert witness was the woman he married eight months later
An "expert report" filed in his defence described its author as a retired FBI
subcontractor, and recounted a personal telephone call from the founder of
Amazon, a $1.5 million payment, and the theft of approximately
$1 million from her bank account by the Director of the FBI.
Opposing counsel noted in a filed motion that the same document had been submitted in at
least three separate cases under three different labels, and identified its author as his
fiancée. No court relied on it.
He brought a federal lawsuit against thirteen defendants on fifteen counts,
including both Ohio judges who had ruled against him and the Governor of Ohio. Every pending
motion to dismiss was granted — on judicial immunity, quasi-judicial immunity, sovereign
immunity, lack of jurisdiction and failure to state a claim.
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee · Judge Clifton L. Corker ·
Horner v. Cuyahoga County, No. 2:24-cv-175
