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
William Easton Horner 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 — “GO FUCK YOURSELF JUDGE JONES”
on the face of the order — “GO FUCK YOURSELF HARD”
across the court’s findings of fact — “USE A SANDPAPER DILDO”
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ARE RESCINDED”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 Court 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Itself,” declares that “all orders from this Court are hereby rescinded under Minute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
William Easton Horner 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 set out the authority he claimed for it. He wrote that he is “a sworn codeword
‘Minuteman’ of the United States,” and that “through formal security audit made
in parallel and coordination with Christopher Wray, Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation,” he had concluded the Cuyahoga County court system to be in violation of
its obligations. On that basis he was “using my authority under codeword Minuteman
protocols to label that system a danger to national security” — and it was
“under my authority as a Minuteman of the United State Intelligence Community”
that he declared every order of its judges rescinded.
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.”
He also told the Chief Justice what he intended to do with it. Notification had been and would
continue to be made to “more than ten thousand press contacts” and to
“the 535 members of the US Congress.” The names and contact details of the
officials involved “WILL BE PUBLISHED.” And all of it would be
“broad spectrum email blasted to more than 30 million of Appellant’s fellow US
Citizens.”
He had described the capability first. In a notarised filing of
21 December 2021 — months before this memorandum, and before the courthouse
attack — he told the divorce court that as “CTO of MRI” he had built
“a proprietary email marketing engine,” and filed a year-end report stating that
in 2021 “ARIEA sent over 476K emails for the Firm.”
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.
See also. Eight months after this memorandum he attacked the county
courthouse’s email system — the attack and
the conviction.
He told the court he was defending himself from the FBI and from assassination attempts
Objecting to a 30-day extension for GoFundMe, LinkedIn and YouTube, he set out what he said
he was managing at the time: litigating across state lines, without assistance, in
“a courthouse with a documented string of corruption and interference in proceedings,”
and —
“while having to defend himself from illegal rouge operations conducted
by the FBI while having to defend himself from assassination
attempts…”
“Rouge” is his spelling. His complaint was that the platforms’
“armies of professional attorneys who ae not having to defend themselves from
assassination attempts” should not get an extension when he had been refused one.
“What’s good for the goose is good for the gander your Honor.”
He then swore to it. The affidavit on the next page reads that the motion and its contents
“represent the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth… under penalty
of perjury,” signed before a notary in Hamblen County, Tennessee.
No court has found that any of this occurred. He names no agent, no date and
no incident, and the record contains no filing in which he asks any court to act on either
claim.
Defendant’s Objection to 30 Day Extension for Nominal Defendants, No.
CV-22-969917 — filed by him as an exhibit to his own complaint in No. CV-22-971495,
17 November 2022 (pp. 13–16).
William Easton Horner told his ex-wife 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.
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 supposed “expert” witness was the woman he married eight months later
An “expert report” filed in his defense 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.
