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The New Terrorism: Threatening the Life of Elton John

“What Elton John has done is desecrated the image of the Lord Jesus Christ, blasphemed the Lord Jesus Christ,” says Neal Horsley, a Georgia man who created the Creator’s Rights Party in a bid for governor(!), in a video he uploaded to YouTube last month calling for the singer’s death, filmed while standing outside what he claimed was John’s Atlanta condo building. Appropriately, Horsley was arrested on Wednesday. For making terrorists threats.

But it wasn’t enough to get YouTube to yank the video, apparently:

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