PayPal
Seizes Contents of My Online Bank Account
By
Neal
Horsley
(Christian Gallery
News Service, March 4, 2003)
Paypal, Inc. on Feb 18, 2002, seized the PayPal
bank account of me, Neal Horsley, publisher
of The Christian Gallery News Service and the founder of The Creator’s Rights Party. According to PayPal
Account Representatives, the account was impounded and the funds in that
account are not to be made available for at least 180 days (six months) from
the date they were seized because I ran, “an ultra violent anti-abortion web
site that advocated the murder of abortion doctors.” The following links take you to an excerpt
of that conversation with the PayPal Customer
Service Representative.
Real Audio or Flash
I have never advocated the murder or the killing of
“abortion doctors.” The evidence proving that statement is
available in the words written and published by me over the last fifteen
years and can be validated by anyone taking the time to read those words. http://www.christiangallery.com/catalog.htm
proves that I have written three full length non-fiction books and hundreds
of non-fiction articles and never has a sentence been written that advocated
the killing of abortion doctors. In short, PayPal
seized the bank account and froze the funds on the basis of a false
accusation.
Common sense would understand that any person who
advocated the murder of abortion doctors would be liable for arrest
and prosecution for any number of felony warrants. Obviously the PayPal
employees who ordered the seizure of my bank account knew the accusations
were false because there was no mention that I was under indictment or under
arrest for the things PayPal
was accusing me of.
But
PayPal did not have to rely on common sense. PayPal can freeze
any account and make that money unavailable for 180 days anytime and for any
reason.
As PayPal officials smugly stated, “…the PayPal
User Agreement states that PayPal, at its sole
discretion, reserves the right to close an account at any time for any reason.”
To amplify this policy, I asked the PayPal
customer service representative whether PayPal
could seize a customer’s bank account simply because a customer was
“anti-abortion.” The customer service representative said, “PayPal can hold a customer’s funds for 180 days for any
reason whatsoever.”
How do you avoid PayPal seizing
(PayPal calls the action “limiting”) your online
bank account for 180 days? PayPal’s Web site provides this answer: “You can help avoid
limited account access by adhering to the User Agreement and only using your PayPal account to engage in lawful activity.”
Clearly, this answer implies that if a user engages in “lawful
activity” they have every reason to expect their account will not be seized
and their funds impounded for six months. As my case proves, PayPal
will impound an account if the activity is lawful but “anti-abortion.”
In this incident, as in the situation where I was fired from my
job because Planned Parenthood representatives threatened to cost the company
millions of dollars in sales, I am being financially pilloried as a
cautionary tale designed to deter others from becoming abortion abolitionists. Even though I have been indicted for no crime,
false accusations against me are designed to make it impossible for me to do
business, find employment or the other things that are required to make a
living in the United States of
America. Don’t be an abortion abolitionist like Neal Horsley, PayPal is saying, or you might wake up and find that all
your money has been frozen--frozen like an Arab terrorist gets his money
frozen--and you won’t have access to it for 180 days, if ever.
As many of you know, we are in the process of putting out the
first issue of a new magazine called “The Abortion Abolitionist.” Anyone who does not understand how
disconcerting it would be to have funds frozen at the very moment those funds
were needed to launch a national magazine has never done business or tried to
complete an important project. The PayPal attack
could not have come at a worst time.
Examine this story closely and you will see how Christians in
the United States of America are being
conditioned to collaborate with people determined to butcher God’s children. They might have their bank accounts seized
if they don’t.
Why do I persist in
the face of such dangerous actions taken against me? I know many people will scoff at my answer
but the fact is I was told to see such actions against me as things I should
rejoice about: Luke 6:22
(KJV)
22Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they
shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you,
and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
23Rejoice ye in that
day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven:
for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
I confess I am having a very
difficult time rejoicing about these things that are happening to me. But I persist because in spite of every
fear that my flesh, the world, and the devil conjures up, I know that God
knows I’ve made all these enemies simply because I am telling the hard truth
about what it means to live in a nation that has legalized the slaughter of
the least of God’s children, the ones that the Lord Jesus Christ identified
with.
“As you did it unto the least of
these, you did it unto me,” he said. Today, like yesterday, and the day before,
and like tomorrow, too, we the people will rip the Lord Jesus Christ
apart here in the United States of America, all with the blessings of the federal government and
with the collaboration of every one of us not presently incarcerated for resisting
such unspeakable evil. May God grant me
the grace to keep speaking that truth as long as life remains in my flesh.
Obviously I need your help.
Selah.
Neal Horsley
PO Box 1081
Carrollton, Ga 30112
UPDATE: This article was first sent out at app. 9 am EST on
Tuesday, March 4, 2003 to my main mailing list and posted on The Christian Gallery
News Service. By
noon of that same day, I received a telephone call from someone who
identified himself as a representative of PayPal,
Inc.
Even though it was a short call, it is very revealing about the impact
public disclosure can have on instances of tyranny, oppression and general
bureaucratic bullies like PayPal and all similar
wolf packs gathering in this tormented nation today. Hear a Real Audio
recording of that call.
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