[marktwain]

Why can't the large papers hire someone who writes as clearly and who investigates as well as Richard Moore?

Oops, I forgot. It doesn't fit their agenda. (Though I must say that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel did not do too badly with Linda Spice on this story)

[2banana]

And plus, planting trees can be dangerous :-)

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Even if they don't, the police still have Krause's gun, and Krause said after the verdict he thought they planned on keeping it for some time.

"My understanding is, they will not be returning my gun," he said. "My only option is a civil suit, to sue them to get my property back."

Time and again we are shown that not all thieves have to fear the police, a fair number enjoy their protection.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Good. And Spice and that other guy...(Bivack?) do some amazing reports.

[elkfersupper]

Well, Hallelu-frickin’-lujah!

[Cicero]

This actually sounds like a sensible judge. A rare and vanishing species.

He lays it all out so anyone can understand the decision—and the negligence of the cowardly politicians.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“In his testimony, [the neighbor] testified that he was concerned and disturbed,” Murphy said. “He didn't like the idea of a gun in a holster across the street.”

And yet the neighbor somehow isn't disturbed about the idea of hoards of policemen swarming in with their guns drawn and arresting his neighbor? There is no legal ambiguity in the words “shall not be infringed”, and yet we find a judge wringing his hands over whether a homeowner was violating a law by wearing a firearm openly on his own property. Clearly, to me at least, he wasn't. I've read the Constitution. It doesn't contain a preemptive clause that says “unless your neighbor's nose gets bent out of shape”.

[Nathan Zachary]

"In his testimony, [the neighbor] testified that he was concerned and disturbed," Murphy said. "He didn't like the idea of a gun in a holster across the street."

Murphy said his court had held lengthy discussions before about offensive behavior, including the display of a Nazi flag. "To me that is one of the most abhorrent symbols of all, but in and of itself it is constitutionally protected," he said

Judge, are you an idiot? Carrying a gun in a holster is also constitutionally protected, no matter how offensive it may be to an anti-gun nut across the street.

Speaking of nuts across the street, Perhaps Krause should be calling the police on him every time he does something that annoys him, like breathing, running a lawnmower too loud, public indecency etc.

[Lurker]

Mr. Krause needs to file a Federal Civil Rights suit using 18USC241 and sue the City into Bankruptcy along with every single Police Officer involved.

I'd toss the Prosecutor in there, too.

Once he owns the streets, sidewalks, and parks of West Allis he can enter into 'negotiations' with them as to when he takes City Hall as his new home.

L