The problem is that the crime he is being charged with is total BS.
A teacher has been arrested after writing online that the Columbine High School shooters were heroes.By his comments you could easily put him into the troll category, and ignore anything he writes past this point. Boots and Saber released this comment on the situation.
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The comments came on a conservative blog. Officials said a writer using the name "Observer" said the West Bend teachers' salaries made him sick, and said the killers in the 1999 Columbine shootings had the right idea.
"They knew how to deal with the overpaid teacher union thugs. One shot at a time! Too bad the liberls (sic) rip them; they were heros (sic) and should be remembered that way," the writer said.
The problem is what he is being charged with. This Breitbart video says he is being charged with Disorderly conduct.
WI Statute 947.01: Disorderly Conduct. Whoever, in a public or private place, engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly conduct under circumstances in which the conduct tends to cause or provoke a disturbance is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.From the same website the information also says internet acts can be charged as disorderly conduct.
Disorderly Conduct Applies To Computers and Internet UsageThe problem is that it seems almost anything that has the intent to "annoy" is criminal. Hell. Most posts on this blog would be criminal, and a some on the community blog I write for also would be criminal...if I lived in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin law defines a message as a sign, signal, writing, image, sound, data or intelligence of any nature whatsoever, which includes e-mail. Under Wisconsin law (WI Stat 947.0125), if a person sends a message to another person via e-mail or any other computer communication system and in that message threatens to inflict injury or physical harm to any person or any person's property, intends to frighten, intimidate, threaten, abuse or harass any person, or uses profanity, obscene materials, lewd, profane or suggestively lewd or profane language, whether or not the message is actually received, and whether or not the sender attempts to conceal his or her identity, a conviction can subject that person to the penalties of a Class B misdemeanor.
If the intent is to harass, annoy or offend another person, then the sending of a message via email or any other communication system is a Class B forfeiture.
Disorderly conduct seems to be a law written to be used when nothing else really works. A "do all" law. A bad law.
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