More follow up on Wisconsin Man being arrested for legal open carry of firearm.

OpenCarry.org ^ | 16 February, 2009 | Doug Huffman

[muawiyah]

I hope you realize there were Polish settlers at Jamestown Virginia in the 1620s. There were also Polish settlers in Savannah Georgia by the mid 1600s as that colony got established.

They assimilated early on.

[muawiyah]

BTW, I think both Indiana and Ohio have something like 43% of the population of exclusively or predominantly German ancestry. Couple of decades ago the Cincinatti airport reintroduced using German to introduce flight arrivals and departures.

Highschool choirs returned to singing Christmas carols in German on the Circle in Indianapolis about then.

[Lurker]

but many of the Germans in Souvrn’ Ohio had ancestors from the Westernmost areas, or even from France.

Having been borne by the banks of the mighty Ohio river I can confirm the truth of this.

German on one side, French on the other, with a bit of American Indian thrown in just to keep things interesting.

L

[muawiyah]

Louisville, part of the Ohio Valley, but pretty much downstream from Ohio, was settled primarily by Alsatians ~ and they still prize the rambunctious character so typical of those folks.

[Lurker]

A bit east of there myself, Scioto County to be exact. Not sure where it came from but you've no doubt noticed a bit of 'rambunctiousness' in me.

Best to you.

L

[ohioman]

Being of Scots-Irish and English persuasion myself, I must ask a question concerning the Alsatians. Is this a province of France?

BTW - Are these folks as rebellious as us Scots-Irish?

[muawiyah]

The Alsatians were/are predominantly German speaking. What you have to understand is that the German States and France share a core population that's fairly identical. The big differences are that in the East a large number of Slavic tribes were assimilated to German standards, and in the West a large number of Gaelic tribes were absorbed (and then their higher standards were accepted by the Franks), and provinces to the South were passed back and forth with Italian princes for several centuries.

Alsatians live in territory that in Roman times was part of the Roman Empire on the West Bank of the Rhine.

[muawiyah]

Now, regarding "rebelliousness" the most "rebellious" bunch in Europe have been the children of the Irish/Viking colony known as the Scottish Highlands.

You might want to watch Man vs. Wild on cable TV ~ there you can see what an Orkney Islander is like ~ and that's another Irish/Viking/Lapland colony ~

[grady]

ping for later

[ohioman]

Thanks for the informative posts. One thing I do like is that when the older folks in my family (on both my mother’s and father’s side) did geneology research they found that both family names were originally created by Vikings who settled in Scotland and Normandy.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Why wasn’t this case tossed?

Sounds like the judge has a bead on it.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Bankrupting the municipality would hardly help anyone. Taxpayers would just have to pony up more money to the local government to pay the tab. Better to fire the officer (no way was he ever trained to pull a gun on somebody who’s minding their own business planting a tree in their own yard), and require training for all police officers in that department, and some sort of public education campaign ofr local citizens about their rights (e.g. flyer delivered to each home, spelling out that open carry IS perfectly legal).

[NonValueAdded]

Unfortunately threatening bankruptcy would be the only way to put in place the outcome you mention, which is of course what really needs to happen ... along with the name change to Krauseville. And let’s add a purge of the chain of command in that PD. Someone above issued the order to make the arrest under the DOWC statute.

[BorisTheBulletDodger]

Do the police from that state carry back-up guns?

Are their back-up guns concealed?

Do police get special rights that the rest of the citizens from that state do not get?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

The case has been dropped. They guy has been cleared.

[nonsporting]

The case has been dropped. They guy has been cleared.

The cop had no justification for the threatened use of lethal force (he pointed his service weapon at the good citizen without just cause). This is aggrevated assault--a felony. The cop should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. An example must be made.

[marktwain]

Do police get special rights that the rest of the citizens from that state do not get?

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Yes, as they do in many States. I am not saying it is right, only that it is so.

[marktwain]

Here is a link to a post from a Freeper at the hearing:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2187573/posts

Here is the Milwaukee Sentinal article:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2187644/posts

Here is the Milwaukee Sentinal asking for comments:

http://www.jsonline.com/forums/39730232.html?c=y&commentSubmitted=y

[marktwain]

More followup on the West Allis Brad Krause case (article)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190046/posts