Strange Case Against Pro Life Nut

In Madison, WI, there is a case going on about a pro-life crazy who said he wanted to kill abortion doctors. He is being charged with attempted murder even though he never tried to kill anyone. Instead, he is being charged for his thoughts.
From madison.com: The Marshfield man who told authorities he came to town with a gun, bullets and plans to kill an abortion doctor was charged Friday with attempted first-degree intentional homicide in Dane County Circuit Court.
Ralph W. Lang, 63, said that after shooting an abortion provider at a Planned Parenthood in Madison, he was next going to go to an abortion clinic in Milwaukee, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday....
For the most part, the complaint filed Friday in county court mirrors a criminal complaint filed Thursday by federal prosecutors in U.S. District Court in Madison that charged Lang with a misdemeanor, attempting to injure, intimidate and interfere with people providing reproductive health services.
Both complaints describe how Lang accidentally fired a bullet through the door of his room at Motel 6 on Wednesday night, then told Madison police of his plan to kill a doctor at the Planned Parenthood clinic on Thursday morning.
But the attempted murder complaint filed Friday provides a different account of how Lang fired the gunshot in his motel room. In the federal complaint, Lang said he was loading a magazine into his handgun and it went off, but he did not know how it went off.
In the Dane County complaint, Lang told police that he was practicing lowering his gun and was facing the motel room door, then pulled the trigger, causing the gun to fire.
“I didn’t think it was loaded,” he said, according to the complaint.
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_5270b430-87e9-11e0-a9e5-001cc4c002e0.html
The Feds are doing this: U.S. Attorney John Vaudreuil said prosecutors, working with the Department of Justice’s civil rights division in Washington, are considering seeking a felony charge against Lang alleging that he interfered with a person’s use of a program that receives federal funds.
Ok, I'll say the usual- this guy is nuts and even though I am pro life and think abortion doctors are the devil's brother and sister, this guy is wrong.
However, what the the cane County DA has done is scary. The man is not being charged with what he did but what he was thinking. He is being charged with attempted murder even though he didn't try and murder someone. He is being charged because he thought about murdering someone.
How many people have thought of harming or killing someone for one reason or another. It might be because you have been bullied or someone ripped you off. It might be a supervisor who wrote you up or it may be someone who is pissed off at a politician. How many people did the Dane County DA charge with attempted murder after they wrote a letter to Scott Walker or the Senate Democrats, threatening to kill or harm the politicians? I think most of us have thought one time or another about harming someone and now, according to the Dane County DA and Eric Holder and President Obama's federal prosecutors, we can be charged with your thoughts.
As far as the Feds are concerned, they want to charge him with interfering a person's use of a program that receives federal funds. How did he interfere with anyone? Did he go up to a woman who wanted an abortion and threaten her? Nope, he was just thinking about it.
You just cannot charge a person with attempted murder when they did not try and kill someone. Charge him with firing the gun in the hotel. Charge him with any other crime he actually did commit. But you can't charge him because he was thinking of doing something. The crazy idiot may have been boasting, he could have delusional or maybe he really wanted to to kill the doctors but he could have chicken out in the end and never do anything.
This DA and the Fed's screwed up big time on this case and are only prosecuting him because Madison is very liberal and many in Madison feel abortion as a human right.
This was a political decision to please the anti-life crazies. It's nothing more than that.
With the DA and the Feds bringing this case, they are now saying that a person's thoughts will be prosecuted and not their actions.
Very scary indeed.