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Indiana Prosecutor Suggested Walker Fake Attack On Himself To Discredit Unions

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« on: March 25, 2011, 01:04:46 pm »

Indiana Prosecutor Suggested Scott Walker Fake Attack On Himself To Discredit Unions

CHARLES WILSON 03/24/11 08:43 PM 

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana prosecutor said one of his deputies resigned Thursday after admitting he sent an email to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker suggesting the Republican fake an attack on himself to discredit the public employee unions protesting his plan to strip them of nearly all collective bargaining rights.
Johnson County Prosecutor Brad Cooper said Carlos Lam resigned in a phone call about 5 a.m. Thursday after acknowledging that he sent the Feb. 19 email to Walker suggesting "the situation in WI presents a good opportunity for what's called a 'false flag' operation."
"If you could employ an associate who pretends to be sympathetic to the unions' cause to physically attack you (or even use a firearm against you), you could discredit the public unions," Lam wrote in the email, which was obtained by The Associated Press.
Cooper said Lam initially denied sending the email and said someone had hacked into his email account. But Lam later acknowledged he had written the message, and resigned hours before the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism reported the contents publicly Thursday.
"He wanted to come clean, I guess, and said he is the one who sent that email," Cooper told the Daily Journal newspaper in Franklin, south of Indianapolis.
A message left by the AP at a telephone listing for Lam was not immediately returned Thursday.
Lam's email was sent amid daily protests at the Wisconsin Capitol against Walker's plan to take away public employees' rights to collectively bargain for anything except wages no higher than inflation.
"We cannot have the public unions hold the taxpayer hostage with their outrageous demands," said the email, which urged Walker to "stay strong."
Lam is the second Indiana prosecutor to lose his job over volatile comments about the Wisconsin protests. Jeffrey Cox, a deputy attorney general, was fired last month after tweeting that police should use live ammunition against labor protesters.

Wisconsin Republicans eventually used a procedural maneuver to pass the collective bargaining measure without Democrats who had fled to block a vote and Walker has signed it in to law. But a judge has issued a temporary restraining order to block the law from taking effect while courts consider a lawsuit alleging the Republicans' move violated the state's open meetings law and constitution.
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« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2011, 01:06:11 pm »

UPDATE-LAM RESIGNS. IN Dep. Prosecutor Suggested Gov. Walker fake an attack on himself?

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I have to put the question mark in the title because the deputy prosecutor suggested that his email account was hacked. But all the indications are that a deputy prosecutor in Indiana allegedly sent an email to Winsconsin govenor Scott Walker suggesting that Walker fake a physical attack on himself and possibly use a firearm.
The backstory of this is that recently through a freedom of information act request, thousand of emails to the WI govenor were released. Now news organizations are beginning to go through them.
WisconsinWatch.org picks up the story from there:
Indiana prosecutor denies encouraging Wisconsin violence
By Kate Golden
Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
The email came to Gov. Scott Walker from the personal account of a deputy prosecutor and Republican activist in Indiana.
After praise for Walker, the email — sent Feb. 19, during union demonstrations against Walker’s budget repair bill — then took a darker turn. It suggested that the situation in Wisconsin presented “a good opportunity for what’s called a ‘false flag’ operation.”
“If you could employ an associate who pretends to be sympathetic to the unions’ cause to physically attack you (or even use a firearm against you), you could discredit the unions,” the email said.
“Currently, the media is painting the union protest as a democratic uprising and failing to mention the role of the DNC and umbrella union organizations in the protest. Employing a false flag operation would assist in undercutting any support that the media may be creating in favor of the unions. God bless, Carlos F. Lam.”


http://www.wisconsinwatch.org/...
Lam denies that he wrote the email and claims that his account was hacked. Though as the stroy points out the IP address was from Indianapolis, where Lam lives, and the writing matches that that Lam has left on message boards.
Will anything come of a state prosecutor (allegedly) suggesting a govenor fake violence to discredit opponents? Apparently not. Lam's republican boss says in the article that he has no plans to investigate.
UPDATE-WisconsinWatch.org has updated their story saying that Lam has admited writing the email and has now resigned. Here is a statement from the Johnson County Prosecutor, who as I noted in the original story, said he would not investigate the claim.

http://www.wisconsinwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Message-From-The-Prosecutor.pdf
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/24/959689/-UPDATE-LAM-RESIGNS-IN-Dep-Prosecutor-Suggested-Gov-Walker-fake-an-attack-on-himself
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