{"id":4397,"date":"2011-03-25T05:43:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2011-03-25T05:43:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:43:15","slug":"a-false-flag-for-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/a-false-flag-for-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"A False Flag for Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Scott Walker, Governor of Fitzwalkerstan, has been getting a lot of advice from rabid Indiana Republican officials.&#160; First a Republican Assistant DA suggested Walker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/?p=4148\" target=\"_blank\">use live ammunition against protestors<\/a>.&#160; Now a Republican Deputy Prosecutor has been caught in an email, suffusing that Walker stage a false flag operation.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"GOPWiscFlag\" border=\"0\" alt=\"GOPWiscFlag\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GOPWiscFlag1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the intense public battle with public employee unions last month, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) received an intriguing email from an admirer claiming to be a deputy prosecutor from Indiana. <strong>The email suggested that Walker should fake an attack on himself<\/strong>, in order to create sympathy for his cause and damage the reputation of the unions. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsinwatch.org\/2011\/03\/24\/email-to-walker-suggested-faking-attack-on-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism<\/a> has the email:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"24strike\" border=\"0\" alt=\"24strike\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/24strike1.jpg\" width=\"453\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The e-mail was signed by \u201cCarlos F. Lam.\u201d WCIJ did some digging and discovered that indeed, there is a Carlos F. Lam who is a GOP public official in Indiana. He is a deputy prosecutor in Johnson County, Indiana \u2014 which is <strong>the same area the e-mail was sent from, according to its IP information<\/strong>. <strong>Lam also has a history of anti-union comments online: he\u2019s written that Indiana is \u201can unsustainable public worker gravy train bubble.\u201d In another, he said \u201cunions &amp; companies that feed at the gov\u2019t trough will fight tooth &amp; nail against anything that un-feathers their nests.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WCIJ contacted Lam and asked him if the Hotmail address on the email belongs to him. Lam confirmed that it does \u2014 but categorically denied sending the email. \u201cI am flabbergasted and would never advocate for something like this, and would like everyone to be sure that that\u2019s just not me,\u201d he said, after being read the email. He said he plans to file a police report about the matter this week. <\/p>\n<p>Oddly, the email was sent on the very same day that another Indiana law enforcement official tweeted out violent plans for the protests. Jeffrey Cox, a deputy attorney general for the state, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/02\/23\/official-use-ammo\/\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> that police should \u201cuse live ammunition\u201d against the protestors\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/03\/24\/walker-false-flag\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Given the location of the IP address, the ownership of the email account, the personal history and the proclivity of Republican politicians to lie at all times, except for when their mouths are closed and their fingers are separated from keyboards at the same time, the Republican is lying.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The only reason Wanker did not carry it out, I suspect, is that the court ordered him to turn over his email before he had a chance to organize it, and he knew it was there.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Walker, Governor of Fitzwalkerstan, has been getting a lot of advice from rabid Indiana Republican officials.&#160; First a Republican Assistant DA suggested Walker use live ammunition against protestors.&#160; Now a Republican Deputy Prosecutor has been caught in an email, suffusing that Walker stage a false flag operation. During the intense public battle with public <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/a-false-flag-for-walker\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}