A False Flag for Walker

Scott Walker, Governor of Fitzwalkerstan, has been getting a lot of advice from rabid Indiana Republican officials.  First a Republican Assistant DA suggested Walker use live ammunition against protestors.  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 employee unions last month, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) received an intriguing email from an admirer claiming to be a deputy prosecutor from Indiana. The email suggested that Walker should fake an attack on himself, in order to create sympathy for his cause and damage the reputation of the unions. The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism has the email:

The e-mail was signed by “Carlos F. Lam.” 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 — which is the same area the e-mail was sent from, according to its IP information. Lam also has a history of anti-union comments online: he’s written that Indiana is “an unsustainable public worker gravy train bubble.” In another, he said “unions & companies that feed at the gov’t trough will fight tooth & nail against anything that un-feathers their nests.”

WCIJ contacted Lam and asked him if the Hotmail address on the email belongs to him. Lam confirmed that it does — but categorically denied sending the email. “I am flabbergasted and would never advocate for something like this, and would like everyone to be sure that that’s just not me,” he said, after being read the email. He said he plans to file a police report about the matter this week.

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, tweeted that police should “use live ammunition” against the protestors… [emphasis added]

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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.

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.