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…
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.
Lam likes to brag about his reliance on the 3 G’s: “guns, gold and gasoline”.
So what–you lost me. You detail how you are paid less and will have to work more with less benefits yet you are better off than under Bush.
I think you left out a few dots. Care to provide?
…Lam initially denied sending the email and said someone had hacked into his email account.
This one must be in the manual or something as first choice.
Sorry, the company I used to work for, a non union auto parts manufacturer, is now in china and mexico. It left during Georgie junior’s first term. While I miss the folks I can’t say I really miss the job. It tended to be rather mundane and boring. While I make less I have quite a bit more fun at work, and find it much more fulfilling and stimulating. While money is nice it really is not a stimulus for long term job enjoyment.
This creep should find a good spot in Karl Rove’s slime shop.
Creative ideas from to pollute our democracy need to be harnessed.
http://telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8407047/Libyan-rebel-commander-admits-his-fighters-have-al-Qaeda-links.html
While the progressive press in America, and its Podesta clones here at DU, constantly misdirect from Obama’s incompetence…
He now is supplying Al Qaeda with surface to air missiles…
Thank you Fifth column Obama.
http://tinyurl.com/4kdm6rw They had them in 2002. Surface to air are commonly available if you have the cash. Cheaper to buy at the weapons markets in Pakistan than ship from Libya. Always buy local and support your community.
On a more philosophical note, if you buy black market is there a sales tax?
Does Raytheon still get their cut?
#58 ??? Don’t recognize the argument.
I dislike progressives intensely, because they love soft tyranny and like moral busybodies, insist on telling everyone else what to do, how to live, what products to buy etc:
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.- C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock
Because it makes them feel better about themselves, they steal the property and wealth of others, to distribute to those they deem worthy…minorities, abortion, illegals…
Its irrelevant whether these folks really need help, they will learn to become dependent upon progressive government…
Of course Pelosi, Reid, Watters, Rangel, and their ilk exempt their wealth, and that of their crony capitalist friends (GE) from confiscatory taxation…
Obama best illustrates their hypocrisy when he cites “lets us be our brother’s keeper” but doesn’t send a $100 bill to his step brother in Kenya, who lives in poverty in a hut, which would pay his rent for a year.
So What: so you are merely reporting that a job you enjoy more is preferred over a job you like less even if you get paid less?
Most people would agree with you. Says nothing about our economy though except higher paying jobs are being shipped overseas while those employed in the ashes are happy to have a job?
Its always a mix of things. Imagine getting paid more for a job you liked more? That was possible for many years.
Bobo-
Yup, I’m in the water. Not a strong swimmer (don’t have all the answers) and surrounded by sharks,alligators and parana (rabid party supporters). The water is nice and warm however I think that is more from peeing myself in fear as I view what is happening in politics.
If I have to choose, yes I can and I have to be honest and say that I lean a bit more to the side of the parana (liberal) however it really makes no difference as in the end it is more about how you wish to die than if. And that is what bothers me the most. People seem to think that the party they support won’t kill them in the end. Right now we are all loosers and the only winners are the ones making the rules. We don’t stand a chance anymore unless we can get rid of the rule makers and try to start over. I don’t have the answer but the other options so far proposed are not it either.
Its all rather metaphysical. I actually have more in the bank now than I did then. Perhaps its that I spend less on things that mean little. No I pad, no smart phone, etc. I do on the other hand have a new truck and boat. Go figure.
Scooter==most of what you say is true but I was/am focusing on your derision of fellow travellers, such as myself, who choose to call a spade a space, a spam bot a spambot, and Alfie an idiot for all of the above.
Why do you do this? I’m just curious as it seems like hubris/hypocrisy to me==but always open to a different perspective on it.
So What: so you are lucky, and/or made some good choices, combo of the two. always best to recognize the best we can out of our predictaments but “living standard” is going down for most people. That admits right up front that that is not true for everyone. Enjoy it while you can and hope you don’t get sick, get in a car accident, have your identity stolen, have your retirement vaporize, and on and on. Life is fragile.
Alphie can’t recognize himself in his own quote. It must be the end of the month and Alphie is running out of drugs. His Paraphrenia is showing again.
#54, Bobbo,
Hey Mr Fusion–glad to see you posting again. Free Speech is the defense to the charge. When the jury believes you were just giving your opinion, its free speech and wins.
Free speech is the ability to express your opinions freely, without censorship or obstruction by the government. That clearly did not happen here. Lam was counseling someone to commit a felony.
Saying “everyone should grow their own pot until the government legalizes it” is free speech. The speech is general and the aim is political.
Saying “Bobbo, you should start an illegal marijuana grow in that old pole barn on your property. I could help you and we would make a ton of money” is advocating a felony. The claim is specific and the aim is criminal
The claim is specific and the aim is criminal libel.
#73 Trans fats, Michele Obama…sneaks in some ribs when no one looking…ad infinitum.
Progressive busy bodies, Dvorak makes fun of those in Britain, but they are in power here just beginning…until we vote them out in 2012 and beyond.
I intend to die free, stay out of my bedroom, my kitchen, my garage, my job…frack off pig.
You want perverted sex, you do it, don’t push it on me or those I know, or my church…
You want green energy, gruel for food, stuff yourself, stay the frack away from my pantry, I like steak and potatoes with real butter…
You like go cart cars with .5 liter engines, and think that’s smart, stay the frack out of my SUV’s way.
You don’t like my fishing or oil drilling, but want to bankrupt the country making us buy it from foreigners, you hypocrite…you stop eating and using oil and its byproducts, leave us the frack alone.
#75 Continued…that was cryptic…
Progressives utilize the tax code to make products they deem undesirable, too expensive to buy, imposing their tyranny on the rest of us who do NOT agree with their lists.
We like our soda pop, gasoline, etc, stop raising the price imposing your tyranny.
Progressive put many fisheries, and fishermen out of business, with their bs concerns…but don’t mind buying the products overseas…
obama stops drilling in the US, but invests in drilling in Brazil…puts American oil workers out of work, but invests to employ Brazilian oil workers….and Arab oil is bought with nary a word…but American oil…that’s evil…
Screw you bastards…we will throw off your chains, liberate ourselves from your progressive tyranny…
YOU progressives are the moral busybodies, just like religious nuts, the only difference, you take the place of God…and demand we follow your lifestyle, keep your commandments,and obey your stupid little progressive theories…
THAT’s why I hate progressivism, I love freedom.
This once was a free country, now a man can’t even repair his leaking roof, without a city permit.
Progressive bastards, your fracked up our country…but we will take it back, starting in 2012.
AND we really tire of your invalidating our democracy, with activist judges overruling what we vote for…there is a change coming, and it starts in 2012 via the Tea Party…
watch for it.
TeaDud:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus#Replication_cycle
“Viral populations do not grow through cell division, because they are acellular. Instead, they use the machinery and metabolism of a host cell to produce multiple copies of themselves, and they assemble in the cell.”
Blog virus.
#77 TeaDud:
I thought it started in 2010? Is 2012 also the “Year of Linux on the Desktop?”
The guy was a lack witted nincompoop with no ethics. He needed to be replaced.
With the staggering number of threats and the amount of attempted intimidation actually going down he should have been worried about keeping his boss breathing.
He has my nomination for having the biggest brain fart of any government employee for 2011 at least for today though I admit he may end up vanishing into a crowd of equally worthy contenders. There are so many bad ideas being pushed by politicians and government employees it is really hard to stand out.