Indiana Prosecutor Resigns After Suggesting Wisconsin Governor Fake Attack by Union Foes

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — 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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  • OperationNorthwoods
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:13pm

    Well The false flag worked in Oklahoma city and on 911 so why not try it again? Probably shouldn’t have put the plan in an email though.

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  • leary1
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 12:17pm

    whatis wrong with this sight ? it claims I have made duplicate remarks but none of it was posted, are you censoring my truthful comments ? this really ticks me off cause this has happened before.duplicate warning but yet no posting—-straaaange

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  • leary1
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 12:10pm

    This clown was a piece of work,glad he is gone,we don`t need any suggestions on how to fabricate and lie ….that is not how to defeat the opposition . We will win with truth honor and dignity. Something the other side can`t spell or wrap their heads around. It just won`t support their agenda.

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  • Catfish
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 11:37am

    We need to elect all new people and send them up there , not to make new laws but to start looking at every one of the old laws and start taking them out one at a time that is not for the good of the people, the tax paying people, not the welfare people.

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  • Catfish
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 11:33am

    Why cain,t we all get after the unions to remember that they are Americans first, not Democrat thugs, get on our side which should be there side and lets stop Obama and his Muslims brothers, why dont they want to see his birth certificate, and lets all throw the B——s out in 2012 Please help save The America our young men have died for!!!!

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  • AmericanHorse
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 11:24am

    What an idiot. Leave those kind of tactics to the criminal left.

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 10:35am

    Can anyone be so sure that the real false flag was getting the prosecutor tricked into sending the email, suggesting the false flag in order to create chaos, in an attempt to redirect the attention away from the violence of the unionites that is everywhere? Just sayin’… These are the people who trick people into committing suicide with a note on their chest accusing someone else after all..

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  • glennisright.com
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 10:32am

    Why does he want to fake an attack? They happen for real all the time.

    http://www.glennisright.com

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  • BetterDays
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 10:30am

    Well, that was not a wise thing to email, it would be like someone proposing violent action against another here on the blaze, because the NSA is most certainly combing this site at all times.

    When did it become a federal crime to love your country and the Republic of America?

    Why hasn’t the Blaze posted the article ( from drudge ) where Obamanation actually talked to Netenyahu and confirmed Americas friendship with Isreal? The question remains, did the
    Obamanation mean what he said, or was this confirmation more double speak?

    Also from TheHill, The office of budget management in the Senate is proposing a tax on the number of miles everyone drives. They propose a “ mileage counter” be installed in every vehicle. They also stated they would not collect any other information about you from this device, yea right. I know one car that will never get any such device while I still draw breath”………..

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  • SARAHISTHEONE
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 10:24am

    Let’s face the facts most of us (I think) will stand behind whomever our candidate will be. I think Sarah Palin can do it!

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    • Navyveteran
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:50pm

      I said this about 3 months ago and I will say this with more conviction because I believe it more now. America had her last election last year. If the polls show Obama has no chance in winning there will be some “crisis” and he will call for Martial Law. Obama will be the first dictator of America. For how long is up to We The People!

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    • chips1
      Posted on March 26, 2011 at 2:35am

      Obama in the White House IS the crisis. All he has to do is declare himself a disaster.

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  • lineinthesand
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 9:05am

    Please, please, please, please, please can we stop referring to the issue as collective bargaining ‘rights’???

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  • TheLeftMadeMeRight
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:50am

    “discredit the public employee unions” ? They do a fine job of that all on their own. I live near the capitol and many here in Wisconsin are extremely embarrassed by these fools beating their drums and chanting their bumper sticker slogans.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:28am

    You can’t fight FIRE with FIRE…

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  • louzyana
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:16am

    He should have suggested that someone shout racial epithets and spit on Walker.

    Oh wait, that ploy was already taken……

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  • LadyIzShy
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 6:22am

    you MUST be the ones with morals and ethics..

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  • Arc
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 5:55am

    Suggesting that any politician do something that would make another politician APPEAR to be a victim is similar to telling a friend of yours that “all politicians are honest”

    A great many politicians are victims of their own egos. Deciding to become a “public servant” entails considerably more empathy than a politician deciding to attempt to place himself/hersel f on a pedistal.

    A public servant thinks of the public.

    A politician thinks of self promotion.

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  • moojuiceexpress
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 4:18am

    There is speaking your mind, then their is talking out of your butt. I think this guy did the latter.

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  • BoilitDown
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 4:04am

    Scott Walker doesn’t need to fabricate union violence, there are hours of video and volumes of written material available on the internet to demonstrate how unions have discredited themselves.
    Unions have gone from being detriment to business and a force against productivity in earlier decades to now being down right anti-American. Their declining numbers, yet increased influence has made their desperation dangerous to the general public, as evidenced by their actions since Obama’s rise to power.

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  • cogito ergo sum
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:01am

    What an idiot! Fake flag operation huh? So instead trying to do things legitimately you try using shady tactics. Is there anyone with morals?! Does anyone actually care about doing things the just way? Our country is deteriorating at an extreme rate, this is ridiculous[sic], where are the men and women of standard?

    Cogito Ergo Sum

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    • Oldphoto678
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:32am

      Come on, don’t try and pretend this kind of behavior is something new. The right invented the “False flag” opration. Just ask Karl Rove.

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  • S_Malc13
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:53am

    Getting desperate.

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    • bobodu
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:38am

      Oh great….another one. Right on the heels of our Secretary Of State being indicted on charges of voter fraud.

      Way to go Indiana Republicans!! Have you no shame? Did you learn nothing from the Bible humping adulterous Mark Souder?

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:44am

    What’s is amazing is that there is a belief that Republicans are “dumb”. This is preponderated by the Far-Left media. The Republicans embarrassed the Lefties by stripping-out collective bargaining from the Bill, and now there is Hell is pay. Now, this can only be decided by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

    None of the Lefties are the least bit concerned that the Voters of Wisconsin voted them out in the last election. The Lefties believe that it‘s righteous to nullify the votes of the last election because they don’t agree with it.

    It makes me wonder what will happen when Obama loses the 2012 election. Will it be nullified by the Socialists, Communists, and Marxists because they don’t agree with the election results?

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:52am

      You can bet on it! Oh, and throw in some rioting too!

      Who do you want to run for POTUS in 2012?
      http://tinyurl.com/4rv8xsm
      Allen West agrees to debate CAIR official

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    • BehindBlueEyes
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 5:57am

      The 2012 elections (if we have them) will be nasty and probably violent .
      The progressives/socialists/marxists/communists will pull every trick and underhanded method they can to win. They don’t care about rules or laws when it comes to their agenda. In fact they know they can’t win if they play by the rules.

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    • orkydorky
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 11:55am

      Why do you think the lefties threw such a fit when Gore lost the election? The whole socialism plan was postponed for four more years, then four more after that. Why do you think they worked so hard to discredit Bush an Cheney? Why do you think all kinds of things were being leaked to the media, true or not? When the Dems. took control of the house in 2007, they began to implement this plan and as soon as BO took the office of the presidency, it was open house on socialism and the take over of the country. What they hadn’t planned on was Beck and the tea party. And some of these loons say there isn’t a God!

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  • Tnredneck
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:30am

    Now all hell is breaking out in Syria. Hey broker, didn’t glen beck predict this months ago?

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  • Tnredneck
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:20am

    But the union foes did attack walker…. 24 hours a day for over 2 weeks. I think the blaze may have left something out of this story…

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  • joda5150
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:19am

    first!!!!!! he’s gonna regret that email. i support walker here in wi.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:28am

      I’m betting he already regrets the email. Maybe he learned something.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 9:48am

      I suspect having his career totally destroyed might send a message. I wonder what the Duke lacrosse team prosecutor is doing these days?

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    • jedi.kep
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:50pm

      Never stoop to the same tactics the left are willing to use. Honesty and integrity RULE!

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  • End The Fed
    Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:19am

    You can’t stoop down to Progressive levels – you will end up resigning. Lam is an idiot – the end never justifies the means.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:50am

      Not only would I never stoop down to a progressives level, I don’t believe I could find how far down their low is.

      This entire planet would do well if just one bright individual could come up with something that could cure the dibilitating disease known as “progressivism”. Any Doctors out there?

      Who do you want to run for POTUS in 2012?
      http://tinyurl.com/4rv8xsm
      Allen West agrees to debate CAIR official

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:01am

      My daddy always told me that honesty was the best policy. Too bad he didn’t have a dad like mine. When jpeople can’t trust you, you don’t have anything. The guy should have known better!

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:29am

      Have you seen the Michele Bachmann ads? They’re all over the place. She’s gonna run for POTUS, no doubt in my mind.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 3:15am

      Bachmann and west !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      in either position would completely remove two voting groups from the progressives……….the Black, and the women vote.

      that would leave them with the racists and the handout gimme types.

      And since we dont vote on color, its nice that these two candidates actually have experience, and the skills for the job……….unlike the obummer, who had nothing but his glossy voice

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 4:00am

      Show

      I think you are right. I saw her on Gretta tonight she would not say but said she was closer to making a decision than ever, she is setting up a committee and would decide about June. But I really believe she will run. I really do like her and she is a storng woman.We’ll just have to see who comes out of the primaries.

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    • oregonrr
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 4:09am

      Lam erred, and this error is not excusable, unless it occurred in a brainstorming session where it would be dismissed summarily. However, i am so tired of people accusing others of being evil, stupid, or the like. The time of judgment is not at hand. When the time is here, the judge will arrive, and nobody will have a defense! We will just remain silent and bowed.

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 4:16am

      must of been a republican…when democrats stoop this low…they go lower…maxine waters..rangle…kerry…clinton…being dishonest never pays!… yeah right…have to agree with other posters..bad move on Lam’s part…very lame Lam!

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    • Mannax
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 6:11am

      *smacks forehead and looks at the deputy prosecutor* Really, you make a suggestion to do a false attack. Hell, Gov. Walker only has to walk out around the state house and I am sure that one of the union thugs would be happy to do an actual attack.

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    • GODSAMERICA
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:18am

      @end the fed
      You are right about that. Besides Walker doesn’t need to use a fake anything to discredity the union thugs, they are doing that to themselves own quite nicely.

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    • AzCowboy
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:33am

      Pig parts, for a start
      jH…

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    • Fletch
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:30am

      he wasn’t stooping to the level of a progressive – he was just doing what comes naturally to a prosecutor – it’s not an honorable profession – and prosecutors are often progressives

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    • Miguelito
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:44am

      Amen brother!

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 11:14am

      There’s an old expression..“Walk softly and carry a BIG stick”.. right now we have a bunch of people running for office that are walking LOUDLY and SHOUTING.. I like Bachmann however.. she needs to tone it down some to be taking seriously.. she speaks so fast her words get tangled up.. and EVEN if she does know the correct answer of solution the words are out of her mouth before she can correct it..she has to much adrenaline .. Trump has many good idea‘s but he too doesn’t measure his words.. which makes him look irrational.. Cain has the right amount of PASSION.. FIRM but well thought out.. he plants the seed of what is wrong by pointing to the problem.. Palin has the SAME problem Michelle does.. Hucklebee is TO quiet.. and to moderate.. ROMMEY will NEVER make it as people are seeing with OBAMACARE the bad bill he passed when he was governor..

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    • jzs
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:46pm

      Typical right wing strategy, who could be suprised? That and supporting your billionaire friends the Koch brothers.

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    • restorehope
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:16pm

      Who said he is a conservative? He might be a progressive just trying to stir up trouble. Either way, another person with no sense of honor bites the dust. Good riddance. Congress and the White House aren’t the only places that need to be disinfected.

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    • Donanimaze
      Posted on March 25, 2011 at 5:34pm

      Add your comments

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    • AnnaLikes
      Posted on March 26, 2011 at 2:17pm

      This is so typical of Republican dirty tricks! All the so-called union “thugs” I’ve seen have undoubtedly been plants put in place to make the demonstration look bad. Well, if failed, because nobody except Beck’s brainwashed minions believe any of those “thugs” were actual union protesters. Every act of thuggery we’ve seen has been a plant.

      It won’t work anyway. Walker is as doomed to recall as his Koch-ho congress.

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    • YouGottaProblemWithThat
      Posted on March 26, 2011 at 5:21pm

      Maybe we should be glad that we are at least purging our own ranks of political scum whenever they show their ugly heads. I‘m sorry to say you don’t see that on the Dem side too often, if ever.

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