"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," deputy district attorney Lam said in the email to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Then: "I am flabbergasted and would never advocate for something like this, and would like everyone to be sure that that's just not me," protested Lam.Lam is active in Republican Party politics.
I thought there were supposed to be tens of thousands of union thugs and creeps out there already. So why would you have to invent one?
P.S. The linked story doesn't mention it, but he signed his email "God bless," which is unfailingly amusing under the circumstances.
It does bring to mind the bullets that they supposedly found around the Capitol. Do you suppose that Walker was just trying to grow some bullet trees?
ReplyDeleteWonder about all these "death threats" too.
ReplyDeleteThe governor's office is on a first-name basis with him, it appears:
ReplyDelete"Certainly we do not support the actions suggested in Carlos' email. Governor Walker has said time and again that the protesters have every right to have their voice heard, and for the most part the protests have been peaceful. We are hopeful that the tradition will continue," Werwie wrote.
"For the most part," a rather shrill dog whistle blown by Werwie: 51% peaceful, 49% Grothman-lynching dirty hippie union thug-mob.
ReplyDeleteCertainly we do not support the actions suggested in Carlos' email.
ReplyDeleteUh huh. Note that their concern wasn't so great as to notify their counterparts in Indiana that they had granted prosecutorial authority to an E. Howard Hunt wannabe lunatic.
Capper and IT, here's the timeline:
ReplyDeleteThe e-mail was sent on February 19.
The phone call Governor Dropout had with the guy he thought was David Koch -- and where Walker talked approvingly about WI GOP plans to impersonate protesters and cause trouble, plans they had with regret decided to abandon -- was February 22.
The magic .22 bullets appeared on February 28 (remember, Lam advocated involving "firearms" in the "false-flag operation" he suggested to Walker).
Now, the folks that make up the Wisconsin GOP are so hard-wired to resort to dirty tricks that I doubt they'd need any outside input to dream up any of this stuff. But ya gotta wonder.
"It does bring to mind the bullets that they supposedly found around the Capitol. Do you suppose that Walker was just trying to grow some bullet trees?"
ReplyDeleteNote the timelines. The email was sent on the 19th, three days before Walker told "David Koch" about plans (which the WI GOP aborted with regret) to "cause trouble" while posing as protesters, and nine days before the magic bullets showed up.
Granted, Walker et al don't need outside aid to be assholes, but ya gotta wonder if Lam's email provided some extra inspiration.
Facts "not inconsistent with" theory, as they say.
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