Never e-mail anything to an elected official that you are not prepared to have made public.
E-mail is not presumed to be a private or privileged form of communication, and when you are communicating with a public official there is even less of an expectation of privacy.
The e-mail address of a public official, particularly the official e-mail address of that official, is the rightful property of the state.
In the case of Governor Scott Walker, for example.
Indiana Deputy Prosecutor Carlos Lam wrote an e-mail to Governor Walker. This e-mail was sent from Lam's personal e-mail account, not from any e-mail address from his job. Nonetheless, this e-mail was discovered by the press through a public records disclosure of Governor Walker's e-mail.
At first, Lam denied that he wrote the e-mail, but later he confirmed that he did write and send it. Then he resigned.
In the e-mail, Lam recommended some rather aggressive actions, including what he referred to as a "false flag operation":
Original story posted on Wisconsin Watch. Link here.
The story even describes a "false flag operation":
Very educational.
This is the second felony stupid idea that has cost an Indiana attorney a job. In February, Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Cox was fired from his job after a felony stupid tweet advocating the use of live ammunition on protesters in Wisconsin.
Stay classy, GOP.
And for the love of God, stop with the stupid already.
E-mail is not presumed to be a private or privileged form of communication, and when you are communicating with a public official there is even less of an expectation of privacy.
The e-mail address of a public official, particularly the official e-mail address of that official, is the rightful property of the state.
In the case of Governor Scott Walker, for example.
Indiana Deputy Prosecutor Carlos Lam wrote an e-mail to Governor Walker. This e-mail was sent from Lam's personal e-mail account, not from any e-mail address from his job. Nonetheless, this e-mail was discovered by the press through a public records disclosure of Governor Walker's e-mail.
At first, Lam denied that he wrote the e-mail, but later he confirmed that he did write and send it. Then he resigned.
In the e-mail, Lam recommended some rather aggressive actions, including what he referred to as 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 unions,” the email said.
“Currently, the media is painting the union protest as a democratic uprising and failing to mention the role of the DNC and umbrella union organizations in the protest. Employing a false flag operation would assist in undercutting any support that the media may be creating in favor of the unions. God bless, Carlos F. Lam.”
Original story posted on Wisconsin Watch. Link here.
The story even describes a "false flag operation":
The expression derives from the naval practice of flying another country’s flag to deceive one’s enemy. It was used in World War II several times, as when the British dressed up a U.S. destroyer, the Campbelltown, as a German sub-chaser. That allowed them to get close enough to the German-held dry-dock at St. Nazairre to blow it up.
It’s been used to describe political activities, too. An aide to Republican Congressman Charlie Bass resigned in 2006 after posing as a supporter of a Bass opponent and posting discouraging messages on political websites.
Very educational.
This is the second felony stupid idea that has cost an Indiana attorney a job. In February, Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Cox was fired from his job after a felony stupid tweet advocating the use of live ammunition on protesters in Wisconsin.
Stay classy, GOP.
And for the love of God, stop with the stupid already.
I'm not sure the Republican Party can stop with the stupid. They've boxed themselves into a position where the only option is to double down, ramp up the hysteria and violence, and ratchet up the irrational.
ReplyDeleteLooking at Census data and the polls, where more than 1/6th of the country is of an ethnic group the GOP has gone out of its way to vilify and alienate, where more than 98% are of an income class the GOP has declared open war on, I can't see any way out for them as a major party. They will become more armed, dangerous as trapped animals, and more convinced than ever of the apocalyptic righteous morality of their cause.