Fox Nation Readers “Inspired” by Texas Judge Who Predicts Civil War if Obama is Re-elected

Fox Nation has discovered the latest incarnation of off-the-wall wingnuttery - Judge Tom Head of Lubbock, Texas, who predicted civil war if Obama were re-elected and promised to stand up and resist – and is promoting him gleefully while readers clog the blog with comments.

On Monday night, Judge Head was interviewed on the local Fox channel about the need to raise the tax rate by 1.7 cents, to hire more enforcement officers to respond more efficiently to community needs.

Well and good. But the learned judge didn’t stop there. He went on to say the county must be prepared for many contingencies - including the “worst-case scenario” that President Obama may be re-elected. "He's going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the UN. OK, what’s going to happen when that happens?...Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war maybe. And we're not just talking a few riots here and demonstrations, we're talking Lexington, Concord, take up arms and get rid of the guy. OK, now what's going to happen if we do that, if the public decides to do that? He's going to send in U.N. troops. I don't want 'em in Lubbock County. OK. So I'm going to stand in front of their armored personnel carrier and say you're not coming in here…I don't want a bunch of rookies back there. I want trained, equipped, seasoned veteran officers to back me."

First, that clip spurred some local backlash and now it’s going viral. At this writing the Fox Nation post is getting a great whack of comments – not all of them in the judge’s favor by any means, but over 700 readers rated the post as “Inspiring.” Here's a sample:

Hard to know how Fox News will react officially. Glenn Beck would have been on the phone to the learned judge before you could say “Second Amendment rights”. But now I think they're trying to counter the perception that the Republican Party is a repository for survivalist militias, anti-abortion hardliners and other factions of that sort. They may just plead innocent (“He doesn’t represent real Republicans”) or sit tight and hope the story goes away.

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Matthew Stevens commented 2012-09-04 18:59:06 -0400 · Flag

I live in Texas, and that’s how it is here. A bunch of Meth-Addled, uneducated, rednecks, who are to stupid to know anything about politics. They just want the black guy(though they call him something else here) gone. Living in this backward state will give you an anxiety problem if you have half a brain. So I’m not surprised that this “Judge” would say such ignorant crap. I know your supposed to have some pride in the State you live in, but I would rather live anywhere than this backward hell hole.

Craig Gosling commented 2012-08-24 23:59:43 -0400 · Flag

There are enough armed crazies out there to cause problems so fear of violence is real.

Rob Willhelm commented 2012-08-24 06:59:13 -0400 · Flag

When considering these loons’ total contempt for American democracy, they deserve a lot more than a passive response from a political blog.

mj - the same one commented 2012-08-23 20:33:18 -0400 · Flag

“So I’m going to stand in front of their armored personnel carrier and say you’re not coming in hereâ¦I don’t want a bunch of rookies back there. I want trained, equipped, seasoned veteran officers to back me.”

You aren’t gonna do shit, and you know it.

There was discussion on this the other day at PoliticusUSA, when the Virginia GOP called for armed revolution in the event of President Obama’s reelection:

http://www.politicususa.com/virginia-republicans-call-armed-revolution-obama-wins-november.html

Neither the judge nor the VA GOP officials are gonna risk leaving their gated communities to get into any kind of armed conflict — the majority of them are chickenhawks who never served a day in uniform; the first time they come face to face with military/law enforcement weapons, they’ll piss on themselves and run like rabbits.

And the teabagging goobers who drive pickups with Confederate flags in the back window may talk tough about armed rebellion, and may have even shot a weapon on their militia compounds once or twice; but they, too won’t do jack when you get right down to it — to be able to stand up to the US military which surely will be called into action should anyone attempt violent overthrow of the lawful gov’t takes ORGANIZATION, and these dumbasses couldn’t organize their way out of a wet paper bag . . . as long as they’ve got cable TV to watch Fox, their {gov’t} unemployment and/or disability check, and a place to put their moonshine still, they’re content, anyway . . .

But all this tough talk sure looks nice on a campaign ad or bumper sticker . . .

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mlp ! commented 2012-08-23 18:49:56 -0400 · Flag

Unfortunately, although we laugh at this stuff, it DOES have an effect. Last week I had a friend that I had previously thought of as ‘reasonable’ confide in me that Obama already had a plan in place to use NATO to take away all guns from US citizens. He knew it was true because he had read it on the internets:
http://www.yumasun.com/articles/bass-80351-call-fish.html
He wasn’t sure if that would be before or after he killed the internets:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9p1QLHqXtA

Paul Gould commented 2012-08-23 16:11:17 -0400 · Flag

I think he’s just afraid the UN will take over the Buddy Holly museum and up the price of admission…

Thx4 Fish commented 2012-08-23 15:43:03 -0400 · Flag

Isn’t this the plot of the soon-to-be-released-remake of Red Dawn? Maybe the judge has also seen the trailer after imbibing some hallucinogenics and now thinks he lives in a movie plot? If this is what judges are like in Lubbock, maybe we should let the UN have the place.

scooter commented 2012-08-23 14:15:36 -0400 · Flag

Not only should this “judge” be impeached and removed from the bench, he should be prosecuted for fomenting treason. These people are truly crazy. In their hatred for the scary black man in the white house, they have lost any semblance of sense that they may have ever possessed.

Heffer Jones commented 2012-08-23 13:53:18 -0400 · Flag

If President Obama wins, it will be civil war. If he loses, blacks will riot in the streets. Either way, red states will cling to their bibles and guns.

Visitor 55 commented 2012-08-23 12:48:38 -0400 · Flag

I heard this on the local news this morning. This “judge” is a dumbass, but the people in Lubbock county are even dumber.

First, of all the places in the U.S…oh say, like DC or NYC, LA, NOLA, etc, you know, more IMPORTANT places, why the fuck would the UN invade Bumfuck Lubbock county?

This judge just wants to raise taxes. So instead of being honest and admitting that tax cuts haven’t worked and upsetting the shitflinging teabaggers, he’s dragging President Obama and the fear invoking UN into his delusion. People are stupid if they fall for his shit.

Gooch X commented 2012-08-23 12:32:37 -0400 · Flag

If republicans didn’t have paranoid delusion, they would have nothing at all.