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.
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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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
