Texas Democrats: Judge who said Obama could trigger civil war should resign

[maddezmom]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Texas Democrats are calling for the resignation of a Republican elected county judge who warned this week that the nation could descend into civil war if President Barack Obama is re-elected.

"It's really up to Judge (Tom) Head to do the right thing and resign and stop embarrassing Lubbock County," said Kenny Ketner, who became the county Democratic Party's chief Monday.

"I wish we were getting worldwide attention for something better than a crazy county judge," Ketner told CNN. "But what are you going to do?"

There is no recall process for Head's office in Texas, Ketner said.

The county's Republican Party chief, Carl Tepper, accused the Democrats of "opportunism" and said he called Head and left him a message offering "moral support."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/23/us/texas-judge-warning/index.html

[rfranklin]

1. Resign? This idiot should be in jail for threatening to overthrow the government...

There is a law against sedition.

[NYC Liberal]

3. Imprisoning people for saying the president should resign?

The guy is an idiot and he SHOULD resign because judges shouldn't go around making political statements like that.

But what you're suggesting belongs in the realm of a fascist dictatorship. How many of us on DU would be in prison if calling for the president's resignation was sedition?

[rfranklin]

6. Read the background on this guy...he was threatening a civil war if Obama is reelected...

More of this Texas sucessionist crap.

[NYC Liberal]

11. I've read plenty. I disagree that he was "threatening" a civil war

The guy said: "He's going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the UN, and what is going to happen when that happens? I'm thinking the worst. Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war maybe."

He was making a prediction about what will happen, not threatening it. I remember seeing a fair number of threads/posts right here in 2004 along the lines of "If Bush steals another election, there's going to be riots and possibly civil war." And there were some in 2008 too.:

If Bunnypants* reatains the throne he sezied in 2000, there are only 2 choices:

1) Soviet-style Orwellian Bushevik Tyranny

2) Civil War as Free America fights back

These may be our only choices regardless, given the history of every nation like ours since history began.

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Attempting this WOULD trigger another American Revolution!

And another bloody Civil War that the outnumbered evil Bushevik party would lose badly. They are losing the military, they have lost the CIA - they will not get enough help to survive. This simply would NOT be tolerated! The media might also find itself overthrown in this scenario! (Could this be the very type episode that Jefferson prescribed/predicted?)

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Folks if they steal the election then there will be a civil war in this

country.

No one talks about it but that's what will happen!! There are more of us than of them. We will kick their asses!!

I say give them 4 states and let them flat earth, no reproductive rights, no womens rights, whatever let them destroy themselves. We will build a wall, the kind that they like with guards in towers so they can never escape or cross the border.

Let them drown themselves in their sick religous neocon movement, they will drown themselves in a teacup!

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I've had it !.... The only solution is to split !

I don'tknow about anyone else... but I just can't take it anymore !

The rethugs are not my brothers and sisters, not my friends !... They are murderous, tribal-thinking simpletons... You can not convince them of the error of their ways. They stand for exactly the OPOPOSITE of everything that is GOOD or can be good in America.

I will not list all the EVIL, backward, imperialistic ways of the rethugs, you all know what they are... I however, don't wish to occupy the same country as them, as they will/are certain to bring us to disaster !... I will not leave my beloved country either.

I want this country to split into two separate soverign nations!.. One with a liberal mindset, the other conservative... There is no other solution...

I don't know how to actually do this!... ALL I know at this point is that it MUST be done... Anyone with me??

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Buy guns now

Canceling the election is grounds for revolution. Plain and simple, if they di it, it's an illegal coup and requires avery patriotic American to stand up and fight!

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If the repukes steal the election again...there's gong to be REVOLUTION

And it won't be pretty. Too many millions of people in this country now realize what's going on, and they know our Democracy has been taken away by the neocons in power. Even the regular ole run-of-the-mill old time republicans are sick of the neocons, and want them out. Look how many have joined DU!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=894816&mesg_id=896155

If the repug criminals steal this election (which I'm afraid

they may) there may be only one remaining solution. The "Thomas Jefferson Solution", revolution and revolt by any means necessary.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2577366&mesg_id=2577499

Indeed, however, this is 2004

And imagine the carnage that would occur in the streets were the true American patriots to rise up against a corrupt and vile junta after the 2004 election is stolen by the rise of the *machines* (shades of the "Terminator&quot . Armed revolution would be our only choice. We would have to organize a blitzkrieg-style takeover of the White House, Congress, the Pentagon, and the Supreme Court in order to have a ghost's chance in hell of succeeding, and even then there would be massive carnage as Buscho unleashes its armies, police forces and national guardsmen on its own citizens. Would those three groups turn on Buscho and join the revolution? Perhaps, but not immediately.

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Like I said, the guy is a fucking right-wing asshole and SHOULD resign. But jail? No.

[oldsarge54]

16. Wellllll

Agreed, I don't think he was threatening to create a civil war. Sounded darn eager about it though.

[Posteritatis]

7. The guy's calling for a tax increase to arm local cops to rebel against the government

That's a little different from saying the president should resign.

[NYC Liberal]

12. Then jail all the posters here who have, over the years, called for armed revolution,

or predicted it, in the event of the Republicans stealing an election.

[fugop]

14. He is a judge

I have to admit that I expect more from a judge than I do from anonymous posters though. He's in a position of govt authority, and that does bring up different ethical expectations. At least ... it should, IMO.

[trailmonkee]

8. excellent, this guy should speak at the convention

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I think he should be charged with sedition.

[xtraxritical]

13. I believe that amendment was repealed.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. The Sedition Act of 1918 is still on the books. What amendment has been repealed except

the 18th?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. The voters in that county should be calling for his resignation.

That the Republicans could support Head's statement, is a testament to how ignorant the Republicans in Texas are.

You can't fix stupid.

[bluesbassman]

5. Typical repug response: "opportunism".

I am really enjoying watching the right squirm and cry foul when they get called out for their bullshit.

[truthisfreedom]

15. Taking advantage of opportunity is bad when you're a Democrat because it makes repukes look as bad

as they are. Taking advantage of opportunity is reserved for repukes, don'tcha know. Only they know its righteous use.

[Panasonic]

9. Not only resigned, but indicted and jailed awaiting trial

for sedition.

Give him a taste of Texas justice, his style.

[bushisanidiot]

10. That judge was dangerously close to committing treason, as far as i'm concerned.

there's a fine line between "predicting" a war/violence and calling for a war. At least in this particular situation.

[TomCADem]

17. So Much For The Oath to Defend and Protect The Constitution

Instead of respecting the results of an election, we have a Judge ignoring his Oath of office, and inciting a civil war.