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Lubbock Co. Judge warns of potential danger if Obama is re-elected

Lubbock County Judge Tom Head and Commissioner Mark Heinrich went into great detail Monday night on FOX 34 News @ Nine about why it is necessary to raise the tax rate by 1.7 cents the next fiscal year.

An across-the-board pay increase is needed for the attorneys on the DA's staff to keep them from being poached by higher-paying counties, and the sheriff needs to expand his staff by seven deputies to reduce call response times, minimize officer fatigue and reduce the turnaround time for investigations.

Judge Head said he and the county must be prepared for many contingencies, one that he particularly fears, is if President Obama is reelected.

“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?,” Head asked.

“I'm thinking the worst. 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.

"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'.

"And the sheriff, I've already asked him, I said 'you gonna back me' he said, 'yeah, I'll back you'. Well, I don't want a bunch of rookies back there. I want trained, equipped, seasoned veteran officers to back me."

Whether you agree with the judge, or think his theories are unrealistic, the reality is a tax hike that will provide an additional $832,433 coupled with $2 million in cuts to make the numbers work.

You can sound off at two public hearings, Wednesday at 10 a.m. and Monday at 10a.m. Both hearings are at commissioner’s court.

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Wait... They go from legitimate budgetary concerns... To crying about how Obama is gonna sell us down the river and that everything will go to hell and there'll be another civil war? Damn guys. Nice 180.

 d-usa wrote:

My reaction exactly....

Yet across the gulf of the Atlantic, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, grounded in reality, regarded these United States with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

UN Invasion of the USA orchestrated by Obama?

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I think the Red Dawn remake should have made the invaders the U.N. instead of North Korea. That would have played to their intended audience much better.

 Easy E wrote:
I think the Red Dawn remake should have made the invaders the U.N. instead of North Korea. That would have played to their intended audience much better.

You know, its kind of sad but I can actually see that...

Makes more sense than the North Koreans at least.

UN invading America?

With what?

Guys off the reservation there...

I don't know what makes me facepalm more.

Guys like him that think they need to prepare for the upcoming invasion by the UN.

Or the guys like him and all the weird militias running "drills" in the backwoods thinking they could actually take on a real military.

I think the US should stop funding the UN and kick them out of NYC, but I'm not exactly worried about an invasion. The UN couldn't sell girl scout cookies in a famine, invading a country is well beyond their capabilities without the US, UK and a few others doing the /actual/ work while the UN's "generals" strut around the five star hotel closest to the battle space.

Doesn't a judge commenting on this stuff affect his job?

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I think the US should stop funding the UN and kick them out of NYC, but I'm not exactly worried about an invasion. The UN couldn't sell girl scout cookies in famine invading a country is well beyond their capabilities without the US, UK and a few others doing the /actual/ work while the UN's "generals" strut around the five star hotel closest to the battle space.

Doesn't a judge commenting on this stuff affect his job?

In Texas judges are elected if I am not mistaken, so this probably means job security for him.

Agenda 21 nut case?

http://www.freedomadvocates.org/articles/sustainable_development/agenda_21_timeline_20120715459/
http://www.un.org/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-1annex1.htm

Is the job of judges in the US different to the UK? Here they oversee court cases and only make public comments about the law during sentencing. They may criticise the law on certain points, but it's about the law as it stands, it's almost never party political or about particular individuals in government. The idea that a currently serving judge would go on TV and make a politically motivated attack against the government and Prime Minister is almost unthinkable. Is it that judges in the US serve a very different function or that ours just have more class?

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
Is the job of judges in the US different to the UK? Here they oversee court cases and only make public comments about the law during sentencing. They may criticise the law on certain points, but it's about the law as it stands, it's almost never party political or about particular individuals in government. The idea that a currently serving judge would go on TV and make a politically motivated attack against the government and Prime Minister is almost unthinkable. Is it that judges in the US serve a very different function or that ours just have more class?

Do you "become" a judge there?

If I'm not mistaken, the Texas Judge is locally elected. Federal Judges and higher State courts are appointed by the executive branch..

What I'm saying that in some states, local judges are elected... so, it's inherently political.

In high Courts (and all Feds), they're appointed by the executive branch.

Also, I think the British has more class culturely (but, what do I know... my only defense is that my mother travels a lot and those are her words).

It's only when they go to war that class is put in the back seat.

They have the same function, but we have also taken the whole "3 branches of government/checks & balances" thing too far and now everybody is acting like a family on the Jerry Springer show...

Another Civil war? Ok, I say, West and east vs. South.
The sheer stupidity of the republican party is astounding

 d-usa wrote:
They have the same function, but we have also taken the whole "3 branches of government/checks & balances" thing too far and now everybody is acting like a family on the Jerry Springer show...

That's true...

Once elected, they normally behave (that is, follow the law).


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 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Another Civil war? Ok, I say, West and east vs. South.
The sheer stupidity of the republican party is astounding

You really don't wanna open that door.

 d-usa wrote:
Lubbock Co. Judge warns of potential danger if Obama is re-elected

Lubbock County Judge Tom Head and Commissioner Mark Heinrich went into great detail Monday night on FOX 34 News @ Nine about why it is necessary to raise the tax rate by 1.7 cents the next fiscal year.

An across-the-board pay increase is needed for the attorneys on the DA's staff to keep them from being poached by higher-paying counties, and the sheriff needs to expand his staff by seven deputies to reduce call response times, minimize officer fatigue and reduce the turnaround time for investigations.

Judge Head said he and the county must be prepared for many contingencies, one that he particularly fears, is if President Obama is reelected.

“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?,” Head asked.

“I'm thinking the worst. 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.

"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'.

"And the sheriff, I've already asked him, I said 'you gonna back me' he said, 'yeah, I'll back you'. Well, I don't want a bunch of rookies back there. I want trained, equipped, seasoned veteran officers to back me."

Whether you agree with the judge, or think his theories are unrealistic, the reality is a tax hike that will provide an additional $832,433 coupled with $2 million in cuts to make the numbers work.

You can sound off at two public hearings, Wednesday at 10 a.m. and Monday at 10a.m. Both hearings are at commissioner’s court.

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Dude...its...Lubbock. Have you been to Lubbock? It doesn't rain there. Its 5,000,000 miles from anywhere. People get a little squirrely.

At least its not California.

What is crazy is the sheriff is with him. WTF!

Since judge was elected he can make comments but he can still be recalled or depending on the laws there pulled from his post because he is violating his oath to defend the law by inciting insurrection.

Hope they yank him from his job and put him in charge of the tinfoil isle of the piggy wiggly down there.

 d-usa wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I think the US should stop funding the UN and kick them out of NYC, but I'm not exactly worried about an invasion. The UN couldn't sell girl scout cookies in famine invading a country is well beyond their capabilities without the US, UK and a few others doing the /actual/ work while the UN's "generals" strut around the five star hotel closest to the battle space.

Doesn't a judge commenting on this stuff affect his job?

In Texas judges are elected if I am not mistaken, so this probably means job security for him.

Judge can be a misnomer. We have
justices of the peace (any trash can be that. The Wife's ex was one).
county judges in some areas which seem to be like administrators. Even I don't get them.
then the usual district appellate and supreme for criminal and civil. Judges can be appointed by then have to run on a yes no ballot if I remember (not feeling well today).

Lubbock is the armpit of Texas. Take them as seriously as you would take someone from the set of Jersey Shore.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Another Civil war? Ok, I say, West and east vs. South.
The sheer stupidity of the republican party is astounding

On the positive they don't have drive bys in Lubbock unlike Chicago and LA.

 Frazzled wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Another Civil war? Ok, I say, West and east vs. South.
The sheer stupidity of the republican party is astounding

On the positive they don't have drive bys in Lubbock unlike Chicago and LA.

Well, horse drawn carriages don't make for great get away vehicles...

Also, both of those statements by hotsauceman1 were ignorant and inflammatory.

 Frazzled wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Another Civil war? Ok, I say, West and east vs. South.
The sheer stupidity of the republican party is astounding

On the positive they don't have drive bys in Lubbock unlike Chicago and LA.

Now why is that?? /snark

 Pipboy101 wrote:
What is crazy is the sheriff is with him. WTF!

Since judge was elected he can make comments but he can still be recalled or depending on the laws there pulled from his post because he is violating his oath to defend the law by inciting insurrection.

Hope they yank him from his job and put him in charge of the tinfoil isle of the piggy wiggly down there.

Whats awesome is how you can be so wrong.



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 kronk wrote:
Lubbock is the armpit of Texas. Take them as seriously as you would take someone from the set of Jersey Shore.

Guidos vs. Lubbock rednecks. Cage Match! Fight!

 whembly wrote:


Also, I think the British has more class culturely (but, what do I know... my only defense is that my mother travels a lot and those are her words).

What you'll find is that our government procedure is steeped in tradition and etiquette. The reason judges wouldn't do what this guy has done is because it simply isn't the done thing for a judge to behave like that. They serve the law and operate separately from parliament. While parliament makes laws, judges don't like it when MPs try to interfere directly in sentencing, and MPs don't like it when judges say things that are party political.

 d-usa wrote:
Lubbock Co. Judge warns of potential danger if Obama is re-elected

Lubbock County Judge Tom Head
“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?,” Head asked.

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How is it that a judge, whom I assume know the law. You know; well enough to be a judge. Thinks that Obama all by himself can do something like hand the sovereignty of the country over to the UN. The UN wouldn't know what to do if bloody Liechtenstein handed its sovereignty over to it, let alone any of the top ten largest populations or economies. It's worthy of ridicule.

 kronk wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Another Civil war? Ok, I say, West and east vs. South.
The sheer stupidity of the republican party is astounding

On the positive they don't have drive bys in Lubbock unlike Chicago and LA.

Well, horse drawn carriages don't make for great get away vehicles...

Also, both of those statements by hotsauceman1 were ignorant and inflammatory.

I think you'll find Texas has a fine tradition of horse powered getaway vehicles.





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 whembly wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Another Civil war? Ok, I say, West and east vs. South.
The sheer stupidity of the republican party is astounding

On the positive they don't have drive bys in Lubbock unlike Chicago and LA.

Now why is that?? /snark

Because its Texas. In Lubbock the grandma's are armed. Thats why you ALWAYS listen to grandma.

 Howard A Treesong wrote:

 whembly wrote:


Also, I think the British has more class culturely (but, what do I know... my only defense is that my mother travels a lot and those are her words).

What you'll find is that our government procedure is steeped in tradition and etiquette.

I've watched the PMs questions and it's more akin to a schoolyard shouting match than a government steeped in etiquette...Man I wish we did that. AT least then we could actually SEE our representatives bickering like children.
Just for my information are your judges elected or appointed? That could have a great effect on why you see the difference, in all likelihood this judge is running for office, and these statements are political because he is ALSO a politician. (I checked he is).

The Armpit of Texas, home of your crazy branch of Arbites.