“He’s going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the U.N., 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.”
Head continued, delving deeper into his hypothesis and claiming that he was prepared to join the hypothetical resistance.
“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,’” the judge said. “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.”
via Tom Head, Texas Judge: Obama Reelection Could Lead To ‘Civil War,’ I’m Ready To ‘Take Up Arms’.
For those unfamiliar with the antebellum South, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in 1831. He killed upwards to 70 whites, but the rebellion ended after just a few days. However, the fear of another rebellion lurked for the next few decades, and quite possibly prolonged the South’s desire to protect slavery. It was feared that more rebellions would take place, spurred by the abolitionists, causing black men to rape white women after killing the white men.
In the past few years, we’ve seen a return of what I call the Nat Turner syndrome among many politicians and in segments of the populace.
Anyway, just thought I’d post on it a bit. Good luck.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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This guy is a sloppy bucket of crazy!
“Republicans would put y’all back in chains.”
How do you call this syndrome?
Repeating the same thing the Tea Party has said for the past three years… I call it the turn about is fair play syndrome