# Meet Tom Head, Lubbock County Judge
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 23, 2012, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328 "2012-08-23T01:02:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/1 "2012-08-23T01:02:31Z")
Judge Head\*, who represents the city and county of Lubbock, TX, apparently sincerely believes that if re-elected President Obama plans to turn over the sovereignity of the US to the United Nations. The honorable Mr. Head [made these thoughts known](http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/texas-judge-warns-possible-civil-war-president-obama-230545603.html)the other night while being interviewed on the local Fox outlet concerning an upcoming hike in local taxes, in part to pay for additional county deputies. During discussion as to why the extra deputies might be necessary, Judge Head spake thusly:
> [@Judge Head](#):
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> “He’s (Obama) 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.
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> "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…
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> (paragraph snipped concerning the Judge and his extra deputies facing down UN armored personel carriers)
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> …“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.”
Be sure and watch the embedded video. The interviewer’s repeated, deadpan “Uh-huh’s”, as Mr. Head’s trolley well and truly jumps the tracks, is hilarious (well, to me anyway).
Feel free to point and laugh.
\*That’s Tom Head. Tom, not Dick, just so we’re clear.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/2 "2012-08-23T01:18:23Z")
A [bit more than half of Republicans](http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/447/ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/mid/1508/ArticleId/223/Default.aspx) believe that, apparently.
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> What Republicans, Democrats and Independents think
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> There are – no surprise here – huge differences between what Republicans and Democrats believe. Majorities of Republicans believe that President Obama:
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> [ul]
> [li]Is a socialist (67%)[/li][li] Wants to take away Americans’ right to own guns (61%)[/li][li] Is a Muslim (57%)[/li][li] Wants to turn over the sovereignty of the United States to a one world government (51%); and[/li][li] Has done many things that are unconstitutional (55%).[/li][/ul]
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> Also large numbers of Republicans also believe that President Obama:
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> [li]Resents America’s heritage (47%)[/li][li] Does what Wall Street and the bankers tell him to do (40%)[/li][li] Was not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president (45%)[/li][li] Is the “domestic enemy that the U.S. Constitution speaks of” (45%)[/li][li] Is a racist (42%)[/li][li] Want to use an economic collapse or terrorist attack as an excuse to take dictatorial powers (41%)[/li][li] Is doing many of the things that Hitler did (38%).[/li][/ul]
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> Even more remarkable perhaps, fully 24% of Republicans believe that “he may be the Anti-Christ” and 22% believe “he wants the terrorists to win.”
Underlining mine.
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### Author:  [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/3 "2012-08-23T01:25:24Z")
I want to know how at least 7% of Republicans manage to believe **both** that Obama “is a socialist” and that he “does what Wall Street and the bankers tell him to do”.
Given the hereditary enmity between socialists and capitalist establishments like Wall Street, that’s some pretty impressive cognitive dissonance.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/4 "2012-08-23T01:26:14Z")
I AM the law – west of the Pecos.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/5 "2012-08-23T01:28:04Z")
> [@Kimstu](#):
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> I want to know how at least 7% of Republicans manage to believe **both** that Obama “is a socialist” and that he “does what Wall Street and the bankers tell him to do”.
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> Given the hereditary enmity between socialists and capitalist establishments like Wall Street, that’s some pretty impressive cognitive dissonance.
These are probably the same sorts who believe that atheists are Muslim Satanists.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/6 "2012-08-23T01:34:00Z")
Weirder still, the judge somehow worked this into a piece about a proposed 1.7-cent local tax hike. 😕 (Which the judge is **for,** near as I can tell.)
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/7 "2012-08-23T01:37:10Z")
[Quote=Der Trihs]
A bit more than half of Republicans believe that, apparently.
[/Quote]
Seriously, I did not know that.
I’m clearly lucky to live in a slightly less insane part of the Lone Star State, where most of my acquaintances appear to have some grasp, however tenuous, on reality.
But then, that’s Lubbock. Fifty or sixty years of west Texas dust and wind howling around your ears would addle just about anyone.
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### Author:  [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/8 "2012-08-23T01:41:45Z")
I’m starting to think that maybe spiking wells with some sort of anti-psychotic drugs in certain areas might not be such a bad idea.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/9 "2012-08-23T01:43:34Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#):
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> Seriously, I did not know that.
It’s a bigger percentage than I expected before I looked it up.
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### Author:  [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/10 "2012-08-23T01:48:11Z")
“He’s going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the U.N”
What I don’t get is why did the Global One World Order of Socialist/Marxist (Elitists Division) in control of the universe wait and take the chance on Obama’s second term? Wouldn’t it have been more efficient and made more sense to just take over the US as soon as Obama was elected the first time?
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### Author:  [@GreasyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreasyJack)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/11 "2012-08-23T01:52:24Z")
> [@Enkel](#):
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> “He’s going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the U.N”
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> What I don’t get is why did the Global One World Order of Socialist/Marxist (Elitists Division) in control of the universe wait and take the chance on Obama’s second term? Wouldn’t it have been more efficient and made more sense to just take over the US as soon as Obama was elected the first time?
Hey, sometimes you just don’t get around to everything on your legislative agenda.
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/12 "2012-08-23T01:56:12Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Weirder still, the judge somehow worked this into a piece about a proposed 1.7-cent local tax hike. 😕 (Which the judge is **for,** near as I can tell.)
Of course, because he needs more trained deputies for when the UN troops attack.
And, I’ll tell you one thing, I’m so glad these Republicans have this backup plan, I’m just surprised it’s not on the national platform.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/13 "2012-08-23T02:04:10Z")
> [@Enkel](#):
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> “He’s going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the U.N”
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> What I don’t get is why did the Global One World Order of Socialist/Marxist (Elitists Division) in control of the universe wait and take the chance on Obama’s second term? Wouldn’t it have been more efficient and made more sense to just take over the US as soon as Obama was elected the first time?
They’re devious that way.
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/14 "2012-08-23T02:06:23Z")
> [@Enkel](#):
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> What I don’t get is why did the Global One World Order of Socialist/Marxist (Elitists Division) in control of the universe wait and take the chance on Obama’s second term? Wouldn’t it have been more efficient and made more sense to just take over the US as soon as Obama was elected the first time?
“No one expects the New World Order!”
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/15 "2012-08-23T02:08:30Z")
I hope Obama is re-elected.
I hope that he continues to govern as a quasi-Republican.
I hope that he makes no attempt to introduce any gun control legislation (hasn’t so far).
I hope that the economy turns around (but given other woes around the world, I won’t bet Euros on it).
I hope we get to four years from now and at least a small percentage of these morons come to the realization that Obama wasn’t the (insert list of perjoratives) that their fellow extremists made him out to be or that they believed him to be.
I then hope that at least some of them use that as a springboard to question the rest of the crap they’re being spoon fed.
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### Author:  [@GreasyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreasyJack)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/16 "2012-08-23T02:17:08Z")
> [@Chimera](#):
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> I hope we get to four years from now and at least a small percentage of these morons come to the realization that Obama wasn’t the (insert list of perjoratives) that their fellow extremists made him out to be or that they believed him to be.
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> I then hope that at least some of them use that as a springboard to question the rest of the crap they’re being spoon fed.
I dunno. That certainly seems to have happened with a lot of the old Clinton-haters, but it (for the most part) hasn’t stopped them from being equal or greater Obama-haters. I would guess a few years after he’s out of office, they’ll admit that Obama wasn’t so bad after all, but the current leading Democratic political figure-- that guy’s _definitely_ the antichrist.
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### Author:  [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/17 "2012-08-23T02:20:07Z")
I attended Texas Tech back when it was a college and not a university. I don’t think much has changed in all the intervening years; back in my days in Lubbock this judge would have had unlimited backing and would be a local hero. It’s just unbelievable that a stupid ass like him can be a public official. Not only in Texas, sad to say.
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### Author:  [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/18 "2012-08-23T02:21:59Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#):
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> Be sure and watch the embedded video. The interviewer’s repeated, deadpan “Uh-huh’s”, as Mr. Head’s trolley well and truly jumps the tracks, is hilarious (well, to me anyway).
I couldn’t help but watch the video a couple times. My thoughts:
(a) It must suck to be a writer for SNL and the Daily Show. How do you top this stuff?
(b) This is wrong on so many levels, (1) wants bigger government +7 sheriff, (2) wants higher pays for attorneys (what happened to minimum wage is good enough?), (3) wants increased taxes. Why haven’t Republicans duct taped him to a stake in the public square and pummeled him with rotten fruit?
(c) I can’t tell if the interviewer (the uh-huh guy) was agreeing with him (I lean this was) or is a skilled psychotherapist. How could you hear those things for the first time and not do a double-take-‘wha??? the???’ on him? Now, clearly the news caster who set it up and closed it out is on the skeptical side about the impending UN invasion.
(d) We really do need to start shopping Texas around. Maybe we can trade it to China against our debt? Or maybe Mexico needs a place for their drug wars to expand into? If we packaged Alaska and Texas together, we might be able to get Russia interested. They’re complaining that they need to increase their population. We could put some sort of nutter bait down there (like the world’s biggest gun show) and then lock them out and transfer them over to Russian citizenship.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/19 "2012-08-23T02:22:51Z")
> [@Enkel](#):
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> I’m starting to think that maybe spiking wells with some sort of anti-psychotic drugs in certain areas might not be such a bad idea.
Yeh, the fluoride just ain’t doin’ it no more . . .
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### Author:  [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-tom-head-lubbock-county-judge/632328/20 "2012-08-23T02:36:33Z")
Hasn’t the UN been planning to ‘take over the US’ since the early 80’s at least?
I swear I had a _Loompanics_ catalogue from back then that featured books on how the invading UN could ID a persons job using secret codes on car number-plates and randon stickers placed on the back of road signs were ways for the UN to find their way around.
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