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(Reuters) - Maybe President Barack Obama should just settle it in a gun duel with a Texas judge, instead of calling on the United Nations to invade the state.
The United Nations scoffed on Friday at claims by a judge in Lubbock County, Texas, that U.N. troops could invade the southern U.S. state to settle a possible civil war, which the judge warned could be sparked if Obama is re-elected in November.
"It's absolutely ridiculous," said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's spokesman, Martin Nesirky, when asked if the United Nations had any plans to invade Texas.
He later added: "No one, not even the United Nations, would ever mess with Texas."
He was responding to comments from Tom Head, a county judge in Lubbock who told a local Fox News station on Monday that taxes needed to be raised so the county could prepare for contingencies if Obama was re-elected for a second term.
more: http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/25/un-texas-duel-idINDEE87O00X20120825
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)'At least its not Alabama.'
BTW my son and brother were born in Texas.
jsr
(7,712 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)spanone
(135,816 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)It's a county chief executive.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)especially with those in the military who took and abide by the oath of "defending the United States and the Constitution from all enemies" ...
how they will work that with "defending Texas' withdrawal from the United States" ... I can see the Texas whatever-they-want-to-call-it Guard saying that they took the oath to defend Texas.
I'd say that the U.S. military would be able to wipe the floor with the Texas * Guard. But then, the "liberally-biased media" would keep replaying the "Waco-like" battle over and over and over again ...