FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES,
HERE IS SOME INTERESTING AND INTELLIGENT COMMENTARY FROM CHUCK NORRIS. EVEN
MORE INTERESTING ARE QUOTATIONS FROM OUR NATIONS FOUNDERS (INCLUDING TEXAS) WHO
WITHOUT QUESTION WERE THE MOST INTELLIGENT AND RIGHT THINKING PATRIOTS. (THERE
IS NO ROOM TO DEBATE SLAVERY HERE). REGARDLESS OF YOUR POLITICAL AFFILIATION,
NORRIS IS AN ARTICULATE AND EDUCATED WRITER AND SPEAKER.
FRITZ
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Posted: March 09, 2009
1:00 am Eastern
By Chuck Norris
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On Glenn Beck's radio
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last week, I quipped in response to our wayward federal government, "I may run
for president of Texas."
That need may be a reality sooner than we think. If not me, someone someday may
again be running for president of the Lone Star state, if the state of the
union continues to turn into the enemy of the state.
>From the East Coast to the "Left Coast," America seems to be moving further
>and further from its founders' vision and government.
George Washington advised, "The great rule of conduct in regard to foreign
nations is in extending our commercial relations [and] having with them as
little political connection as possible." Yet the Obama administration just
pledged $900
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in U.S. taxpayer-funded aid to Hamas-controlled Gaza and Mahmoud Abbas'
Palestinian
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Thomas Jefferson counseled us, "We must not let our rulers load us with
perpetual debt." Yet the Feds have just skyrocketed our national deficit and
debt by trillions of dollars, and it plans much more fiscal expansion with few
expectations of resistance. Despite that George Washington admonished, "To
contract new debts is not the way to pay for old ones," we keep borrowing and
bailing, while we watch the stock market plunge further every time we do.
Patrick Henry taught that, "Our Constitution is ... an instrument for its
people to restrain the government." Yet our Congress and president stampede
that founding document, overlook its explicitness and manipulate its words to
abandon a balance of power and accommodate their own desires, partisan politics
and runaway spending.
John Adams declared that, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and
religious people." Yet we've bastardized the First Amendment, reinterpreted
America's religious
history<mhtml:{5212E4C5-19E7-4772-B893-5069243E3AEE}mid://00019422/!x-usc:http://www.nationaltreasures.org/>
and secularized our society until we ooze skepticism and circumvent religion
on every level of public and private life.
How much more will Americans take? When will enough be enough? And, when that
time comes, will our leaders finally listen or will history need to record a
second American Revolution? We the people have the authority according to
America's Declaration of Independence, which states:
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is
the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers
in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established
should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all
experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are
sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing
invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute
Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,
and to provide new Guards for their future security.
When I appeared on Glenn Beck's radio
show<mhtml:{5212E4C5-19E7-4772-B893-5069243E3AEE}mid://00019422/!x-usc:http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/22220/>,
he told me that someone had asked him, "Do you really believe that there is
going to be trouble in the future?" And he answered, "If this country starts to
spiral out of control and Mexico melts down or whatever, if it really starts to
spiral out of control, before America allows a country to become a totalitarian
country (which it would have under I think the Republicans as well in this
situation; they were taking us to the same place, just slower), Americans won't
stand for it. There will be parts of the country that will rise up." Then Glenn
asked me and his listening audience, "And where's that going to come from?" He
answered his own question, "Texas, it's going to come from Texas. Do you agree
with that Chuck?" I replied, "Oh yeah!" Definitely.
It was these types of thoughts that led me to utter the tongue-n-cheek
frustration on Glenn Beck's radio
show<mhtml:{5212E4C5-19E7-4772-B893-5069243E3AEE}mid://00019422/!x-usc:http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/22220/>,
"I may run for president of Texas!"
I'm not saying that other states won't muster the gumption to stand and secede,
but Texas has the history to prove it. As most know, Texas was its own country
before it joined the Union as its 28th state. From 1836 to 1846, Texas was its
own Republic. Washington-on-the-Brazos
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served as our Philadelphia, Pa. It was
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on March 2, 1836, where a band of patriots forged the Texas Declaration of
Independence<mhtml:{5212E4C5-19E7-4772-B893-5069243E3AEE}mid://00019422/!x-usc:http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/republic/declare-01.html>.
(We just celebrated these dates last week.)
(Column continues below)
On March 1, 1845, then-President John Tyler signed a congressional bill
annexing the Republic of Texas. Though the annexation resolution never
explicitly granted Texas the right to secede from the Union (as is often
reported), many (including me) hold that it is implied by its unique
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and history, as well as the unusual
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in the resolution that gave Texas the right to divide into as many as five
states. Both the original (1836) and the current (1876) Texas Constitutions
also declare that "All political power is inherent in the people. ... they have
at all times the inalienable right to alter their government in such manner as
they might think proper."
Anyone who has been around Texas for any length of time knows exactly what we'd
do if the going got rough in America. Let there be no doubt about that. As Sam
Houston once said, "Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come
from what source it may."
Just last Friday, the Alamo celebrated its 173rd
commemoration<mhtml:{5212E4C5-19E7-4772-B893-5069243E3AEE}mid://00019422/!x-usc:http://www.sanantoniolivinghistory.org/2009%20RTA%20Program%20Schedule.pdf>,
when on March 6, 1836, Texans under Col. William B. Travis were overcome by
the Mexican army after a two-week siege at the Alamo in San Antonio. But they
didn't go down without a hell-of-a-fight, as those roughly 145 Texans fought to
their dying breaths against more than 2,000 Mexican forces under Gen. Santa
Anna. (Casualties in the battle were 189 Texans vs. about 1,600 Mexicans.) They
lost that battle, but would provide the inspiration to win the war. Their
fighting spirit rallied the new-found republic, and still does to this day. So
when you think all is lost in America, remember the Alamo!
For those losing hope, and others wanting to rekindle the patriotic fires of
early America, I encourage you to join Fox News' Glenn
Beck<mhtml:{5212E4C5-19E7-4772-B893-5069243E3AEE}mid://00019422/!x-usc:http://www.glennbeck.com/>,
me and millions of people across the country in the live telecast, "We
Surround
Them<mhtml:{5212E4C5-19E7-4772-B893-5069243E3AEE}mid://00019422/!x-usc:http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/21018/>,"
on Friday afternoon (March 13 at 5 p.m. ET, 4 p.m. CT and 2 p.m. PST).
Thousands of cell groups will be united around the country in solidarity over
the concerns for our nation. You can host or attend a viewing party by going to
Glenn's
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My wife Gena and I will be hosting one from our Texas ranch, in which we've
invited many family members, friends and law enforcement to join us. It's our
way of saying "We're united, we're tired of the corruption, and we're not going
to take it anymore!"
Again, Sam Houston put it well when he gave the marching orders, "We view
ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer
or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act
or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of
mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their
father's name."
(Note: Speaking of showdowns, Chuck is also inviting anyone near the Houston
area this weekend to see a good example of the raw Texas fighting spirit by
joining him and others for the national martial arts event, "Showdown in
H-Town<mhtml:{5212E4C5-19E7-4772-B893-5069243E3AEE}mid://00019422/!x-usc:http://www.showdowninhtown.com/>.")
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