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Norris for President -- of Texas! |
Chuck, We're
With Ya, Buddy
On the Glen
Beck radio show recently, actor Chuck Norris – most visible lately as one
of the biggest supporters of Mike Huckabee during the Republican presidential
campaign – quipped that he may have to run for president of Texas. He followed
that with an article at World Net Daily on March 9 which proves to me that
Mr. Norris is one of a very rare breed – a Hollywood type who actually
gets it.
Chuck, we’re
with ya, buddy.
“From the East
Coast to the ‘Left Coast,’ America seems to be moving further and further
from its founders' vision and government,” Norris wrote. “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?”
I blogged a
while back that when you mention Texas secession nowadays, no one’s laughing
at you any more. Soccer moms and oilfield workers are listening to the
idea. Folks are talking about it in bars and on Internet social sites.
Mr. Norris
has just taken the Texas independence movement mainstream and given it
a stamp of legitimacy.
It used to
be that the concept of Texas resuming its place among the nations of the
world was a topic exclusively the province of a band of grizzled tax protesters
out San Angelo way, or the excuse of some radical survivalists to justify
hoarding weapons. No more. The politicians won’t say so, but they’re hearing
the thunder of the drums: the people are fed up with a federal government
that is shot through with corruption, which caters to special interests
and gets fat on the backs of hard-working people while rewarding the lazy,
the incompetent and – to use AIG as one example – the criminal.
I do not think
Nancy Pelosi and Company realize that when they legislated a bail-out worth
trillions of dollars to companies which do not respect taxpayers that they
dumped in an entire load of straw which broke the proverbial camel’s back.
Worse is the fact that many of those companies were collapsing BECAUSE
of legislation passed by the same clowns in Congress (first and foremost
among them Barney Frank of Massachusetts) as a way to buy the black vote.
Rather than admit its mistake, Congress threw more of our money at the
problem – then passed a “stimulus” package which threw even more money
at it while giving you and I a tax break of 15 bucks.
And no one
has been held accountable for this series of crimes which have put millions
of American citizens out of work. Frank is still in office, Pelosi is still
in office, and not one single Wall Street executive is in jail.
At the same
time all of this is happening, the Chief Executive, a neo-liberal, is doing
almost exactly the same thing his predecessor, a neo-conservative, was
doing – expanding the scope and power of the federal government by fiat,
without the consent of the governed. You are aware, of course, that the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) now has 800 “concentration camps”
– yes, that’s how it refers to them, Google it! – ready to take
in millions of American citizens as prisoners “in
the event of a national disaster or uprising.” The feds are also passing
around literature, such as that exposed in Missouri, teaching local law
enforcement how to be on the lookout for “domestic terrorists” like Libertarians
and supporters of former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
In his World
Net Daily piece, Norris showed he’s versed far beyond Hollywood norms in
a document so many of today’s entertainers view only when it suits their
need: the Constitution of the U.S. He quotes several of the Founding Fathers,
and also shows demonstrable knowledge of a couple of other Constitutions
– the Texas Constitutions of 1836 and 1876 – beyond that of normal men.
Norris relays without buffering the prime grievance of the people of Texas
and much of the rest of America: “…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.”
When those
“Vote for Chuck” yard signs are ready, mine will be the first yard to sport
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