Chuck Norris is back on the pills and booze -- says he'll run for President of Texas

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On Glenn Beck's radio show 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 million in U.S. taxpayer-funded aid
to Hamas-controlled Gaza and Mahmoud Abbas' Palestinian Authority.

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 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, 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, "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
(river) served as our Philadelphia, Pa. It was there, on March 2,
1836, where a band of patriots forged the Texas Declaration of
Independence. (We just celebrated these dates last week.)

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 autonomy and history, as well as the unusual provision 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, 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,
me and millions of people across the country in the live telecast, "We
Surround Them," 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 website. 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."

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