You want to know the difference between liberals and conservatives? When George W. Bush was elected President, liberals threatened to move to Canada. Now that Barack Obama has been elected, conservatives are threatening to go all Chuck Norris on the federal government. Who’s leading the charge? Chuck Norris.
On the Glenn Beck radio show, Chuck laid the seeds:
GLENN: Americans will, they just, they won’t stand for it. There will be parts of the country that will rise up. And they said, where’s that going to come from? And I said Texas, it’s going to come from Texas. Do you agree with that, Chuck, or not?
NORRIS: Oh, yeah. You know, Texas is a republic, you know. We could actually –
GLENN: It was a country before it was a state.
NORRIS: Yeah, we could break off from the union if we wanted to.
GLENN: You do, you call me.
NORRIS: Oh, yeah.
GLENN: Seriously, you do. I don’t mind having that lone star on my flag. I really don’t mind it. I’ve been out with a seam ripper looking at my flag going, I don’t know, California could go. I’m just saying –
NORRIS: I may run for president of Texas.
Then he took it a step further in a WorldNetDaily article he wrote:
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.)
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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!”
I don’t know about you, but I’m scared. Forget that it was an attempt to secede from the union that started the Civil War, but talk like Chuck is offering is what inspired nutjobs like Timothy McVeigh and David Koresh to act out. And when it’s Chuck Norris, a man purported to be what the boogeyman checks his closet for at night, there is real reason to believe it is on the horizon.
Then, there’s the scariest part. Convincing Texas shouldn’t be hard. They already think of themselves as above the country, illustrated by the way they fly their state flag higher than the American flag. Plus, secession would promise them that the Longhorns could call themselves National Champions every year. The scary part is that if Texas is going to do it, you know Oklahoma will be right on their heels.
So, I hope you enjoyed the 101 years we spent in the union. And for your sake, I hope you aren’t one of those people who uses federal services like the V.A. Hospital, works for the federal government (so long Tinker), or uses roads subsidized by federal money. Because soon enough, the legion of gun-crazed loonies who join the militia groups Chuck is raising up will make sure we rid ourselves of those pesky things. On the bright side, we can look forward to having nothing but wonderful leaders who spend their time harrassing Mexicans, bashing gays, and figuring out the best font for the state flag.
Wow. Chuck Norris is an idiot. With that said I am sure to be murdered in my sleep tonight by Chuck himself. Someone do me a favor and tell the world my story. Hmmmmm. Actually just make up some really great lies about me. Maybe something about me and Tom Waits writing songs together.
Why? Why are you trying to ruin my fond memories of Walker Texas Ranger?
Yeah, i’m admitting that I loved that show. I also love that every once in a while Chuck will be eating at Legend’s in Norman and i can sneak a peek. Yeah, i just admitted all that.
Considering that Chuck is a born Oklahoman, wouldn’t that make the President of Texas an Okie?
maybe his plan is for Walker to be the president of Texas. he might have some split personality going on.
i cant wait to kick sand in chuck norris’s face the next time i see him at a beach.
Tell Carlos Norris that I will kick his red-headed Ryan, Oklahoma step-child butt back across the state line if he EVER sets foot in the Sooner State again.
Chuck, EAD.
So we’ll have to have a passport to watch the Red River Shootout? Talk like this always makes me happy, but it’s coming from Chuck Norris and that makes me kind of sad.
If Texas split off, they’d eventually be over run by Mexico and would come crying back. They’d change the name of the state to Mexas.
The Russians have been predicting something similar for a decade:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html?mod=most_emailed_day_europe
Also, Texas can’t secede per Supreme Court Decision ‘Texas vs. White’:
“The Court held in a 5–3 decision that Texas had remained a state of the United States ever since it first joined the Union, despite its joining the Confederate States of America and its being under military rule at the time of the decision in the case. It further held that the Constitution did not permit states to secede from the United States, and that the ordinances of secession, and all the acts of the legislatures within seceding states intended to give effect to such ordinances, were “absolutely null”.”
-U.S. Supreme Court
STATE OF TEXAS v. WHITE, 74 U.S. 700 (1868)
74 U.S. 700 (Wall.)
TEXAS
v.
WHITE ET AL.
December Term, 1868
The join resolution for the Annexation of Texas does state they may break up into 5 separate states:
“New States of convenient size not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas and having sufficient population, may, hereafter by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution; and such states as may be formed out of the territory lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri Compromise Line, shall be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as the people of each State, asking admission shall desire; and in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory, north of said Missouri Compromise Line, slavery, or involuntary servitude (except for crime) shall be prohibited.”
imagine… all ‘the gays’ abandoning texas for oklahoma.. & the sally kern homophobes leaving oklahoma… fabooolous!
I agree with everything Chuck Norris had to say. In a document the FBI actually refers to “constitution defenders” a threat in Missouri, which has a high concentration of libertarians. They have warned local law enforcement to be wary of any Ron Paul, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin supporters. I fear we will be looking at the next civil war, and it has to do with government breaking it’s pact and turning on us. The day the government considers constitutional defenders, as threats is the day I welcome any and all fight to resist. I may move to Texas, if they end up succeeding but their state will not be the only one. Make no mistake, Chuck and Glenn Beck were speaking for a LOT OF conservative, libertarians. Take your head out of the sand and realize what is going ON RIGHT NOW. White conservatives are buying guns at extraordinary rates, while Obama schemes to redistribute their wealth to those who did not earn it, and even to those who FAILED. We are in for something we’ve not seen before. It’s going to be ugly. It’s going to violent. It’s going to be a choice we face, freedom or fascism? Make your choice.
oklahomalibertarian,
Since you don’t know the difference between succession and secession, I can only assume you don’t know the meaning of the words sedition and treason. I’d suggest you look them up.
Good riddance to violent nutjobs. We’d definitely need a border wall were any of this crack-pot conspiracy were to happen.
I for one welcome Texas to secede. It sort of reminds me of the no-talent front man in a wildly successful band deciding to “go solo,” or someone leaving a popular TV show to make movies, only to find themselves co-starring with a chimp a year later.
Without the federal government and the protection of the U.S. military, Texas would quite quickly fall into control of Mexican drug lords. Quality of life would plummet as Texans discovered the concept of national trade agreements. And with nutjob libertarians in charge, there would be no taxes, so roads and bridges would start collapsing very soon.
Call it a case study in why those concepts are the essence of fail. It would send a nice message to people like Oklahomalibertarian who live in a fantasy world.
“…illustrated by the way they fly their state flag higher than the American flag.”
Please choose your level of wrongness:
1. Liar
2. Ignorant
3. School of Obama
Maybe higher isn’t quite accurate. It’s that they fly the Texas flag in lieu of the American flag. So, rather than saying they fly the state flag higher, it would have been more apt to say they fly the state flag alone.
This reminds me of the email I sent into TLO a little over a week ago. The one about the ‘Divorce Agreement’ with all the conservative nonsense.
Liberals seem to want to discuss and reason things out while the hard core conservative wants to board up the windows, look the doors and sit with a loaded gun ready to shoot anyone.
Texas flies its flag at the same level as the U.S. flag. Although other states “can” fly their flags on the same level as the U.S. flag, as it is not prohibited in the federal flag code, Texas is the only state I know of that maintains a provision in its flag code that the state flag should be flown at the same height as the U.S. flag when they are on separate polls within a group. Most others fly the U.S. flag highest.
So while the original poster made a technical error, the spirit of the comment was accurate. Texas chooses to value its flag on a level equal or greater than the U.S. flag, while other states do not. And the urban legend about this is perpetuated mostly by stupid and arrogant Texans who don’t know their own history and laws.
And Cashion, you left off a level of wrongness higher than the others mentioned because it combines lying and ignorance:
- George W. Bush
Oh snap!
I love political bickering.
So, wait a second, you’re telling me there could be a war where we get to shoot and kill Texans? Where do I sign up?
Yeah yeah, I know, Texans are a breed of people forged of a hotter fire. You have to remember who you’d be fighting against: a people whose defining moment was putting up a pretty good fight before winding up on the wrong end of a massacre.