Chuck Norris and the Texas gubernatorial race

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 According to Tuesday’s Lone Star Times poll, 23% of readers (232 votes) are waiting for Chuck Norris to enter the Texas gubernatorial race. Could he have a political future in Texas?

Chuck Norris (author, actor, and victim of a seemingly endless and outrageous “fact” list) said, as guest of the Alex Jones show on March 13th, 2009, “If we succeed from the union, I will run for the President of Texas.”

While the comment is facetious in nature, as a response to an inquiry regarding his future political activity, it demonstrates the currently realized tension between the states and the federal government, and, reflects the general discontent of conservatives and libertarians alike. As of June 25th, 2009, over thirty-five state legislatures have passed, or are in the process of resolving, “Sovereignty Resolutions” citing their reserved powers under the 10th amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

The bill current within the Texas legislature reads, “the 81st Legislature of the State of Texas hereby claim[s] sovereignty… this serve[s] as notice and demand to the federal government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers.” “We’re being taxed to death in this country,” says Norris, “They’ve (the states) got to get control back… we’ve got to pull the power away from government.”

A foreign perspective reveals a curious and disturbing territory that erodes at our ideas of stable government; Igor Panarin, a Russian scholar who predicted the end of the Soviet Union, predicts the end of the United States as we know it in 2010. Panarin suspects a split, into four main territories, one namely “The Texas Republic” which, according to Panarin, will be composed of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida (a seemingly extreme point of view which, strangely enough, fits nicely within a timeline within the distant future.)

What will happen as the federal government continues to unconstitutionally tax and spend, and, what will Houston’s own Chuck Norris do, when the tensions between the states and the federal government increase? Time will tell.