I’ve was a long time fan of Chuck Norris, starting probably in the late 1970s, yes I’m that old. His passing on 19 March of this year has been sad for me in a way. It’s losing another person that I had looked up to for a long time. And it wasn’t without good reason. Not only did Chuck play strong, moral, very competent men in his shows, be they movie or TV, he was always pro-America. And yes, he was handsome. According to one interview I saw he was very aware of his image and refused to take any roles that would cast him in a bad light. He had been a role model for hundreds, maybe thousands of martial arts students long before he became a big actor. He didn’t want to take roles that showed him using drugs, stealing or doing anything immoral or dishonest. He wanted to be a role model that showed doing good was the “cool” thing to be and to do. Andrew Breitbart was 100% spot on when he said “Politics is downstream from culture”. I would maintain we need Chuck more now than ever.
Chuck was evidence that even coming from very humble beginnings if you are willing to work hard you can make something wonderful of yourself. He grew up with his two brothers Wieland and Aaron, and at 14 Chuck was rushing home from school to help his Mom. He babysat his two brothers while she worked, often the night shift, as a waitress. I recently re-read his autobiography, The Secret of My Inner Strength. But I guess I should say good luck finding it. It is a very inspiring book, and I’m actually shocked it’s not available as an e-book. He comes across as a very honest, humble down to earth man. He’s honest about mistakes, and lessons learned from them. I don’t believe that is something you see from many/any in Hollywood these days.
But he didn’t just make kick-butt movies and TV shows, literally. He was a kick-butt guy in real life. He and his second wife Gena started Kickstart Kids to help at risk kids. I’ve seen some YouTubes where officials are talking about the statistics and the difference that Kickstart Kids has made. How much higher the kids score in class, how they stay in school, are never involved in trouble. He and Gena were making a difference in the future of our country by helping bring up young people of value and character. I’m sure Gena will carry on. The few clips that have come out since Chuck’s passing seem to indicate she is pretty committed to carrying on his legacy and wishes. Honestly my heart breaks for her. They seem to have been a very happy couple and family life seems to have been one of his highest priorities as well as his relationship with G-d, and being a good Christian.
And Chuck was very aware of the youth in our country. He was sort of Charlie Kirk before Charlie Kirk, Youth Vote Is Key to 2016 and Saving America. This was written in January of 2015.
At the same time, there is still a high level of social and political mistrust among millennials. Therefore, I believe, for the next two years, we the people have a unique ability to help change our country by reaching out to young people in our own lives and our circles of influence. We shouldn’t wait for our political party or presidential candidate to lead the way in reaching young voters. At the very least, as parents and grandparents, we need to be the primary models, mentors and motivators in the lives of youths and not leave those roles to other educators or influencers.
As trusted loved ones and friends, we need to educate, inspire and challenge millennials to fight for what’s right in America, not merely what may be generationally favored, socially expedient or of personal interest. We must remind them of the importance of our republic’s history and legacy and that it’s all of our duty to set aside self and uphold the founding tenets of our country — to fight to preserve what has been handed to us. If we lay the groundwork in young people’s lives, they will be more apt to align themselves with a candidate who does the same, even if he or she runs on a platform that’s a bit contrary to their generational preferences or agenda.
And in February of 2015 he was bringing awareness to The Defend Freedom Tour speaking up for our Veterans and the scandals of the VA at the time, he was correct, our Veterans deserve better. His Missing in Action films were dedicated to his brother Wieland who was killed in Viet Nam.
Veteran, Patriot, and Christian Chuck Norris Fought for Our Troops and POW/MIAs
Norris was a veteran, having served in the United States Air Force as an Air Policeman from 1958 to 1962. His younger brother, Wieland Clyde Norris, a private in the 101st Airborne Division, was killed in June 1970 in Vietnam during the defense of Firebase Ripcord. Norris dedicated the Missing in Action films to his younger brother and was a consistent supporter of POW/MIA causes. He also served as a spokesperson for the Veterans Administration National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans.
Norris led USO tours, visiting troops in Iraq and beyond. He was made an honorary Marine, though the U.S. Marine Corps later joked about it in a tweet, saying it was the other way around: “Chuck Norris didn’t join the Marine Corps; the Marine Corps applied to him.”
He set a personal goal of meeting every Marine deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, shaking each one’s hand. By his own account, Norris shook hands with 37,000 U.S. troops in 2006 alone. He also visited the Task Force 399th Combat Support Hospital at Al Asad Air Base in 2007, signing autographs for wounded Marines.
Troops renamed military vehicles “Truck Norris,” and his image appeared throughout the country. Norris himself wrote about arriving in Iraq to find troops holding a sign reading, “Chuck Norris is here. We can now go home.”
The military’s secret language had a name: Chuck Norris
To most Americans, Norris was a martial artist and action hero. To generations of service members, he also became the centerpiece of a strange, durable mythology. The Chuck Norris jokes — absurd, hyperbolic, endlessly recycled — turned into more than throwaway lines. They became part of the emotional vocabulary of military life.
My combat deployment was no exception. Chuck Norris jokes covered bathroom walls, T-barriers, and whiteboards. They showed up during rocket attacks, after sniper fire, and in the lulls between incoming mortar fire. In a world built on danger and uncertainty, those ridiculous one-liners delivered something surprisingly useful: familiarity, laughter, and a brief reminder of invincibility.
That mattered more than civilians might think.
At one time he was a Democrat, but Chuck Norris Explains Why He Left the Democrat Party — ‘They Went Too Far to the Left and Lost All Reality of What America Stood For’ And the interview took place in 2014.
“I used to be a Democrat, but unfortunately the Democrats went too far to the left… and lost all reality of what America stood for.”
“And so, I realized that Republicans… are more focused on what is best for America,” Norris continued.
Norris went on to explain that the parties essentially switched places over time.
“What the Democrats believed forty years ago, the Republicans believe today… The Democrats just got too far off the trail. They just got completely [off] and lost all reality of what America stood for,” he said.
He was very politically savvy, and he used his platform to try to raise awareness of issues penning a two part column My Top 10 Resolutions for the New Congress (Part 1) and My Top 10 Resolutions for the New Congress (Part 2) written in January of 2015. He covered topics like repealing Obamacare, fiscal debt, the 10th Amendment, fiscal sanity and fair tax. And as I read through it everything he wrote still applies today.
In addition to urging people to engage the youth, and help them realize their vote shapes their future, he and his wife Gena urged the faith community to become more engaged. Especially in voting, telling them sitting out elections leads to disastrous consequences.
Chuck Norris Issues Dire Warning to America written in September of 2012.
“We are here to talk about a growing concern we all share,” Chuck Norris explains. “If we look to history, our great country and freedom are under attack. We’re at a tipping point and, quite possibly, our country as we know it may be lost forever if we don’t change the course in which our country is headed.”
Gena warns that voter apathy among evangelicals in 2008 may have contributed to Obama’s election in the first place.
“With our country at a crossroads, Chuck and I have asked ourselves what we can be doing to help support this great country we’re blessed to live in and how we can encourage our like-minded American brothers and sisters to unite and let their voices be heard,” she said. “It is estimated that in the 2008 election, 30 million evangelical Christians stayed home on voting day and Obama won the election by 10 million votes.”
Chuck cautions Christians about the cost of doing nothing while the nation spirals into a state of socialism from which there will be no return.
He wrote his book Black Belt Patriotism in 2008, and that book you can still get, at least as an eBook.
And today we have podcasters and influencers, some of which President Trump recently labeled as “Low IQ” urging people to sit out the mid-terms, vote Demoncrat or stating the Republican party needs to be burned down. When you look at what Demoncrats are offering explain to me how they can consider that America first? Not only are they deranged, they’re insane. How is that even remotely good for our country. Are Republicans perfect? Oh heck no, but are they better? Yes. And you get to pick between the two. So.
The final Chuck topic I will bring up, probably, is illegal immigration. This man was a martial artist, and part of their success is being able to read their opponent, to see how if they make this move then it could be countered by this move or by doing that. You look down the road at how things can be extrapolated. This video clip was posted seventeen years ago, seventeen years!
Not only was he worried about illegal invaders, he was very worried about terrorism. Invasion USA was made in 1985 and involved a large number of terrorists dressing as people you’d normally trust, police, fire, medical or military and committing acts of terrorism. And then there were other that just went into neighborhoods and destroyed them. Either way, the social fabric of America was being destroyed because the trust in the structure of government was gone. All of that was synchronized across places in America. Again, made in 1985, but we’d never have that many terrorists in America to pull that off, right? Actually it didn’t look like all that many came in, some were sleeper cells that were already here. While the ending may have been slightly improbable, it was still great.
Which brings me to the last Chuck Norris movie I want to discuss. The Delta Force, it was filmed in 1986, partly in Israel and with the help of the Israeli government. They loaned them a plane. Chuck was very pro-Israel. I wonder if such a movie could ever be made today. The Jews aren’t the villains, the muslim terrorists are, and they were in the movie. The events, circumstance as players in that movie are still the same today. Lebanon still can’t free itself from Hezbollah, the formerly majority Christian country is now another Islamic occupied territory with a shrinking Christian population although right now Israel is giving them some hope. As the Hezbollah terrorists flee north, some of the Christian communities are fighting them as they try to take cover in their communities. They don’t want them. Hezbollah has been operating in Lebanon under the noses of the useless UN for years now. There is a line in The Delta Force when Joey Bishop talked about having been in Lebanon years ago and how beautiful it was. Islam destroys everything. My Anatolian Shepherd Shimshon and I have been binge re-watching Chuck Norris movies, his favorite is of course, Top Dog. But when we watched Delta Force this time, it had a far more powerful impact on me than when I saw it the first time. This time when the separated the Jewish men from their families it just tore me up. There were several parts of that movie that seemed harder this time. But nothing has changed, Islamic terrorists take hostages, Iran is a threat, it’s proxies are a threat and American weakness invites more of the same. The thought that a group of people that have occupied a country, terrorized it’s citizens and committed acts of terrorism against U.S. for 47 years and thinks they will bring on their messiah by plunging the world into chaos and covering it with blood and think when they are killed as a martyr they go to heaven and get 72 virgin goats are not going to be inclined to want a peace treaty. Now a ceasefire, sure. Re-arm, re-group, re-calibrate, re-supply, reload and resume. It’s the muslim terrorist way. For 47 years they’ve been chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”. But the left and the woke reich would have you believe they don’t mean it, they can’t do it, they wouldn’t do it. They do, and they’ve been doing it. Chuck was sounding the alarm on Islam.
Of course, many Americans watch on video a Middle Eastern woman allegedly caught in adultery, buried in the ground up to her head and being stoned to death, and think, “That could never happen in America.” But they fail to see how Shariah law has already been enabled and subtly invoked in our country, and that any such induction like it is brought about by understated lukewarm changes, like a frog boiled in a kettle by a slow simmer.
In April 2011 he started a series for WorldNetDaily called Holy Week Holy Shariah. Another in that series was Top 10 U.S. Shariah infiltrations, Part 2
I’ll say what I said at the outset of the last column: It is no mystery that radical Islamists intend to use the freedoms in our Constitution to expand the influence of Shariah law. But, still, too many Americans don’t know or understand how it threatens the very fabrics of our republic.
This is something Dr. Gad Saad often references. It’s not a secret, the muslims talk about the methods they will use to conquer the west. And those columns were written fifteen years ago. The reception of the columns at the time seems to have been derision. Because the left has to actually be thrown off the building themselves before they just even become willing to look at the truth. However much you despise the left wing media who don’t even attempt to hide their bias at the point, you don’t hate them enough. Note the difference in how the death of Rob Reiner openly hard core leftist was covered vs how the death of Chuck Norris, openly patriotic and conservative was covered.
And today, we have this Muslim Activists Now Say The Alamo Is An Islamic Structure. I want to make it extremely clear, this is not satire.
I see the Muslims are running the same play as they did in Jerusalem in 637 AD!
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Leftist activists want social studies classes to talk more about Islam’s longstanding impact on Texas history
Outside of the Islamic invasions that destroyed the Byzantine Empire and forced Europeans to sail West, there was no impact that Islam had on Texas’ founding.
But now they are claiming the Alamo is Muslim, actually.
I notice they didn’t try that nonsense until after Chuck had been gone for about a month.
I’ll leave you with a couple more things, a column with a nice synopsis of Chucks thoughts on different topics. What Chuck Norris Taught Us: Quotes on Strength, Discipline, and Life
And Glen Beck talking about how Chuck touched his an his son’s life when the boy was having troubles. And Glen said Chuck was like that with all the kids he met. Glenn Beck reflects on the death of his friend Chuck Norris
Ok, I changed my mind, one last Chuck Norris movie story. When Firewalker came out, I wanted to go see it and I wanted my Dad to go with me. He’d never seen a Chuck Norris movie, and I just felt he might really like them. Firewalker was definitely on the lighter side. So he finally gave in, we went, and another Chuck Norris fan was born.
Perhaps one of the most iconic fight scenes, and a fabulous friendship, Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris.
Rest in peace Chuck, you earned it. A man that modeled decency, honesty, goodness, faith, family, self-reliance and being prepared to defend yourself however you need.
