{"id":68217,"date":"2017-03-10T12:40:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T16:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68217"},"modified":"2017-03-10T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T16:40:06","slug":"we-now-live-in-a-lawless-america-governments-no-longer-accountable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68217","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We now live in a lawless America. Government\u2019s no longer accountable.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mark Meckler: \u2018We Live Now in a Lawless America\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_68218\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/moscow-us-flag-doormat-scrnsht-Reuters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68218\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/moscow-us-flag-doormat-scrnsht-Reuters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/moscow-us-flag-doormat-scrnsht-Reuters.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/moscow-us-flag-doormat-scrnsht-Reuters-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reuters<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nby DAN RIEHL<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>Mark Meckler, president of<a class=\" x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/selfgovern.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citizens for Self-Governance<\/a>,\u00a0told Stephen K. Bannon in a <em>Breitbart News Daily<\/em> Sirius XM interview, \u201cWe live now in a lawless America. Government\u2019s no longer accountable. They don\u2019t follow the same rules that we\u2019re required to follow, and, in fact, the laws and the rules are actually used against us.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re at a turning point in American history, a fork in the road,\u201d added Meckler. He sees three possible\u00a0directions for America: \u201canarchy,\u201d \u201crevolution,\u201d or an effort based upon \u201c<a class=\" x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.conventionofstates.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article 5, a Convention of States<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More information on <a class=\" x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/selfgovern.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citizens for Self-Governance<\/a>, which claims 1.5 million members, may\u00a0be found <a class=\" x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/selfgovern.com\/who-decides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our nation was created by people who, in Thomas Jefferson\u2019s words, were \u201cfree and who mean to remain so.\u201d They weren\u2019t about to give up their liberties to an overbearing government. After all, they revolted against a king to earn the right to live free. The government was necessary only to protect the citizens\u2019 natural rights to life, liberty and property and was to act only in areas where the people intentionally granted authority.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, America was designed to be a self-governing society, where decisions are made as close to home as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Things have changed since Jefferson put down his quill. The government has encroached into every area of life, so infiltrating our culture that we endlessly debate the policies our so-called leaders have decided for us.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u201cwho decides\u201d is a much more important question than \u201cwhat\u2019s decided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re taking back the power the centralized government has unlawfully taken and restoring it to the citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Who decides?<\/p>\n<p>According to the founders and the [C]onstitution, we do.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start acting like it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Breitbart News Daily<\/em> airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/273306790&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/radio\/2016\/07\/12\/mark-meckler-we-live-now-in-a-lawless-america\/\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/radio\/2016\/07\/12\/mark-meckler-we-live-now-in-a-lawless-america\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"articlefooter\">\n<aside><\/aside>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Meckler: \u2018We Live Now in a Lawless America\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}