The Authorization for Use of Military Force passed by the Senate is a rewrite of the Constitution’s War Powers clause and grants the President broad authority to deploy ground troops almost everywhere in the world, including the United States. That’s the warning being voiced by Democratic Senator Chris Murphy in response to the AUMF bill proposed by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The bill would grant the president overwhelming control over where the US forces are deployed, which is scary for two reasons. The first is the obvious threat to American citizens’ rights. If the military can be sent to an American city based on loose justifications, they could be used to impose martial law and even empower a police state that has already grown too powerful.
The second reason is the plain call back to Manifest Destiny. Americans do not want to police the world. If the European Union is too busy handling the migrant crisis and Russia has finally come to terms with the harsh economic reality that their country is on the brink of collapse, it would leave the United States to ensure the sovereignty of all democratic nations. A solution that nobody would want.
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Numbnuts you are not re writing anything, dufus
It’s unconstitutional and an act of treason
Again I say, this terror has got to stop!!!
Mr. Trump we need your help now!!!!
He can just executive order it
When the law is so stupid it makes no moral sense I’ ll ignore it
It takes a lot more than a rewrite by the Senate. It takes actual citizen approval.
NOT GOING TO HAPPEN$#%&!@*
What do these politicians not understand about government of the people for the people by the people Obama needs to go find his rug and lay down he is not kingship this stuff is just really pissing me off I just get furious when I see a picture of that pile thinking about him and our White House this is our country Obama you will never have it we will either take it back or it will get destroyed in the process there is no other choice or God will intervene and straighten it all out and I said God not allah
All that is necessary to understand the rabid efforts to disarm law-abiding American citizen gun owners is to realize that liberal gun control efforts have nothing to do with child safety, nothing to do with public safety, nothing to do with the safety of anybody, or anything of the kind. Liberal gun control is about one thing, and one thing only. That one thing is the liberal/socialist’s need to disarm those who would resist, thus impede, their ability to implement the liberal/socialist, centralized, big government, cradle to grave, control of people, who, in the liberal elite’s mind, are not smart enough to make important decisions, nor able to take care of themselves. The only thing preventing obama (and ilk), from imposing their vision of the socialist, sunshine, unicorn, butterfly and rainbow utopia upon America is that they have been unable to disarm 150-200 million Americans of some many more millions of firearms. Additionally, neither have these socialist elites been successful at dissuading these 150-200 million law-abiding, firearm owning citizens from standing/fighting/dying for the principles in which they believe.