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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We aren’t governed by the Declaration of Independence. We are founded on those ideas and would found a new nation if this would happen. This article is hyperbole.
Martial law is a declaration of war against.the people
Exactly why he wants to take away our 2nd Amendment rights. Part of his plan to tear America apart. He would never send troops to fight ISIS. He is trying to help them.
Would not be good for the government, if this happened
Seriously? Your paranoia is gonna ruin this country…no one is gonna declare martial law…
Teresa Franklin . . . Just as I thought . . . You just pull statistics out of your$#%&!@*like all the other Democrat lies . . .
U going to implement it jackass
The president alone cannot declare Martial Law.
Yeah right..you idiot
Can’t you people come up with a better lie. What a b******t post.