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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Get your guns going to need them
Must be stopped.
These people have to run for office again , get rid of them now or replace them in election !!!
Not possible the consitiution prohibits it.
Craig B Good
do we have a congress? it don’t look like it they have not helped this country,
FUCKING RETARDS MUST GO
I have been warning people since he was elected. He will eventually declare martial law prior to the 2016 elections, suspend the constitution and become a defacto dictator. he better hope the troops support him, otherwise he will be in a world of hurt.
Cynthia Shannon Bouakadakis well there is. It is illegal to speak your opinion, and question your govt. it is legal for police to murder unarmed citizens. It is legal to poison citizens drinking water. And on and on. #freedom
obumma never read the constution