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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There all dirty and will do anything to get past Trump, even electing Killery !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A DEMOCRAT IS SAYING THIS!
GROW A F-ING SPINE AND STOP THAT POS!! YOU WORTHLESS PILE OF EXCREMENT!!
This should be an election just as they have always been. All these scare tactics and asinine posts. Obama won’t be given any reason to require this. Americans will not tolerate this kind of nonsense. Can’t wait until Obama, his family and mother-in-law we have been lavishly supporting for 8 nightmarish long years, to leave our White House for the very last time. This martial law bit would be stopped by our own veterans, retired and active here in the states as well as all our private citizens should it happen. Our military will handle it against Obama!!!!
IllegAl
He can declare anything he wants but we don;’t have to follow him into hell!
I will not comply to Martial Law and will see those I love in August and September – and if those I love die when this begins – this Government has my wrath on them. I’ll start a War with my words on Media.
I’m afraid Obama will declare Martial Law before the election can take place. He has already said Trump will not follow him & he’s crazy enough to attempt this. I don’t think our Military will follow his orders.
IT MAY COME TO FIGHTING, TO GET OUR GOVERNMENT BACK, WE THE PEOPLE.
Cherie Roy — it would not be a civil war- it would be a revolt