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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This sen. is an idiot.
Well, Dem. Senator, what are you, and the rest of our impotent Congress, going to do about this?!?!??
Good luck with that can’t get anybody to stick together for any thing
WELL THEN KILL THAT FUCKING$#%&!@*
if obama does this he will have to fight the entire country.
Time for veterans to unite. We all took an oath to defend this and it is becoming more clear a March by veterans again is need to correct the problems of the nation…I am willing and able to join the march on Washington…
i;m ready to fight as long as i;m alive
First, Obozo can’t do that and second, WHY hasn’t Congress stopped him and his illegal actions?
38 states have to vote on a change to the consititution
Those that are trying this need to be immediately arrested, and charged with appropriate crimes!!