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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Haaaaaaa and you all believe this..
When local authorities’ family members start disappearing, I’m pretty sure they’d change their stance against “we the people”!
Been saying it since his re-election.Look it up on my FB page.
Anarchy at it’s finest. Watch all them libs get decimated by their own stupidity of guns=bad and muslim=good. Glad I’m in KY where it takes a bit for things to get here. Lots of hills and hollers to hang out in!
That’s what all the FEMA camps around the country us for……AMERICANS.
CLINTON CAN NOT BE PRESIDENT.
OUR COUNTRY WE WILL NEVER RECOVER.
TRUMP IS OUR HOPE.
Except for there will be no media. Power will be shut off as well as other utilities. Why do you think they’re so against preppers & people living off the grid? The city dwellers will come out like cockroaches and try to take what the country folks have been storing & all hell will break loose!
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Number one Obamacare not rewrite the Constitution. Number to he can give executive orders but that can be repealed. Number 3 Obama is committing treason by going against the Constitution the main thing he said to uphold. The Constitution is to be taken in its entirety not to be changed or played with. Why Obama calling martial law it will be a great failure and it will go down in history is Obama being America’s greatest fool. Every American is held to the Constitution to uphold and defend our country against external or internal forces. Our military and our police are not slaves to the government they work for the government and they work for us and the Constitution.
You idiots better not have sat on your lazy butts and let that happen, there will be war.
I took that oath as well. USMC 1990-96. It has no expiration date. That being said, even O-dummbass knows that declaring Martial Law will be unconstitutional and that we the people would not stand for it. There are WAY too many armed veterans and civilians for that to ever occur. I highly doubt that today’s military has the stomach to fight against a civilian population for an unconstitutional douchebag of a President.