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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Umm,BS!
Why doesn’t Obie just get it over with and declare himself King of The United States for Life? That way 300 Million Muslims from the Middle East will be let into our country and take our homes…..
No such thing as international martial law. Idiots.
Josh Fillyaw
Shelly Fillyaw
It would the most stupid stunt he could pull!!!!
The people will not stand for it!!!!!
And who is going to enforce it? Such an action would cause a huge crisis in the miltiary that already hates Obama and it could bring an end to our form of government with finding anyone to enforce it and with a real possibly of muituny and overall civil strife.
another snotty nosed liberal
No his mouth has the power to declare international law only the dumb down simple in the f****** head would follow that long then they are tyranny and they can call it martial law but it’s called invasion
NO one man should have that much power that it would destroy….