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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Sorry all you Dem$#%&!@*hats …Obama’s war powers only go as far as if any foreign country attempts to invafe our soil…
If obama declared Martial law that would start the 2nd American Revolution and it would end very badly for the democrats. I say this as 84% of the military when polled stated they would not follow any order to fire on citizens on US soil and would side with the people. The police were polled as well and 85% stated they would take off their badge and fight with people. Additionally there are about 80 to 100 million legal gun owners in the US. The odds are not in favor of tyranny
He tries this, he will be signing his own death warrant
He has no clue about what will happen to him. He better leave,, just saying
Time too take Obama down
Please vote all current members of Congress out. They have aided and abetted this President for years. There are no checks and balance in government that is why we need The Convention States.
It’s coming.
I wish I were that confident.
He has steadily been removing many of our high ranking commanders since he was elected the first time. 37 of those were four star generals or higher. Our military has been weakend and the numbers are at the lowest levels since ww 2. Our military has taken that oath John Fritz but soldiers from the UN have not. These refugees he’s trying to get here and others that are already here haven’t taken that oath either. Could be scary times coming.
Too late. It was an executive order that he wrote. It’s a done deal.