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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They are smarter than you think, Terry……Think ‘Covert Outrage’.
lock and load armed citizens the time is almost here , we need to join ranks somewhere by the thousands in different places
Who the freak are you?
OH, CONTRARE, you grossly misinformed one. Nobody rewrites without taking it to ratification. Bozo’s just playing make-believe I’m King and all of you are my prisoners.
He wont last, if he does.
What a idiot
DO THEY ALL LIE!!!
No do not give him that power
Well it needs to be unwritten.
OVER HIS DEAD BODY!!!! MILITARY WILL NEVER COOPERATE!!!!!