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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He doesn’t plan on leaving
you work for We The People You Idiot you need to be FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey..don’t you think that maybe, they are waiting for him just to do that..an act of treason. .just like this…do you really think all our military…after he sign a bill to not give the military a raise or he had never show any type of support or respect ….will support him…..think about it..
That why he is replacing them
international martial law?? I,m aussie. lol. GO SUCK A$#%&!@*OBAMA…
Obama doesn’t have international authority to declare international martial law. In case you missed it, other countries leaders hate Obama so they will not be giving him the power to do anything.
B******t !
Obama has written over 1,000 Executive Orders while in office Why hasn’t he been stopped? Did this resolution pass the Senate? If so, Why? It gives the President too much power.
I follow only the constitution the way it was written by our forefathers. People will wake up in time.
we can only pray those who swore to uphold the constitution and protect americans from enemy,s foriegn and domestic will not obey his orders