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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There will be WAR!
Without a convention of the states this is illegal.
No citizen is required to obey a law that is not legal.
You cannot change the constitution like that. Your resolution is worthless.
I just re-rewrote the Constitution… putting all of government on the criminal list… They defy their oaths to preserve and protect the Constitution as written…
They write bills into law that are totally against our liberties… They bypass the Constitution when it’s convenient for them… and they let a usurper sur in the white house for 2 terms while committing treasons against our country…
HORSE C**P!!!! IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL NO MATTER HOW YOU SLICE IT!!!!
Be careful what you wish for!
Americans be ready this will be the second American Revolution I will not stand by and watch this fraud destroyed this country anymore then he has it is time for the American people to fight back.
Amen
Obviously, because we have nothing but senile, paid off, incompetent members in Congress. Mitch McConnell and many others need to be sent hone. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John McCain. Long term allows them to be bought!!! Stop this AUMF thing. No one should have that kind of power. What I U old Geezers. Thinking. Or more like U R NOT
They all need to go