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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Good let the games be gone.
Hell no, this stinks of Obama real bad…
Why would you idiots allow such a resolution???
WHATA FUCKING DICKHEAD THIS GUY IS!
Our “complicit” congress aiding in the socialist takeover of America! We should fire them all and start over!!!!!
Let him,I know of at least 123,000,000 people that will put a bullet in his head from a 1/2 mile away!
Congress had better break his pen……..no more resolutions or executive orders from this tyrant force him to account for missing state dept and pentagon money keep him busy for a few months.
Donald Trump for President 2016
Won’t any of our elected officials stand up against this .Put every one of them in prison for treason. Maybe it’s time for the people to take over.
Only the people of the United States have the right to change the Constitution. Obama and his cronies have committed high treason and if they are not immediately arrested and locked up, the FBI will be complicite to treason…and the Director can be charged also. It is your country people do you have the backbone to see obama charged and removed from the White House?