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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Please everybody write your Senator and tell him to vote against this bill.Please America WAKE UP.
Well stop it instead of flopping your gums!
Lmao..try us..American citizens will defend ourselves against this want to be king..American citizens are the largest military in the world..I can tell you now, I will be a wolverine and I will resist and I will fight like hell till I’m killed but I be damned if I’m going to live like that.$#%&!@*martial law and any military personnel that obeys his orders then$#%&!@*you too..this is America and you took an oath to protect us from terrorists foreign and domestic and obama is a domestic terrorist and he’s trying to turn OUR COUNTRY into a communist COUNTRY and I’m not laying down for anybody
And I’m not laying down to see my kids and my family have to live in that s**t
Then vote it DOWN.
Congress better put the breaks on right now and stop this dead In its track
Here we go…
Don’t put it past him….He can do anything he wants…because no one has the guts to stand up to him…or they would have impeached him or tried him for treason a long time ago…..
Lock and load brothers and sisters .
Hal Waltz wrong it has nothing to do with the government system. The constitution is our laws to govern the government not the other way around. You need to read it and the reasons it was written not what our government thinks they can do because of a census in the courts.