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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Martial law is a declaration of War! Congress and FBI have converted to Islam!
You are a traider you$#%&!@*hole !!!!
The constitution can not be rewritten or revised or anything unless we the people do so. That is the purpose of the constitution. Is to keep us free and safe from government tyranny.
Fire this idiot & deport him!
Murphy is not the right person to be presenting any new laws. He is Obama’s puppet and so his Bloominthal
Hitler appointed himself Chancellor of Germany in the thirties and later abolished all other political parties. Looks like we’re right on track for the same.
If our leaders want to keep our country intact, as it is with some semblance of our laws, and constitution, they better stop this renegade president now.
Time to say no, and stop it, Senator.
He won’t be in that position for long…
Where’s Congress? Still sound asleep? Time to get people into office that will do the job they were hired to do!