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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YOU (CONGRESS) GAVE HIM THAT POWER. TELL ME SENATOR…..WHY WITH ALL THE THINGS OBAMA HAS DONE AND IS DOING THAT ALL OF YOU IN CONGRESS DO NOTHING TO STOP HIM???? DO YOU NOT HEAR PEOPLE BEGGING CONGRESS FOR HELP IN STOPPING OBAMA AND YOU ALL JUST SIT THERE AND DO NOTHING!!!! THIS IS NOT ABOUT WHETHER YOU ARE DEM OR REP ITS ABOUT WE THE PEOPLE. JUST READ ABOUT A GENERAL WHO EXPOSED OBAMA AND SAID THAT HE WILL DESTROY AMERICA FROM THE INSIDE AND I BELIEVE HE WILL. PEOPLE POSTING LIKE ME FOR CONGRESS TO HELP STOP THIS AND IT FAILS ON DEAF EARS. WE ARE LIKE SEATING DUCKS WAITING FOR ISIS TO ATTACK US AND THEY WILL BECAUSE OUR PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS WILL DO NOTHING TO PROTECT US. ARE WE THE ONLY ONES THAT SEE THAT OBAMA SHOULD HAVE COME RIGHT HOME WHEN BRUSSELS WAS BOMBED AND THEN BOMBED ISIS LIKE RAIN COMING DOWN…..BUT HE DID NEITHER….HE WENT TO A BASEBALL GAME LAUGHING AWAY AND THEN DID THE TANGO WHILE THE WORLD GRIEVED FOR THESE PEOPLE. TWO AMERICANS DIED THERE AND NO MENTION OF OBAMA GOING TO THEIR SERVICE……OUR FIRST MARINE KILLED BY ISIS AND NOTHING ABOUT GOING TO HIS SERVICE. ALSO SAW A POSTING OF HIM LAUGHING AS HE TOOK AWAY VA MONEY AND GAVE IT TO THE REFUGEES….GIVING HIMSELF A RAISE…WANTING TO GIVE 2 BILLION MORE TO IRAN….TELLING US MICHELLE OBAMA WILL RUN FOR PRESIDENT IF HILLARY IS ARRESTED…DO I HAVE TO SAY MORE?????….YOU ALL KNOW ALL OF THIS AND MORE AND YET YOU DO NOTHING. WHY SENATOR WHY????
He will fail. Have faith.
Let the fucker try. We will not go peacefully to the FEMA camps!
If you’re going to be paranoid, I guess it’s ok to look stupid also. Learn to spell. Martial Law.
Blah blah blah.
Stop SCREAMING
You know what ‘Martial law’ means to me? It means “no holds barred open season on the traitors in our government” – It’s called the 2nd Amendment & why it exists!
I’m hoping this an April Fool. If its not, I am for crushing ISIS, but let’s not be giving the president too much power. This could and likely will be abused.
only because the dem. gave him the power
The, next Revolution would be around proposed election time! Be Prepared !!