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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This doesn’t need to pass!! Shut it down!! Shut this sneaky scheming Obama down congress! It’s no t ISIS we need to worry about! It’s Obama!! You must listen to him closely sometimes when he talks. He says the opposite of what he’s doing, and sometimes slips with clues to his real agendas!!! Who can trust a man that turns his back on his own family in Africa!!! His own brother told everyone in that interview that Obama was a schemer!! He sits fat in the white house and does nothing for his own impoverished family in Africa!!!! This says everything about his character!!!!!! Go Trump!!!! 2016
WE THE PEOPLE do not recognize obuma as the President. He is a traitor and needs to be on trial for treason. So whatever he decides has no baring on the American people because he has no authority with WE THE PEOPLE. Put him in prison.
it`s time to remove these asses from the congress and take back America. the only power Obama has is to quit and laeve this country before he is removed by the people. Congress has no balls to do the job.
How many in govt. are truly REPRESENTING We, the People?
How many in govt. are truly REPRESENTING We, the People?
How many in govt. are truly REPRESENTING We, the People?
300 million Man, Woman, and Child march on DC It can be done without firing a shot. There is strength in numbers!!!
Let him try and you democrats are going to need some hole far away to escape from the American people. Do you idiots democrats think that Obumer declares martial law and everyone is going to cross their arms and scratch their heads. I don’t think so. This country will not be the same country for sure.
STOP THE STUPIDITY that Obumer is going to declared martial law.
International? What stupid jerk put this c**p on FB?
if he does the whole bunch of lawyer in the congress and senate need replaced