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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I don’t see our own kind picking up arms against us, it will be NATO
Anyone that signs this Bill is committing Treason.
God help us!
We are voting for nothing. Obama will write whatever he wants. We have been over thrown.
WE HAVE BEEN OVER THROWN. IT’S TOO LATE THE MIMS HAVE THE WHITEHOUSE.
Okay, open your eyes people and see if you can follow the bouncing ball. It was We The People that GAVE this idiot his powers. He schmoozed us into thinking that he will guide us to the promised land. We are in the promised land, and have been since you and I were born. America, which is comprised of all its people IS THE PROMISED LAND !!!!! Make no mistake about it, we have the ability to cure diseases, cancer, produce products of the like never seen before. Look what we have today. Smart phones, Bluetooth, WIFI, Internet and a host of other things that our ancestors could never imagine, and what did we do? We elected a party organizer to lead this natioin. The problem is, he’s always at some party and the American people are left out in the cold. He’s traveling the world at our expense. His travels are costing the American tax payers Millions of Dollars. When he takes his plane to some foreign country, his wife follows in her own plane. Again, we the tax payers are paying his AIR FARE MILES ON AIR FORCE ONE. We need to take his Frequent Flyer Card away from him.
No he doesn’t and he wont
And he will
Obama needs to go to prison!
I shall not comply, there will be blood on the streets. Not a threat, a promise!