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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What a joke
Vote no on this. There’s a reason why one person shouldn’t have that much power. If you in office allow this knowing this card will be played because of the outcome of the Presidential elections then you yourself have all but thrown our country away which by the way wouldn’t surprise me one bit because most our in office for the wrong reasons and not for the right ones! This surely sounds like they’ve already figured out how and what their going to do next.
b******t, i have read this before. Imagine what would happen,
I font dont think that would work out to well for him and his gurus
Declaring it & getting it done may be 2 different things.
Seems staged to me.
I know the chair are empty most of the time but the 2 guys they showed didn’t look like the same room light. I heads no noise at all. Breathing, rumbling,cough, paper shuffling nothing but her voice
B/S Read up on Martial Law.. it has been time to limit terms for all of congress. They will not do it, so it will be up to the voters to stop re-electing them and I do not see that happening. See one thing the parties have said which is totally correct, ” The American voter is stupid “. I stopped re-electing back in 2008. We can blame everyone else but it is the voters, fault what is happening now.
and there we have the problem. You must be from the entitled generation. Those of us who fought for your right to be stupid say YOUR WELCOME for your freedoms.
You will never get a bead on them. The government will go into underground Bunker’s and let man take care of each other.
They are criminal. Obama has more than likely threaten to expose them.