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 am ready either let’s get it on or shut the$#%&!@*about it.
It’s fun to read these posts from the truly, poorly educated. Truth and Action loves to stir up the fear and hate in their ignorant base. They have never posted a truthful meme yet.
And will
It’s amusing to a point that people will say that the police or government can’t do something. Guess what history has shown that THEY will force their power onto you regardless of the laws. They just justify it ..
Stop this idiot
Something to be thinking about!!! By Arlie Gordon
A lot of people have brought up the fact that they won’t vote for Trump if he’s the eventual nominee. I just want to put something in perspective.
Justice Scalia’s seat is vacant. Ginsberg is 82 years old, Kennedy is 79, Breyer is 77, and Thomas is 67. Nowadays, the data shows that the average age of a Supreme Court retirement or death occurs after 75.
These are 5 vacancies that will likely come up over the next 4-8 years. The next President will have the power to potentially create a 7-2 Supreme Court skewed in their ideology.
Think about that… 7-2. If the next President appoints 5 young justices, it will guarantee control of the Supreme Court for an entire generation. And 7-2 decisions will hold up much more over time than 5-4 decisions which are seemed to be lacking in mandate.
Hillary has made it clear she will use the Supreme Court to go after the 2nd Amendment. She has literally said that the Supreme Court was wrong in its Heller decision stating that the Court should overturn and remove the individual right to keep and bear arms. Period.
Everyone saying that they won’t vote for one candidate or the other if they are the GOP nominee, please realize this. If Hillary Clinton wins and gets to make these appointments, you likely will never see another Conservative victory at the Supreme Court level for the rest of your life. Ever.
If you are a Conservative, a vote for anyone but the GOP nominee, whomever that will be, is a vote for Hillary Clinton.
yeah it was a typo…should of said $180,000
Let the military remove obama from the whitehouse
Obama is unconstitutionally on the UN Security Council that can send troops out from NATO and the US. So whoever controls the UN can declare “International anything”. That is why Obama looks at us as “nobodies”. America is just a stepping stone to Obama. He has pretty much left America already, trying to move on up to gain more power. According to scripture, there are some things we can not change, but we can change “our place in it”. Hopefully Obama will move on and take the UN with him. They have wanted to move in the past. Now would be a good time….
They don’t have to, ignorant people will believe whatever they want.