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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Stop them
And We the People will exterminate every last worthless corrupt fucking politician in Washington DC
Lock and load Patriots
WE THE AMERICANS ARE TAKING OUR POWER AS CITIZENS…TO DECLARE HE AND HIS FAMILY SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THE WHITE HOUSE IMMEDIATELY…
We built that house, we can dam sure tear it down!! You assholes own nothing but your ego!!$#%&!@*bout to get real!!!
Those are firing squad offenses
It would be to his advantage to back off!! He can’t rewrite it alone!!
No no no no
Why, pray tell did the idiots in Congress permit the passage of a Bill which has utterly no place in our democracy?
No Way.