Video: Senator Warns AUMF Bill is “Declaration Of International Martial
Law”. “This resolution is a
total rewrite of the War Powers clause of the Constitution" Adan Salazar | Infowars.com -
January 26, 2016
A new bill
making its way through Congress contains “dangerous and unprecedented” language
that could be considered a “declaration of international martial law,” a US
senator warned last Thursday.
“This resolution is a total rewrite of
the War Powers clause of the Constitution. Let’s be clear about that,” Democrat
Senator Chris Murphy said on the Senate floor last week in regards to S.J. Res. 29, a bill purporting to give the sitting
US president the power to declare war on ISIS.
“It is essentially a declaration of
international martial law,” Murphy said. Speaking out against the fast-track
authorization for the use of military force bill proposed by Republican
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Murphy explained the resolution would
permanently hand over war-making authority to the office of the president.
“A sweeping transfer of military power
to the president that will allow him or her to send US troops almost anywhere
in the world for any reason with absolutely no limitations,” Sen. Murphy described,
adding that Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution “vests in
Congress the responsibility to declare war.”
“While the ink is still wet on this
resolution… it’s safe to say that this resolution is the wrong way to authorize
war against ISIS,” Murphy said. “The language of this resolution is dangerous
and it is unprecedented.”
“The American people certainly don’t
want Congress to hand over the power to the president to send our troops into
any country anywhere in the world for almost any reason. And that’s what this
resolution would do.”
Murphy went on: “It gives the power to
the president without consulting Congress to deploy US forces in anyone of the
61 countries where ISIS has a single sympathizer.”
The Senator from Connecticut also warned
the bill could possibly give the president the power to deploy troops on US
soil:
“Well as we’ve seen here in the United
States, the threat of ISIS is present in virtually every corner in the world.
Thus this resolution would give the president total absolute carte blanche to
send our young soldiers to any corner of the world without consulting
Congress.”
Senator Murphy’s comments were echoed on
Sunday by former Congressman
Ron Paul, who said the
new resolution would make the “Iraq War authorization of 2002 look like a walk
in the park.”
“Let’s be clear: If Senate Majority
Leader McConnell succeeds in passing this open-ended war authorization, the US
Constitution will be all but a dead letter,” Dr. Paul wrote.
The bill currently has four co-sponsors,
Sen. Daniel Coats, Sen. Joni Ernst, Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen Orrin Hatch.
Watch: Alex Jones warns about SJ Res 29:
http://www.infowars.com/video-senator-warns-aumf-bill-is-declaration-of-international-martial-law/
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