Fox's Carlson: The Constitution Is Too Old To Deal With Terrorists

kpete

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Wed Feb-16-11 10:18 AM
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Fox's Carlson: The Constitution Is Too Old To Deal With Terrorists

Fox's Carlson: The Constitution Is Too Old To Deal With Terrorists (VIDEO)
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In Gretchen Carlson's mind, the Constitution maybe just a little too outdated to enable the government to deal with terrorists.

On Fox & Friends this morning, the co-host made that statement during a discussion centering on last night's House passage of the extension of the Patriot Act's provisions. And after Fox judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano explained how the controversial provisions work, Carlson chimed in with a perspective that would make a civil liberties advocate cringe.

"Well back in the 17 and 1800's, we didn't have this thing on the war on terror, where we have to get to the bottom of things quickly," said Carlson. "And if we wait, people argue, to go to a judge, then sometimes that terrorist could do a dirty deed."

Napolitano strongly disagreed.
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Dappleganger

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Wed Feb-16-11 10:19 AM
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1. Further proof she doesn't have an original thought in her head...

she stole that one from Greta van Susteren.

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xchrom

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Wed Feb-16-11 10:19 AM
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2. stupid is as stupid says. nt

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Thor_MN

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Wed Feb-16-11 10:23 AM
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3. Damn, the world is getting polarized. Why do the STUPID women from MN

wind up in the spotlight?

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Angry Dragon

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Wed Feb-16-11 10:54 AM
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8. The radical right republicans think they are pretty

and they lust after them.........

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Angry Dragon

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Wed Feb-16-11 10:38 AM
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4. The world has always had terrorists

It seems she thinks they are just arriving.

The British would have considered the American revolutionists as terrorists
In essence the US should embrace terrorists, for that is what this country has been built on

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Statistical

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Wed Feb-16-11 10:44 AM
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7. Especially when US patriots violated "rule of war" at the time.

Many times failed to line up and fight like a proper army, fighting without colors.

US minutemen harassed British columns by firing from tree-lines, from behind buildings, and over walls. When British columns attempted to maneuver they simply dispersed and then re-engaged them later.

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tanyev

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Wed Feb-16-11 10:40 AM
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5. So Gretchen supports judicial activism? Huh.

Might be time for her Fox minder to escort her to one of Scalia's constitutional seminars for some retraining.

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SoCalDem

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Wed Feb-16-11 10:42 AM
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6. Um.. in the "olden days" when the constitution/declaration of independence

Edited on Wed Feb-16-11 10:42 AM by SoCalDem

were being thought up , we WERE "the terrorists".:rofl:

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kenny blankenship

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Wed Feb-16-11 11:09 AM
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9. Uh Gretchen? Back then, WE were the "terrorists"

The founding fathers pulled off a violent, armed revolution against the government that they had always previously acknowledged as rightful. Many of them had even been in the uniform and pay of that government. I think they, as former guerrilla fighters and revolutionaries, understood the implications of what they were doing when they wrote the Bill of Rights and other Constitutional protections ensuring due process of law, requiring probable cause, demanding warrants for searches, and forbidding the use of coerced confessions.

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stanwyck

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Wed Feb-16-11 11:14 AM
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10. Then is is also too "old" for gun laws? Gender equality? Same

sex marriage? There are so many things that have changed since the 1700s, Gretchen. Should we just start over?

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