Boomer conservatives: should we call them "scaredy-cons"?

Why does O’Reilly place his faith in the military to determine who is a terrorist, rather than in civilian juries and the federal-court system that the Framers established in the Constitution? Well, he says it is because “most Americans are in danger and want the military to protect them.” Translation: “I’m scared to death, my knees are knocking, and I’m willing to surrender rights and freedoms that stretch all the way back to Magna Carta in the hope that the federal fox will protect us chickens from those big bad terrorists "The O'Reilly Fear Factor" Future of Freedom Foundation