How is it respect for the US Constitution to ignore most of it?

Our President is a Democrat experienced as a professor of constitutional law. And yet he claims that the War on Terror justifies warrantless arrest, suspension of Habeas Corpus rights we’ve had since the Magna Carta was signed back in 1215 and in writs issued even earlier. Suddenly, it is OK to imprison a US citizen without due process and hold them indefinitely without any charges or any access to an attorney. We have a FISA court that supposedly puts due process in place on requests for wiretaps and such, but the government went to that court over 32,000 times asking for an OK to eavesdrop and was never told no. That sounds more like Stalin’s “show trials” than anything remotely approaching due process.

Mind you, both parties in Congress overwhelmingly voted for the Orwellian named “Patriot” Act that put much of the above in place. And the GOP seems even quicker than the Democratic Party to shred the rest of the constitution in their rush to protect freedom by jettisoning it the moment terrorists threaten. Listen to Fox commentators going through their extensive list parts of the Constitution and Bill of Rights we no longer can afford to uphold.

What chance does a 237 year old collection of paper pages stand when such formidable modern-day forces are arrayed against it?