Hatriots - Catchy Name, but a Bunch of Horse $&!^

This guy is entitled to his opinion (I keep saying this), but give me a break. Mr. Avlon, is again seeking to paint anyone not on board with large more expensive government that will limit your freedoms in exchange for perceived security, as a violent hate-monger (the full article here http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/30/avlon.hatriots.militia/index.html?hpt=C2) First if you value freedom and believe in the Constitution, how is this bad. If you want to make sure you keep your freedom and ensure that our Government follows the premises in the Constitution, how is that bad? So if you speak up when you think your freedom and the Constitution are being infringed, this is a bad thing. OBVIOUSLY it is according to Mr. Avlon and he will try to brand you a HATRIOT. He says "Another new Hatriot group is the Oath Keepers, who claim to have some 3,000 dues-paying members, including current and former law enforcement officers, members of the military, and others who meet to reaffirm their oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. "The whole point of the Oath Keepers is to stop a dictatorship from ever happening here," its founder, Stewart Rhodes, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal." So as long as you are willing to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic and as long as those enemies are NOT part of the government it is OK. If you think we may have some enemies that are threatening the Constitution and they are part of the government then that makes you a hatriot. I did not see anything that even indicated HATE...so on waht is Mr. Avlon basing that accusation. If they support the constitution that means they are haters? If you are willing to throw the constitution out the window in order to suit you political beliefs that is fine, but don't label others and slander them, just because they do not believe the same was as you. I can't believe CNN is still viewed as middle of the road with OP-ED's like yours (but then again if you only have Fox and MSNBC, I guess it would be easy to think CNN was middle of the road). I guess we need to be careful what we think then (we wouldn't want you to label us or libel us either). There are those out there that advocate violence (both on the left and right), but there are many others that worries that our liberties are being threatened but not advocating violence. If you think a government is being unjust and not addressing the peoples concerns, at what point are you supposed to look at correcting that injustice. Hopefully you can correct it in the ballot box, but if not what then and when? A little revolution every now and then is a healthy thing (as long as those doing it agree with you beliefs). The American Revolution is in the past, but it was fought because of an unjust government imposing its will on a certain population (taxes wasn't it without representation...or at least that is popular refrain). The constitution was written to try to prevent the same abuses from being repeated. As we have gotten farther and farther from what is written in the constitution we have come ever closer to repeating those mistakes. I do not know when people will be outraged enough to correct the errors, but hopefully we will have enough people to do it when the time comes (if we aren't all sheeples by then). Have a little more tolerance. Remeber free speech is supporting the people right to be hear even when their thoughts are counter to yours and with which you oppose...that is freedom of speech, what you Mr. Avlon wrote in that article is counter to that precept and merely throwing mud at some of those that you fundamentally disagree. I expect better from a member of the press.