What's wrong with just using "cop-killer" or "criminal?"
It seems like someone here has an agenda that is inconsistent with the mission of this web site, by intentionally making a association between Constitutionalists and paranoid homicidal nutcases.
As someone stated, Jim Jones used and hijacked the Bible for his nefarious deeds, but we don't condemn the Bible on that account. If Mr. Matthews and his small but vocal group of militia nutcases want to call themselves Constitutionalists then it is up to us who truly honor the Constitution to condemn them in no uncertain terms. I have seen a lot of good people here on FR condemn his actions, but I have seen a lot of loons express a dirty message of pro-insurrection and conspiracy theories, which we do not need.
Have you read these threads yet? I don't want to call Matthews anything but a vicious murderer, but yet there are friends of his in Ohio who call themselves "Constitutionalists"; one leaves this disgusting blame-the-victim letter at the dead policeman's memorial for his friends and neighbors to read, another one tells a reporter that "Officer Taylor deserved to die" before her husband (a member of Matthews' Constitutional study-group) could tell her to shut her mouth.
They are the ones giving Constitutionalists a bad name, not the articles that appear here.
It seems like someone here has an agenda that is inconsistent with the mission of this web site, by intentionally making a association between Constitutionalists and paranoid homicidal nutcases.
The site owner has already posted on this thread; he could have nuked it if he thought it didn't belong here.
Perhaps you'd like to take a look at who is associating themselves with the cop-killing paranoid homicidal nutcase:
Have a look here, for instance.
Read through it and see who is trying to explain away Matthews' actions, who is making excuses and accusing the cops of lying and covering up. Read it for yourself. The ones who were sticking up for Matthews are the ones who are making the association between real constitutional defenders and nutbirds like Matthews.
If all FReepers would just cut this Matthews guy loose, admit that he was a murderous loon, quit trying to make excuses for him, and not condone any other loons' highjacking the Constitution like Matthews did, we'd all be better off.
It's relevant because the killer murdered the cop in the name of the constitution. Of course, he was wrong, but the media would be negligent to omit this from their stories. That's why it's important for us to speak out against Matthews and his ilk, just as we expect Muslims to speak out against Al Qaeda.