I believe the “give peace a chance” is naive at best. The true irony is that the intellectuals and academics, who are usually advocates for non-violence, are historically the first to go.
Get it over quickly, publicly, and don’t leave anyone alive as Antony demonstrated with Julius Caesar’s assassination.
An example from our relatives - https://www.raffriff.com/blog/2022/12/alpha-male-baboons/
The American revolution actually included a lot of what would be considered “crimes against humanity” with the more “benign” being tar and feathering targets.
A recent example is an attributed source of annual “Pride fest” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots
Last thing is a double point. As a child after an altercation with three bullies vs me where I fractured the leader’s skull, broke the nose of another, and injured the spleen of the third I was both never bullied again and actually had a really good life at school. Further, given that experience versus non-evidence based arguments to the contrary, I will never believe “talking things out” can work.
Humans are animals, violent ones at that, and submission doesn’t have a good history of with a good outcome.
Nixon died an old man in his bed.
Practically everyone in government involved with the Iran Contra affair are free citizens or lived most of their lives in freedom.
The Jan6 crowd battered and tortured multiple police officers protecting the capital. I believe on committed suicide later and another died of health conditions strongly correlated to their abuse.
Imprisonment was really effective as a means for punishing those responsible \s
Now depending on how things go, if the false flag national emergency is not stopped prior to the midterms, all of the people raping women and children in the ICE detention facilities in Florida & New Orleans, murdering people for the crime of existing at the wrong time & place, and who knows what else will go unpunished.
Imprisonment as a means to an end doesn’t work.