1) Approach dumb rich ignorant student talking about "peace" and saying there should be, "no retaliation."
2) Engage in brief conversation, ask if military force is appropriate.
3) When he says "No," ask, "Why not?"
4) Wait until he says something to the effect of, "Because that would just cause more innocent deaths, which would be awful and we should not cause more violence."
5) When he's in mid sentence, punch him in the face as hard as you can.
6) When he gets back up to up to punch you, point out that it would be a mistake and contrary to his values to strike you, because that would, "be awful and he should not cause more violence."
7) Wait until he agrees that he has pledged not to commit additional violence.
8) Punch him in the face again, harder this time.
9) Repeat until understanding is reached
- Anonymous"I'm always amused by the people who say "Give peace a change." We gave peace a chance. Then the people we were being peaceful towards murdered 3000 Americans, and tried to kill far more." - Boffo
"I am not a pacifist. Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." - John Bonforte
"The United States of America would still be England's bitch if people like this were the rule not the exception in 1776. These are the same motherfuckers who have not one fucking qualm about having jackbooted thugs throw your ass in jail if you don't pay "your fair share" in taxes to provide them with free education, food stamps, housing, transportation, and internet access. But, these cowards won't support the disarming and ousting of a psychopath, even in the wake of 9/11." - Buff on Anti-War protestors
"Never turn your back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!" - Winston Churchill
"Yes, war is terrible. But, we should not take this as a reason to blunt our swords in the name of humanity. Someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms." - Karl von Clausewitz
"I want to protest the protesters, not because im pro-war, but because I'm tired of really lame protests" - David Cross
"It can be patriotic to voice dissent, and often has been. But not all patriots are dissenters, and not all dissenters are patriotic. If dissenters work within the system to try to improve it, they are patriotic. If they work to subvert the system, they are not." - Steven Den Beste
"It's got to be damned tough right now being a leftist antiwar columnist. Everything went wrong – which is to say, nothing went wrong. There doesn't seem to have been any mass slaughter of civilians. The Americans stupidly refused to carpet-bomb Baghdad. The war went rapidly, and coalition casualties are extremely light. The bombs which have been dropped have stubbornly insisted on actually hitting what they were aimed at; none of them seems to have gone off course and hit an orphanage or an old people's home. Some days it just seems as if there's hardly any point in getting out of bed." - Steven Den Beste
"Respecting the constitutional protection of free speech, however, does not preclude pointing out the moral bankruptcy of misguided peace activism. Indeed, it demands nothing less, for it is this very constitutional order that is today threatened by terrorism. Led astray by their knee-jerk anti-hegemonism, today's campus peaceniks are the equivalent of an ancient Israelite faction mocked by the prophet Jeremiah. As the walls of Jerusalem fell around them, these Old Testament activists shouted "Peace! Peace!" when there was no peace. Those shouting so today should be respected, protected and adamantly opposed." - Michael Frazer
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." - Mahatma Gandhi
"When we're actually at peace, nobody ever says "give peace a chance." But once somebody else breaks the peace, it becomes a catchphrase. Well, we gave peace a chance, and they blew up the World Trade Center. Now it's time to give war a chance" - Jonah Goldberg
"You can have peace or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once." - Robert A. Heinlein
"They tell us that we are weak - unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? There is no retreat but in submission and slavery. Gentlemen may cry, Peace! Peace! - but there is no peace. The war is actually begun. Is peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" - Patrick Henry, March 1775
"The brave hippies! Standing strong and determined, stopping at nothing until they piss off the largest amount of people possible! Until they lie across all of the nations intersections! Until they raise a stench so great they'll be forced to take a shower by the evil American government! Yeah, it takes guts to hold a protest in a country where that right is constitutionally protected. I don't see many Iraqis protesting though. They must be happy. Come to think of it, we didn't protest much back in the Soviet Union, either. Oh gosh, oh golly, that was such a great regime!" - Max Kaganov
"The focus of the story is on the hundreds of thousands of anti-war protesters, but their presence is to be as expected as flies on a dog turd." - Lee
"I will never tire of actors speaking out [on political issues], because it provides the same amusement of watching dogs walk on their hind legs." - James Lileks
"It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that his opponent is the Nazi." - James Lileks
"No, I'm an American; you're a worthless surrogate mouthpiece for savage murderers." - James Lileks
"It could be that one of the motivations underlying the antiwar movement is simply a dislike of promulgating freedom - especially explicitly so, as in our current offensive. They might get nervous at the idea of military force used to combat an overbearing government." - MadBard
"I'll say this about the war protesters: At least most of them are only putting duct tape across their mouths so I can still tell the rest of them to blow it out their ass." - Dennis Miller
"The second type you have at these parades seems to be the people who want to mislabel Hitler. Everybody in the world is Hitler. Bush is Hitler, Ashcroft is Hitler, Rumsfeld is Hitler. The only guy who isn't Hitler is the foreign guy with a mustache dropping people who disagree with him into the wood chipper. He's not Hitler." - Dennis Miller
"[T]here is a minority of intellectual pacifists, whose real though unacknowledged motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writings of the younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States." - George Orwell
"Pacifists would do well to study the Siegfried and Maginot Line, remembering that these defenses were forced; that Troy fell; that the wall of Hadrian succumbed; that the Great Wall of China was futile. In war, the only sure defense is offense." - General George S. Patton
"I'm all for peacemaking, which one accomplishes by blowing the crap out of people causing trouble. But peacekeeping is pretty much a game for suckers in any situation where one of the parties feels it has something to gain from war." - Glenn Harlan Reynolds
"Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy. We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong. No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality." - Teddy Roosevelt, upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize
"Many of my fellow warmongers have mocked the nude protests mounted by the women of California's Marin County, cruelly pointing out that many of the bits on show are excessively saggy. But I'll take what I can get. If we have to have an incoherent, anti-Western "peace" movement, then women showing off their hooters in support of a culture that would stone them to death for showing off their ankles is about as good as it's gonna get." - Mark Steyn
"Pussies don't like dicks because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes -- assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck a asshole is a dick with some balls. The problem with dicks is they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate -- and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves. Because pussies are only an inch and half away from assholes. I don't know much about this crazy crazy world, but I do know this. If you don't let us fuck this asshole we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit." - Team America: World Police
"There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it." - Margaret Thatcher
"I have a sore throat for some reason. I'm not sure why. It might be at least tangentially related to those 3 hours I spend on the street corner every day screaming "You goddamn hippies..." and so forth." - Russell Wardlow, Berkeley Student
"The idea that all would be well if only America would retreat from the world and stay at home is a pernicious and seductive one. It appeals not only to those that hunger after the freedom to do mischief in our absence as it does to our natural sense of isolationism. It has been the mantra of communists, totalitarians and elitists of every vile stripe for well over a hundred years. It is utterly and completely wrong. Political power has never been removed from the world – it has only been replaced. And so our choice – now pay attention you No Blood For Oil types – is not between power and no power. It is a choice only of what kind of power will fill that vacuum. Chinese? Russian? European? We have seen all of these before. The horrors they have inflicted, with far less absolute power than the US wields, do not leave me pining for those alternatives. Someone is going to be the world power, or tear the world apart fighting for it." - Bill Whittle