They think they won some kind of victory, but they didn’t. You can threaten violence, or threaten someones career and coerce them into saying what they do not believe. But in that same moment, you create someone who hates you in secret.
Forcing a man to say what he knows is a lie, make him despise you.
Wordsworth: I don’t care. I tell you: I don’t care. I’m a human being, I exist....and if I speak one thought aloud, that thought lives, even after I’m shoveled into my grave.
I pray you are right.