Pacifists suck.
I grew up in Athens (no longer live there). As teenagers, we used to ride through downtown yelling at the hippies and fools and occassionally testing their pacifism. During the Gulf War a group of protesters spent the entire war in tents on the UGA lawn. One night I was swept up in a crowd of drunk fraternity boys who decided to go beat the hell out of the protesters. I didn't participate (wasn't drunk enough) but did watch as two or three protesters got knocked about and several tents were torn up before UGA and Athens cops intervened (and arrested mostly drunk fraternity boys).
What's wrong with Athens is these folks were very well treated
I remember a line from one of the old Mack Bolan books "the meek shall inherit the earth, only after it's been passified by the Warriors"