Try all those methods of deterrence against the asymetrical warriors today and you'd have all those pinhead liberals marching on the Pentagon.
Too much TV exposure in today's world for drumhead justice.
Begin with the pinhead liberals. They want to call the present administration [with whom I certainly have more than a few differences of opinion] *a bunch of Nazis*?
Fine. Introduce them to the methods the Nazis used against their communist opposition...and throw in some of the post-WWII methodology of the OAS of the French Algerian period as well; the French had to post Sherman tanks around the Chamber of Deputies before those days had run their string.
Too much TV exposure in today's world for drumhead justice.
The TV pukes go second. The protections of the First Amendment do not supersede the penalties prescribed by Article III, Section III.
The circumstances of the Finnish Civil War of 1918, when the Loyalist Finns prevented a Bolshevik takeover of their government, are analogous.
The tragedy of the civil war was compounded by a reign of terror that was unleashed by each side. In Red-dominated areas, 1,649 people, mostly businessmen, independent farmers, and other members of the middle class were murdered for political reasons. This Red Terror appears not to have been a systematic effort to liquidate class enemies, but rather to have been generally random. The Red Terror was disavowed by the Red leadership and illustrated the extent to which the Red Guard evaded the control of the leadership. More than anything else, the Red Terror helped to alienate the populace from the Red cause; it also harmed the morale of the Reds.
The Red Terror confirmed the belief of the Whites that the Reds were criminals and traitors and were therefore not entitled to the protection of the rules of war. As a consequence, the Whites embarked on their own reign of terror, the White Terror, which proved much more ferocious than the Red Terror. First, there were reprisals against defeated Reds, in the form of mass executions of Red prisoners. These killings were carried on by local White commanders over the opposition of White leadership. At least 8,380 Reds were killed, more than half after the Whites' final victory. Another component of the White Terror was the suffering of the Reds imprisoned after the war. The Whites considered these Reds to be criminals and feared that they might start another insurrection. By May 1918, they had captured about 80,000 Red troops, whom they could neither house nor feed. Placed in a number of detention camps, the prisoners suffered from malnutrition and general neglect, and within a few months an estimated 12,000 of them had died. The third aspect of the White Terror was legal repression. As a result of mass trials, approximately 67,000 Reds were convicted of participating in the war, and of these 265 were executed; the remainder lost their rights of citizenship, although many sentences were later suspended or commuted.