Well, we could have BOTH things going on. I am certain that some people kept quiet in that meeting, although they are quite angry.
Firing the vocal people will only get those left even MORE angry.
You are quite correct that this is a tactic used by the left. Unfortunately for Howell Raines, there isn't a prison in which he can incarcerate dissenters.
Howell Raines, along with Morris Dees, are the two sorriest men to ever come out of the state of Alabama.