As I hear the ignorance of the "peace at all costs", (they are really backed by a completly different agenda) I wish for someone like Captain Moroni in the Book of Mormon. Moroni lived in a society where liberty was threatened and large sections of the population were ambivilent to this or even rallied against liberty. Moroni's response to this is found in Alma chapter 46, verse 12, which says, "And it came to pass that he rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon it-In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children-and he fastened it upon the end of a pole." Moroni called this pole and rent coat the title of liberty. He took the title of liberty and marched throughout the land gathering true patriots to him in support of the things they valued. Moroni then leads his people out against the opponents of liberty, captures them and gives them a choice. Alma chapter 46, verses 35-37 says, "And it came to pass that whomsoever of the Amalickiahites that would not enter into a covenant to support the cause of freedom, that they might maintain a free government, he caused to be put to death; and there were but few who denied the covenant of freedom. And it came to pass also, that he caused the title of liberty to be hoisted upon every tower which was in all the land, which was possessed by the Nephites; and thus Moroni planted the standard of liberty among the Nephites. And they began to have peace again in the land; and thus they did maintain peace in the land until nearly the end of the nineteenth year of the reign of the judges."

I do not really think that we are to the point where the peaceniks deserve the death penalty yet, but if they knew the story, there might be less people denying "the covenant of freedom."