It's an important tactic for governments: glorify and inflate the achievements of peaceful activists, write the violent activists out of history, or - if that's

It's an important tactic for governments: glorify and inflate the achievements of peaceful activists, write the violent activists out of history, or - if that's impossible - whitewash their violent past. Then bend just enough to the demands of modern peaceful activists to make the public think they are not ineffective. For achieving major political change, the two most effective means really are violence and the threat of violence.