Note the condemnation of those who refuse to fight; who for convenience and advantage, or their own perceived particular good, go along to get along (you might say, take the jab to keep a job or board a plane):
To each of them he promises a reward, assures a reward that repays their enslavement to the cause or at least the abstention from fighting on the opposite side. Promises of success, of wealth, of power that have always enticed and corrupted many throughout history.[/font][/size]
There is always 30 silver pieces ready for the traitor, and what is more significant is that while the enemy openly declares his hostility, those who should be our allies and even our generals persist in ignoring it, denying it, laying down their arms in the face of the looming threat. In the name of a senseless pacifism, they undermine true peace, which is tranquility of order and not cowardly and rebellious surrender to those who want to destroy us. In this, as I said earlier, the true perversion of authority consists.