^I've read eight of the books, including Naked Empire; I know that Goodkind stacks the deck morally. The point is that he does so in service of real world ideas. Whatever justifications Goodkind builds up around it within the fiction, the scene clearly exists as an expression of extreme rage against real-world peace protesters who have the temerity not to recognize that his political perspective is the Objective Truth. The thinness of the fictionalization underscores the fact that Goodkind is constructing a reality where his every moral whim is ironclad law. However, this is straying way beyond the subject of the thread and toward TNZ territory, so the discussion is perhaps best tabled.
