Willing or not, you don't have much choice, unless you figure on going out and buying Weapons of Mass Destruction and delivery systems of your own. Learn that and live that.
1.2 billion you would cheerfully kill, you say for your granddaughters sake. How fearful and full of hatred you must be. Even Adolf Hitler wasn't that ambitious.
And, *there* we have it. The extortion has you cowed, and since the tactic seems to work, they will continue it...
the infowarrior