...”Failing that”...”hunted down”... Yer might want to retract that last paragraph...
You wanna dance around and try to make a broken system work? Or do you want solutions that will actually get things done? Do you think the Founding Fathers worried about what the Crown's Agents would think of them? They talked OPENLY of rebellion, treason, murder, and war.
And here we cower over a half-assed statement of ill will towards our mortal enemies.