For what it's worth..

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. -- Theodore Roosevelt.

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. -- Thomas Jefferson.

BUT, also by Jefferson...
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

And the rest of the story on "my country, right or wrong?"

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. -- Stephen Decatur.

and

My Country right or wrong: when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right. -Carl Schurz

Yes, it is ONE MORE POST on this bullshit. Skip past it if you're tired. ( ground zero here. )