Pretty damn crazy. Trying to think of a parallel in American history, but I can't. Be a bit like if we had executed Richard Nixon (as many wanted to).

Actually, if you ever read The Great Shark Hunt, Thompson tells a borderline unbelievable tale of the time he and co-conspirators located some of the Watergate guys at a house party in DC and attempted to kidnap them, but became to inebriated and gave up.