I don't quite want to entertain the parallel, it's a bit too gruesome... In a way it would imply there is a paper form one has to fill to call the "hunters" and

I don't quite want to entertain the parallel, it's a bit too gruesome... In a way it would imply there is a paper form one has to fill to call the "hunters" and allow them to shoot. So then the state would raise an objection about not filling the paperwork, while also objecting that the human lives were put in danger. But then if they sat down and started to fill out forms and mail them in to get permission, they would have gotten in more trouble over putting lives in danger for even longer. So it's a Kafkaesque kind of a situation.