When you have lost, the best you can do is to lose with dignity: he had lost (either by complying, whereby he would be failing to his clients or by not complyin

When you have lost, the best you can do is to lose with dignity: he had lost (either by complying, whereby he would be failing to his clients or by not complying, whereby he would suffer a penalty). He took what looks to me the better option: comply "formally". So that he cannot be said to have not obeyed the mandate and at the same time making it clear that he did not want to comply. Against the Leviathan the only possible defense is foolishness. This gives you publicity (in a '''''free''''' society and the conscience of your own freedom).