You say that like torture hasn't yet begun. I cite one Joseph Padilla...

keep to the Fen Causeway

My self image is not so grandiose as to imagine my being worth torturing.  Which of course does not mean they would't torture anyway.  Back in the mid 60s, when LBJ was escalating the war in Vietnam, I suggested organizing a national day of prayer to pray for him to have a heart attack.  I also composed a fantasy in which a special pipe was constructed for the organ at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. At 14 cycles per second and sufficient sound pressure level resonances are created in the body cavity that typically cause loss of sphincter control. I thought it would be perfect for use during a contemporary "Te Deum" for victory in Vietnam, especially  if attended by the President, the Cabinet and Congress  You could say I was alienated. However, unless I was ratted out by one of my grad school drinking buddies...Well, one did go on to become Director of the Bureau of Trade Statistics, where he served from the Nixon to the Clinton administration, now sadly and prematurely deceased.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."