You are being disingenuous here.
You wrote that you had been mistreated by the army to draw an analogy between the behavior of the army in your time, and the Tans of old.
However, if you were an activist, you would almost certainly be known as a suspect by the army, who would then be right to hassle you at every opportunity in the hope of preventing you committing your next act of terror.

Also, they would know that if they fell into your hands they would be killed without mercy. PIRA always killed them, and usually tortured them first.