Geopolitics with the Cylons

Even if you grant the Zarek-Gaeta premise, mutiny is a high crime, punishable by death. Unlike revolution, it is often explicitly regulated by articles of war or military law.
Committing mutiny is fundamentally different from declaring revolution. If the issue of a Cylon-human alliance did indeed require civil war, then there are honorable ways to initiate and prosecute an intra-national military conflict. By choosing mutiny and a blood-soaked coup against the civilian government, Zarek and Gaeta traveled a particularly dishonorable road.

Huh. And my instinct is to hit the reset as soon as possible never giving a chance for subterfuge, wipe 'em out and start over. I'm with Racetrack!