Nah, they would probably punish them by sending them to the big kitchen in New Zion, and help stir pots of mush for the population... " width="15" height="15" />
In any case, they'd be a lot better off than they would if they didn't respect a Non-Zion authority that would have no qualms in killing them...
Even Ghost had to respect the authority of the Archivist in his own construct in the same way that Neo, despite all of his powers, had to respect the authority of the trainman in Mobil Ave.
Neo respected the Trainman's authori-tay? I'm pretty sure he put up a fight and then ran in a continous circle a few times, from what I heard at least. I don't call that respecting author-tay.